Litchfield enquirer., 1869-07-08
THE STORM
The following letter from West Cornwall came to hand just after our last weeks is- sue had been printed :-9oR .4G& 'yli9.xa sa

The following letter from West Cornwall came to hand just after our last weeks is- sue had been printed:- o1@ 'gli9. .z1 sa
 ana West CornWaA. June 29th, 1869.
 At about p. m., the waters of the brook which runs down through West Cornwall from the east. was seen to be rapidly ris. ing, and all persons came out in the pouring rain to protect their houses by turning the water away with blanks and any thing else accessible. The bridges became in danger. and efforts were made to fasten them, so that they might not go off. Then the store of Cochran & SeoYilIe and the tin shop were threatened, and he goods were being taken from the store of c. & S., when tha aeoaa tore out the un- asor-pinning of the tin shop, and the office went down the flood in the middle of the road, sohole, for three or four rods, when it went to pieces like paper. Then the wing of the building went with all the tools and machinery of the shop. and the water com- menced to work on the larger part of their building, which is but just standing.
 It was next seen that the water was sur rounding the house of Mir. Elisha Wether- ill, by the river, and there was 8 rush of men to the spot on the instant. w. Smith and Major Nickerson succeeded in carry ing woman with broken limb across the current Mir. Smith going back, started to come across with girl on his shoulders, and went down, but both were drawn out. Mr. Eugene Scoville was the last to leave the house.
 Cochrane < Scoville's stors being sitaa ted over the stream, is only held up by drift wood. Their loss must be $2,0o0, that of Cochrane & Sherwood $2,000, Malison & Go. lose heavily; Pratt & Foster $7O0; while that of the town will amount to $1O, 900 damage to the road in this village, which is gullied out ten feet deep. Bridges and mills are gone above here, but no lives were lost. ssesaso4
 We clip the following particulars of the storm from State and New York exchan-. ges:- G.adl Sc e1aea saa3 88bsIEoa1aG 4' e4,s, Haifori Courans, T4ssday, June %. aa The oldest inhabitant will hardly be able to bear witness to more terrific storm than took place at about four o'clock yes terday afternoon. For forty-eight hours preceding, though there had been occa- sional falls of rain, the air was unusually dry and sultry. During the day there were intervals of sunlight, but most of the time clouds hung heavily across the sky. Sad denly the whole heavens were darkened, so that gas lights were required in houses and places of business After a brief, spell of darkness thunder was heard ata distance, and gradually coming nearer and nearer, burst forth in terrible volume, as If direct ly in, the heart of the city, and was on the instants with barely g seconds waiting, foi- lowed by vivid flashes of lightning which played on housetops and along the streets like pyrotechnic snakes, It seemed as II the electric fluid came close to every door' and naturally very many people were greatly alarmed and sought places of shell ter, lodging here and there from one spot tn another in nervous fear of being in the wronc place, all the time. Such fearfully prand bursts of thunder. instantaneously Followed by such dazzling and4 piercing I;ohtning. have come within the knOwi edre of but few people. After 3 few min utes of this display, rain fell in great vios Ience, and was succeeded by adrivlng hail. which pelted window panes and rolled like marbles along the streets and pavements Then more rain, and still more hail, and again came the DollinG thunder, seeming further of, with brilliant flashes of light