Evening journal., 1911-11-13
BABY CYCLONE HITS CITY
LEAVING COLD in WAKE
Temperature Falls Below
Freezing Point, Causing
Suffering TO Occupants
of RoofIesS Houses.
NEWPORT FARMER
HAS CLOSE CALL

With a fall Of so degrees in fifteen
hours, the cold wave hit Wilmington
with a vim unequalled in
the history of the city. Accompany
ing the cold wave was a chilly gale
travelling at the rate OF 26 miles an
hour, which made Lord Delaware but
ton his coat close about him as he
hastened home to fire up the furnace.
The wind was the strongest that has
visited Wilmington since last March
L., was just a few minutes after
o'clock In the afternoon, when, ac-
companied by a gust Of rain, the storm
struck the city. The temperature was
then 90 degrees At o'clock it had
dropped to "A degrees, and at $50
o'clock it was down to AZ degrees. At
8 o'clock last evening the thermometer
registered 80 degrees. and thirty min
utes later the mercury had gone down
2 degrees, then showing 80 degrees. At
~ O'Clock midnight II was down to n
degrees, FIVE degrees below the freez-
ing point, and at o'clock this morn
ing down TO % degrees, just AZ de-
grees below that registered at
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Storm From Ontario.
OF low pressure, storm has been how
ering over Ontario. About midnight
Saturday Il started East. IL hit Will
mington. 1000 miles away, in less
than "a hours. Behind that about 1000
miles. is an area Of high pressure
travelling east. Wilmington is ON the
edge OF that and will pass through II
during the next AZ hours. when tho
temperature is not expected 10 rise ap-
preciably Snow is not expected in
Wilmington this time unless some-
thing unforeseen to the Weather
Bureau happens.
That the Indian summer in which
! Wilmington has been basldng is gone
Is certain. The long-deferred overcoats
will have to come forth now. It will
not be a surprise If there is skating in
the next week.
The miniature cyclone left in its
wake unroofed houses, demolished
, windows. uprooted trees, blew down
{ fences and sign boards, wires OF al
: kind, interrupting trolley traffic am
4 telephone service, also putting out
r commission the electric hght sTs.,,. s..
in several sections OF thers =, -
L damage also was reported in u
? country.
l. Plate glass windows, unable t
I withstand the terrific force Of tn
81 wind. were smashed, and awnings wer'
I torn to ribbons. the poles holding then
! being twisted as though they wer'
straws.
: Narrow Escapes at Newport.
, One Of the narrow escapes re-
ported was that of A. ]. Beste and his
, four-year-old son on his farm at New
, port. The storm seemed TO exert its
full strength on this particular piece
of farm land. Judging from the amount
I of damage that was done there. Beste
saw the dark clouds approaching and
, went into the yard near the barn TO
get a glimpse of the weather. His
little boy was playing about the place
AT the time and before he could get
r the child into the house the storm was
upon him. Mr.. Beste said he never
, saw a storm come up so quickly. The
! force of the wind was terrific and be
was forced TO catch hold Of car
riage wheel to save himself. but the
wind caught the vehicle and lifted II
, I'm the air, breaking his hold. The car
riage was hurled several feet ana dasn'
, ed to the ground, bottom side up. MT
, Beste had caught up his little son ant
/ made a dash for the house but the wine
7 lifted him against a fence. He held
TO the fence with one hand and viii
+ the other held tightly to the child, tht
wind swaying him back and forth WITT
considerable force. Mr. Beste man
aged to hold on to the fence, however
, until the wind died down sufficiently
, to warrant another try TO get to the
house. This time he succeeded
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