The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-06-29

Farmers Co-operative Cor,..
CIag mead Street; the Riverside Over
all Company and the Milan Medicine
CoIhp any, at High and Floyd Streets:
Two buildings of the Danville Fair
ASSOCIATION, near Reservoir Park. Ho-
Tel Burton annex, unroofed and chin
ney blown down and hurled through
SkyhSht into lavatory and toilet
rooms causing 500 damage there:
minor damages to roofs. AWNINGS
signs and window glasses in ma1x
stores and other stores and residences
hooded. Chimneys were blown down
on residences and in some Gases
crashed through the roofs. CAUSING
doWnpour Of rain.
me residence section Of the CITY
SIong MAN, West Main. Holbrook and
Sutherlin Avenues Broad Street. Jef-
teIsOh ana Grove Streets, were saved
from more serious loss and damage nv,
reason of the. protection of giant ola
shade trees, most of them native oaks
great old elms and spreading manles
me residences were saved. but at a
heavy cost in the devastation and de-
structlon wrought upon these magnifi-
cent trees. Both sides OF the resi-
dence section of Main Street were
heavily shaded by these trees. which
were the pride of the city. but the
storm wrought shocking havoc among
Ihem. Before the rain ceased, thou
children
thronged the devastated street and
gazed in awe and wonder upon the
work Of the storm.
Streets impossible From Wreck.
For several blocks the street was
impossible because of the prostration
OF these oaks, naples and elms or of
huge branches from them, snapped off
ana hurled into the street Perhaps
the worst damage was wrought he
tween JEFFERSON Street and Holbrool1
AN Il aaFra
Inc bread paved thoroughbred was
uttered and blockaded, especially from
Sutherlin TO Holbrook Avenues.
Inc home of r. L. Dibrell. in what
was formerly the Conrad house. suf-
tered heavily, almost every one Of tho
fine trees in his spacious lawn heinz
wrecked or stripped of limbs. leaving
uenuded trunks only. Just across the
street is the old SutherIin mansion
one OF the picturesque and historic
sIsnts OF the CITY, set in grand old
grove or primeval oaks, interspersed
with a variety OF transplanted orna-
mental trees and shrubs. This lot. oc-
cupylng an entire square, was literally
covered with debris Of DESTROYED trees
OF every kind and presented a striking
spectacle.
Serious and almost frreparable as &c
the loss of these fine old trees in MANY
portions Of the city, their sacrifice
saved the homes and doubtless MANY
ives AoI liSy broke the force of the
tortuous wind that gripped and wres-
tled with and swirled them about until
they yielded to the strain or were de-
limned by the blast
Black Cloud From West.
The wind came from black cloud
mat swept from west northwest over
the city with little warning, the wind
increasing in fury momentarily until
It's sweep and strain made houses
tremble and terrified thousands of peo-
pie. 1t struck the southeast side of
Main Street squarely in the face. and
IT was on that side Of the street and
In the intervals between the buildings
on the northwest side that the worst
damage was done. Heavy downpour
or rain, a terrific electrical disturb
ance and some hail accompanied or
followed the fury OF the wind. 1t is
the first visitation of this sort Dan
vile has ever experienced. certainly
in the memory of this generation.
The street railway, telegraph. tele-
phone and electric light employees are
hard at work trying to remove debris
fallen trees and wreckage and string
their wires in time for business Mon
day. At o'clock tonight no wire
could be gotten out OF the city. but
there was promise from the Western
Union of a resumption of service bv
morning. The terrific storm appears
to have been local and central over
this city.