Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
SMALL SIZED TORNADO
Uprooted Trees and Carried Of Small Buildings To-Day
 Loss is Heavy.' ...,

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 On the east side it played some pranks with the Miller homestead at 1863 East Main street and depreciat- ed the property about $2,5O0. -.
 William M. Gillette, who lives in the house With his people-in-law, the MilIers, was feeding his chickens about 6 o'clock when he heard a terrific racket outside. Thinking it was trolley car that was having trouble he looked out and to his as tonishment saw row of trees stand ing not far from the house falling to the ground. Then he surmised that the sound was caused by wind for inn mediately he felt the barn in which he stood shiver in it's timbers. Then he decided that the best place for him was in the house, which stands, or rather did stand, about 100 feet from the barn. He had scarcely got out side the chicken house when he felt as if some one was squeezing the breath out of his body. To go to the house seemed an impossibility, so fearing that he would be taken with the wind if he remained standing he flung himself on the ground and held onto the grass with all his might. Yet to go toward the house was, still an impossibility. Fearing for his wife and child and people he still de- termined to get to the house and he decided to make round about trip. Then up the hill he went slowly with the strong current sweeping over him. Once he felt he was going up in the air in a circular motion of wind and he felt himself turned around. Then he saw the chicken house following him up the hill on invisible legs. A tent that stood on the west side of the house was up in the air cutting all kinds of evolutions and some of the magnificent trees which stood in front of the house were leveled to the ground or broken like small boy would pull branch of sapling. This picture drove terror to his heart. He held onto the grass firmly and in a few seconds the wind passed away and the chicken coop dropped to the ground on it's side, somewhat dam- aged. MT Gillette said the damages to the property through the loss of the fine trees is about $2,500.
 At the residence of Robert A. Judd in Bradleyville the tornado called also and it dropped in at the Country club grounds. At MT Judd's place several fine old apple trees were de- molished, one Of them, the family said must be about 100 years old. The apple orchard was practically ruined.
 At the grounds of the country club it turned upside down small build ing which the foreman used as an office. The foreman, Ernest Tonaini, was in the building when the wind struck it, upsetting it completely, af- ter taking it off it's foundation and carrying it a few yards. Then the wind pulled up an apple tree near by and dropped it on the upturned build ing. The foreman was not hurt but he was considerably shocked. The Judd family has not estimated the damages to its apple trees
 In Hamilton park the storm raised the very deuce. Many of the large trees were blown down, two of the big ones near the entrance moulded. The massive tree which. has stood for years near the clay hole went down with a crash which could be heard some, dis tance away. Officer Delehanty said he never saw anything like it and for a time thought that every tree in the park would be down before the storm subsided In St Joseph's cemetery the trees suffered considerably and a number of them fell. Along Hamilton avenue the wires of the Southern New England Telephone Go were badly damaged by falling trees and limbs. On Washington avenue 200 feet of the Benedict & Burnham fence was carried away from it's position and the fence between the Randolph & Cloves factory and Plume & Atwood's was also blown down by the storm.
 The employees of the Waterbury Brass Goods corporation thought their building was to be razed because oi the crash of broken windows and the demolishing of the skylight. The roof of Hogan's house on South street was almost entirely carried away and the rain poured into the house in torrents. The house of Mat thew Smith, city sheriff, on South Leonard street, was also damaged and a couple of blinds from his house were blown into the tenement of Attorney James M. Lynch nearby.
 An incident of the storm worthy of comment was the fact that the men working on the tower of St Anne's new church on South Main street did not leave their positions while the storm was at it's height. It is doubt full if they could have come down if they wished. They clung to whatever they thought best while hundreds of people watched them from the houses and factories in the vicinity.
 The roof was torn of the veranda of Matthew Shea's large tenement building on Hickory street and the hen house was scattered to the wind.
 It was reported that a portion of the roof of Jeremiah KelIy's house on Baldwin street was blown of. Anoth- CT report had it that the basement walls were blown i'm
 The storm when it reached Bald win street seemed to have particular aversion to hen houses for it also blew the one in William Cssey's yard up against the wall damaging it
 A large tree on the premises of Pat rick CoiweIl. Baldwin street, was rsr- ported to have been knocked down and several houses On Hickory street were bereft Of their chimneys-
 Dies from His Injuries