New Britain herald., 1918-06-13
CYCLONE HITS WEST END OF CITY:
 HOUSES MOVE; GARAGES TURN OVER;
 300 TREES PROSTRATED BY STORM
Damage From Storm Esti mated at $1OO, ,OO0-Roofs
 Ripped Off and Carried Through Air-Plars Blown Off Verandas-Chicken Coops Carried Away-Near Panics in Theaters. !
BLAZING TROLLEY WIRE IN CENTER;
 LIGHTING AND PHONE SERVICE HIT

rate, possibly nearly 50 miles an hour. Tt was not the speed with which the cloud traVeled that impressed me, but rather the whirling and whipping of the cloud. There was no doubt in my mind about it's being a cyclone," said Rev. MT. Cook.
 The cyclone passed over New Brit ain going in an easterly direction.
 Garage and Auto Turned Turtle.
 A garage with an auto in it, the property of Henry LittlehaIes at 3S2 West Main street, was overturned. The building was almost completely demo olished and the auto badly wrecked. The door of the garage was blown 300 feet onto the roof of Frank 1T. Johnston's house.
 Near by was 8 small wooden shed used by MT. Littlehales in the manu- fracture of violins. This building, which is about IS by 25 feet in size, was lifted as a whole from the foun- dation and set down about two feet from the original moorng. Three valuable violins just finished by MT. Littlehales were in the shed and they came through undamaged.
 There was a stack of windows in the yard and they were lifted and dropped several feet away.
 When the cyclone struck, Mrs Lit tlehales was trying to hold an awning that had been partially blown down. When windows in the rear of the house began to blow in, she let go. The grape arbor in the rear was dem olished by trees. Fences separating yards there were blown down. Cherry, apple, pear and plum trees, numbering II in all, were up- in, ho Garage Shifted; Auto Damaged. Serious damage was done at Will liam COWlishaW's garage in the rear of 40 South Burritt street. The build l ing was lifted from it's foundation and 1 twisted around and left about three 1 feet away from the concrete founda- tion. It was a two-story garage and when it settled after being shifted it landed on MT. Cowlishaw's automobile l The top of the automobile was 1 crushed in, the rear wheels collapsed and the springs were broken. 1 Adjoining MT. Cowlishaw's garage l was chlcken-coop about 10 by 15 1 feet housing about ten chickens The whole structure and the chickens were l carried over a four-foOt fence without 1 damage to the fence or injury to the chickens and deposited in neighbor- | ing lot about 30 feet away
 | Four trees, two of them fruit trees in the rear, and one a beautiful maple tree in front, were uprooted. | Moves a House.
 :, The home of Charles F. Andrus, next to CoWlishaw's, was partially ! blown from it's foundation. The house which is about 40 by 25 feet and two and one-half stories in height, was | forced in northerly direction The | force of the wind cracked the founda- tion wall, separating the bricks over
 an inch and a half from the house ! sills to the ground.
 A handsome maple tree in front
 was uprooted and the flag stone was
 carried with it.
 Tears Off Rear Veranda.
 Damage was done to the rear porch
 of Charles McIntyre's home on South | Burritt street. Railings were blown 1 down and a section of the roof was | carried away A power boat on skids l in the rear yard and a little work l shed were blown in @ northerly direc- ton about two feet. A fine cherry
 tree was blown down.
 l The cherry tree in Dr. Joseph G. 1 Mann's yard at 34 South Burritt street was laid low and the chimne V
 was blown from the roof.
 The boys house of the Children $
 Home under the supervision of Rev.
 J. F. Klingberg, was undamaged, but
 trees in the yard were spoiled.
 Another Garage Laid Flat. A garage owned by A. B. Porter in the rear of his place on Liberty street
 was literally laid flat. It was carried off it's foundation and thrown in the