The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-04-09
Severe Storm.

A severe storm occurred on Tuesday
evening and certain portions of the country
felt its effects very much. There wa
/ much lightning, thunder and rain, anC
while the wind blew rather hard in some
localities 1t seemed to select path through
the county in which to do damage. Phil
adelphia and Camden and towns in those
neighborhoods suffered, and this section
did not escape. The wind came through
Mount Laurel and struck Lumberton with
a force that threatened to wipe out the
entire town, but before the blow was over
there was shift so that only a narrow
strip of the place was touched.
At Mount Laurel the wagon house of
Humphrey Harvey was blown down and
carriages were mashed TO pieces. On the
farm of Edward Comfort large barn
went down, and the sheds at Easton Meet
ing House were totally destroyed.
The wind then went on to LumbertOn.
Limbs that appeared to be able to stand
almost any blow were snapped off like
pipestems. The roof on the residence of
Edward Ried, near the bridge, was.ripped
off and chimney, struck by falling limbs,
was thrown into the street. Mrs Ried
happened to be In the way of the falling
bricks and how she escaped injury is a
wonder. On the D. Budd Coles farm a
large barn was blown down and a calf
was killed. The stables in which the
horses were housed, while not far from
the other building, escaped damage. On
the Julius Bernstein farm the barn was
wrecked, but after strenuous work the
cattle were released without injury. On
the Joseph Powell farm another barn was
demolished. In one of these barns man
who was sleeping on the hay, was lifted
bodily with part of his bed and landed
on the outside. The hay on which he fell
saved him from injury
The wind then continued its course up
the South Pemberton road and shifted
across to the railroad. At Birmingham
two box cars on a siding were moved to
such a position that when a passenger
train came along the engine of the latter
struck the freight cars and there was a
mixup that 1t took until morning to undo
The neighborhood of Arney's Mount
was next visited A barn on the Benjamin
Lamb farm was lifted from its foundations
and at Edward Goldy's barn was blown
down. There were some cows in the
building and two of them died from the
injuries they received.
The tornado took door 10x12 feet from
Its hinges on James Haines' barn at
Deacon station and carried 1t 200 feet,
doing other damage.
During the storm the chimney on the
home of John Kenny, farmer living near
Mt Laurel, was struck by lightning and
ripped off good deal of lath and plaster
from the nearby walls and filed the house
with smoke. Mr.. Kenny was dazed for
some minutes by the shock and when he
came to he thought the house was on fire
because it was so filed with smoke. For
tunately the worst was over before he
realized what was happening.
When the shower reached Golfers Mills
1t assumed cyclone form. The first
place it struck was on the farm of William
Grant, when apple trees were torn up aud
blown over, the fences were all laid low.
The next place 1t hit was at the farm of
Thomas Grant; his fences were nearly all
torn down, large maple tree in his yard
was uprooted just missing the house. It
then sped on and blew down the fences
around Mrs. Emson's place, struck large
barn, completely demolishing 1t, FORUM
ately only one COW was slightly injured;
it then uprooted trees In the yard, tore the
wind wheel down, skipped the top of the
next barn destroying 1t completely. 1t then
finished up by blowing down several
other fences.