Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1915 — SANDSTORM AT GARY. [ARTICLE]

SANDSTORM AT GARY.

Dunes on the Lake Shore Moved by Strong Gale. Gary, Ind., May 21.—This city today had one of the worst sandstorms in its history. A Sahara-like simoon swept over the whole of the northern Indiana sand dune country. The fine sand was fanned by a sixty-mile wind which blew lakeward. Throughout the city doors and windows had to be closed, but even these precautions did not prevent furAiture from being coated with sand dust. Life was made miserable for pedestrians and autoists and teamsters had to pick their way slowly through the streets as their eyes were half blinded by the cutting sand. Scores of fine lawns were damaged by traveling dunes and many business houses suffered damages because of the

sand getting into fine fabric. Those living in cabins and tents of construction camps on the sand flats, outside of the city limits, suffered much discomfort.