The Penn's Grove record., 1914-03-06
swlftesi Hurricane Came Sunday Night
Houses TrembIed. chlmneys Fell


Houses TrembIed, Chfmneys Fell
Wild was the night. swifter than an
eagle in its fight was the terrifying wind
last Sunday night. Oar Oldest citizens
cannot recall a iercer hurricane Than that
which swept over this region all night.
Snow fell most of the time but In the
morning the ground was nearly bear in
places. The wind seemed to have taken
it further.
Houses trembled SO terribly before the
6O-nlile gale that some feared ~ 60 to
bed. Many expected to see Monday
morning much damage, and were sur
prised when SO little was reported The
porch roots OF a few cottages along the
shore were blown off and half a dozen
chimneys were blown down. The largest
was that OH w. A. Summerilps resi-
dence. A double chimney consisting OF
400 bricks was -toppIed over fiat onto
the roof. Fire was kept in the heater i'm
the cellar by the back draft down the
chimney thru they fire with the gas and
smoke let out of a cellar window. It is a
poor heater that will not burn with
All up or down draft.
The chimney on Henry Roberts home
and one on Jacob F. Shoemaker's house
tenanted by Harry Yeager, were blown
down and the houses had to be abandon
ed because of the cold.
Chimneys were also blown off the resi-
dences of Warren Wood and Thomas
Cook III Penns Grove and Asbury Arm
strong's residence at Wright School
house.
Last Saturday the temperature was
near the freezing point all day. Sunday
afternoon there was a light rain which
melted much Of the snow. The wind
veered to the northwest and the hurricane
speed began about z o'clock, Monday
morning the temperature was Is and 26
at On Tuesday morning it wa 80,
and ~ at noon at noon. Wednesday 80,
and A at noon. Thursday morning 80.
The river was completely ice-bound
from the Jersey shore to the western
channel on Monday and Tuesday. The
dupont officials who come from Whining
ton across the river to Carney's Point on
the tug Emily had to walk quite a dis
lance on the ice. Capt. Jos. G. Denny
did not attempt to run the tug to Penns
Grove wharf either day to take passen-
gers to Wilmington. On Wednesday
morning he reached the wharf after cut
ting the ice with the tugs steel pillow.
An inch of snow fell OIL Tuesday. A
snow drizzle began OH Thursday evening.
1t continued all night and this morning
covered the ground to the depth of two
inches with the temperature at "a.
Several dead spar rows have been
found. They persisted during the cold
wave Sunday night and Monday.
Some of the teachers did not report at
school OIL Monday and not half the
pupils were present.
Rural mail carrier John B. Layton did
not venture OH his route on Monday.
The railroad trains were about 40 min
utes late Monday morning.
The wind disabled an electric light at
the Cove about II p. m. and put the cir
on South Broad Street out.
More damage was done in Wilmington
before it reached Penns Grove. All the
wires of the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany were down and no trains were run
OH Monday between Washington, Phila-
delphia and New York, because twenty
seven were stalled on the line in the
blizzard where there was much snow
embarked.
The large grainery and elevators of the
Philips-Tllompson Company were partly
unroofed and the roof fell upon the Office
of the Wilson Line Steamboat Company.
-Four houses were unroofed in Whining
ton. The steamer City OF Philadelphia,
and two steamships Manhattan and
Na%rragansett, tied to the wharves of the
Harlan & Hollingsworth Corporation
were torn loose and blown to the oppo-
site side of Christiana river.
The roof of the Wawset Driving Park
stable was torn off and dropped OH the
tracks of the Peoples Rally way Company
At the Hotel dupont the wind blew
down the large doors OF the baggage
room. Several large plate glass windows
OF stores on Market Street were blown in.
The storm in New Castle was severe,
and during the night the wing ragged at
rate OF sixty to seventy miles an hour.
At $40 O'Clock Monday night the electric
lights went out.
The roof OF the home Of Miss Mary Con-
nelly was torn off. At the plant of the
Bladt Steel Company the pattern shop
was demolished by wind. The snow on
the roadway between Megginsohn's Fate
and Lander's Ave. was banked to a
height of from five to seven feet. A
number of high tension wires of the
Wilmington and Philadelphia Traction
Company fell. The signal wires along
the trolley line between New Castle and
Wilmington also were put ont of COM
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