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No Injuries Reported In Storm A severe thunderstorm, with wind up to 80 miles an hour, heavy rain, hail and lightning ripped through the Tri-State dis trict Saturday afternoon, causing considerable dam age in several communities. No injuries were reported. Lightning scored a di rect hit on the Empire Dis trict Electric Company substation at Twenty-sixth street and Pearl avenue at 3:07 o'clock and left the southern half of Joplin without power for 45 min utes. Freeman and St. John's hospi tals were within the area with out power. Freeman — hospital switched to stand-by equipment, but even this failed at St. John’s for a while. No emergencies arose during the 25 minutes the hospital was without power. KODE-TV and radio went off the air during the 45-minute blackout. Auto Damaged During the storm a large oak tree was uprooted and blown across the top of a new foreign car belonging to Mrs. C. C. Van ney at her summer home five miles south of Joplin. The roof of the car was crushed. According to Empire District, a total of .98 of an inch of rain fell in the downtown area dur ing the hour-long storm. The company’s West Seventh street substation recorded 1.15 inches of rain, and the FAA operations at the Joplin airport reported .39 of an inch, Galena, Kan, was hit hard by the storm. Downtown business buildings were flooded temporari ly, windows were smashed and other wind damage was reported. The major damage to buildings was confined to a six-block-long area on Main street from Second to Eighth street and extending one block east and west of Main street. Trees were uprooted and limbs blown down in all areas of the city, however. Lightning struck the home of Mrs. Mabel Robinson in Galena Heights, tearing a hole in the roof, another hole in an inside wall and setting fire to a davenport. Galena firemen extinguished the blaze. The roof was blown off a resi dence at 715 Joplin street owned by Mrs. Bessie High and occupied by Mrs. Josephine Gandy. It was a “false roof’ constructed over a flat roof and interior damage was not extensive.’ Water caused some damage to the bedroom and kitchen of the house, and the chimney was blown down, tearing a hole in the flat roof. A large tree was blown down across the roof of the Mike Allen home at 603 Joplin street. A portion of the roof at the rear of the house was crushed. At the Willis Payle Market in Galena, three large plate glass (Continued on Page 2A) GALENA ROOF GONE—A false roof overc ome owned by Mrs. Bessie High was carried away by strong winds Saturday afternoon and landed beside the house at 715 Joplin street, Galena. —(Joplin Globe-News Herald staff photograph.) SIGN OF THE TIMES—A cereal advertise ment on a billboard on the west side of Main street in Galena took a long hop during high winds Saturday afternoon and television star Danny Thomas blinked his eye on ‘the ‘east sidewalk of Main street. — (Joplin Globe-News Herald staff photograph.)
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Joplin Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Sun, Aug 21, 1960
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