Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1890-04-03
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A TERRIBLE CYCLONE,
HOUSES AND BARNS DEFgesB.-
ESHEEe aSs CARMEL.
Ahe Terrific Effects OF Friday
Afternoons Thunder storm:
A VeFEfabRe Tornado.

considerable OF a Cvlone of rain, hais
and wind passed over portions of this
country during the heavy down-peur
OF rain Friday afternoon.
The cyclone passed FROM Southwest
to Northeast, its violence Increasing
with its progress.
The hail and rain poured down from
point down below Bellviay; at Don
aghay's it struck his big barns, blew a.
portion of them down and also wagon
house, demolishing three carriages.
No further damage has been reported
along it's track until Carmel was
reached. A PIONEER reporter visited
that settlement Saturday morning, and
found number OF despondent Jews,
whose losses of several hundreds of
dollars, as result of the cyclones des-
tructive power, will fall heavily uposs
them
The cyclone there visited them short
ly after three O'Clock. The rain an6,
hail was blending, and panes OF glass
in windows were broken Workmer
employed out of doors ran TO places OF
shelter. Following the hail and rain
came violent tornado of wind. There
were two currents, one from the south
east and another from the west. AL
most in the centre of the village these
currents met. and three houses, four
barns and the uncompleted shirt fac
tory, were leyeled TO the ground, to-
gether with dozeMs Of out-houses, wood
sheds and fences. Entering Carmel
the first visible effects of the cyclone is
pile of scattered lumber Thesse-
boards, laths and posts, formerly stoc 2
On the left of the road. There is not
ing left now but the foundations. IT,
lumber is scattered for hundreds *
yards through fields and woods. .B2ss-
beyond this spot on the right OF ~
road Isaac Aaron has been building d
rather imposing dwelling for Philad5@-
phia partie,'. che house was entirefy-
enclosed and the men were lathing tA@
interior. The cyclone caught the house.
and whirled it completely around and
turned it over, the roof being under the
structure. Even the cellar walls were
torn down. Everything was most COM
pletely wrecked, and Saturday morning
gang of men were endeavoring to-
straighten out the chaos. A barn %.
little further on fs now scattered als
over field, and almost opposite an
other small dwelling has been levelet3.
Beyond the post Office stands the
foundations of the new shirt factory
building. Friday before the Storm
the frame for the immense structure
was up and A. F. Randolph's carpen.
ters were putting on the weather
boarding. Now the building is g.
mass of badly mixed.up lumber, and ie
will take considerable time to straight
en- out the wreck. The frame work is
twisted in every conceived shape. Be-
yond this another barn is lost to it's,
owner.
The reporter had conversation With.
not less than thirty-two of the inhabs-
tants of the place. They tell an inter
estering story of the winds awful velo-
city. Not one of those interviewed
felt safe during she storm, and many
of them, especially the ladies are neIv-~
Gus yet The houses they took refuge
ia uring the storm, surged to and fro,
aAu many thought ~ete sure to -
over. In half ioZ D cases the occu-
pants of houses, fearful that the build =,
ings would fall upon their heads. ren
for open fields to be ~ {. s..ir !,,ts> 9,
The carpenters who were at work ona
the shirt factory took refuge ina new
house, but it seemed highly probable
that this building TOO must go, and
they do not hesitate in saying that.
they made better time than q race
horse in getting out 10 open fields
Many of tha dwellings of the little
town are twisted on the foundations,
and will entail considerable expendI--
ture to straighten them up proper ~.
The ship carpenters em-.sSysa by
Riee Brothers, are as busy as>they can
we'll be, as this firm hae plenty of en-