Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-07-19 | Page 19 | Storm Lashes Lake Michigan

1 t 4 STORM I i Jj ft- ft I f T f i I 1 I 4 1 Wa Waves e Sweep Over i ht Parks ks Beaches ches and 1 Streets in Chicago h 5 I y I CHICAGO Jury July l 19 9 Allo Associated crat d dI I P MiA cis-A Mi A furious furious 1 lashed lh Lake Laka Mi Michigan ign y yesterday and early I t today day causing t thousands ou of cf dollars f loss loci i In lakefront ak iron damage d mage Fifteen Fifteen- n- n foot wa waves battered lak lakefront front pi apartment m. m t buildings is tor tore craft from t moorings org and swept over over ever streets trull beaches beaches' b he and parks pinks Mariners des described the storm as ns astha j U the tha i worst in twenty t yearn yeara j i Bion llon ste steamers and fr freighters fought their way with difficulty I through the tumbling waters water Most of ot them I docked an hour or more late rite Tha storm started shortly after afternoon 1 n noon oni when a Ia strong northeast rong-northeast northeast windswept wind air swept ept p over the lake An h hour ur later 11 ct I many lakefront streets were awash auh and nd coast guard crows crews were kept J busy buoy ans answering distress signals Tho Thos s sun ern n shone brightly throughout the the- day REPAIRS E IRS SWEPT AWAY I Repairs re recently made to to shore t I prope property y damaged In in the the- severe spring sprint storms etorma were rero in most cases swept away by the battering waves U Several small bathing were obliterated A large P portion of ot the sand fill extending extending- ti from Twelfth street to to first Fifty street for t the I site si to of ot the worlds world's fair talt In 1933 was was carried back into the Jak lake Motor M Motorists I lats in South drive were re rerouted rerouted rerouted re re- re routed when seas dashed over the eau al at it Sixty seventh street t inundating inundating- the thoroughfares and part pirt of ot J Jackson park I On the north side Bide Sheridan road i was as s blocked block d 1 through ush Lincoln spark and Evanston Police feared the street t was In imminent danger dangel of being washed d away opposite Calvary Calvary Calvary Cal Cal- vary cemetery in Evanston Two yo north side apartment buildings buildings' build build- ings ings' were ere seriously threatened Waves shattered windows In the lower Dryer floors of ot o one e while water stood t d two f feet Iet et deep in the entrance of the other r. r The Evanston coast guard station station sta eta tion was threatened Uon tion and guardsmen worked through gh t e to to protect it with sand sand- sand sand- bags Pro Property p surrounding the tho station was lIe seriously damaged durIng during dur dur- ing the April storms SHIPPING ENDANGERED Shipping ig also Iso was was' endangered by the storm The steamer Col Columbus returned an an hour lat late last night fr- fr from m an excursion to Milwaukee l where approximately ly one fourth of its ts 2000 2000 passengers passengers' had disembarked b because of of- orthe the high seas and nd re returned returned returned re- re turned to 10 Chicago by rail Most of ot the other other- passengers wera were ill when the steamer docked on th the return trl trip Tho vessels vessel's galley and dining dining din din- ing room In disorder and several sev era eral minor Injuries were were r reported The sixty sixty- toot foot five sailing yacht acht Sunshine S Chicago of lost Its mainsail main sail and arid bowsprIt opposite R Racine A steamer saw i its Is s plight and sent an SOS call to to- the coast oa guard juard at I Milwaukee e. e The coast guard towed totted the he ye vessel sel to Port to