Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-30
SEVERE, sT0kH :
REAPS HARVEST.

to have ceutered IN and close
around Harrisonburg. Trees
were uprooted and several build
ings blown over. The light
ming came in on the telephone
wires and leosened the brick
coping or fire wall on E. J.. Lon
organs barber shop just as al
strong gust of wind broke. The
bricks were carried to the side
walk and made passing very dam
erous. Fortunately the wind aud
rain drove every one from the
streets or some would have surely
been hurt.
Mike Flory's new garage on
Mason Street was practically de-
mollshed. The builders had just
gotten the brick walls up to the
second story and had just placed
a large steel beam in position.
This probably saved the whole
building from being blown out
and about half of the south side
Icaved in.
At the county court house sew
eral windows were blown in and
many valuable papers scattered
far and wide. Mr.. Brunk. one of
the Deputy Clerks, was working
in the Clerks Office with his
corps of typists, making up the
reports for the new index books
when the crash came. The pa
lpers were scattered in every di-
ERECTION, some of them being
blown as far as the post Office
| building. It is estimated that
leight months work was literally
blown away as the work will all
have to be done over again, the
money loss being placed at two
thousand dollars.
/ On South Main Street many
ltrees were blown over or broken
off. The tin roof from J. Holmes
Moore's factory was removed and
rolled into a ball. About twenty
! feet of the roof was blown off oil
the tannery building. The enc
o. the Clutch of the Brethren or
West Water Street was blown il
as also was the end of the feun
/ dry. Mr.. Bradley estimated hi.
, loss at least FIVE thousand dol
lars. Practically all of his mold.
and patterns were broken by tht
falling bricks.
The new home Of Claude Lay.
man is total wreck. Mr.. Lay.
mans house was a brick Struc.
ture and just ready for the root
to be put on. The walls had
just been put up and the bricks
were not set yet. When the
tStrong wind struck the building
1t carried the walls over. piling
them on heap on the inside.
Practically all the gardens in the
city are mashed fat to the
ground. So strong did the wind
blow and so fast the rain fall that
1.-THE streets of Harrisonburg were
lust sheets of water. The day
became as dark as night and to
confusion to the store and Office
forces at work the electric lights
all went out.
Considerable damage was done
just north of Harrlsonburg on
the Edom road, buildings being
unroofed and the crops being
broken down and mashed to the
ground. No fatal results have
been reported. The storm seems
to have been restricted to a very
small area and the damage, con-
sequently, to the farmers of the
county was small. One farmer
stated on the streets Saturday
that if the storm had been spread
over the county and had struck
with such violence as it did in |
Harrisonburg a million dollar
damage would have been done to |
the wheat crop alone. In the
region where the storm visited
the crops are ruined, several
farmers claiming that the wheat
would not pay for its cutting.
Many of the old residents pro-
nounced it the most severe storm
that ever visited this section of
the country, ami some stated
that they had seen storms in
Florida and in the West but
never before had they ever seen
anything to equal the storm oil
Saturday evening. Harrison burg
Independent.