Show CITY IS VISITED I IBY BY FIERCE STORM STORMI I TriM Tris Art Au r and In Street StreetCar StreetCar Car CM Service Interrupted I NO 0 SERIOUS DAMAGE DONE f I BLEW A WAS VY I At AJ a s climax climax to the storm of the pre eUng hours ho a s lusty Iut young huri d merry pranks wit the it ity last nl For thirty minutes the wind had bad everything its own way With an accumulated ted energy that is rarely manifested ted ir Ii this his t local locality locality ity fly old Id Boreas Borea pounded ever everything thins out outdoors doors doon with a vim villi suge Uv of o a Kan KanLis aas Lis cion p though happily with ith no serious results ulu re The storm bed lt Its height boight after 7 following a deluge of ut ball hail mixed with ith light snow The wind with s increased edi ediin in velocity vf until it reached ached a strength i of like Uk fifty mills miles an hour I Tree Tre were uprooted u and tin thrown own across the tracks of the th street railways ays sky skylights skylights ky I lights were demolished and light frame I sheds torn down Cellars Were Flooded j The heavy downpour of rain ram that ac at accompanies companies and followed ollow the squall 11 j flooded a numbEr r of cellars nd in I por per portion tiona tion of the cit cU Y where tb re are de In th sidewalks aDd aad the streets was w rendered for th the time being belne almost almot impossible lin ble The ma force of the wind was so great gret that hacks hack traversing tr v the streets street to toward ward nard the north the direction from fromM M the storm tonn came eme were forced to tc toa toa a halt pedestrians and pedestrian were obliged to seek pk shelter in to the nearest retreat Electric wires were blown down doWD In soy sev several eral oral places the arc are light system tem In the t southern portion of the city went out of ot business bUll for a short time ti trees were lifted bodily from their former settings setting and hurled hu against trolley troney wires wire im impeding traffic In several vera Instances for tor half halt an hour hur or more Falling trees tore down dOWD telephone and telegraph wires on Third East Ea t and Second South also amo between teeD Ninth and Tenth Bast sst at the corner of Dunbar avenue W H Birds Bird residence 4 24 Fourth East t was wu set on fire Are by one ODe of these theat lire Ure wires Irea The department t was wan called ailed out but the slight lIght blase which had started in the Ute attic was wall soon ex extinguished sad and small mall dame damage was sea sus sustained u tamed Street car service was u Interrupted for fO about half halt an aa hour owing oWl to derange derangement derangement ment of wires wite t at tile The huge InI electric sign on the Ute roof root of the hotel botel was w torn from Its Us fastenings fastening and aad dropped through the skylight into the rotunda of the boa hos hostelry h The broken br ken glass g was removed from the floor but the rain continued to pour roar through the tM opening all night The storm came near ending the life Ufe of or William Combs Com a young English Englishman Jenarl man Be lie was wa discovered dl vered by Patrolman almost drowned in the con cen center conter ter of Plum alley afley which runs ru on off Com Corn Commercial mercial street The man while Intoxicated Intoxicated had fallen face lace downward In the mud and water waler He was w taken to po police poke lice ke headquarters in a pitiful condition but was wa finally pronounced out of dan clan danger danger ger r Altogether about bait half an n inch of rain fell tf U during daring the storm of yesterday y and IRI last night The hack drivers reported all kinds kind kindor of or trouble with the streets where the ground gl und had been dug up to lay la wires and conduits On South Mouth Temple and aad andon I Ion on Second South It was positively dan dangerous dangerous dangerous to drive any faster than a walk |