The Republican journal., 1916-08-31

the section in the immediate vicinity of
WaterviIle escaped serious damage from
today's electrical storm, heavy loss is re-
ported in Waldo county and northeastern
Kennebec. At Thorndike the dwelling
house and buildings of Frank Thompson
were burned after being struck by light
ming. At Albion the buildings of Charles
TAYLOR were destroyed with $4,000 loss and
seven cows were killed in a pasture.
Barns were struck and burned in Troy,
Unity Plantation, Montville and Clinton.
Hail did much damage to corn and stand
ing grain.
Eight Barns and House burned in Waldo
County.
UNITY, Aug. 3d. John Hamilton had
Just finished filling his barn with hay,
when it was struck by lightning today
and burned fiat.
THoRNDIKE, Aug. %. The farm house
of Pearl Hamlin and four barns belong
ing to him were totally destroyed by fire
when the buildings were struck by light
ming during the tempest this afternoon
MoNTv1LLE, / ug. %. A terrific thun-
der storm accompanied by hail which did
irreparable damage to standing grain cut
swath through this section of the State
this afternoons The barn of Villesco
Foster was struck by lightning and
burned.
TROY, Aug. %. Lightning struck the
heavy shower this afternoon and it was
burned, with As tons of hay. Seven
horses were in the barn and all were
taken out without injury. A farmland
was slightly injured during the rush of
getting out the horses.
BURNHAM, Aug. %. The storm of this
afternoon did serious damage III this vi
cinity. The rain was heavy and accom-
panied by hail, and there was heavy
wind. A barn owned by m an named
McAllister on the Clinton road, two and
half miles from here was struck by
lightning and totally destroyed. The
barn contained 40 tons of hay.
Effects of the Storm Elsewhere.
HAMPDEN, Aug. %. The storm this
afternoon appears to have hit hard A
tree was blown down across the car
tracks near Hardy hill; also tree blew
over and somewhat damaged the house
of Bert Smith and one near the residence
of Louis Stems. Hampden was in dark
ness last night for the electric light
circuits were out of commission. The
electric cars were thrown off schedule
somewhat by obstruction on the track.
ALBION, Aug. %. The farmers of
this vicinity suffered severely from the
heavy thunder storm which tore through
this section this afternoon. Trees were
uprooted, buildings blown down and
other destruction caused. The buildings
of Charles Taylor were struck by light
ming and burned, with loss of about
$1,000. Seven cows owned by Merton
Bickmore were killed in pasture. Corn
and standing grain was moved down by
the heavy hail.
CLINTON. Aug. 49, The high wind up
rooted many trees in today's storm, one
I of the trees falling across one of the
high tension wires of the Central Maine
| Power Co. system two miles below
/ Clinton village on the River road, and
putting the circuit out of commission for
some time. A crew from Waterville re-
paired the damage. Lightning struck
the farm buildings of Mrs. Will Clifford
two miles toward Hinckley on Town
House hill. All the hay had been cut
and placed in the barn. Two horses,
two calves and two pigs were destroyed
The work horses were saved and most of
the household goods were removed from
the house before it was consumed The
barn of Mrs. Eddie Buzzell, two miles
from Clinton, was burned. No one was
at home at the time.
CAMDEN, Aug. 25. The worst thun-
der shower of the season visited US last
evening. The shower struck here about
p. m. and lasted about an hour. The
lightning was particularly vivid. We
have heard of no places in this town
where the lightning did any damage.
| 1t put the whole electric system out of
commission early in the shower and
there were no lights for the street or
houses and no cars running during the
evening. The performance at the Com
ique had to be given up, but the Klark-
Urban Co. at the Opera House managed
their play with the aid of candles. APP
pleton got it very heavy, the light of
three burning buildings being reported
in that section. Telephone lines were
out of commission in many places Auto
lists coming from Bangor report heavy
wind storm in Hampden, taking down
trees and wires.
AUGUSTA, Aug. %. Trees were torn
up by the roots, buildings unroofed, cows
killed in the pasture, telephone and cleo
trio light lines put out of commission and
Train 1O2 delayed by an earth slide in the
very heavy cloudburst and electrical and
hail storm combination which visited
Augusta late this afternoon. A huge
elm tree was torn up by the roots in front
of the residence of A. w. Whitney on
State street and another big tree went
down in front OF the residence of ex-
Mayor Elmer E. Newbert on State
street. Other big trees were torn down
on Chapel and Court streets, and in all it
was reported that there were IS trees
and parts of trees down between Augusta
and Hallowell. A big tree fell across the
track of the L. A. & W. Street Railway
at Reyes Landing and delayed traffic
there for about two hours but finally a
transfer was made around the obstacle
until wrecklng crew could remove it.
About 20 feet of the roof of the paper
mill of the Cushnoc Paper company was
torn off during the height of the gale
that accompanied the storm. 1t was re-
ported that a house and barn were I'M
rooted at East Winthrop and man
killed by lightning but as there was no
telephone communication with Winthrop
or Read6eld this report could not be
verified. At $3.50 last night all telephone
lines were out between Augusta and
Lewiston and between Augusta and
Gardiner on the west side of the river
while there was but single line in COM
mission to Waterville. The big cable on
State street was down and over so per
Of no