New Britain herald., 1918-06-13

AS afternoon one person, Patrolman Will liam O'Mara, of the police department received a painful cut on his head and six stitches were required to close the wound. Women living within the area of the storm were prostrated by fright. No other personal injury was done. The property damage will be about $100,000. when reckoning in the value of the 300 or more beautiful trees ruined by the wind. The prop crty damage at nearly 50 places was considerable. The force of the cy- clone showed it's damaging effect most severely in a half-dozen or more garages. These small types of build- ings were crushed as if they were so much paper. Between Vine and South Burritt streets the tail of the cy- clone seemed to have hit hardest The two and one-half story house of C.. F.. Andrus on South Burritt street, about 40 by 25 feet in dimensions, was push ed aside about two inches, cracking the brick foundation. An ell part in the rear of the home of George F. Tyler at 25 Vine street was torn off and carried into the front yard. Roofs of three houses on Black Rock avenue and one on Vine street and another
 
 l Lincoln street school were torn off. 1 The wherea bouts of the roofs torn ] from the houses on Black Rock avenue is a mystery. They could not be located last evening. Parts of tin roofs were scattered in the front yard 1 of the home of the Misses Whittlesey at the corner of Grove Hill and West | Main street. The nearest tin roof 1 damaged in that vicinity was at the i property of Thomas W. Mitchell on | Vine street, but considerable tin was 1 found curled up in the back yard and l it is presumed to represent what was 1 the whole of the house covering. It l is possible that some of the tin in the 1 Misses Whittleseys yard came from westerly points. Wires were dragged down by the\ falling trees and on 1 Church and Main streets and at the ! Elm street railroad crossing, crossed wires caused electrical fires and fire |, alarms were rung in and added to the 1 prevailing excitement.
 ] New Britain's first experience with the stray cyclone was decidedly dam aging to property, and although Q miniature of the western variety was attended with circumstances equally ] as thrilling.
 l Cyclone Cloud Discovered.
 See that cloud over there sai( | Nels J. Nelson, whose self-taught les sons on atmospheric conditions anC experiences in the west, where he toured giving aviation exhibitions have taught him something about storms, speaking to Assistant Fire
 Chief Noble yesterday afternoon an( pointing to a peculiarly shaped dark
 r,1o inf Ia c.lI1 and wondered at it's peculiarity.
 "Out West if people saw such {
 cloud they would duck for the cyclone l cellars" said Nelson. They were d
 the Brady Electric and Manufacturing
 Co. factory on Center street. The,
 watched the cloud and in a few min
 utes darkness settled, the air was filled
 with paper, dust and debris
 Its a genuine cyClone,' shouted
 Nelson, and he said: Beat it to thu
 cellar"
 Rev. Cook from Land of Cyclones.
 That cloud has the makings of
 frst-class cyclone,' remarked Rev
 Warren F. Cook, pastor of Trinit,
 Methodist church, who came iron
 Kansas, where cyclones grow, com
 menting on the strange cloud in tn
 sky. He watched the funnel shape, dark cloud aS it came on rom tn i west. As he watched the approach h.
 became more and more convinced o the genuineness of the omen in th
 air He took to shelter merely as matter of instinct and more or les
 unconsciously After viewing tn
 havoc in the western part of the cit } following the cessation of the storm l, he expressed respect for the reality o
 the cyclone.
 The cyclone came from a south iWesterlY direction and went at a rapi