Milford chronicle., 1911-06-16
GREENWOOD.

What might be termed a cyclone
passed over here last Tuesday afternoon.
between and O'Clock. The storm was
funnel shaped and the black mass of cloud
appeared to be only 100 yards wide and
resembled black SMOKE. It uprooted
trees measuring from two to three feet
across the stump, and the barn, smoke
house and all the outbuildings, but the
stable, on the land of John Devoor, we're
scattered all over his place. The end of
the home was crushed in by the force of
the storm and the plastering generally
broken. Nearly all their chickens we're
either killed by the flying debris, or
drowned by the heavy downpour of rain.
One of his children was stunned by the
tightening, which accompanied thest
The barn of Henry Berrell was blown
down and his shade trees destroyed, and
his peach orchard is total wreck.
Mr.. Brassac, frenchman who recently
came here, had his home completely
wrecked his wife was injured and the
daughter as well as the father sustained
some inju. es. One of his cows was after
wards found N the woods, near where
the barn stood, and had part of the man.
ger in which she was tied yet around her
neck, but otherwise uninjured. His home, |
barn and vegetable crop we're all gone.
Probably the saddest sight is at Harry |
Tulrs, where the house is scattered for a
hundred yards or more nothing but the
foundations are left. Besides he lost be-
tween two and three hundred chickens
and ducks they are piled in the debris.
His wife was seriously hurt by having her
head caught between the timbers prob
ably the only thing that saved her life
and that of her baby boy, was a sewing
which held the timbers apart.
She heard the cry of the child and drew
it to her. The other children escaped
without serious injury. The husband and
iather is almost crazed at his great mis-
fortune his property wiped out in the
of an eye, and his wife badly
injured and to care for
At the farm of Charles Smith, close to
aere, the carriage house was blown down,
he wOod-house and smoke-house wrecked
md lot of poultry was killed, but no
person injured.
Several persons report having cattle
md horses injured in the fields, and trees
we're broken badly even in the woods
The writer saw most of the destruction
horty after the storm passed over the !
own and it was indeed fortunate that [
he central part of Greenwood was just )
,utside the path of the storm. The storm
.so blew down the silo Of ]. F. Hayes.
Clarence Wiley lost bis three year-old /
hild of pneumonia last Wednesday. The
uneral was held at St. JohnstowA last s
'ridsy afternoon.
Reta Mae Tatman is quite i'll with q
7hooping-cough.
A colt owned by Charles Isaacs ran intO d
barbed-wire fence last Sunday and was
D seriously injured that it had to be sewed
p.
Minnie Reynolds, who is at the Sails
ury Hospital, is getting better. {
Mrs. John Morris has returned home
-om the Cooper Hospital, Camden, N.
here she underwent an operation. She
getting along nicely. u
Rev. W. c. Moore will preach a sermon r
/ the NJ. E. Church on Sunday morning, 3
une 18th, to the Odd Fellows, to which 8
Il are cordially invited. q
Children's Day services will be held in o
odds Chapel next Sunday morning, 3
une 18th.