Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-03-06


So far as can be learned, little
damage has been done to the app
pie orchards by the hurricane.
Points in Clarke county suffer.
ed little from the gale. While
the wind was very high in the
vicinity of Berryville, Boyce,
wildwood, White Post and other
places, the property damage is
slight.
The city of Winchester was in
the grip of the worst storm, most
probably, in the history of the
town, Monday evening. Begir-
ming soon after six o'clock Sum
day evening, and increasing in
violence every hour thereafter
wards, hurricane leaped from
out the west and descended like
a roaring lion upon this part of
the state. The wind reached a
velocity of at least IS miles
an hour, and people on the streets
were swept from their feet by the
resistless sweep of the torrent.
The telephone and telegraph
service has been very badly Grip.
pied and it is very difficult to OBJ
tain definite information from
the outlying districts. Indica-
tons are, however. that tie
worst damage has been done in
the northern end of Frederic k
county, and Winchester is the
greatest sufferer. A fair esti-
mate of the damage in Winches-
ter and in the parts of the count,
Immediately surrounding, would
put the property loss at between
500, 600 and 100000.
In this city several houses have
been partially wrecked by the
gale, countless windows have
been smashed, signs and awnings
have been ripped from their fast
enings, metal and slate roofs
have been torn from residences
and business buildings, chimney,
have been knocked over like ten
pins and bricks scattered over
yards and on the roofs of homes,
shutters have been torn from
their hinges, and other damage
has been done to property. So
far there has been no loss of life
as result of the hurricane.
The wind reached its greatest
velocity between 5 and 7 O'Clock
Monday morning, when it seemed
that some mighty monster, mad
with the lust of destruction, had
come upon us from the spaces of
the infinite and hurled upon de-
fenseless breastworks charge az
ter charge of battering, booming
air-currents which swept every
thing before them. Monday
morning Winchester awoke bat
tered and bleeding, for the mon
ster had done his work !!
The hurricane struck Win
chester with appalling sudden
ness. After the intensely cold
weather of the past two weeks,
Sunday came in cloudy but mild
er with the temperature around
35 degrees. The wind began to
rise about ? o'clock Sunday af-|
ternoon. and the temperature fell
rapidly. with a drop of about rs
degrees in less than five hours.
From 7 o'clock Sunday night the
wind had been a bowling gale
and continued all day Monday
with more or less violence. In
the early hours Monday morning
it was terrific. so fierce indeed
that stoutIy-built houses wereI
rocked on their foundations. and
people jumped from their beds in |
terror.
At least four homes in Win
chester have been wrecked byI
the fury of the storm, and in one
instance family was forced to
seek shelter at the hotel. ToI
add to the fear and desolation |
while tue gale howled its fiercest
during the ioag wakeful hours
Of Sunday night, the electricI
lights went out, and Winchester
was in total darkness, save fcrl
the occasional CLEAN from ! Ian
tern on the wisd-swept streets,
,r the friendly light from wig
lows where people were awakei
Ind watchful. There was LITTLE
Ileep for the people of this civ
night. Il
During the night the stornI !
Broeght great havoc il Ncenf I