Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-02

1 March came in like a lion on Sun l day with the most destructive wind 1 and rain storm known in this vicinity 1 for years. and left a trail of toppled 1 chimneys, ripped roofs, dismantled 1 fences, overthrown tree and general 1 tie up of the public service utilities | that not not had an equal here l It was the terrific wind that did the 1 damage, and the damage by water was 1 fnconsiderable by comparison. One on the Weather Prophets. 1 One of the peculiar things noted 1 about the storm was that none of the weather forecasters had scented out 1 this devastating descent of wind and ! rain in advance. The Friday night 1 forecast for Sunday was clear and l colder"
 1 Destructive Wind in the Afternoon. All Sunday morning there was rain l that came down in floods, turning the 1 streets into rivers and deterring ! church -goers. The wind reached a ve- 1 locity that made it a task requiring ! some skill in adroit tacking and shift 1 ing of sail to handle an umberlla. Hats were frequently whipped off and sent careening along over the wet and ] icy streets, with their owners in fran 1 tic pursuit, while the trolley cars ploughed along through lanes of water, 1 shooting geysers to each side from l their wheels.
 About o'clock the wind acquired l added strength, and the first reports l of damage began to come in shortly after and kept adding up for an hour, l as one report after another was re- ceived of tin roofs ripped off or trees | blown down.
 Roof Of Marguerite Building. Among one of the first serious evil l dences of the power of the wind re- 1 ported was the loss of a section of the 1 tin roof on the Marguerite building. owned by J. B. Shannon, on North 1 the north end of the building over l apartments occupied by Mrs. Elisha 1 Potter, No. Il North Main street, was 1 torn and lifted bodily in a piece from | the roof and carried over across the l street, where it landed against a tele- l graph pole, trolley pole and the fence | of Waterman R. Burnham's yard. It | brought to the ground with it a tangle 1 of wires and effectually short circuit | ed the erolIey line so that there was
 no power north of that point for sev- 1 eral hours.
 Over Davis Theater Stage. At the Davis theater on the talt parl of the roof at the rear, over the stage, 1 the wind found & gap under the tin. and sheets of this were ripped off and dropped down into Willom street. From under the tin the roofing paper
  the street, and some pieces were seen flying up to the top of Jail Hill.
 Swept Down on Radiator Plant. The plant of the Richmond Radiator
 company suffered more varied damage possibly than any other. The entire roof of the old Rogers shop building
 was lifted off and deposited in the
 building which is used for storage. A large section of the big sign on the
 main building of the plant was laid
 low and g. large part of the monitor
 roof was taken off the foundry. Other mill plants te feel the force of the wind and lose more or less exten-
 sive sections of their roofs were the
 tannery of the Norwich Belt Manu-
 featuring company, a storehOuse of the
 Shetucket company and the extension of the Hubbard paper mill at Greene vile.
 In ThamesviIIe.
 The storm left some of it's marks in Thamesville. The roofs of three diff ferent houses were partly blown off. One house was occupied by Thomas
 English and a family by the name of Dalton. The other two houses were occupied by Polish families. A sec tion of the roof the United Metals
 Manufacturing company was ripped of. but not enough to do much dam age. The new galvanized billboard at the bottom of Thames street hill, just below Fairclougn's store, was blown down across the trolley tracks. It took about three hours to get the board off the tracks and the cars were unable to pass. The house of Myer Blumen- thai at 46 Thames street was consid- erabiy damaged, the whole roof being blown off in the early part of the storm. The house faces the river, and the wind sweeping along the river ! caught MT. Blumenthars roof just right.
 Tough on Pedestrians. Broadway corner was the scene of much excitement, and people going around the bank corner were lucky IT 1 they did not lose their umbrellas or hats. Along the street umbrellas seen turned inside out were as common as the driftwood on the beach after a storm One man who was under the influence of liquor lost his hat and in the attempt to regain his lid he slip ped up and landed in a pool of water about eight or nine inches deep in front of the Thames bank. After try ing to get up two or three times and failing he made good job of it by rolling over In the icy waters. The eagle that crowns the shannon
 building weathervane took a fly from
 It's lofty position about 4S0 on to the
 electric light wires. A man on a. step
 ladder with rope was just going to tie
 the eagle on when the bird flew away.
 On9 pedestrian crossing Union
 square was SWOOped down upon by fierce gust which swept him around on
 the slippery ice, turned his umbrella inside out. sent his eyeglasses off in
 one direction and his hat cereening up Broadway in another. Hat and un
 brelIa were recovered but the eye glasses have not been seen since.
 Stable Uncovered.
 The stable of the E. Chappeu Co, which passed through the fire there was afterwards repaired succombed to the force of the wind and lost it's roof The horses were removed to other shelter,
 On Church Street.
 At the residence at No. S3 Church street while Mrs Mary Webster was at dinner. there was a crashing and 2. rending of building material and the tin roof from around the cupola sail ed down into the yard. In the neigh boring residence of John Steiner a large section. of tin was lifted from the roof and dropped down into the yard near the back door.
 At the home of pr. J. H. Allen the cap stone was ripped from the chim- ney and alongside the boarding house of Mrs. E. R. Corey, No. 6S Church. a fence was blown over, while the fence at the rear of the residence of w. Tyler OIcott was toss ed down Into the yard
 Two chimneys were blown down at f AZ pEf at %