Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-08-01
cYCLoNic VERMONT.
Lightning, Wind and Rain Do Wlde-
spread and Serious Damase,

I aud destroyed many line shade trees IN
different localities. Workmen were en-
/ gagged that evening aud all the next day
removing the fallen trees from the park
and streets and cleaning up the streets OF
the debris caused by the storm. \ new
house built by l., IL, FELTON, was blown
down and destroyed, The ell part
attached 10 Mrs, T., j, Stiekle's residence
was moved four feet out OF place by the
wind. Several barns were unrooted,
I Great damage was done 10 gardens.
I During the storm, lightning struck
/ the barn of Homer Cobb in Cornwall and
/ il was burned with another one nearby.
I All the farming tools were saved, The
barn contained twelve tons OF new hay
and two tons of old, all being destroyed.
I The loss will be about $4,000, partly
covered by insurance.
The barn OF +. III. Conant in Middle
bury was struck by lightning and with
it's contents was burned 10 the ground,
About ten tons OF new hay were in the
barn at the time. The loss was about
Il 200, partly covered by insurance.
Lightning struck tree in the yard OF
Thad NJ. Chapman in Middlebury, the
shock being so great II was felt several
hundred yards away. Gilbert Dishaden,
who was short distance away, was
thrown to the ground and two OF Mr..
Chapmanis horses which were standing
in the yard, were also affected and for a
few minutes acted as though they had
gone mad.
In Richford, the house of the Rev. w,
G. Scoheld was struck by the electric
current, breaking up the roof in many
places, scattering shingles and boards in
every direction and breaking out one attic
window. The singular thing about it is
that no mark OF the lightning track Nn
be found below the attic floor. Mr.. and
Mrs, Scotield sustained no injury, but felt
the prickling sensation caused by the
presence of electricity.
A culyert ON Clarendon flats, four miles
south OF Rutland, became clogged during
the heavy thunder storm, forcing the
water over the track. The rails were un-
dermined for Is feet. The evening train
from New York ran into this washout
and the engine, mail car and combination
baggage car and smoker were derailed,
running along on the ties for some dis
lance before the engineer, John Cannon,
could stop the locomotive. The passenger
coaches, which were heavily loaded, did
not leave the rails. fireman Edward
Pratt, who, it is thought, jumped, was
the only person injured. He was taken
to the Rutland City hospital in an I'M
conscious condition. He has broken
ribs and bad bruises on his chest and
side, but will probably recover. The
two cars derailed were torn from their
trucks and considerably damaged. The
rainfall reached cloudburst proportions
and the water flooded many cellars,
causing the merchants hundreds of
dollars damage, Lightning struck
several dwellings and the Boulevard
schoolhouse, but the damage was not
serious.
The large COW barn on the st. Adams
hospital farm, about half way between
Jacksonville and Cambridge was struck
by lightning, burning il to the ground.
There were about ten tons of old hay and
five tons of new burned. A few young
cattle in the barn were saved. A man
standing in the barn door when the
lightning struck was knocked down, but
was unconscious for only few minutes.
This is the third time barn has been
struck by lightning and burned there.
Nine years ago this summer a barn was
burned and this one put up.
The barn on the Peter Smith farm in
Milton west of the village was struck by
lightning and was destroyed with all the
wagons, tools and implements of the farm
and about twenty tons of hay. The
flames spread so rapidly that only one
horse in the barn and the pigs in the
basement could be taken out. The insur-
ance is about $500, which is not half the
loss.
In st. Adams, the roof on the office
part of the barn Of the st. Adams Street
Railway Co. was lifted bodily and carried
a hundred feet, falling on and breaking
the Swanton telephone line. The back
wall OF the barn was twisted out OF shape.
The amount of the loss is betweenS 700
and $500. Hardly dozen boards in the
area of "a by 100 feet were left whole.
The roof on the same portion was
destroyed by storm in August, 1905.
At Shore Acres farm, the wind blew
down silo 20 feet in diameter and 30
feet high. 1t was empty and workmen
were about to tighten the hoops. The
loss is about $50, and the insurance does
not include loss by cyclone. The roof of
the carriage house on the w. II. III.
Greene farm on the Georgia road was
torn off and demolished by the wind.
Huge trees, some of which were two feet
and more in diameter, were broken off
along the highways and on the hills, and
heavy limbs fell into the streets of the
city. Crops through the county were
fiattened, injured, and in some cases
destroyed. 1t was veritable cyclone
while it lasted and the damage is hard to
estimate.
AT North Sheldon, 200 trees were
blown down on the farm owned by w.
Mason Towle and occupied by Allen
Draper. Arthur Hoadley of South Berk-
shire also lost about fifty maple trees, the
result of the storm. The house belong
ing to Charles Coan was damaged to some
extent by the hurricane. 1t is estimated
that about one and one-half inches of
rain fell in thirty minutes.
In the severe storm, Charles Fuller was
struck and instantly killed by lightning
while shingling the roof of his barn in
West Newport
M. Stanton of Proctorsville narrowly
escaped instant death by lightning in the
storm. He had just finished milking a
COW at the barn, when bolt struck the
building, killing the COW. The barn was