The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
TALLADEGA HAS
 SMALL CYCLONE Much Damage is Done By Wind, Rain and Lightning CHURCHES ARE DAMAGED Plate Glass Windows Are Blown In and Goods Are lnjured-city Is In
 Darkness During the
 Storm.
CHURCHES ARE DAMAGED

Talladega. April 19.-(special)-T The
 electrical display last evening from 9
 o'clock to 9:3o was appalling. From every
 quarter of the heavens lightning flashed
 without the interval of a second, while
 the continuous roar of thunder was deaf
 ening. At 9:SO furious hailstorn, ac-
 companied with wind of hurrican veloc-
 ity, broke upon the city.
 Huge branches of trees, fences and debris of every sort filled the air. Light
 ming struck various places in the city limits. The roof on the east side of the Baptist parsonage was blown ,off and
 torn to kindling wood The vane iron
 work and ornaments of the First Bap- tist church steeple was swept off
 The Stockdale home at the Southern
 depot lost a long upper gallery and an | outside stairway and an immense oak was blown against the west side of the
 house, badly wrecking it.
 A. J. Stapp had the roof of his dining
 room and kitchen blown away. Store houses near the square had plate glass | windows blown in.
 In the window of the Alabama News company many books, small wares and periodicals were injured by the broken | plate glass window letting in the rain and hail. McAlpine & Son also had their window display of shoes badly injured
 The lsbeil block contractors had just fin-
 ished placing huge iron pillars on the
 south wall of the building These were
 blown down or struck by lightning. and l Tn falling carried with them the entire | south wall of brick, and the flooring and | beams laid thereon
 | Water and hail choked the storm sew | CTS and backed water over the cement | pavements of the square on the Eastside | as far down as the front of Woodward | x Sons store. Chimneys were disman- tied all over the city. During all this time the streets of the city were in total darkness, the electric lighting system un- | dergoing repair; at least it would have | been dark had not the incessant blaze of electricity made everything as bright as day. This Is the second small cyclone
 the city has had during April, and it is
 the third storm visiting the county dur Ting the same period.
 Milton Fraser, long a resident of Talla- dega, dropped dead yesterday morning Only an hour or more before his dea .h he was down in the business section. con- versing pleasantly with friends His funeral takes place today. MT. Fraser
 had many friends and was universally re- 1 spected.
 West & Wells combined shows is billed | to exhibit here on the 23d The city is | painted red with their paper and the small boy and the colored citizen is bus l fly engaged looking at the pictures and | saving up dimes. No doubt the show is
 smaller than the usual three-ring circus,
 but there is more real fun in little cir ! GUS than in one of these mammoth af- | td1rs where the audience gets q erik in | the neck trying to see all that is going. | The city license for small circus is | s25, provided the price of admission. in- | cluding price for reserved seats is 40 cents or less. If the ticket costs over 40 cents the city pulls the leg of the circus
 man for $50 license.
 MT. Donahue of the City Hardware company will probably be transferred to the Anniston branch of this hardware company. Mrs. Lanham of Anniston will take his place.
 Stone & Co., is busly engaged making | charming city suburb of that part of the Mountain Home addition lying along Sloan avenue. strong grading force Is at work and Mr. Ed Stone proposes
 to have the avenue paved from end to end His idea is to bring into market a number of residence lots. These lots will
 be sold at varying prices, according to the value of the residence that the pur-