Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-06-16
CYCLONES WORK.
Widely Separated Sections of
the State Suffered.
Reports are Plenty Of Wrecked Build
lngs and Other Damages.
Damage Through ths State Will Reach Many
Thousands--Lsss IS Total.

The reports of damage by the terrific
wind storm of "Wednesday afternoon are
coming in every hour. The Stat. has
probably had but few more severe storms,
aud tia. damage 10 buildings, trees, fences
AMI other property will reach many ,hoa-
sands.
1t viii be some days before all the dam
age is reported
At Lisbon and Lisbon Falls the storm was
very severe. IL is estimated that from
3tHU 10 1000 panes of glass we're broken
there, while trees were uprooted and crops
badly damaged. In the Worumbo Mills al
Lisbon Pals, between 500 and 600 panes of
glass were broken, and in the Lisbon Falls
Fibre Company about 400 more. In the
st0res-large pane. were broken, and many
of the private houses suffered loss of
from 80 TO 100 paHes each. Twenty -one
hailstones weighed pounds ounces. The
damage at Lisbon Falls will be more than
sine0.
The storm of " etlneslay did considerable
damage At Heron Island, summer resort
at the mouth of the Demariscotta river.
The freight house was blown from the
wharf int0 the water and the hotel lost IA
chimney top and large amount of glass in
the cottages AMI other buildings was broken
out by the hail. The damage is about
$500.
At Brunswick the foot bridge between
the Brunswick side and the electric light
station was blown down, leaving some of
the employees on the island. The two
wooden towers built for the new foot
bridge of the Topsham Land Company be-
tween brunswick and Topsham were blown
over, and the new harm just built by otis
George on the Topsham side suecumbed TO
the winh. Fe,leralstre in Brunswick is
blocked with fallen trees.
Several barns were blown down AT Orono.
Trees and chimneys suffered badly. The
Webster paper mill lost 80 feet of its chin
ney and Adams & Cos, saw mill lost most
of its roof.
II. J. Fogg's farm buildings at Cornville
were burned Tuesday evening. Ii is sup
posed they were struck by lightning. The
loss Is $1,000.
Lightning struck in many places at
Calais. Several persons were injured bu,
no one was killed.
Three buildings were lifted from their
foundations and blow some distance at St.
Andrews. n b.
Belgrade had the worst storm ever
known there The centre of the storm
seems to have passed just south of the
cemetery through the woods of c. W. Stu
ar, 4 Son and Joseph Hill, and everything
was leyeled in its path; the road running
from Pinkhams Corner TO c. W. Stuart's is
filed with pine oak and hemlock trees that
will take days to clear. Mr.. Stuart says
that the damage to his timber will amount
TO hundreds of dollars. Orchards suffered
severely, hundreds of trees being ruined.
The snow fences Of the Maine Central rail
road were nearly all overturned.
t;lmans train on the Boston & Maine.
which left Portland at J.i5, struck the
storm while il was on the bridge over the
Dunstan river at Scarboro. The force of
the gale literally stayed the progress of the
train, and the ears rocked like ships at sea.
Women and children shrieked, and men
sprang from their seats and crowded to the
wintlward side of the cars, 10 prevent them
from going over.
z. =. Woodard, who lives in the edge of
Topsham, had so panes broken in his
house. But the most severe damage was
to the hot house of C.. W. Goddard, the
well known florist of Durham. 1t is esti-
mated that 500 cannot replace the harm
done to the building and plants. Nearly
every dwelling in the vicinity suffered more
or less.
Mr.. William Chapman of Pownal. who
had recently repaired his buildings and
erected big shed between his barns, had
the shed blown down and half of one barn
demolished Mr.. Joshua Chapman. his
brother, living near lost good barn.
A building was blown down at New
Gloucester.
Mr.. Brown of Durham lost his house,
barn and contents by lightning. Loss.
$500: uninsured.
In Saeo. Walter Mckusick's barn was
blown down. j. p. Smith lost his big barn
two miles out on the Buxton road.
Five miles out of Sacu. George \. Bean.
the 20-years-old son of John Bean was
caught in the ruins of his fathers new barn,
which was nearly completed and which
was leyeled to the ground by the wind.
His head was caught in the falling iimbers,
and he was extricated with difficulty. He
retained his senses, and only a small bruise
appeared on his head, but his condition is
critical. OF the barn not one whole stick
of timber was left.
At North Saco the farm house of George
Stuart on the Flag pond road, five miles
from the city was struk by lightning. Mr..
Stuart who has been suffering from brok-
en- leg was lying on a Lounge down stairs.
He hobbied TO the window to look out just
as q holt of lightning came down the chin
ney. The lightning Crossed the room and
! struck Mr.. Stuart on the right side of his
face paralyzing his face, eye and arm. 1t
also burned the cotton baudage around his
leg and broke the plaster east. II is
thought Mr.. Stuart will recover in time,
Eastport suffered To extent of over $1,000
in damage to glass by the hail.