Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-21

| it reaches India, where the last trace
of it will disappear with the breaking
up of the conjunction between sun,
| earth and moon.
NEARLY an hour. One barn near Man
ada Gap was totally destroyed.
Wires were down all over the city.
At Eleventh and Hanson streets an
electric transformer set fire to a pole.
The Susquehanna Fire Company put
out the blaze. A 2,S0O volt arc feed
wire snapped and fell in front of
! George Heisey's home at 211S North
Third street 1t burned holes in the
ground and tore up the earth for
some distance, as it was swung like
torch by the wind.
No Injuries Reported
There are no reports of any in
Juries due to the storm, although
there were a number of marrow es-
capes from flying branches of trees
and the lightning, which struck close
down to the city until the heavy air
was cleared up.
Probably the greatest damage to
trees during the season occurred in
Reservoir Park and Riverside
Park. Thousands of huge limbs of
parks, and it will take park foresters
a long time to repair the damage.
Some of the trees were irreparably
ruined, and will have to be chopped
down. The usual subway flood and
washing of dirt from the bluff on to
Cameron street also occurred.
Storm Area a Wide One
The area of storm damage extended
throughout the central and northeast
ern portions of the State. Five were
killed 60 injured and twenty houses
wrecked in the cyclonic storm at
Wilkes-B Barre. Two of the dead were
girls storm-stayed in the Laurel SILK
Mill which was demolished by light
ming The daylight search of the po-
lice failed to find any more dead in
the wrecked mill or demolished
homes. 1t is thought the property loss
will exceed 100000.
At Shenandoah two men were struck
, by lightning, while at Pottsville light
ming hit the Pennsylvania Railroad
station. The storm appears to have
followed about the course of the Sc
we're storm that swept through the
same region in July, starting around
the north branch at Wilkes-Barre and
sweeping down to Sunbury thence
following the main stream to the
ocean.
Through the Cumberland valley, it
is reported, from Mechanicsburg to
Carlisle the storm has left six burned
barns in its wake. Among these were
barn on the Schaeffer farm and one
near New Kingston, belonging to the
Misses Ziegler, of Carlisle:
On the lawn of DR.. r. E. Moffatts
home, Reilly near Front streets, one
of the most beautiful elms in this
section of the State was blown over
by the furious wind. The reason so
many trees in River Front Park fell
at the onslaught of the wind experts
say is that the roots of many of the
heaviest trees have been cut short of
necessity to make the proper sloping
in the park.
E. C. Ensminger, of the Ensminger
garage. reports that the wind tore
away thesroof of his garage when the
storm was at its height.
Repair Light Service
With repair gangs, linemen and
electric motor trucks busy practically
/ all night the Harrisburg Light and
Power Company this afternoon had
restored entirely its service in this city
| and surrounding towns which had
been interrupted in places by last
nights unprecedented electric and
wind storm.
Some falling wires at Third and
| Briggs street caused a cessation for
| a brief space of the service in some
| circuits in the upper end of the city.
! This occurred during the first storm
| and the damage had just about been
repaired when the second storm
caused a similar tie-up a short dis
! tance away The electric company's
! motor and motorcycle gangs were on
/ duty constantly. This also applied to
| Steelton and in the vicinity of Pax
tang.
I'VE have the damage cleared up
I think" said Edgar S. Wallower, su-
perintendent of construction to-day,
"our working force was out all night
and this morning. Our lines are in
such shape that as a rule we have
/ little trouble. but last nights storm
was unprecedented. No, we had no
/ trouble at the plant, our lightning
protective system safely guarding the
/ plant and employees from the flashes"
Has Narrow Escape
Some remarkable stories were be-
! ing recalled to-day of narrow escapes
/ from falling trees, crossed wires,
/ etc, during last nights storm but one
| of the most thrilling perhaps was
/ told by Squire j. H. Syrock, clerk
| in the county commissioners Office
whose home is in Eighteenth street
near Walnut.
During the height of the storm
we saw an automobile turn the corner
/ of Eighteenth and Walnut streets"
said the squire. (which contained two
men and two women. Just as the car
! cleared the corner a tree at the en-
| trance to Reservoir Park crashed
| across the street, just missing the
motor car by a bare few inches. The
| occupants probably never knew of
their narrow escape because they
| hurried right along"
In the neighborhood of PaXtonia
! the storm did fearful damage and
among the private residences that suf-
| fered severely was the bungalow of
! z. ]. Dare. The roof and the front
! of this structure were blown off and
| the remaiing walls this morning alone
surrounded the furniture in the bun
| galow.
20, 900 People In Panic