The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-11-23
THE GALE.

The winds seemed to have escaped from
the cave where Eolus keeps them confined,
last Saturday morning and swept over
this section with terrible fury, executing
some very curious pranks, but generally
with righteousness which made the peo-
PIE wish to be excused from their visits.
Almost every farmer in this vicinity SUI.
fered more or less. The village of Mid
dlebury was the scene of a severe vista
ton. Between wind and water we are
likely to be continually reminded of the
perishability Of all material good. Still
we observe that the people have not lost
faith entirely, for within an hour after the
gale had passed the hustle of repairs had
commenced. A hasty stroll through the
village revealed to us some Of the un-
pleasant evidences of tho storm. Mrs.
Linsley's house was partly unroofed,
chimney thrown down, ten Of those large
panes of glass broken and fences and trees
were blown down. A few slate were
torn from the college building and the
top of a chimney taken off. A new barn
belonging to f. r. Wright, Esq, was
turned over upon the roof and completely
ruined. Prof. George n. Webber's house
had a chimney thrown down and the roof
injured to some extent. j. Larned's
shingles were stripped off and some other
damage done about the premises A
chimney was thrown down from A. Will
cox's tin shop, II. Il. Sheldon's building
slightly injured, Nallette's store unrooied
and chimneys thrown down.. M'Donald's
house partly unroofed, and one chimney
demolished, j. s. Bushnell's barn nearly
annihilated, states torn from the new school
building, Nichols block and many other
houses, some of the large panes Of glass
broken in Severance's Block, scuttles
wrenched off and thrown down from Cobbs
block, Post office Block, Stewards block
&C., a few panes of glass broken in Chap
mans store, the tin stripped from the cot
ton factory, valuable trees broken down
in the yards of Mrs. Wainwright, j. w.
Martin, j. +. Ncgus, on Pleasant street,
Mr.. Martins summer house destroyed and
shingles stripped from his house, NJ. Yales
new house badly twisted out of position,
large chimney thrown from the Jail which
greatly frightened the prisoners, shed
unroofed, and chimney thrown down
from the Middebury House, one Of G. j.
Sopers out-housss upset. some very fine
trees broken down in Mrs. Seymours
yard, Mrs, Wainwright's barn unroofed,
and slate and shingles stripped from the
Masonic Hall building, d. Riders barn
and |. Williamson's barn, o. Wellingtons
front yard forest badly multilated CHM
ney on Towards blacksmith shop worse
for the wear, s. B. Rockwells grounds
dis6gured by trees torn up by the roots,
achimney on Mr. Rockwell's house thrown
down and the roof injured, also shed de-
molished, d. Stewards garden fences
thrown fiat, woodshed stripped Of shingles,
doors &C., and a chimney reduced to old
brick and mortar, L. i. Knapp's skylight
blown up and his well-house and barn
doors reduced to kindling wood, one of
the chimneys on the Congregational
church thrown down, fine tree in b.
S. Beckwith's yard lodged unccremo-
niously on his piazza injuring the cor
nice, A. j Severance's and ID. Riders
fences laid out to dry, the covered bridge
at the Papermill, unroofed and the largo
building near it badly injured, j. f.
Ainsworth's pine grove laid fiat, mostly
torn up by the roots, George H. Porter's
barns badly stripped and his fences laid
out, NJ. Y. Shacketts barns stripped Of
shingles, NJ. Clark's building considera-
bly, damaged, D. L. Boycc's barn unroof-
ed, chimney on the house of Smith Sew
erance fell, Gardner C. Oady's premises
are said to have suffered considerably, n.
Chittenden's building to some extent,
two chimneys on Harvey Boardman's
house were thrown down, Allen h. Footc s
shed unroofed, shingles torn off +. X.
Severance's buildings and II of his APP
pie trees blown down, the school house in
that district No. II, ruined ; A. IL.
Farnsworth's shed partly unroofed, Geo.
Hammond's house stripped of 200 feet OF
slate, his iron fence thrown down.
Munger Street is reported to have been
the scene of great disaster, Jason Hunt
new barn in New Haven, 100 feet long, was
nearly ruined, Mr. Walkers house near
New Haven Mills was badly damaged, a
large wing being entirely destroyed.
Beach Hill and East Street in New
Haven presented the spectacle of several
unroofed barns, trees thrown down, fences
leveled and general destruction; j. r.
Nash had barn unroofed, and a tremen.
dous great elm came crashing down SC
near Gen. VIM. Nash's house that the
limbs brushed the house. In Bristol the
Methodist Church spire was blown down
and the Baptist Church injured and con.
siderable other damage was done.
Quite number of outhouses and fences
in Lincoln We're blown down and GOV.
cred bridge unroofed.
In Weybridge, barn belonging t.
liora Bowdish was unrooied, shed 81
feet long belonging to Calvin Norton wa
blown down, a shed on the Dunning plac,
was unrooied and one end thrown ten fee
out Of its proper position, shed belongin!
to A. ID. Hayward moved ten feet,
twenty foot shed of John Wales PARTIAL,
unroOied, sixty foot shed belonging {,
Horace Cotton unroofed, Samuel Jane
Jr's large barn unroofed, l.. l.. Hunting
tons horsebarn partly unroofed, +. NJ
Shaw's hog pen and hen house blown dow
and roof boards taken off his barn, Nh
f. Miller's buildings partly stripped Q
shingles, and many valuable trees wer
'busted" and large numbers of hay stack
wore blown to the winds. In Bridpor
but little damage was done except tina
fences were leyeed and hay stacks suffer
ed some Cornwall was similarly treat
ed
In Brandon and Pittsford we lear
that much damage was done by the pro,
tration Of fences, unroofng of building
demolition of chimneys &C., and at Ru