The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-03
TORNADO
STRIKES CITY
And Leaves $4,000 DAM
age in Its Wake.
lSEYERAL HOUSES DAMAGED
farmers Report Crops
Ruined. Streets We're
Improvised Lakes.
Wires in Every
Section of the
II City Were
Down.
lSEYERAL HOUSES DAMAGED

h u tornado of small proportion with all
\ GnGs0dant whrl and destructive force
fG31ahed 10 Wilmington at clock last
fNssning and left unroofed houses levelled
-, flooded cellars, injured pedestrians,
tIexalod windows, damaged crops and
( lsoken wires in lis wake.
M In point Of spiendor and variety, II not
i - damage, the storm broke records for
/ Wilmington. IL every section Of the city
! oAs.e was not wire that was no, In some
way affected. Fuses were burned out by
4 the II yhtning flashes, and electric light,
\ trolley, telegraph and telephone services
twsre therefore suspended for tho tirno aud
/ = was hours after before anything like
fuormal conditions existed. The storm
1asted but thirty minntcs. but that period,
khfief as 1t was, seemed an age to the fright
ened residents who were star led into
panlc like condition by tho swhying of
Ethsir houses, the crash of falling timbers
and brick walls aud tho hurting to earth
Il Of great trees which lined tho city streets.
IA some OF THE DAMAGE.
~ Hero Ia what 1t did. Knocked out the
4 telegraph, telephone and electric lines.
u Trolley cars were stopped Oh account Of
Hooded streets and fallen trees
~ Hail smashed thousand electric lights
( u Brandywine Springs.
h. Hall destroyed corn und other country
growing produce Raised tho tide and
lRoodsd buildings along the crock.
lightning strikes club houses at Wa
vast Park but Injuries no one.
\, Scared passengers Of the river steamers
Clyde ard Brandywino into panic.
n, Flooded houses in every section of the
city.
Blew the roof off the house Of John Ker-
4 shaw at Thirtieth and Market streets.
5s Ioro down overa dozen outbuildlngs
and hundred store awnings.
Blow down an electric wife at Third and
y Ma lison streets which 17-year old Elwood
Sharp picked up and was rendered uncon-
ecious.
1 At Lancaster avenue and Union street,
4 oolored children narrowly escaped being
I carried away by the food.
N. Bancroft's mills were flooded but owing
I 10 the quantity of water in 'hem it was
Impossible to investigas and find out what
damage was done.
In places large sections Of tho park
& drive were washed away A large tree
was blown down iu front of tho bicycle
club building.
8 Tho Logan House was flooded tho bar
room floor being covered with mud and
water.
:, AT Carrot Smith drug store the water
was OH q level with THO store loo" and
b, c,llar, WHARF large qlintity OF drugs
ars kept was flied to tho top,
Houses on Monroe street, bolow -Four b
were flooded and in one house near Second
where the supper table was set. tho table
NOated aud the contents scattered all over
tho surface of the wafer.
81 From Tatnall street to the Baltimore
4 aud Ohio station branches OF trees wero
Strewn about no street, which was cover
ID with a coating of mud,
Travcl was delayed en- the New Castle
line by trees which had been blown on
The car tracks.
ri, William II. Franks branch grocery
ssoro, No. 705 West Eighth street, was
Hooded, the floor being covered with wator
To tho depth Of a foot. Tho floor was also
Severed with mud. The sewer near the
{ store did not carry off the water, became
o. sd up, and the water filed the cellars
'of tho houses in the neighborhood.
On Jcb H. Jncksons lawn tree was
blown down. On West Eleventh street,
between Madison and Monroe tho street
WAS compile ely blocked by the three large
ltopular trees, which were uprootod and
1sil directly across tho street bed. The
tzses were about eighteen Inches in dIn-
meter, and vera striking evidence of the
YOwor of the storm, aj they lay in row q
few feet apart
] At Broomo stre9t tree foil across the
street Car track and delayed the cars for
forty minutes.
In South Wilmington the roofs were
\ blown from three houses on New Castle
avenue. The smoke-stack was also blown
Oh the Christlana Pottery works.
Many panes OF glass We're broken in tho
Y hot houses at Rivervew comotery and in
NasO EkoSh hOuoSo oTiSN ~ 49, L ouuol
and Charles Sparks
A Small blacksmith shop at Lancaster
aysnue and Union street was struck by
lightning. The building caught fire.
Tho blaze was oxtlnsuishod by n bucket
brigade. About So damage was done
More troos were blown down by the
I storm yesterday than by any previous
storm for years. Part OF the tree planted
by David Ferris in tho Quaker burying
around at Fifth and West streets, was
blown down. A tree at Fourteenth and
Market blew down, and striking the roof
of the home of Uuited States Judge George
Gray, carried pnrt of it away.
10 Other trees were blown down on Second
snd French, Ninth and Poplar, Eighth
and Tatnal, Washington below Seco nd,
6econd and Justson, Sixth hotwe,n Pop.
I lar and Lombard, Eighth md Rodney,
two on tho causeway beyond Market
street bridge, Second and Walnut, Second
and Poplar, Front and Poplar, Tatnall DO.
! tween Fourth and Fifth, Washington, be.
tween Fourth and Fifth Sixth between
Orange and Tatnall, three In Eleventh be-
tween Madison anl Monroe Tenth and
TatnalI, one on Job II, Jacksou's lawn,
Delaware avenue nnd Washington street,
Tenth and Tntnall, Second between Har-
Sison and Van Buren, Iatnall below Soc.
Ond, Tatnall below Fourth, Shploy be-
tween Eighth and Ninth, ono In front Of
NO 8o7 Van Buren,, three on Nineteenth
and Brinckley. Eighteenth AMI Rlyor-
view, Eleventh between King and French
street and one In front of No. S2y Monroe
street
I, The Virginia creepor was blown from Tho
4 walls of Old Swedes Church
At Sixth and Orange streets so much
water was In tho sewer that the cover Of
the manholo was forced Off,
Lightning struck the tables Of George
4. d. Anderson at Front and Union
kroots.
I 4 Water drove out occupants Of tho hooscg
~ Maryland avenue and Van Buren,
jltreets
III Wind blow the roof off stab,r
And Walnut streets,