The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-31

From the factory the wind tore across
the fields, leveling fences, orchards
and crops, and next struck south street
The Redfeld House was partly un.
rooted, George Wentworth's house was
lifted from its foundation and turned
around, and carried two rods, and 9th.
or houses in the vicinity lost chimneys,
piazzas, etc.
The Taylor place, occupied by
Samuel Payne, a fine brick house sur.
rounded by stately trees, was entirely
unroofed, the trees all broken or torn
up by the roots, and the place presents
q scene of ruin and wreck.
Opposite, the residence of the Hon.
j. A. Durham was unroofed, the con-
servatory ruined and the barns were
Frustrated. but none of the people were
hurt. His sOn-in-law's residence on
the south was also badly damaged.
A falling tree struck the horse OF
Mrs. Beckwith, of St0ckbridge; the
horse sprung around, 0verturning the
wagon upon Mrs. Beckwith, killing her
instantly.
The storm then passed over the open
fields. No damage was done for a
mile or more, when it leveled an or
chard on Willis place, tore up the trees
around Kernochan's summer resi-
dence, and demolished the iron bridge
crossing the Housatonic River, and
reached the buildings of John w. No
BILE. Two barns here were blown to
pieces. Gleason's slaughter.house also
tumbled into ruins.
From Mobiles the storm rushed across
the valley, leveling all in its way, and
struck at last on the west side of
Washington Mountain, where six barns
we're destroyed. Two houses were
partly blown down, and all the fences
leveled.
The track of the tornado was not
over sixty rods wide.
FTCHBURa, Mass July 16.
The tornado here lasted but three
minutes, and all the damage was done
instantly. The spire of the Universal
ist Church was hurled into Main street,
opposite the Roll Stone House. The
tin roof of the City Hall was launched
into the street. The easterlv wall of
the extension to the City Hall, in proc
ess of construction, was blown down,
and several workmen had very narrow
escapes. Trees along the street, from
the Fitchburg Hotel to the Episcopal
Church, were, to a great extent, blown
down or broken off, and also several on
Hartwell, Pritchard and other streets.
Many houses lost all their chimneys,
seven falling from the Fitchburg Hotel,
and the damage to the City Hall is es-
timated at S11, 1000.
WORCESTER, Mass, July l6.
At Berlin barn owned by Nine. Ru-
dersdorff was demolished. A man
named Cheney and two horses were
killed. A man named Nourse is in
jured beyond hope of recovery, and two
men named Marshall and Baker are
seriously injured.
SPRINGFIELD. Mass. July 16.
The storm of wind was very sudden.
The baseball stand in Hampden Park
was blown to pieces, but the audience
gathered to see the game between the
Springfields and New Bedfords mirac-
ulously escaped serious injury, though
several were badly bruised.
At East Hampton, Pomeroy Block
was unroofed. Northampton suffered
most. Her famous elms, some of them
three feet in diameter, were torn up by
the roots, and the PROSTATE trees scat
tered everywhere through the town. 1t
is impossible to estimate the money
damage. but it will seriously impair
the towns picturesqueness. The Man
sion House was unroOfed.
Other towns thereabout suffered
generally from. PROSTATE crops and
trees, and a picnic party on Mount
HOlyoke saw the ruins of six barns.