Litchfield enquirer., 1869-07-08
WHOLE NO. s8ol


 ming, the storm in it's fury continuing for some time. g When its severity had passed laway, there were, it is safe to presume, . I great many people in Hartford who breath ed freer and ventured to speak above whisper. .yb1.E The rain continued to "fall in torrents" now and then holding up slightly, and the
 streets were literally running brooks. Wa ter ran with great velocity along the gut. ters and swept over cross-walks to the
 depth of several inches. ali t.rse-.sgnf,.fsias
 The lightning had the appearance of striking in every direction; it came so dose
 to eyes and ears that it not only produced
 visible fire works, but it has hissing,
 snapping sound, not particularly agreeable ! to sensitive nerves; but no great amount Iof damageis reported. The big derrick
 on Woodruff & Beach's wharf got we'll
 shivered and lost it's balance. When it
 was struck, people in the neighborhood
 felt the shock in some cases severely.
 The house of Miles M. Abbe, corner of Dean and Alden streets, was struck by lightning at about half past four o'clock,
 when the storm was in it's greatest irsry, and an attic room suffered considerably,
 though none of the inmates were injured. An alarm of fire was sounded, but before the steamers reached the spot the women of the house, fortified with pails of water, had put out the flames. A large crowd. | thoroughly drenched, went to the house. 1 suppOslng somebody had been killed. t1 When the lightning struck the Woodruff
 $ Beach derrick. if foilowed large wire
 rope which is fastened to the wharf plat
 form, and then passed into the office of Captains Williams and Brazos, and knock
 ed them both senseless. Charles Wood l rt1 pnfo Mt1rr on1 Io:s .lx who were entering the yard, were prostra-
 ted. Workmen in the shops were all more or less affected
 Two gentlemen walking in North Main street. suddenly found themselves lying on | the pavement, and coming to" at about 1 the same time, looked at each other in | blank astouishment, and made a singular tableau. ol. 4,Ef u#L |. t.H 1.1Dr.a .
 There has been no time in Hartford when the terror of the people was worked up to so high pitch. By o'clock the storm had passed over, ld the blue sky, with heecy clouds here and there, and the suns shadows in the west, presented 0 beautiful appearance. .,.. gI.... . 9. IAwsday. July l..
 The freshet from the storm of Monday swe pt away the factory and office of the New Hartford carriage company, near the AOLOu OA OL NOW 1dTbLOEUs CAu5luKs heavy loss, and damaged the buildings of R. Il. Wheeler, near tae carriage works, several hundred dollars. Nearly all the bridges over the small streams in the vi | cinity of Bakerville, in the same town,
 were carried away. 1t is estimated that it
 will cost at least $S2O 900 to repair the dam ages to the highways alone n the town of
 New Hartford
 In Winsted the Main Street of the village across the ''Flat," was badly torn up by
 Mondays storm. The water rose very 1 rapidly, and '.Mad river" seemed more an- gry than ever before, although it is capable of very sudden and very violent fits of wa | tery fury. ;aSa e4 70 oI ..'. t.- ---'
 At Collinsville the rain came down per- feet deluge, filling the streets with water, which poured down the hill sides into the Pennington river. causing rapid rise un
 til midnight. The banks and the bridge were thronged with spectators, and large quantity of lumber, timber, and fences cov- cred the surface of the water 9. o. Pet tlbona's dam was for the fourth time swept away. The Collins company's works are so we'll protected that they suffer little loss except from the temporary stoppag0 of some of the shops. The railroad was bad ly7 washed, the earth underneath being swept away in some places and the track at other points covered with earth and stones. The train, however, went to Plainville and back on Tuesday. During the storm, Paul Hayes, the road master, in attempting to remove the ob- structions to culvert caused by floating ties being drawn into it, was himself drawn into the fearful whirl of waters, and was twice taken out of sight, but by great ex- ertions succe eded in extricating himself, | { kl.1,, xrlo l.1 l.. 1Go o~kr the Nepaug stream nearly every bridge IS carried away, and at Bakerville, Am drew's grist mill was undermined and car- ried off. .-.-....,..... -.
 The N. Y. Times of Tuesday, June g. also contains the following account of the storm on Sunday at the Seq Side House. Rockaway, Long Island, from an eye-wit- ness: ,s s..-s5... ... ..s..s .sgt... He says: Yesterday. about o'clock, p. . m. clouds of ominous blackness began to gather in the northwest, accompanied by rumbling of distant thunder. As the clouds gathered over the bay north of the bay Sea Side House they increased in dark ness for about half an hour, being occa- sionally streaked with vivid flashes of light. hing that descended in vertical lines to uOElIOu 1FOm au arc Ol 6OOut -4b0 OC. grees. The clouds that preceded the dark. CT masses passed over the hotel towards the ocean and became of lighter hue, and seemed to roll upon each other in grand masses of vapor, with outlines as distinct as can be found in the most rugged and sublime upheavalse of mountain scenery. From the craggy points of those advanc- | ing clouds electricity was passing oil with cracking noise, like the rapid discharge of rife shots. When the heaviest and l darkest clouds came directly over the hotel the flashes of lightning became painfully vivid and the air hot almost to sutfoca- tion.
 The guests of the hotel, to the number of nearly forty, had gathered in the mai n parlor, and were all seated, the doors and windows being all open, when bolt of electricity suddenly prostrated every per. son in the room. In au instant the per. sons least injured sprang to their feet and found seven or eight of the guests uncon-o scious and apparently dead. The ladies, who were dressed in silk were the least af. .fected. There being doctor on the prem 4ises, restoratives were applied and ali be- gan soon to recover, and in less than two hours were out of danger. The bolt that llStxa