The Portland daily press., 1883-11-16
THE BLIZZARD.
Later Reports of Damage Wrought IN
Maine.


at one end, and many small buildings were
blown down in Phillips. Ten barns were
blown down in Salem, and horse and COW
owned by d. Foster were killed.
In Strong, buildings were blown down and
cattle were killed.
In Freeman, the barn and shed of DR.. A.
Foster was blown down, the barn of a. Page
was unroofed, A. d. Starbirds shed was
blown down, and N. Carvile's barns were
badly torn. The cable bridge, over the Sandy
river in Strong, was broken.
Sad havoc was made in the Franklin forests.
Thousands of trees are fiat on the ground.
Many places are found where some of the best
pine and spruce tim Der in the county is down
for thousand rods at stretch. Fences are
nowhere. The forest roaoS between Phillips
and Rangeley region are imp assable. Inc
damage caused by the gale in Fran. Gin county
cannot be easily estimated, but mna' reach
$4,000,
In Pennington, a barn belonging to e. II.
Gilman, on Porter's Hill, was unroofed, and
the debris striking a chimney of the house
knocked it down.
In Wilton, the wind blew gale, and the air
was piercing cold. Chimneys were blown
down, Rufus X. Blake's, Isaiah Mayos and
David Miler's barns partially demolished, and
large glass windows in Sawyer's store blown
in.
In Jay, number of buildings were unroof-
ed or blown down. No such gale has been
known in the town fer years, if ever.
In Kingfeld, the gale was the severest ever
known in that vicinity. Several barns were
wholly or partially unroofed; one, owned by
Frank Lander, being entirely demolished.
Ohimneys were blown over, glass broken and
fences destroyed. Also an immense amount of
damage was done to wood and timber land
Mr.. Moses Lander says 200 cords of wood On
his farm, besides large amount of spruce
and hemlock timber was uprooted.
| Monday night and Tuesday morning will be
remembered in Temple fer long time, for
the heavy wind. Much damage was done to
buildings, orchards and forests. G. A. Fred
erick lost part of the roof of his new barn.
| j. A Derby's loss of An old barn, stable car
riages, sleigh, pig, etc., will foot up nearly
| $500. Erwin Farmer was standing in his door
| yard at O'Clock Tuesday morning, watching
| his chimney burn out, when his sheep barn
| went down; but he was fortunate enough to
| get his 81 sheep out from under the ruins
without injury to them. Silas Wilder lost the
top Of ore of his chimneys, and portion of
the roof of one of his barns G. K. Staples
| merrill barn. went down. d. W. Chandler
lost the top of chimney. The barn on the
Or. Houghton farm blew down. The "Woods
| hill barn. went down. G. W. Merrill lost a
portion of his barn.
The gale on the Upper Androscoggin was
we're severe. The roads are INSTRUCTED by up-
turned trees. Mr.. Knapp's barn, in Byron,
was blown down. A building in Dixfeld vii
| lage was turned upside down, landing ia q
creek below. William G. Cannon had barn
| blown down in Peru. A portion of the roof
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.
Great damage is reported in Paris, Bluefield
and Fryeburg. In Dixield, grave-stones were
broken off and one monument destroyed The
| spruce forests at the head of Swift river were
badly damaged. twenty-five, chimneys were
blown down, the church damaged and three
Reports from the Northward indicate that
| very severe damage was done in some sections
through Pscsquis and Northern Penobscot, to
the forests, BY the severe gale. Great num-
bers of trees have been leveed, involving a
loss of many thousand dollars
SeveDty-6ve thousand dollars will not more
than cover the damage caused by Tuesday g
gale in Oxford county. The loss In Bethel
alone amounts to over $4,000 The gale took
the form of tunnel-shaped cyclone In Beth
ell, the house of M. e. Cummings was utterly
destroyed, the barn of I. G. Kimball unroofed
the barn of A. M. & j. 81. Carter was stripped
OF shingles as clean as though men had been
over it with shoves. Mr.. j. Fl. 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 tim
Der are lying PROSTATE, pine trees being up
turned by the roots and twisted off like twigs.
s. B. Twitchell says that $500 will not re-
pair the damage to him. Deacon T. "a. Chap
man has some 600 of valuable pine timber
| upturned by the roots. w. w. Mason and
John Farwell suffer great loss.
In Mexico, pine timber, owned by j. r.
Austin, R. Q. Worthley, v, M. Abbott, o. P.
the roots. Frank Smiths buildings were in
jured. Major Thcmas's buildings in Byron
and John Houston's, in Roxbury, were
injured. The barn on the Bunker farm in
Roxbury, was smashed. In it were oxen, cows
and horses. Three head of cattle and a four
year old colt were killed, and another horse
probably fatally injured, A small unfinished
house on the place was destroyed. In Ando.
yer thousands of pines were uprooted, Mr.
| Richards barn was unroofed, aud his grain
blown all about the country.
The grove OF pines about the Corner, at An
dover, are flat. The parsonage lost its chin
ney. The church roof is partly gone The
school house is crushed and the school sudden.
Merrills barns is partly gone, the doors of both
barns are broken in, and the barn of Mr.
Thomas is partially destroyed. Eight chin,
neys were blown off in the village, and a great
number OF windows crushed in, but strange to
say no person was seriously injured. The old
est inhabitant has never before seen any thing
to compare with the violence of this storm
which left wrecks On every hand.
In Somerset county the damage was consd
cradle. d. L. Campbell, of Arson, lost the
/ roof of his lqrOQ harm Part rf ho roof Of 81,
barn OF Mr.. Hiram Moore was blown off. II
South Anson, N. f. Clapp lost part of the
roofs of three barns on his place. 81. FL. Look
part OF the roof of his barn. The barns Of
Fred Bixby and Edgar Hilton were more OF
lees shattered, and buildings in most every di
rection are reported damaged,
A despatch from Bangor, received last night
states that the damage done to Maine timber
lands by the gale of the early part of the
gave but slight idea Of the real extent Of the the
havoc wrought, and full details have not vel
been received from many localities But
enough is known to demonstrate that the ca
lamity is one of great magnitude. While the
wind ragged fiercely throughout the whole
State, the greatest damage appears to be con
fined to belt some miles in width, and Cross
ing Piscataqus county and Northern Penob
scot into Aroostook. The same belt probably
crossed Some.set county.
At Shirley 1t was very severe, and following
along down the Piscataquis valley, crossed the
Katahdin Iron Works, through the gulf acros!
Long, a township, and the Indian township!
to the lower lakes, and thence near Pattsn
There are great stretches where the forest ii
sll seveled TO the ground, and millions upon
millions OF valuable timber destroyed. Whole
townships are, in some Instances, said to bs
nearly fat The loss is estimated certainly a
several hundred thousand dollars, and one
well known lumberman predicts that the dam
age throughout the entire State by this gale
will amount to a round million. It ia very
serious blow to the Maine lumber interests.
During the late high wind, 156 trees were
blown across the stage road between Malta
wamkeag and Pstten, and within few miel
of Patten 20 buildings were unroofed or blown
down. The roads throughout that section are
| hlockpd with trees