The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-11-17
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north, has the front porch torn loose.
the yard of Gilbert r. Lyon. two
doors east of Curwood's, a gigantic
pine, one of the few trees of its
species left standing in Shiawassee
county, was uprooted, grazing the
house In its fall.
The force OF the wind as It crossed
Oliver street is shown by the twisting
on Of large limbs on three oak trees in
In the lawn Of the Dudley apartment,
practically running the trees. the mp.
roofing Of one Of the sturdy old oaks.
two large naples and q fine honey
locust tree in the lawn of VIM.
F. Gallagher-the latter tree crash.
Ing into. one corner Of the house
and doing considerable damage, the
uprooting Of four majestic pines, a
large poplar and the breaking off Of the
tops OF two other pines in the yard Of
e. O. Dewey. The immense pine just
in front Of the house was broken off q
few feet above the ground and carried
toward the house nearly four feet, then
crashing against a corner of the house,
doing but comparatively little damage.
, The top of the large pine standing in
the center Of the yard was found filed
withsroof boards. siding and eyetrough-
ing torn from the house of r. d. Mat
thews. a block distant. Two of the
pine trees in this yard were set by the
late A. L. Williams more than three
score years ago and were stately monu-
ments to the pioneer resident of the
city, while the oak in the yard of Mr..
Gallagher must long since have passed
the century mark.
The residence of Jerome ]. Davis
on John street was struck literally
fore and aft. A big tree in the front
yard was torn up and rests against
the porch, blocking the front en-
trance. The kitchen of Frank j.
Woodlands house, Immediately south
was torn off, and is piled up against
the rear end of the Davis residence.
Most of the fine houses on John
street are minus their chimneys. The
home of Charles e. Rigley, Sr., is in
a direct line between the ruined Es-
tey factory and the home of William
Broad, across the river, but only a
fruit tree in the back yard was up
rooted.
Mr.. Breads house is ruined, and
the loss will be $4,000, while it was
in this house that school teacher
in the local schools, Miss Queen Rob-
inson, was very seriously injured.
The Broad house faces West Williams
street, and was two stories high on
the street and three stories high
from the rear. The whirlwind evil
IDENTIFY Rugged the river bottom in
crossing, and swept upward on the
Broad home, as the entire upper
stories are sliced off diagonally.
There were scores of particularly fine
maple trees in front of the house on
Williams street and on Adams street,
which runs north from here. These
trees were uprooted and tossed about
as though they we're straw. Adams
street, from Williams to Oliver, is
rendered impossible by them.
Wire Down in Streets
West Exchange street, in the bust
ness district between Water street
on tins west and Ball st. on the east
east, presented a scene of desolation.
The tall, heavily laden, telephone
poles were practically all broken off,
and the wires depending from them
festoon the street in eccentric tan
giles. Tho plate glass in two of the
windows of the Union Transfer
company on Exchange street was
blown out and part of the roof OF
the building taken off "A chimney
was also blown off the rear of The
Times building.
On West Main street from Cedar
street east to Washington, the storm
scored heavily. The trolley wire was
torn from its supports and hung low
over the thoroughfare, and in several
rlaces fallen trees blocked 1t. Part
of the roof of the Estey or Woodland
factory. about $50 to 800 yards away
was carried by the wind to the center
of Main street, near the Shiawassec
street intersection. A section OF
roof from a house which V. M. White
is building on South Howell street
inst off Main, was carried 100 feet
and deposited with a resoundin9
crash on the roof of A. p. Palmer''
residence on Main street. This sec
ton of roof was about 10 by 20 feet
and weighed several hundred pounds
The Muller Bros brewery wa'
considerably buffeted. One side o
the brick tower is torn away, and
hundreds of brick crashed into thu
etreet. The loss to the brewery will
probably be $1,000.
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