Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28
WIND AND WATER.
Clarksville Visited by Heavy
Wind and Rain.
An Electric Light Wire Falls and ia
run Over by Street Car.-The
Damage Nominal.

An unusually heavy wind and hail
storm visited this section last night.
Thos. Rohner warned the people of
the storm in advance. He has q ma
rine barometer, and while the Their
mometer was rising yesterday after
noon the barometer went as low as
28o, which is considerably lower than
it has gone since the instrument has
been in the city.
About s o'clock the storm reached
The city, accompanied by heavy hail
and rain. Thunder and lightning
were also heavy. The damage done
in the city is nominal. With the ex-
ception of few tin roofs there is no
further damage reported.
During the heaviest part of the
storm a piece of tin fell across an
electric light wire, near Crusman's
corner, and broke it down.
1t fell across the street rail-
way track on Franklin street.
A car came along and the driver
thought that he would not turn back
for as small thing as a wire and
across it he drove. The insulation
was cut away by the car wheels and
the electricity blazed away from the
rent in something like thousand
different colors, causing a general
stampede in the neighborhood. The
wire is what is known in electric
light lingo as a "1ead" wire. 1t is
used to find breaks in the circuit.
The wire runs from the electric light
station across the northern main
wire, and is 50 adjusted at the south
ern main wire that a connection can
be made at will. There was no con-
nection with the main wire on the
south end last night. Strange to say
when the "dead" wire fell the circuit
to the last was not broken. The
electric light men at the station ex-
plain this on the theory that there
was another "groQnd" somewhere.
The electricity from the "dead"
wire flashed along the ground, ran
up some obstacle that was touched
by the main wire and thus
made short circuit going
back to the station. This is
very simple. The electric current
could be carried by almost a dozen
different things to the main wire.
A telegraph or telephone wire COM
ing in contact with an electric light
wire could have been the means of
conveying the current to the wire.
The wire was taken up by the cleo
trio light men without damage.
STORM NOTES.
Murphy, the man who attends to
the electric lights throughout the
city, was on top of an electric light
pole when the hardest of the storm
struck the town. He says he thought
the wind and hail would knock him
off.
A circumstance that was noticed
by nearly every one, was the fact
that within two minutes after the
storm had passed the stars were
shining as clear as bells.
A large shade tree was blown
across First street on top OF the hill
south of Commerce.
The tree beside the GAINESVILLE
National Bank was blown down.
A section of tin was blown from
the Gracey warehouse and fell in the
alley between the warehouse and
the Arlington.
Reports coming in from the Green
wood country neighborhood say that
fences and trees were blown down.
The wind did much damage to tel
ephone wires. The manager says the
lines suffered more from this storm
than any previous one.
The hail beat the window lights
out of John Aliens house, the King
place.
The windows were broken out in
the courthouse basement, on the
west side, by the hail.
George Warfield reports hail
stones at his house, near Idaho
Springs, that measured four inches
round.
DIR. VIII Meriwether, of Guthrie,
was in town to-day, and reports
good deal of fencing blown down,
but no serious damage.
V. M. Fuqua, between Guthrie
and Sadlersville, had large barn
blown to the ground by the storm.
George Farmers stable, near Port
Royal, was struck by lightning last
night and burned up. His stock
was saved.
The storm was particularly severe