Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-09
Many Towns Partly Wrecked
by the Gale Yesterday.
DELAWARE POINTS SUFFER
New Building Was Totally Demol-
ished at Dover.
BOY KILLED BY FALLING WIRE
Engine House in a Suburb of PhiIa-
delphia Was Blown Into the
River-Jamestown Wind.

STAFFORD, Del, October "a cyclone
cut a swath through the city and threw
It's residents into Il panic yesterday. The
storm came from he southwest and RACED
| late at night unt1 early in the morning
The sky began T. clear about S:45 am
then the town b came dark again with
deluge Of rain. and In an instant the
cyclone swept down upon the southern
part OF the town, destroying everything
IN its path. Trees were uprooteG roofs
of houses blown off, and - MANY in
stances carried several hundred yards.
Telegraph. telephone and electric light
poles were blown down, and traffic on
the Delaware division of the PehnsyI-
vania railroad at This point was stopped
for time.
While the storm was severe in Sea-
ford more DAMAGE was dor in Nantf-
coke City, suburb OF Seafesrd and Re-
lance, Md, whcre it is sail that many
W re hurt and their homes swept away
Inc damage to lac crops and fruit trees
cannot BE- estimated. On one farm near
here several humid ed fruit trees were up
rooted and carried d distance of ove. a
iniie leaving space in the orchard as
though they had been dug up and hauled
away.
Dover Buildings Wrecked.
DOVER, Del, October 9-This section
was visited by tornado yes erday that
carried destruction and almost deat til In its
path. Buildings were torn from their
foundations and hurled 100 yards or more;
trees were uprooted and several workmen
were seriously injured tt e storm, was tha
most severe that Las visited Delaware in
years.
building being erected on q tract of
| iana recently purchased by A. &. Masee,
Dover lawyer one mile from here was
| picked up by the wind and scattered IN
every direction. 1t is total wreck. Sew
eral workmen employed on the structure
barely escaped with their lives John
Gomez, the contra ctor. who was on the
roof, jumped twenty-five feet as the build
ing was topping over and saved his life
Wrecked the York Fair.
YORK, Pa, October 9.-Tents and
booths occupied by exhibitors and show
men at the county fair yesterday, where
the fiftieth annual exhibition is in prog
ress, were leveled to the ground by a
| heavy windstorm which followed the rain
Monday night.
Nearly every tent and booth on the
ground suffered some damage. Those
that We're not blown over were ripped
and torn and several were blown almost
TO pieces. The big tent owned by Ross
Jacobs, horseman, was blown down at
noon yesterday. 1t is estimated that about
Io,OUo people visited the grounds yester-
day afternoon.
Engine House Blown Overheard.
PHILADELPHIA. October 9.-The
death of one boy, the destruction of an
engine house on the Gloucester ferry p,er
at Gloucester N. j., the blowing of a
horse and cart loaded with coal into the
river from the same pier, the uprootine of
scores of trees and other minor damage
resulted from the storm whict6 struck
Philadelphia and vicinity Yesterday White
the storm was severe in the city proper
IT was considerably heavier along the
Delaware river and in New Jersey. Sew
eIal schooners and sailing vessels were
blown from their moorings and had to
be toWed back by tugs.
" nile crossing the Pavonia bridge over
the pennsylvania railroad tracks In East
camden during the storm Adolph Fetter
twelve years old. was killed by falling
"lra charged with electricity. The bow
tried to dodge it, but was unsuccessful,
the wire wrapping itself around the lad
several times.
During the height of the wind an en-
CINE house on the end of the pier at the
loot of Powell street Gloucester CITY
was blown into the river. At the same
time horse and wagon. which was
being 10" ded with coal also went into
the water. After some difficulty the horse
was rescued.
Wind Causes a Wreck.
POTTSTOWN, Pa, October 9.-The high
wind yesterday was responsible for rail-
road wreck on the Perkiomen branch Of
the Philadelphia and Reading railway
in which one man was probably fatally
injured and another seriously hurt A
tree was blown across the track and q
| train OF four cars, all crowded, ran into
| it,
Duststorm at Jamestown.
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION GROUNDS.
October "a windstorm which almost
| reached the velocity Of hurricane swept
over the exposition grounds yesterday
No rain had fallen for more than a week,
| and dense clouds of dust were driven be-
fore the wind. So thick was the dust It
was impossible to see across Lees parade.
| Those on the grounds when the storm
came up were compelled to run for cover.
ard many were made uncomfortable be-
| fore getting there. The sum total of the
damage done by the wind was the knock
Ing over of a few souvenir stands and the
wrecking of a few awnings.