The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-20
IN THE PATH OF STORMS
Destruction and Perhaps Death
Caused by a Cyclone in
Massachusetts.
Cotton-Mi Is Struck by Lightning and
Buildings VIZ, cked by the
Wind.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. Sept. ia cy-
clone from the west struck this city early
this morning, dealing out destruction on
every hand and perhaps death in one in
| stance. There was, of course, an i'm
mense number of minor accidents, trees
uprooted, ETC., but soon after daylight a
particularly heavy burst caused damage
OF more serious import.
About $3.50 o'clock huge bolt of light
ming descended from clond OF inky black
ness upon the big cotton shed of the Ben
nett mills. 1t ignited the infammable
contents and Imperiled nearly 5000 bales
of cotton of high grade and long staple. 1t
took the firemen three hours to get the
mad blaze subdued, and in all about $500
bales, valued at upward of $1OO,O were
injured.
Much OF this damage will be offset by
the proceeds of the sale of the damaged
cotton, but it Will still be a very heavy
loss. 1t is generally insured. The cotton
house was destroyed and involved loss
of perhaps $4,000.
In the midst of the mill fire another cy-
clone burst upon the city, characterized by
terrific wind and torrent of rain.
The crowd near the mill fire ran for
it in a new building at the corner of
Coggeshall and North Front streets. No
sooner were they entered than the wind
took up the building, raised the roof
bodily and the whole structure fell with
crash.
All but one in the building escaped. He
was Zoel LevigneY, Frenchman, aged IS
years, who had run in for shelter. He was
pinned down by heavy mbers, his spine
I'M 1red, several ribs broken and internally
injured. The narrow escape of the car
penters forms remarkable story.
The building was the property of the
contractor and is total loss of $4,000.
Several other houses were unroofed. In
Fairhaven big elms were uprooted and
filled the streets for a time. In South
Dartmouth several buildings were blown
down and horse killed.
On the Fair Haven bridge streetcar
barely escaped a big tree from Pape's
Island, and travel was blocked some time.
Reports from suburban territory are to
the effect that the storm was of fearful
severity.
OGDEN, UTAH, Sept. 19.-Further re-
ports of the storm of last night indicate
that there was widespread disaster in all
OF the country tributary to Ogden. The
most important was the wrecking entire
OF the large machine shops at the mouth
of Ogden Canyon, where the Pioneer Elec-
trio Power Com Dany is putting up the
steel pipe for their million-dollar plant.
The shops were directly in the line of
the storm and were blown fiat. the thirty
ton steel crane crashing down into the
machinery and badly damaging it. There
were 500 workmen at or near the shops.
but no one was hurt. Damage here about
$30, 900.
All fruit was blown off the trees, the
Reform School building was unroofed and
schoolhouses and barns all over the county
are wrecked.
At Hot Springs, ten miles north of
Ogden, the hotel building was damaged o
the extent of about $1,000. The total dam
age in this county will reach 5000, 900.
In Ogden many buildings were badly
damaged. but the amount cannot yet be
estimated. Trains were badly delayed by
fallen trees last night, but everything is
running on time tonight.