Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-06-20
RAIN AND WIND
S t 0 R NJ.
Sweeps the City and Differ
ent Portions of the
County.
TREES BLOWN DOWN.
Telephone Connection Bro
ken and Standing Wheat
Injured.

An electric RAIN ana WIND storm
struck the city Sunday afternoon at
$50. Though attended with slight
damage, the fall in temperature was
a great relief from the intense heat
that had prevailed during the day.
Sunday was record breaker for the
year, the mercury having climbed the
tube to the one hundred mark. Ow-
ing to the high temperature the at
tendance at the churches was small
and the regular night services was
declared off at most churches when
the announcements were read from
the pulpits in the morning.
Shade and fruit trees were blown
down in different parts of the city,
while standing wheat in many Sec
tons of the county was blown down,
and that which had already been cut
and shocked was literally scattered
to the four winds. The storm was
not general throughout the county,
the southern portion having neither
rain or wind. Like the rain of the
previous Sunday, there was not
enough to lay the dust just beyond
the city limits.
The Pembroke section had no rain
and very little wind. West of town
about five miles out the rainfall was
very heavy, flooding low lands and
swelling streams beyond fording
and carrying away some fencing.
The trouble department" of the
Cumberland Telephone Co. had as
much as it could attend to ALI day
yesterday. Broken connections were
constantly reported and reconnected
as rapidly as possible. Manager
Russell stated that his lines along
the GAINESVILLE, Lafayette, julien
and Gracey roads suffered consider
ably by the lines beng broken by
falling limbs. He promptly put a
force at work on those roads aud
expected to have all damages re-.
paired by Monday night.
The Home Telephone Co. also had
its share of damage to wires, but it
expected to have everything in
working order by noon yesterday.
The Electric Light Co. reports it's
damage hardly worth mentioning,
though a few transformers were
burned out and lines broken at diff |
ferent points.
Mrs. Lou V. Adams, whose farm
is on the Palmyra road, about three
miles from the city, had valuable
Jersey cow killed by lightning.
Mr.. st. Clair Leavell, who is rum
ming a dairy, was in a surrey with
his wife out where his cows are
pastured, when large tree was
blown down, falling within few
feet of him.
At the boarding house of Mrs. M.
Long, on West Seventh street, the
top of a chimney was blown down
even with the. roof. Mrs. Stonewall
Morris lost a canary bird by the
wind blowing the bottom out of it's
cage. Monday morning the bird
was heard about the house, but was
caught by a cat. Mrs. Morris had
refused $25 for her pet.
Several awnings were blown down,
the Planters Hardware Co. suffering
most, as they have two store rooms.
The large awning in front of the
John Moayon store was also torn
away by the wind.
w. H. Cummings & Son sustained
a slight loss by having the fence at
one Of their warehouses leveled to
the ground.
Weather Observer w. f. Randle
says that an inch OF rain fell during
the storm, which lasted fifty min
utes. Saturday the government
thermometer registered 50 degreess
Miss Nickie Hines, of RusselIville,
is visiting Miss Lillian Gary. n