The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-02-10


hour, carrying pebbles as big as
marbles through windows, sweep
ing incompleted buildings to the
ground, moving houses with their
contents many feet from their
foundations,
LIFTING ROOFS FROM COTTAGES
and cabins and depositing them
hundreds of feet away. Streets
were strewn with business signs,
torn from their hangings, and
sheets of tin rolled from the roofs
into huge balls. The damage to
the shops of the Denver and Rio
Grande will amount to thousands
OF dollars. Parts of the roofs of
the machine shops, blacksmith
shops and planning mill were ripped
off and blown away. A number
Of small houses and sheds in that
neighbOrho0d were either demol-
ished where they stood, or picked
up and carried of to q distance of
several rods. Sometime ago st.
Patrick's Church congregation, of
North Denver, commenced to
build new church. Yesterday
the walls were up and ready for
the roof. This morning only pile
of bricks remained of the build.
ing to mark where it had stood.
Timbers and brick were blown in
every direction. Parts of the
church were found in dozen diff
fercnt places within u radius of
five squares. In South Denver o
dozen or more small dwellings,,
barns and sheds were taken from
their foundations and set upon
their sides, and in some cases com.
pletely overturned. Several frame
houses were blown dozen yards
or more from where they had been
placed, while some brick dwell
ings were
COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED.
a barn in which were two hor-
ses was taken up and blown fifty
yards away, leaving the horses
standing in their stalls unframed.
Mr.. W. g. Brown, who with his
wife aud child and mother reside
in q little ono and a half story cot
tagc on South Water street, jump.
ed out of bed just before daylight
and went into The Kitchen to make
fire. He had applied The match
and stepped back few feet, when
the wall of that side of the house
fell in with crash, breaking the
top of the range half of. The
south wall fell in, and the tumbling
bricks were picked up by the wind
and thrown against an adjoining
chapel with terrific force. The roof
followed, leaving Mr.. Brown and
his family in a house with one wall
tumbled in and no covering over
their heads. The destruction of u
house on South Eighth street was
peculiar. 1t was about 4 o'clock
that something like whirlwind
struck the dwelling. 1t did not
begin at the foundation but on the
roof, which it forced down between
thu walls into the apartments be-
meath. After doing this much it
picked up about 800 pounds of the
demolished roof and carried it in
northerly direction. At point
about fifty yards from the house
the wind dropped it's burden.
Strange to say, not q particle OF
the roof fell to the ground in this
arial voyage Of 100 feet. With
equal force the wind then picked
up q wall of the house and carried
it off q number of yards in a south
casterly direction. In this vicinity
several small houses and sheds
were blown together and mixed up
| in O chaotic mass of wood and
bricks. A one-story brick house
at sos Lincoln avenue was struck
full in tho front. The roof was
| lifted from the walls and carried a
distance of 200 feet, when its pro.
gress was slightly checked by
coming in contact with a shed and
an outhouse. 1t cut completely
through them and continued on a
distance of 90 feet, making a jour
ney of 25O feet in all, to Sherman
avenue, where it struck the rear
of q brick house No. 402. The
flying roof was propelled with
such force that it went completely
through a brick house. MI y. l.
Collins, the occupant, jumped out
of bed just in time to be knocked
down by q flying brick. His wife
and children escaped without IN