The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1893-05-03
THE STORM.
Brandenburg and IrvingtOn Re-
ceived Hard Blows Last
Sunday Evening.
Much Damage Done to Houses and
Fences.

The storm last Sunday evening seems
to have selected Brandenburg as an es-
pecial object on which TO vent its fury.
In a private letter the following descrip-
ton of its effect is given:
"Will Coleman and wife and child
were caught out driving. The child was
blown out of the buggy and whirled a
considerable distance away. The buggy
was then blown up side down and Mrs.
Coleman was considerably bruised up
though not seriously hurt. Mr.. Coleman
and the childare uninjured. The colored
Methodist church, which is almost new,
was blown upside down. The front OF
T. Simmons store was torn out. 1t blew
Mrs. Dowdy's chimney down and her
windows out the house and almost all
her fence is down. 1t took most all the
trees at McAuliffe's, and Neafus' fence is
everywhere. DIR. Wells horse was
hitched to Neafus' fence and was blown
clear through the fence and cut up pretty
bad. VIVA Alexander's house is dam
aged and her fence is down. At Mrs.
Phillips it took the buggy house and
slammed it against the residence. Mr..
Harris stable is over on the hillside.
Judge Rawlings stable is out in the road
a perfect wreck, and most OF his fence
and trees are down. Mr.. Mahan's out
buildings and fences are damaged. Judge
Fairleigh's fence is down. Lou Richard
sons chimney is gone and almost the
whole end of his house is out. Mr.. Wimp
has only one flue left, the windows are
torn out of house and stable badly dam.
aged. 1t blew the az" of Tilda Smiths
house up against Wimp's stable. The
roof is off the buggy house at the Jail.
Poor old aunt Mary White is nearly out
of doors; it took her chimney all out and
it stood in the middle of the house."
At Irvington the colored Baptist
church was blown down and destroyed,
while fencing and other property was
considerably damaged.
At Webster Dick Mays barn, Corn-crib
and fencing are all down and his truck
patch literally tore up by the roots. lie
had a fine young horse killed. Mr.. May
lives on the place known as the Bette
Skillman farm, near Webster.
Balltown was also in the track of the
storm and suffered considerably from it.
Mr.. Wellington, near there, had his barn
blown down and colt killed. Fencing
and trees were also laid low.
In this city there was no damage done
| The rain came down in torrents with 6
strong wind but it was not of a cycloniC
nature.
John Blythe, of Hardinsburg, was in
town Monday and said the storm struck
his neighborhood in full force. He had
seven hundred panels of fence blown
down on his place and all the farms adj
Joining him suffered likewise.
Out in the Rock Lick neighborhood
Ferd Owen had new barn blown down
and it will be almost total loss to him
Sam Beavin lost the roof off his tobacco
barn and the fencing in the neighbor
hood is fiat on the ground.
The heavy rain that came with the
storm washed up all the corn that haC
been planted.
William Beavin, who lives on the
highest hills in the county, near the
Hardinsburg pike, was also in the trac
of the storm but was not damaged while
all the fencing in the valleys around
him were blown down.