Litchfield enquirer., 1869-07-08
Storm Items

We clip the following items from regard~ ing the last weeks thunder storm and dsis Enge, from exchanges:-- INF
 WINsTED. Every manufacturing con cern along the river is damaged, and com |pelled to suspend operations ] At Lathrop
 Barton upper works the dam and Hume were partly carried away, and damages sustained 6to the amount of $4,O0O and
 o,OOO. The tanneries suffer very little,
 and the various shops on the outlet of the lake, none: The damnge to tue Hoe Com.
 pany IS considerable. to the Thayer Scythe
 works Sl ,OO0. to the Foundry and Machine works S2. .0OO, tssthe Gas Company $60O, ito
 the Clarke House $500 Many bridges
 were earned away, but none of those over
 At Burrville, 13 inches of rain fell dur ing the storm s.--e. ss.. s.se.
 The Meekertown dam in South Norfolk
 was carried away, together with part of the
 Northway Tannery, and the sawmill of Philemon Johnson.
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 | Lightning. struck q tree in, Winsted, knocking two men senseless. TrumbuIl Brooks barn at Norfolk, and Chauncey Hfany's barn at Center Hill (Barkham- tsted), were struck, and the latter burned down. Houses were struck in Riyerton
 and New Hartford. Two cows were killed in Hartland, and an OK in Torring gton. T. I1e'ot0ef i.-.s i3sst.a, 3..ags.AlQ s44.aI Sic There were some curious freaks of light. ming in Labanon during the recent storm A son of George Thomas of 'that town, while driving team of six yoke of oxen,
 was thrown to the ground by "a stroke of the fluid, every one of the (" near oxen being also prostrated, while the six -' off oxen were left standing uhinjured. All the six down remained ins ensibie uutii they were unyoked. "''. 4'.- .iN Ah- During the heavy sturen on Monday eve- ming last, tue lightning struck tue dwell ling house of Richard w. Peck. and also
 that of Ansel Jones. ndiug near by, on Prospect Hill,l Deep River.U Considerable
 damage Was done to the latter. .s Ii .a,a4. -.i
 The Congregational Church at Franklip was Int and damaged to the amount of
 $2OO, The liberty pole at Upper Mystic
 was shivered to pieces aud, the fragments
 scattered in every direction, some of them
 going through the windows of the neare #
 houses. Four poles of the Franklin tele- graph company at Yantic and SIX at Bliss vile, were split from top to bottom. c. Carpenter, of Ledyard, had three cows, a sheep, and a lamb, and Moses Morse of Griswold, COW, killed by lightning A
 house was struck in Jewett City and the
 paper mill at Greenville.- but neither were
 seriously damaged. ,-s'-,~, A serio-comic scene Was presented in
 Main street, in our West Village K--, one of our weil-known citizens, goes to his home about P. NJ. Finds wife out and !, children alone, tells them not to venture out upon the back step, and then goes to the cellar to see what the raging storm has
 done there. Comes up presently and leaves the house for a few minutes. His wife re-
 turning, the children say, s' father is in the cellar.'' She goes to the stairs and sees the water almost to the top, and calls,
 but in vain, for her husband Frantic, (as of course loving wife would be-, at the 1 thought of her husbands drowning in that
 small but deep ocean, she rushes to the
 door, crying, "Help, save my husband, he lis drowning. .W--ln. C---p, then,
 passing, hears the cry, throws his umbrei.
 Ia to the winds and springs for the cellal
 to find the body ere life departs. Others follow, bent upon fishing up somebody Ii they have to pnsh the first on the scene
 under water to do it. Meanwhile the bus. | band comes minds men in the cellar
 looking for something. It must be one o1 his children; so he, almost beside himself
 joins the divers. But soon the alarm sub
 sides. A good laugh 4and & toothache ol two are all the weeping and fan that can tbe gotten out of it, Winsted Heratd.j b9A tf-s -3siL4 {s