Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-07-14

such as to have brought disgrace up
on the whole community. At the
late gathering. where the whole town
and many from other locations met,
it was remarked by many that there
was no sign of liquor anywhere /;
certainly there was not a single per-
son that appeared the worse for liq-
uor, and everything was as respect
able and orderly as any one could
wish.
Mention was made in your last issue of
cyclone which passed over West Hill
last Saturday; I send further particulars
The house of Mrs Lucy Kilburn is situat-
ed about two miles west of the village.
The house part is 38x55 feet, the ell 20x41
feet. The house and ell fronted south or
little west of south. The barns are To-
Gated about six rods south of the house
part, but further to the west than the ell.
One barn 30X52 ranges with the house,
the other 27x40 joins the larger barn with
gable to the south. Both these barns
were thoroughly made with large timbers
and we'll braced. The house was one of
the strongest frames with Sin. sills and
plates and posts, large braces, beams and
Overlays, made when timber was plenty
in thorough old fashioned style. 1t is said
that about eighty years ago severe hur-
ricane swept by where or nearly where,
this house was afterward built and, this
fact being known this house was suppos-
ed to be so strong that no Vermont wind
could demolish it. On Saturday night
about six o'clock, Mr.. T. J. Robbins stood
in his barn door looking in the direction
of Mrs. Kilburn's buildings. He saw what
appeared like a great cloud of dust or
smoke rolling down the hill from the
south, at the same time another black
cloud from the southwest appeared to
strike that one, and although the rain and
storm filled the air so he could not see
Mrs. Kilburn's buildings, yet he heard the
fearful roar and knew that great damage
was being done. Mrs. Kilburn, David
Scribner, her hired man, and Rebecca
Cowles, an old lady boarding with Mrs.
K, were in the house at the supper table
when the storm struck, Mrs. X. went up
into the ell to close the window in the
east gable. As she attempted to close the
window the cyclone struck the building
in full force and in an instant she found
herself eighty or ninety feet to the north
landed by plum tree, the ell part of the
house being completely demolished, with
braces, shingles, boards, timbers and
household furniture scattered over a
space of eighty by two hundred feet,
everything fiat on the ground, and much
of it as fine as kindling wood. The gable
end was found to her left or west, having
passed completely over her head. She
was but little hurt, though carried so far
and from the upper story too. She had
hold an ld-fashioned loom beam which was
by her side when she landed. Had she been
carried three or four feet west, or any
where inside the space covering eighty by
two hundred feet, she must have been kill
ed or terribly hurt, for there is not a
space scarcely foot square that is not
covered with debris. Mr.. Scribner rose
from the table and stepped to the door
which opened into the ell part; the next
thing he remembers is, that he found him
self on his back in the buttery with the
buttery door laying on him. Mrs. Cowles
sat at the table on the side toward the
front wall and was blown, table and all,
across the room and thrown partly under
the table. When Mr.. Scribner got on his
feet he went out where the ell should
have been, but it was gone. The stove
was carried some distance and the fire
had caught among the debris, which he
Immediately put out. 1t seems that the
whirlwind formed about fifty rods south
west from the house in Mr.. A. R. Garvin S
woods. Here little to the southwest of
Mrs. Kilburn's buildings, nearly fifty rods
from her barns, are some five acres of
heavy timbered land where about every
single tree is turned up by the roots OF
broken off-a perfect slash of trees. From
this center the wind moved directly tow
ard Mrs. Kilburn's buildings. 1t struck
the barns and unroofed both of them.
The longest was struck broad side, and
though containing a large quantity of hay
was moved on it's foundation. 1t took the
front side completely off and laid it IN the
door-yard, split the long posts and tore
away the whole front side, leaving only
three sides up and roof gone, the hay ex-
posed to the storm. Most of the posts
of the other barn are wrenched and crack.
ed. Passing by the east side of the barn
| it struck the ell of house doing the dam
| age mentioned above. But for the pro.
| lection the barns gave the house part, the
whole thing must have gone. As it is
| the doors were blown in, part OF the roof
gone, half of the cellar, walls and posts
wracked, etc. Thirty nice fruit trees
were destroyed. Damage to the build
| ings is estimated as high as 81, 200. Mrs
| Kilburn desires to thank the neighbors
who so kindly assisted her in collecting
her goods, building her fences etc. She
will not try to repair her buildings but
| will sell her farm. She has moved to the
Common into house belonging to DIR
| Dustin.
By measurement 1 find that the
east end of the house was moved II fee
and that Mrs. Kilburn was carried about
so feet. The great wonder is that she
was not killed.
East CraftSbury.
E. P. Richardson recently lost 6
valuable colt which he was breaking
The colt threw himself to the ground
and produced a rupture which caused
almost instant death.
Jay Seaver, an instructor in Yale
college, is spending vacation here
also Pliny Moody, student of Will
Jams college.
Derby.
School in district No. at the Line
Annie G. Kelley teacher, closed July End
Whole number of scholars so; average
attendance 34.2. Those who received
perfect department cards are as follows
| Arthur Bangs Fred Bangs, Kittie Flint