The Newtown bee., 1899-07-14
WATERTOWN.
wArERrowN,s YOUNG CYCLONE.

fairly good sized cyclone swooped down | from somewhere and made call on l Watertown, which could hardly be call
 ed friendly one. The visit lasted only
 for few minutes, but even in that short
 space of time it rang the door bell and passed in it's vlsitiDg
 card at several places. In a
 sporting sort of way i5 indulged in &
 rough and tumble with fences, trees, hay
 stacks, barns and houses. The result
 was disastrous to the property in ques- l tion. In looking over the places visited, 1 things looked as if Old Mother Nature
 had gone of on toot and when she
 came home proceeded to wreck the fur.
 niture by way of celebrating in honor of
 the shower, after the lopg continued
 drouth. The first appearance of the vis- l it commenced between the residences Of 1 the late F. J. Partree and Charles Main.
 For about five or six rods wide. right in l the path Of the brook, trees and fences I have been swept aside very much in the same way as we would brush aside 8 ! spiders web. A 12.inch plank was pick l ed right out of the center of the bridge
 which spans the brook at this place and
 carried 100 yards. From here the storm l swept in an easterly direction across the hill, carrying with it several hay-stacks
 and the roof of barn belonging to &c., iSCbEl&u ahEp6Ls Ad buC iCElACuCS O4
 James G. Skilton it seemed to gather
 part of the house, three or four trees
 which grew in the yard on the north
 side of the house, they went down with 6 crash. On the south side good sized pear tree parted in the middle, and the top landed on the other side of the road. Strange to say, the house escaped. The
 barn, on the opposite side of the street,
 was not so fortunate and had to give up it's coat of shingles. Five or six large trees which grew along the roadside here went over like ninepins. Large rocks
 were lifted and thrown 40 or 50 feet. Selectman Harper could See the work of destruction going on from his house, and describing it he says the air seemed go be full of branches of trees and debris Of different kinds, all being whirIed around
 in a circle. Across the hill from Mir Skilton's you can follow the track of the blow. Here and there a tree is blown over. Right on top of the hill stack of hay is scattered to the four winds. Here there was slight deviation southward along the hill for short distance, when it made bee line for Abram Ineson's place. MT Inescn has large water tank some distance west of his house. The tank had just been filled, and contained some 1900 gallons of water. The tank stood about 35 feet high, measured from
 the ground. The wind caught it, lifted it up and set it back about four inches from it's original position. An ice house
 belonging to MT Ineson, which came in the way, had to give up it's roof. On Charles Warmers place several large trees were blown down. But no further damage was done to buildings until the residence of A. H. Mattoon was reached, upf@ hrT nf nsisr a
 Partir g kick before it crossed the line, it spread out now twice as wide as at any place from whence it first struck town.
 In less than three minutes from the time tt first appeared over the hill south of MT Mattoon's house, about 10 or 15 trees had toppled over, the roof of the house, which was Of tin, had taken wings tU itself and was distributed around the place for some 300 yards. When the re- porter visited the place he saw part of it 1 in tree, about 200 feet north of the house. The barn was lifted from it's 1 foundation and set back without doing | any great damage to it. Mir Mattoon ia 1 thankful that his family escaped with
 their lives. His loss is 8 heavy one, how ever. He had no insurance to cover the loss by cyclone. The furniture in the house is almost totally destroyed, as the
 rain came down in torrents after the cy. clone passed, and it just filled the house.
 It was necessary to bore holes in the floors so that the water could be run of
 into the cellar. The places to.day show the fearfully destructive power of the wind. Trees are blown over in all direc-
 tions around the house. Branches and
 debris of all kinds litter the yard, while pieces of the house roof can be seen in the trees that are still standing. This is | the only place where we have heard of
 the storm doing any damage to house.
 hold property and beyond there easterly
 we have not heard from it. It seemed to l be final kick before breaking up, and
 MT Mattoon got the full benefit of iG. It will be several months before he can get
 things in the shape they were before the
 storm struck his place.-[ Waterbury Re- publican.
 During the thunder shower Mack's
 house on Chestnut Grove park was struck py lightning. Some of the clapboards
 were taken off the north side of the house,
 and near the ridge large patch of shin. gles was ripped off. Inside, the plaster
 vas knocked off the walls. The damage is not heavy but is fully covered by in- surance.