The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-19
City Is in Darkness and
Traffic at Stand
still.
TRAIL is MARKED #
BY DESTRUCTION
Factories and Houses Unroofed
or Demolished, While Streets
Are Tangled Mass Of Wires
|, and Poles Trains Held
Up by Debris on
Tracks.

DanVille Va, June 1s.-A cyclonic
wind, rain and electrical storm swept
over the city this afternoon from 4:3o
to $3.50 o'clock. INJECTING damage es-
timated t 100000 to s25o,Ooo, chieny
In the unroofing and flooding OF cotton
mills. tobacco factories. storage plants
obstruction OF trees and shrubbery
chimneys. awnings. porches. telegraph.
telephone and electric transmission
poles and wires. The trolley service
OF the city was suspended. and will
be tied UP for twenty-f four hours. The
entire telephone service OF the city
Is out Of commission and the city is
Isolated
Scene OF Destruction
The heaviest damage to buildings
was in the business section. Main
street. noted for its heavy shade OF
old oaks, Gins and naples some OF
them Of gigantic dimensions, is a scene
OF desolation. The broad residence
thoroughfare is blocked al many points
by Frustrated trees, the tfEcphone and
trolley wires and poles. Hundreds of
Inc Oldest and largest shade trees, the
pride OF the city. were delimbed. torn
and uprooted. and Ill lawns and streets
with wreckage. These heavy shade
trees, however. saved the best resi-
dence section Blythe resistance they
offered TO the storm.
The storm broke with cycIonIc force.
and was accompanied by high wind
attaining velocity OF about eighty
miles an hour rain and hail. 1t VIII
be several days before the exact prop
erty loss can be ascertaincd.
80 far as Is known now, no one was
killed, although there were several
miraculous escapes.
Factories DnmaRed.
The white mill OF the Riverside Cot
ton aIill Company was unroofed and
the automatic sprinElers set going,
flooding the building and Infiictipg
heavy loss of stock and machinery.
The tobacco factory OF John E.
Hughes 8. Company was unroofed and
the stock badly damage The fac
tory OF z. *. Jones & Company, leaf
tobacco. was unroofed and heavy dam
ege done 10 the stock.
q The Danville Wagon Company's
plant on Craighcad Street, was I'M
rooted and partly wrecked
brick tower on .Acree's tobacco
warehouse was hurled into the street.
One OF the factories of DIbrell Broth
eFS' ieai TOBACCO, was partially un-
rooted, as was portion of the plant
of the Imperial Tobacco Company.
The plant of the Riverside Oyeralls
Company and Milan Medicine Com
pany, on Floyd and High Streets. we're
unroofed. and many smaller buildings
IN various sections We're similarly dam
aged. Ai
The Burton Hotel suffered greatly
by the storm the roof OF the annex
I'M hn - l.xYy - -.
down into the Mushrooms and writing
room. damaging them TO considerable
extent
rs The interior of the First Baptist
Church was greatly damaged by water.
and almost every tree in Green Street
Park. was blown over iS
The storm did considerable damage
TO property in the residential section
Ten trees were completely destroyed
IN tho Dibrell place. on Main Street.
and trees were more or less dana ged
in the Sutherlin place. Holbrook Ave
nue is Uttered with fallen trees. Main
Street, from Mount Vernon Church TO
the post Office. distance OF about half
mile, is strewn with beautiful naples,
lying PROSTATE. All the telegraph and
car wires are lying In the streets. and
the cars are at a standstill force
Will be at work all night repairing the
damage,
Automobile Crushed.
The handsome memorial windows in
Mount Vernon Church were damage
On Loyal Street all the telephone pole S
are lying across the street. and the
occupants OF an automobile had q mar
row escape when pole fell across it,,
crushing the car.
Out on West Main Street a back porch
was blown the distance Of square,
and fell in yard on another street.
The city is in darkness tonight. and
there were no services in the churches.
& Trains were held here OH account OF
telegraph poles across the tracks The
residence Of Mrs. Mason on West Main
Street, was unroofed. n
The storm came from the northwest.
and the Oldest citizens say IL was the
worst the city ever experienced