The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-03-26
STORM SWEEPS NEWBERRY.
Some Damage In Town-Houses
Down and Damage in County
No Life Lost.

Newberry, or some Of them at least,
had the experience of going through
a small cyclone.
, Fortunately there has beer. no dam
age nor injury to persons ! tue elty
so far as We have learned, anc the
damage to property is not as great
as it might have been.
We have been unable to hear from
all sections Of the county but the
information at hand seems to be that
the storm was as great in the Trinity
section, if not greater, than 1t was
in Newberry.
About two 'clock there was tec-
rible down pour of rain. Our obser-
walton has been that it rarely hap
pens that a wind storm follows Il
heavy rain. ORDINARILY when storm
cloud appears if the rain comes there
is not much danger from the wind.
In this case, however, the wind storm
came after the rain fall. The storm
seems to have come from the South
westernly direction and the first
damage in the city was in West End
where the West End Baptist church
was considerably damaged and one
or two of the dwelling houses in that
community, the roof Of the freight
depot Of the Southern railway was
taken off, and slight damage was done
the roof of the warehouse of the
Newberry Cotton Mill and also the
roof of the mill itself. The old Cline
shop was blown from the pillars, but
was not carried further away on ac-
count Of the chimney.
From the shop back to the South
ern depot there seems to have been
no damage, and the track of the
storm in Newberry was very narrow.
the greatest damage being at Mr.. 5.
F. Griffn's and Mr.. George ". Sum-
mer's.
The large century old oak tree IN
the yard of Mr.. J. ". Denning was
blown down and fell into the street
and across the piazza Of the residence
of Mrs. J. D. Hornsby.
Some five Of the stately oaks which
have made the lawn at Mr.. Griffin s
UNIQUE and beautiful were either
turned up or twisted off and por-
ton Of the roof Of Mr.. George w.
Summers residence was carried
away.
One or two trees in Caldwell street
were blown down and some damage
was done the roof Of the graded
school building and the residence Of
Mr.. z. F. Wright A large tree in
Mr.. Pliers yard was also up-rooted
and considerable damage was done
the residence of Mrs. Willie Ruff.
The old barn made Of heavy tim
bers belonging to DR.. James McIn-
tosh and in his yard was blown down
and his buggy and carriage both
completely demolished.
From this place the storm seems to
have lifted and there was no further
serious damage in town so far as we
have learned.
Immediately when the storm struck
Newberry the electric lights were all
put out and the city was in darkness
which added to the horror of the Sit
uation.
The tree which fell into Mrs.
Hornsby's residence got mixed with
some live electric wires and at one
time it looked life fire would be added
to the wind, but the current was turn
ed off and no damage was done.
AS stated it seems that the storm
was also very severe in the Trinity
community and around Silver Street.
Mr.. Walter Perry's dwelling house
at Silver Street was taken from its
pillars and a negro tenant house at
his place was demolished and the ne
gro who lived in the house very sew
erely injured.
Mr.. Dantzler StiI1well's barn roof
in the Trinity neighborhood was
blown off, and Mr.. D. 3. Wheeler $
cotton house cut in half, one half be
ing taken entirely away.
There was probably other damage
in this section but at this time We
have been unable to ascertain the eN-
tent of it.
While no damage was done to Mr..
C. C. Davis buildings the cotton
patch which he had next to his resi-
dence was covered with large dead
cotton stalks. These We're gathered
up as clean as if by hand and piled
auain=t the fence