St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-08

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school, primary. The fall term be-
gins September 4.
EA ST THARDWICK.
The Cyclone and Its Work.
Meteorologist DeVoe is more of a
man than last weeks CaledOn1an
made him out for his prophesied
cloud-burst struck Caledonia county,
and only three days later than he
predicted. On Monday afternoon,
July 20, this town and a portion of
Walden had the severest storm
ever known that did at least a thou
sand dollars worth of damage. 1t
came on about 8 o'clock and 1T was
so dark in the village that lamps
were lighted in the houses and stores.
The storm was accompanied by v1O-
lent rain and a little thunder and
lightning. So severe was the rain
that no one realized the damage that
the wind was doing until after the
storm was all over. 1t was a genu
inc cyclone that lasted only a few
minutes and passed rapidly in a
southeast direction through this
town and Walden. The storm area
was about three miles long. Jeffer-
son Hood saw the storm coming and
described it as a rapidly moving
cloud, shaped like funnel. An OBJ
server on Woodbury. mountain
watched the clouds and said the
storm cloud was long and black with
a white centre and that it twisted
everything in its path. 1t is not
known just where the storm started
but the first place visited was G. A.
HAYNES where trees were blown
down aud fences demolished. Pass
ing along to D. n. Farrand's so
sugar trees were levelled and a corner
of his barn taken off. The storm in
creased in power as it moved along
and at r. S. Frenchs "a stump was
dragged along the ground several
| rods and Il fence rail driven into the
ground so firmly that a man could
not pull it out. c. J. Bells beautiful
sugar orchard of several thousand
trees was next in line and about 500
trees were broken and good sized
piece of his barn lifted off. The barn
was full of hay and this perhaps
saved it from being entirely destroy
ed by the wind. Several shade trees
in front of his house were twisted to
pieces and the highway blocked with
large tree trunks and limbs. At the
old Whipple place, owned by Mr..
Bell, the large barn was moved from
its foundation about six feet and the
frame lOosened and racked. Mr.. Bell
was by far the heaviest loser in the
storm and he estimates his loss at
about $500. AT William Young's
place his sugar orchard of 500 trees
was more than half destroyed. A.
L. Beals lost 20 naples and other
valuable trees On Mrs. Browns S
place, occupied by Charles Wilmer
son, about 20 trees were broken and
a lot of fence blown down. A good
sized shed here was completely over
turned and your correspondent saw
it resting on its roof with the corner
posts pointed skyward In the ra-
vine near the railroad dry bridge the
eral trees are piled on top of each
other in several places. At Dows
shade trees were blown down and
the shingles from the section house
blown off. Taken altogether it was
as severe storm as ever visited this
section and it is doubtful if the a bove
account gives the entire loss as some
of the farmers cannot tell just how
severely they were visited.
George Montgomery is at home
from Boston.
Mrs Voudrey fell and broke her
wrist Monday.
John H. George and wife spent the
Sunday in Johnson.
Mrs Hodgdon and her daughter
Lucy are visiting in Danville.
The school house at the street is re-
ceiving a new coat of paint.
O. E Currier has moved into the
house opposite Edgar Hunts.
Mrs Debrune of ST. Johnsbury is
spending few days at her fathers,
Orrin Paine's.
The track below the depot has been
Strengthened and the side track
doubled in length.
A plank sidewalk is being laid from
the Congregational church to the
end of the village.
Rev. L. Warren of North Mont
pelier will preach in the village hall
next Sunday at 1.3O O'Clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Jenness were called
to ST. Johnsbury Monday by the i'll
ness of their little daughter who is
visiting her grandmother.
A little child of T. G. Bronson's
was severely hurt Tuesday by kick
from a little colt. The hoof struck
her in the forehead, leaving a cash
about four inches long. Three orfour
stitches had to be taken.
c. G. montgomery will sell the ].
M. Stevens farm in this village next
Wednesday at 10 O'Clock. B. S.
Hastings and B. 6. Howe of St.
Johnsbury have looked the property
over with view of making a sum-
mer boarding house of it.
Miss Jennie Smith died on Wednes-
day morning of consumption, the
same disease which took her sister
away last February She was a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs H. A. Smith
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