The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-15
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from his trip South last Saturday night.
THE school committee has hired Austin
Hazen, Jr., a recent graduate of Vermont
University, as principal of the school. Miss
Moody and Miss Chapman, the latter a
former teacher in Barre Academy, have
been engaged as assistants. The teacher
for the primary department has not been
engaged. Miss Kimball, the former teacher
should be paid the increased wages she asks
and retained. 1t will be true economy.
THE tornado which devastated the coun-
try got in its work in this town and scored
damages roughly estimated at about SlO,OOO.
Great numbers OF fruit and forest trees were
destroyed. On many farms scores and hum
dreds of sugar naples have been blown
down. IL would be quite impossible to
make list of damages to individual prop
erty-owners. Houses have been stripped
of chimneys and otherwise injured, barns
thrown down or moved bodily from their
foundations. In the immediate vicinity of
the village, the most conspicuous marks OF
the visitation are the shade trees destroyed.
A magnificent elm in the yard of Heman
Morse on Wnooski street was uprooted.
The trunk, about five feet in diameter, sepa-
rated a few feet from the ground into many
branches, which had grown upward in
graceful outlines and were themselves as
large as ordinary trees. 1t had long been a
conspicuous feature in the local landscape.
| The NAPLES in the rear of w. III. Ashleys,
/
Brown and M. G. Canerdy were blown down
| letting in the sunlight without restriction.
! Here and there on every street trees were
| down and cord-wood and brush abundant
A chimney was blown off from Mr.. Wyman's
! store, the tablet on Knights building dis
placed and some slight damage done to the
steeple of the Methodist church. DIR. Henry
James had the frame of his new barn up
and partially boarded. The workmen had
barely time to escape from it before il
crashed into the cellar a perfect wreck
| The doctor estimates his loss at about 5000
| The power of the wind was best illustrated
| in the destruction of Winooski street bridge
a wooden structure of two hundred fee
span. The Duxbury end was lifted bodil,
from the abutment and thrown into thu
| river. The bridge was utterly destroyed
and lay across the stream at night. Th
heavy rains during the night so raised tn
river that the wreck floated off during thu
night and became stranded on the rock
just above the railway bridge. The worl
of getting the mass of timber and bolts apar
and removing 1t to the land will cost quit
as much as the material is worth. Thi
bridge was built about fifteen years ago
Its structural weakness" rendered
worthless and ruined the original con
tractor. Mr.. Camp of Montpelier tried t
give strength to the defective arch at an eX
pense of 800, but failed to make bridg
of it. Finally, George II. Guernsey o
Montpelier tried his hand on the fabric, an
succeeded perfectly at an expense of anothe
$500. Mr. Guernsey thinks new bridg
can be built of wood for about $4,000. TIL
expense is borne by Waterbury and Dun
Inmates for an iron bridge will be made, bit
the material will probably be wood
WATERBURY CENTER.
Mrs. NJ. H. GREELEY of Hartford visite
her nephew, G. n. Greeley last week.
,l. hac az IL fnr ca,
eral months, is failing, and probably cannc
live many days
, THE ladies' aid society will hold its nee
meeting next week Wednesday afternoo
and evening in the park, provided I'll
weather is suitable. 1t is expected the ban
t will be in attendance in the evening.
) FRED G. SMITH of Minneapolis, MINI
came to town for visit last Thursda
Fred will be remembered as the gentleman
clerk formerly in the employ of Richardsc
& Fullerton and G. K. Wyman at Waite
bury.
THE storm of Thursday did not pass
!, by " without leaving its marks with us.
? did not seem to be more than ten minute
: after the heavy, leaden cloud was first SEE
u on Cancels Hump before it broke upon |
!; in all its fury. A barn belonging to K.
l Hutchins was unrOofed and the timbers ca
ried several rods, when they fell upon
: wagon under which two young ladies'
. daughter of H. M. Dufur of Marlboro Mass
= and a daughter of B. G. Hutchins-had tax,
\ refuge from the storm. 1t was at first thong
=. that the girls were killed, but they ha
u now nearly recovered. G. S. Hopkins was G,
. ting in hay, and one team had got nearly
:. the barn when it was struck, the load owe
: turned and the wagon broken. A barn
- c. f. Cloughs farm, in which was load
d hay, the oxen (hitched to the Cart and ty
= men, was blown down. Neither men or t
T. cattle were injured, although the timbe
: fell all about them. Fruit, shade and sug
Il trees were uprooted by the fury of the storl
) E. A. Russell reports the loss of at least o
y hundred naples from his sugar orchard,
. p. Clough about three hundred, l. j. Pr,
y colt one hundred fifty or more and l..
'e Bryan quite number. William Morrell,
r the Stowe Hollow road, lost his sugar-hou
IS and three hundred trees. A long shed
e the hill farm of o. A. Stearns was unrooft
n and the fences all over town were thorough
" tried. The slate on the west side of t
seminary building were torn off bad
nearly or quite third of the roof being Ia
re bare. 1t was perilous time about the Sc
N mary when the large slate were tiyi
l. through the air. Taken altogether, it W
e. the severest storm ever known here by t
Mt Coolest inhabitantn