The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-21
was badly hurt. about the back and right |
leg. Williams, the colored man, was badly
bruised about the head ~

was badly hurt about the back and right
leg. Williams, the colored man, was badly
bruised about the head ~
AT D1cKERsoN & BROTHERS,.
At the saddlery establishment OF Dicker-,
son g. Brother, on Franklin street, every
thing was topsy-turvey. I'm fact, the entire
establishment was perfect wreck; The
entire stock was flooded with water. The,
wind struck the back part Of the building and
took away all Of the second story. The
workmen were at their benches at the time,
and how they escaped seems miracle.
Messrs. Dickerson will lose over $4,000.
Mr.. George Z. Pegram was badly cut about
the head. The firm will open to-day at No..
1914, next door to their old stand. i
J.. E. HANGER d CO.
In front of this establishment was large
nile OF lumber, the most OF tt.split alirtD
nieces, Upon inquiry Of Mr. Hanger we
found that he did not know where it all
came from. He was standing in front OF
his store putting up the shutters when he
saw the fragments Of timber flying through
the air. He got out OF the way as soon as
possible. and escaped with only slight
wound upon the hand. The sidewalk was
blocked with the torn timbers, and there
was much Of it upon the roof, which had
also been struck by lightning twice. The
timber, it is supposed, came from Dlckerson
tS Brothers, as their roof had entirely DIS.
appeared, and these timbers corresponded
with the missing ones. s
A NARROW ESCAPE.
The gable end of McCurdy's store was
blown out, and fell into the neighbor1ng
30 h6nmg-9nn
wounded negro man named Fillmore,
from Charles City county. DR.. Odell was
called in but pronounced his wounds as not
OF serious nature. Just before the thing
occurred Mr.. H. G. Adams, Mr.. James
Stamper, his clerk, and Messrs. r. Tyler
Jones, John Brauer, and Ed. Keeling, were
sitting conversing together. BY some ar
rangement of Providence they changed
their seats Just before the fall, OF they would
have been killed or seriously injured.
THE SHIPPING.
The schooners in port were blown about
considerably, and number of them broke
from their mooringS.
Schooner j. II. Wainwright, lying at
Libby Prison discharging coal, had her
main top-mast broken off, and broke away
from the wharf, pulling horse into the
dock which was being used IN unloading.
The horse was rescued.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.
A limb OF a tree fell on Broad street, just
above the Maison Dore Hotel, during the
storm, and a carriage which was passing at
the time very narrowly escaped being
caught beneath il; but strange to say, it fell
lust between the horses and the driver and
lust at the horses tails. The horses could
not move, but were held firmly by the limb
Of the tree.
MISCELLANEOUS CASUALTIES.
The roof of J. X. Childrey IL O.'s tobacco
factory, corner of Main and Twenty-fourth
streets, was blown off and carried across the
street.
Ellison's tobacco factory, Main street be-
tween Twentieth and Twenty-tirst, also had
the roof blown off and lodged on an adloln-
ing house.
The roof of Stearns's warehouse, No. Ito
Fifteenth street between Main and Cary,
and occupied by r. Wendenburg, was
blown off and wound up in complete roll.
The house was filled with lime, plaster, etc.,
and seon became very hot, and il it had not
been at once removed would no doubt have
been in blaze. e..
J. B. PAGES factory was unroofed, and
much loss entailed-the stock exposed.
The tin roof OF Odd-Fellows' Hall, ON
Franklin and Mayo streets, was blown oil,
and the building flooded. The Police Court
room was so much flooded that it is doubt
full whether or not the Police Justice can
hold court this morning.
The gable end Of George Cunningham's 8
house, comparatively new, situated opposite
| Seahrook's warehouse, was blown out. Mr.
Cunningham had another house on Flr-
teenth street near Franklin, which was
badly damaged. Nearly the entire top was
blown in.
Catlett's shoe-store, on Main street Just
above Shockoe creek, had nearly all its WIN
dow lights demolished by the wind and
hail.
scotts drugstore, on the corner OF Twen-
| ty-tifth and Main streets, was injured to the
extent Of $50 by the wind and hail..
| Scott & Clarke's factory, on TWenty-trst
street between Main and Franklin, lost
about 200 window-lights.
Pat. Ryan, corner OF Eighteenth and
Franklin streets, lost about fifty window
lights.
Two magnificent old mulberry trees were
twisted up by the roots in front OF the old
Eighteenth-Street engine-house.
The roof Of Morrison d Co.'s drugstore
Broad between Twenty-flfth and Twenty
sixth streets, was partially torn up. Hail
stones fell here about the size Of guinea
eggs, and broke several of his large plate
glass windows and number of windows
in private houses. A number OF gaS-lampS
in this vicinity had all the glass broken.
The roof and rear gable-end of the Rich
mond Wagon-W orks, b. Hoffman proprle-
tor, at the corner OF Seventeenth and Cary
streets, were blown of, and everything IN
the house damaged by water. A heavy
sewing-machine in the upper story was
blown half across the building. The dam
age is considered about five OF six hundred
dollars. =,
The tin-roof OF q two-story building fell
on a team of three mules and covered them
completely. They were soon, however, got
ten out all right.
A chimney on the First station-house, Old
Market, and one on Talbot d Sons foun-
dry, Cary and Seveteenth streets, were
blown down.
A new frame house in the course Of erec-
tion for Mr.. Cootes, on Thirtieth street near
Clay, was blown down and completely de-
molshed.
Curtis & Parker, No. 10 Eighteenth street,
had their sign blown down, carrying with
the upper part Of it the door-sill, and break
ing the glass in the front windows.
Dukes stable, on Franklin between Fif-
teenth and Sixteenth streets, had all the tin
blown of the roof.
AT E. B. Cook E Co.'s two sashes were
blown in, and some other damage was in
flicted upon windoW-panes.
A large plate-glass window in the office OF
the James River Improvement Company, in
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