Show A WASHOE ZEPHYR I Iloiiho tliuirlsr ntroiia unit Iron Snfis lllnwii About LIke Feathers midnight last night lie t wind that had been piping ominouslj at intervals I for EBVonl hours culminated in a furious gale that sent peilcBtrmns fleeing in dismay dis-may to the shelter of iloonvavn to escape I annihilation through dread of being struck with Homo of tho mum rons flung missies whirling through space on the wings of tho howling hurricane among which were included ash barrels smokestacks fence hoards coal oil cans Iron doors wooden Bigus whisky barrels und old stoves The side of a frame building on North 0 street between Button avenue and Mill was blown out bodily Fences were prostrated in various portions of the city I smokestacks and chimneys toppled lKI W 05cr and a large number of windows I smashed in some ca ° cs the sashes being torn out from the of frames f Three largo plate glasses wcia blown out of the front of the ronch Kotissene nnd I two vundons m the Imttcrnatiotaf i i were demolished Numerous outhouses in tho eastern part of the city where thero are but few buildings to break tho force 01 the gale were carried UVVHJ bodily ono of them landing on the top of tho Osbiston shaft house no irlv half u mile assay aAn old iron mfa that had stood on the sidewalk on D streetsinco tho big fire was lifted nip by tIme gale this I morning nnd wafted far out on the desert its iron doors flapping in its mad flight like tho wings of u monster crow A large quart wagon moored in a van on the flnido was carried bodily into the mine below neai the Mint mine vvhtra it struck with the pole downward which wn bnnul a depth of eight feet in tho earth making i necflt sarj to Haw the poll off close to the ground in order to light the vehicle Iho gale did 1 not blow fiteacliK fiom any ono direction but at times seemed to proceed Bimultanconslv from all points of tho compass asit some bungler in imitation imita-tion of Ulysses meddling marineiH I had been timponng with old Chios wind i bags ind had released their contents all at onio I trginia Chronicle 1eb 1 |