St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-06-14
STORM NOTES.
Damage Done by Last Weeks Storm
Outside OF ST. Johnsbury.

The cyclone that visited this section
last week Wednesday afternoon proves
to have extended over a much greater
area of country than was at first sup
posed, indeed, full as much if not more
damage was done at some points out
| side of st. JOhnsbury than was the
case here in the village.
| The track of the tornado as it left
Railroad street seemed to follow up the
hill east, past William Higgins and
Lambert Packard's, leveling fences,
breaking glass, and the deluge of water
which fell quilted the highways in some
places so they were impossible. Three
miles east of this place barn belong
ing to Philemon Hill was demolished.
The farm of James Works suffered, but
less than some beyond. Albert Lee
lost barn and much fencing, besides
glass. Eight large trees were blown
| across the highway on the north side of
Stiles pond. A mile beyond, in the
Mosely Hovey neighborhood, there
was considerable damage done. John
Barrows lost a roof to one barn and
considerable glass. Frank Hutchin-
son, w. M. Hovey, Samuel Heming
| way, all suffered in damage to grass
and growing crops, loss of fences and
broken glass. In Hemingway's house SO
much glass was broken that water was
dipped out of the living rooms by pals
| full, while bushels of hailstones laid up
on the ground back of Mr.. Hovey's
house "a hours after the storm. Mrs.
| Orrin Young, native of North Dan
vile, remembered the hailstorm OF
July 3, 1856, which was so disastrous
in this section, and shut the blinds to
her house and thus saved all the wind
ows, while her neighbors, less thought
full, or with less experience, lost hun
dreds of lights.
At the top of Hurlbutt hill, on the
road follower Waterford, Walter Rem
ick's house had 81 lights of glass brok-
en-, the hotel at Lower Waterford, 147
lights the house on the Lucius Free
man place, 1913 lights. Henry Goss, al
Lower Waterford, had a barn blown
down, and Willard Kinne and Charles
Ross each lost corn barn and shed
Bradley Brown and Frank Brown eacl
lost heavily in the destructi on of trees
in their sugar places, some estimating
their loss at $500 each.
The tornado was also severe west Of
St. Johnsbury. The loss to William
Clements timber and crops is proba.
bly, not less than $500, and the aggre-
gate of damage in the towns of Dan
vile, st. ..Johnsbury and Waterford,
must foot up many thousands of dol
lars. Not the least damage done by
this storm was that to grass, grain and
fruit, the hail cutting it down ani
making a good crop in the track of th'
tornado impossible.
The Storm I'm Concord.
West Concord escaped any disas
trous effects from the storm nor wal
there much of a storm up the line o
the Victory railroad. The house near
est to the village that was visited wa
that of Willard Chase, the great suga
maker. In his orchards of 5000 trees
about 25 trees were blown down, tn
young clover, wheat, oats and pOta
toes, were badly damaged and siz
lights of glass broken out. Mr.. Chas,
can remember that he lost 1O3 light
in the great storm of '56. Two inche
of water fell in this vicinity in Is min
utes. At the farm of D. G. Carlton
Son 40 trees were blown down. Th
crops on the farms of George Quimb
and D. B. Morse we're badly beatel
down by the hail and washed by tn
rain.
At Concord Corner the storm wa
the severest ever known and nearl
1000 lights of glass were broken, hun
dreds of trees uprooted or blown over
fences razed and crops buried in sand
The storm seemed to have one of it
centres neal this village, for on tn
West Concord road few hundred rod
9 from the Corner there is swath tw
rods wide and fully 20 rods long wher
all the trees have been uprooted an
fences laid low. The trees in the vii
, lage look as poorly as if they wer
> blighted by the canker worm, an
many of the fences are down on a
sides.
At George w. Richardson's black
a smith shop IL lights were broken; q
his house the tops of 81 maple tree
were broken off and IA lights broker
!, A few boards from an old barn wer
D blown off and struck the house severe
rods away with great force. Th
8 boards measured 2 by IL feet. A
: William Richardson's house rs light
i were smashed. James P. Darling los
: rs lights and three acres of hop vines
y nearly two feet high, were broke
: down. The hop crop at Williar
T Darling's, also, suffered severel.
It Moses A. Parker thinks that he hs
n lost fully 1000 trees of all sizes in h
: orchards and woodland. The storI
did bad work in S. F. Cuttings o
chard, damaging the crops and brol
s 55 lights of glass. John S. Temple 10
q 50 lights, Charles S. Howard 20, LeOI
}. ard Howard 25, Augustus Cutting, wi
:. owns two houses two miles from ii
. : Corner, lis. Mr.. Cutting estimat'