Litchfield enquirer., 1872-06-20
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 Heavy showers passed over on wednes- day and Friday of last week, attended with violent wind, upturning trees by the hundred and moving some small build ings. Such violent gales of wind have not been witnessed in long time. The fall of water for so short a space of time was large. The drouth seems to be thorough iy blown out and soaked out for the pres- ent least. There was some hail.
 Hast Sabbath, religious services were held in Earl Buckingham's house, built by Abner W. Mitchell, in the Swedish language by pastor of a Lutherean church in Brooklyn, N. Y., for congre- gation of sixty Swedes. We attended in the afternoon and found the exercise very interesting indeed. We observed that the worshippers nearly all had hymn books, and unlike Yankees all sing, not leaving two or three who have special gift to do it for them. Their worship was sincere and earnest The preacher, was very fluent, easy in speech, kind and lmpressivein manner The sober thought ful look of the man, and the tear filled eyes of the women attested to his faithful presentation of Christ who is the same in all tongues and languages. It. was the. first service many of them had heard ill their own tongue in strange land, and the old fashion church at home, with the lost and loved left there, came back to them with vivid memory. ~ s W. 4
 Another correspondent gives us the fol- lowing additional details of these remark able storms :s. .-t.... -.... -....... E.
 af lsta -WooDBURY, June l5, 1872.
 MR. EDroR:-A very severe thunder storm passed over this place on Wednes- day afternoon, the 12th5 inst. In the northern part of the town the rain fell in torrents and was accompanied with high wind, the course of which was from north, west to little south of east, through the HazleS Plain, Hotchkissville and lower Nonnewaugs districts, ,prostrating trees and fences to great extent. r....,,t .Ie,s.
 Yesterday afternoon, the 14th, We had more rain and across the central part of the town much higher wind, the course was from the southwest, north -easterly. in the West Side district small barn was blown down, one unroofed and another removed from it's foundation. In Judson Lane. Nathan Warner had seventy feet of cow-house nearly destroyed and one roof taken from his horse barn. An old but thrifty maple tree near his house, four feet in diameter, wss laid fiat, the roots full of earth being turned perpendicular, and measuring as they now stand Git is said) 20 by 30 feet. An apple orchard east of the house is almost entirely de- stroyed. Some thirty rods east of this large elm was blown down. The top fell on the east end of George Smiths house, crushing in the roof and otherwise rack ing the house. Twenty igrayestones in the north cemetery. were broken of CT turned over. Of the horse-sheds at the Methodist church, consisting of seventeen stalls, eight were removed several feet from their foundation and nine entirely demolished. A roof was blown from John Boughton's barn, and one from Alexan- der Gordon's. ,Dr. G.. H. Atwood had a chimney blown down and his house some
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 what injured by the falling of shade trees i'll his front. yard. The amount of loss we cannot now tell. Miles of fence were strewn in every direction and hundreds of fruit and shade trees besides many forest trees destroyed. We have had nothing to compare with it since the so called Sep tember gale more than fifty years ago and some say that that was not equal to it.
 Nathan Warner met with serious ae- cident to-day. While assisting to re- move the treee from Mir. Smiths house a rope broke and he was thrown some dis tance striking upon his head and right shoulder He was unconscious for while and is still considered in a critical condition.