Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09

/ road commissioner. estimates the damage
| in this village at $1,000
| The storms came on days of intense
| heat The Thermometer Monday. Tuesday
and wednesday marked 3d. 4b and 81 de-
/ grees respectively. The hottest wave Of
/ last summer made the mercury climb 90 10
/ ~ degrees several consecutive DAYS i'm Au-
/ gust, but no weather was recorded as hot
/ as that of Tuesday. The rainfall Tuesday
| was 3" inch, and Wednesday . 2G inches.
/ The storm Tues FAY was accompanied
/ for while by a brisk shower of hailstones.
which were somewhat larger than the or
| binary size. The area over which they
+ fell however, was limited to the village.
/ so tina, practically no damage was done by
/ them to the tobacco crop.
Few hailstones fell Wednesday. but the
rainfall was gre -er and more severe. A
large part of the top layer OF the new ma
/ cadam road Oh Main stree, hill as well as
/ on the nil. below MILESTONE bridge was
/ washed of Tuesday and there were small
/ washouts on several streets. The track of
/ the trolley road was covered with sand 90 a
/ depth of four inches I'm several places. and
/ tine cars were Stalled from O'Clock until
/ 1880, by what was until then supposed To-
/ bee the grounding of the trolley wire. but a
careful search revealed the fact that a fuse
! had been burned on, in one of the cars.
/ which threw the circuit breaker The
| trunk lines q, the telephone exchange
were burned ou and severa wires were
/ thrown down
/ The lightning struck "A large oak tree
/ near /. +. StOckwelis barn on spruce
/ street and. although the course of the cur
rent can be traced, the tree apparently was
not damaged The tree stood abou. ten
/ feet from the barn in which there were
! three horses Above and in front of them
were small one-lishted windows, partly
| open, When the bolt struck the tree one
| horse was thrown on TO the barn floor.
breaking the halter. and the others were
| thrown down in their stalls, where one of
! them lay rigid for ten minutes. MI Stock
! well and his men were in the barn and all
were more or less affected, Frank Harris
! receiving the severes; shock. He was
leaning against the barn door.
a bolt struck the south side of the roof
of Groceryman F. J.. loungs house on
| Prospect Hill. tearing of two large patches
OF slate and breaking the outside boards on
! the northwest corner of the house near the
foundation. A board on the southwest
corner was also split, but no damage VIZ
J
! passed into the ground in two places sew
! eral feet from the house, boring holes large
! enough TO admit mans arm.
Other damage from Tuesday, storm is
! reported in our Putney column.
Wednesdays downpour was almost like
a cloudburst, and converted the streets in.
to veritable streams. Main street above
/ the Baptist church was entirely inundated,
/ and the depression between the church and
| the Brooks library building became a good
] sized pond. The stream which flowed
down Main street was Joined by the flow
| from High street and rose nearly TO the
| sidewalk on the west side of the street.
At the bank corner the Allegheny was
| Joined by the Monongahela from Elliot.
| Church and Green streets and the two
Ovcrfiowed the sidewalk and nearly flooded
the Italian shoemaker, Mancini. who occu-
pies the basement OF Judges block The
blind slulce III front of Judges store was
not large enough 10 carry of all the water
and overtlOwed, undermining the road and
sidewalk so that they caved in and a large
quantity Of sand was washed into MancIni's
quarters. The hole in the ground al this
place was j. feet long and several feet
deep On the south side Of Milestone
| bridge there was similar washout, larger
{ %
2. Flemng's which suggested the en-
trance TO a subway. This hole extended
from the block nearly to the electric rail
| road.
The foundation stones for the macadam
road were washed in large numbers TO the
foot Of the hill burying the electric rail
road and the tracks of the Boston d
Maine. An electric car got of at the foot
of Washington street hill and before
il could be put back the freshet from the
hill had buried its running gear in two
feet OF sand. a large gully was washed
out on the south side of Fuller hill, carry
ing away +. NJ. Anglers sidewalk and I'M
dermining the electric railroad so that il
had TO be prOpped up. The electric rail.
road was also undermined on Oak and
Chaplin streets and a car was stalled on
High street for several hours. The water
from Washington street washed across
Canal street into the garden of H. r. Rose
and across the lawns bordering on Birge
street, covering them with mud, and rush
ed down the bank into Frosts fish pond,
filling it half full of sand, and overlooking
the meadow Another stream swept
through Ross's yard and across Brook
street, Outlying out the bank and dislodg-
ing several lengths of sewer pipe. Pond
street. or Frost Place, where it Joins
Brook street Is cut out to a depth OF 10
feet and, in fact, there is no street left
there. The South Main, Birge street. on
the north end Elm, Union and other
hills We're damaged by more or less eN-
tensive washouts in huge places three to
five feet deep
One-haf of the large elm tree near
Church street was blown down, the top
reaching TO the old Baptist church A
pine tree at the southeast corner of the
common was uprooted, destroying that
and another tree which stood near, one or
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