Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1904 — Some Wind Damage Done. [ARTICLE]

Some Wind Damage Done.

Jasper Oounty experienced some loss from Tuesday’s big gale. About five o’clock p. m. the large and ornamental glass transom ever the west entrance of the court house blew in. It fell with a mighty crash to the marble floor below a distance of 12 or 14 feet. The transom contained 72 panes of beveled plate glass, each 7by 8 inches in size. Only about half the panes were broken, but the metal frames in which they were enclosed, are a complete wreck. The big hole, about six feet square let in cold wind most awful fast but by quioa. work the hole was soon boarded up by Janitor Moilan The city cf Rensselaer also got some damage, by the blowing off of a big section, of slate shingles from the roof of the power and light plant building. At the Baboock & Hopkins elevator, the top section of the engine room smoke stack blfw down. extensive case of smoke stack damage was at the River Queen Mill. The entire stack 40 feet high and three feet in diameter is a total wreck, and will have to be replaced by a new one. Probably about SSO will replace the stack Deputy Oounty Treasurer, J. R. ParkisonTiad a wind mill blown down, on his Barkley Tp, farm.