The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-19

ShiEiou everything Ooloio IT, iloSb NVko WIN
up by iho roots and hurled hundreds Of feet
away. Fences fell apart and blew no one knows
where. Hay stacks scared up into the air and
went a thousand ways. Nothing stood before IT.
Three hundred yards from the junction of the
Franklin road and Hampstead avenue, n half
mile north Of the Lynbrook station, was q pool
OF water perhaps 100 feet across that went by
the name dead Horse Pond" Whom the tor
nado struck this 1t picked 1t up and scattered
the water all over the surrounding zelda, Then
It seemed to bound up into the air, but
1t dropped back q hundred yards further on and
laid hold OF tho barn Of Henry Wichern. Not a
stick or stone of 1t Is loft. Between the barn and
house of wichern there was a flne wild cherry
tree. Tho wind tore It out by tho roots and
hurled IL clear over the house, across the road.
and down alongside the hotel Of Charles Noble.
With this effort 1t seemed to rise again from
the Garth. for It spared to q great extont the
Wichern homestead. Mrs. wichern was alone
in the house with her two youngest children.
her husband being In Brooklyn. She heard the
roar Of the storm and ran to q window In the
dining room to close It. As she slammed II down
she saw the barn rise and sail away. Tho win
dow next her was blown out. She thought the
end had como, and. taking her children by the
hand, ran into the front hall and knelt down to
pray,
But tho tornado only touched tho top Of tho
house. 1t ripped OF the tin roof and hurled IL
100 yards away and then came down again for
bigger game. This was Mobiles Hotel, q two
and q half-story frame structure, which was
finished only about throe months ago. Noble
was in the barroom at the time. His
mother, Mira Henrietta Huntington. was
In tho kitchen. His four children. all under
the age of 10 years, were in the horse shed Just
back OF tho hotel, where there was also q horse
and buggy which Noble had Just bought an
hour before. The building began to shake and
totter In the furious grasp Of the wind. and Mrs.
Huntington. thinking of the children. ran to tho
shed to bring them into the house. She caught
the youngest In her srms and Just then the full
force Of the storm struck.
The shed disappeared. It went sailing over
tho house Of q man named NUM-. living
100 feet away, knocking Off the top Of
tho chimney, but otherwise doing no dam
age. A piece Of timber struck Mrs. Hunt
ington on tho forehead. knocking her down.
Noble heard the children shrieking and ran into
the yard. 80 quickly had tho storm passed that
tho air was then comparatively still. He carried
his unconscious mother into tho house and tho
children followed. DR.. Bradbury was summoned
and dressed Mrs. Huntington'o wound. 1t con-
sis ted of q deep cut over the left eye, but is not
considered dangerous.
As soon as Noble could catch his breath he
| looked around to see what was left Of his hotel.
| He found that the whole building had boon
moved seventeen feet OF the foundations. Tho
roof was gone. Tho floors were like Q gravity
| railroad. Noble thinks that a largo wild-cherry
tree kept his place rom being showed into the
| road. The house crashed up against 1t and bent
1t over, but the roots hung on and 1t could get
no further. Mobiles horse, which was In the
shed, was not hurt.
Tho storm did not stop its work with tho
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| down to the ground every 100 yards or 80. A
half mile beyond Mobiles 1t licked up Piney's
| Pond, o pool about the gizo OF Dead Horse
Pond. George Dc Motifs hennery was to-
| tally demolished. and most Of his large
flock of chickens killed. One of his
cows was caught up and carried some distance
and was so badly hurt that he was Obliged to
kill 1t. Further on It destroyed the clubhouse OF
! tho Norwood School. but did not damage the
school building proper. Having reached tho
Hampstead reservoir the tornado appears to
have lost its force or else to have gone back
into the clouds.
Altogether tho storm did not last moro than
1--WE minutes. 1t struck Mobiles place at $3.50
o'clock. His clock In the barroom stopped at
this hour. There was scarcely any rain accom-
panying It in its own immediate vicinity. but
tho neighboring villages which escaped the
storm reported tremendously heavy showers.
There were several very narrow escapes,
among them George E. Caldwell. tho Lynbrook
druggist. He was driving from Hempstead
with his two little children and two OF his neigh.
boris children. They had Just passed. Nohle's
place when tho tornado cut across tho road.
They sat in their carriage and saw tho barns
and sheds whirling about without any incon-
venience to themselves, although they were
scarcely 200 feet away. The druggist admits.
however. that he was badly scared.