Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-11-15

BETHEL, Nov. Il.
Seventy-five thousand dollars will not more
than cover the damage caused BY Tuesdays
gale in Oxford county. The loss in Bethel,
alone, amounts to over $50 900. The gale
took the form of tunnel-shaped cyclone. In
Bethel, the house Of N. E. Cummings was
utterly destroyed. the barn Of l. G. kimbali
unroofed, the barn Of A. N. and j. II. Carter
was stripped of shingles as clean as though
men had been over it with shovels. Mr.. ).
H. Carter was thrown thirty rods and taken
up senseless. The physicians find no bones
broken and think he will soon be out again.
Millions of pine timber are lying PROSTATE,
some tree. being upturned by the roots and
others twisted of like twigs in the hands OF
man S. b. Twitchell says that $500 will
not repair the damage done TO him. Dea. /.
II. Chapmon has some two hundred thousand
valuable pine timber upturned by the roots.
w. W. Mason and John Farewell suffer
great loss. Newry, GIlead, Andover and the
lake region must have suffered severely.
At Mexico, the gale reached its height in
the afternoon. II blew the front from Ellis
Flagg's shed and otherwise injured his build
ings. C. X. Virgins house was damaged.
the chimney blown down and the roof dam
aged. Much pine timber owned BY j. X.
Austin, X. C. Worthley, v. n. Abbott,
F. Tucker and VIM. NJ. Hall was blown up
by the roots. Frank Smiths buildings were
injured. Maj Thomas buildings in Bryon
and John Houstons in Roxbury were some
what injured. The barn on the Bunker farm
in Roxbury was literally smashed. In it were
oxen, cows and oxen. Three head of cattle
and four year colt were killed. and another
horse probably fatally injured. The oxen
were unhurt. BRAD" Knapp of LivermOre
lived on the place. He has met with q severe
loss. He had small house partly up and
that was destroyed. This occurred about
midnight The Rumford stage was stopped
above Albert Virgins by trees in the road.
All the large and many Of the small pines
above his house were blown down. The
shed back of the east Rumford meeting was
laid fiat.
At Andover it blew down Frenchs ball
alley. Cushmans large house had the out
side of its roof stripped of shingles and Chin
ney blown down. The large clump of pines
near Mr.. Bedelles wero laid fat. Near
Senator Clarks grew lot of pines which
were blown down. One man (Marston) was
knocked senseless by a barn door he was
trying to replace. The pines commenced to
fall about 3 o'clock A. NJ. Tuesdak and fell
in scores after then, many of them falling on
the village school house. George Thomas
barn lost part of its roof. Mr.. Richards
was entirely unroofed and his grain blown
all around the vicinity - chimneys were
blown down generally, and windows were
much demoralized. These cover only 4
small number of those whose property was
damaged. Telegraph wires were broken and
posts blown down. People could not walk
the streets for fear Of flying shingles, etc.
"rhere will be logging in Andover village
this winter" saws one. The returns come
owly-the back towns have not been heard
from. but everyone coming in reports
damage done in a greater or less degree
hikhty pihSS 'ciShSiuk W III. hOVOtt, tWO
hundred belonging to F. b. Smith, thirty be.
longing to VIM. NJ. Hall and more than one
hundred belonging to r. X. Worthley, near
Mexico. were uprooted.
The blizzard on the upper Androscoggin
was very severe. The roads we're obstruct-
ed by uprooted trees. Mr.. Knapp's barn in
Byron was blown down. building in Dix.
field was turned upside down landing in a
creek below. VIM. G. Cannon had barn
blown down in Peru. A portion of the reof
on the town farm barn in Canton is reported
off the hooks and one end of the meeting
house shed at Canton village fell in.
PHILLIPS, Nov. IA.
The great gale of Monday night and Tues
day proves to have been more disastrous in
northern Franklin county than was at frst
supposed. The narrow guage bridge across
the Sandy river was moved three inches At
one end. Many small buildings were blown
down in Phillips. Ten barns we're blown down
in Salem, and horse and COW owned by Dr.
Foster were killed. In Strong. buildings
were blown down and cattle we're killed. In
Freeman, the barn and shed Of DR.. A. Fos-
ter was blown down, the barn of A. Page was
unroofed, A. ID. Starbird's shed was blown
down, and N. Carville's barns were torn
badly. The cable bridge over the Sandy
river at Strong was broken. Sad havoc was
made in the Franklin county forests. Thou
sands of trees are fiat on the ground. Many
places are found were some of the best pine
and spruce timber in the country 10 down for
a thousand rods at = stretch. Fences are
nowhere. The forest roads between PHILIPPE
and the Rangsly region are impassable. The
damage caused by the gale in Franklin county
cannot be easily estimated, but must reach
$4,000.