The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-03
Was the Storm Of Yesterday
Afternoon
DAMAGE AT FIRE STATION
Fire Alarm Circuits Knocked Out Resi-
dence Of Clark Holden Next Door
Gets a Perforation from
Bolt.


After short, sharp bombardment,
Barre capitulated to the storm king
again yesterday afternoon. For the Pc
riod that it lasted, the battle was the
tiercest Of the season, and there was a
good deal of uneasiness as the electricity
shot about with reckless abandon, hit
ting poles on the streets, entering houses
and, most serious Of all, completely Grip
Ipling The entire fire alarm system. The
storm seemed to follow d narrow path
and other sections barely got taste Of
the visitation, while Barre and the i'm.
mediate vicinity got it all,
Peculiarly enough, the greatest amount
Of damage in town was done about the
central FIRE station on South Main street.
When the sky was the blackest and the
Lightning the sharpest, bolt struck the
fire alarm wires running into the station,
snapped the circuit in a twinkling and
knocked open all the doors to the stable.
The four fire horses, neryed into rest
lessness BY the vehemence of the storm,
became thoroughly frightened then and
dashed full tilt out of their stalls when
the stable doors were thrown open by
the shock and were stopped only by the
closed outer doors. One stroke of the
bell called the fremen and they lost no
time in quieting the animals and getting
them into harness. But, fortunately,
there was no call for their services.
When Chief Gladding and two electri-
clans made an examination Of the alarm
they found that six fuses on the switch
board had been burned out, and the cir
cults were all severed They spent the
rest Of the day making the repairs. The
damage was all repaired at eight o'clock
last night.
Lightning Struck House.
A bolt Of lightning struck the resi-
dence Of Clark Holden, next south of
the fire station, but did not. set fire to
it. The bolt splintered the Ehingles on
the edge of the roof and seorehed the
Jet, leaving q dark streak to mark its
course. Inside the house the electricity
knocked out all wires and IN one or two
rooms sent the plastefing flying and loos-
ened 1t in other places. Pictures and
other wall decorations were thrown down.
None Of the occupants Of the house was
hurt.
Probably the same bolt hit lighting
company's transformer Just across the
street from the fire station and shat
tered that completely. Among those who
lost their electric motor power was The
Times, and for nearly an hour the limo
types and press in this Office had 70
stop running.
In North Barre electric light and tele.
phone poles were struck BY bolts. The
lighting company had 20 put in new
Transformer ut the corner Of West street
and farther down the street bolt made
the smoke fly from fire alarm post.
During the brief period OF the storm the
water fell in torrents.
Cows Killed by Bolts.
In the surrounding country reports Of
violent storm came iu. L. Ritchie and
Charles Knutzen Of the East hill each
lost COW in the storm. The animals
were in the same pasture and took ref
uge from the shower under a tree. a
bolt struck the tree and slaughtered the
animals. f. Owens Of the same neighhor-
hood also lost the best COW in his herd
and in the same manner the animal
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