Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-28
A BAD STORM.
ONE OF THE WORST BLOWS THE COUNT
EVER EXPERIENCED.

EVER EXPERIENCED.
No one who was in his senses last
Thursday night needs to be told that the
wind blowed and that it bowed hard
and blOwed long. But 1t was not till
the next days papers came out that any
one supposed the storm had been so wide
spread. 1t extended over the whole of
the country from the Rocky mountains
eastward. An immense amount of dam
age was done.
scared than hurt. Houses rocked, loose
blinds slammed and there was such
racket that none could sleep; but, after
all, not much harm was done. Mr.. G. NJ.
carried across lots and banged up against
board fence near Artist Jackson's. A
big pile of lumber which Mr.. Joseph
Battell had had piled during the winter
onlhis premises on the eastern edge of the
village was widely scattered, leading
residents of Washington street who
heard the boards cavorting about to
think that all the neighborhood was
IN ruins.
There was no loss of life hereabouts,
but there was trouble enough. Our cor
respondents in surrounding towns tell
part Of the story. Here in the village
the storm seems not to have had so much
force as few miles farther east, under
and upon the mountains. A barn on
Charles Hooker's place, out toward East
Middlebury, was wrecked. One COW was
killed and another injured by falling tim
bers. In Weybridge several barns were
either blown down or unroofed. In Sal
isbury Walter Whitneys new house was
moved six or eight feet off its foundations
and his barn badly injured. The roads
in the vicinity of Lake Dunmore were
filled with brush from the trees along
them and rendered almost impossible.
At the lake barn belonging to the old
hotel was blown over and portable cot
tage on the grounds was Frustrated. At
Bread Loaf Inn some 30 squares of tin
roofing were torn off the buildings and a
number OF hay barns in the vicinity were
thrown to the ground.
At New Haven Mills the wind blew
down barn belonging to William Guy
ette, and new house, not yet finished,
belonging to Burt James, was moved
from its foundations and otherwise bad
ly damaged.
A Bristol dispatch tells of these dam
ages there The large window in Hol-
lev hall was blown in and smashed and
the slate roof was slightly damaged.
The electric light wires were also dam
aged and the lamp in front of the Bristol
House was blown down. Charles Mum
sill's barn roof was blown partially of.
A chimney on G.. f. Hanchett's house
was blown off. A window in A. J. Pi-
per's house was blown in. An old build
ing on Garfield street, used as a shed.
was blown quite a distance and smashed.
Outbuildings in many parts of the town
were blown about. During the night a
chimney on r. ID. Stewards residence
burned out. but did no damage. Ed
ward Wood, who lives about two miles
east of the village. had building un-
rooted. NJ. l.. Varney's barn, milk
house and shed were demolished. W.
w. Riders farm barn was DESTROYED
and a shed blown across the road.
Charles Smiths barn was also DESTROYED.
The house of the Dunshee brothers was
partially unroofed, while fences in the
line of the storm are fiat.
In Lincoln hundreds of dollars worth
of damage was inflicted on buildings and
fences. Barns owned by Peltiah Cove,
Il. PurlntOn, l.. Matthews and George
Garland were destroyed, while Mr.. Pur-
intOn and Mr.. Matthews had several cat
tie killed.
In Starksboro John Orvis and Daniel
Orvis each had barn destroyed. Mary
Young had two barns unroofed. The l.,
of James Grace's house was partially
destroyed.
The roof of the Congregational church
at West Rutland was damaged. AT
Dandy, where S. l.. Griffith has large
lumber mills, his stock was scattered
over an area of 100 acres. Over 20 OF
the large trees on the grounds of the
Soldiers home at Bennington were pros.
trated. Indeed, there is hardly town
on the whole west side OF the State from
the Canada to the Massachusetts, line