The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-01
STREETS STREWN
BY STORM LITTER
Trees UprOOted, Wires Are
Pulled Down and Roads
Damaged
MAIN STREET STORE
WINDOW BLOWN OUT

Many Apple Trees Divested of Fruit -
Unusually Heavy Rainfall Swells
Streams, but Little Damage Is Re-
ported from That Source.
Trees were uprooted, telephone poles
were blown down, electric and telephone
wires were broken, leaving many homes
without lights, large quantities of apples
were blown from the trees, a plate glass
window in the Company l headquarters
in the Barber building on Main street
was blown out, roads were washed, the
electric railroad track was buried in dirt
in some places, and other damage was
done and inconvenience caused by the
rain and windstorm which visited Brat
tlebOro and vicinity yesterday and last
night.
Rain which began falling early yester-
day morning continued throughout the
day and evening with heavy showers at
intervals and reached a total of 3.79
inches in 24 hours, which is an exception
ally heavy rainfall for that length of time.
1t was accompanied by a strong but
warm breeze, which grew in intensity in
the late evening and early hours of this
morning, the most violent wind making
its visit between midnight and o'clock
and strewing the highways, sidewalks and
lawns with leaves, twigs, branches and
limbs of trees.
4 limb from a tree near the home of
Mrs r. G.. Bacon on Western avenue fell
across the trolley wire of the street rail
road, but the wire was not broken.
large tree in the rear Of the town hall
building was uprooted and was blown
across telephone. telegraph and electric
wires, pulling the wires down. The tree
fell across the West River railroad track
causing a delay of about four hours in
the arrival of the passenger train from
South Londonderry.
Electric wires of the Twin State Gas
I & Electric Co. We're broken on Green, Viii
Iiams. South Main and Linden streets,
| Putney road, the Island and other places
about town and the linemen worked
Throughout the evening in an attempt to
repair the breaks. but they came too rap
| idly. and the full hne force is out today
| Irepairing damage. Lighting poles of
the company also were down in Hinsdale.
From 40 to 80 local telephone lines
were reported out of order this morning
and out of the Is or 20 toll lines connec-
| tionS could be made on only two when the
! linemen began work this morning. One
| line to Keene and one to Bellows Falls
were usable, but before 10 o'clock several
Others were put in working order. The
Il
on the lines today. Besides the two
automobile trucks which belong to the
company a hired automobile and two
/ teams were in use. 1t probably will be a
day or two before all the lines will have
/ been repaired.
| A limb from a tree on Organ street
caused the fire alarm to be sounded sew
eral different times during the night.
/ Chief Streeter and Others were busy this
morning getting the system back into
I working order.
| Several of the power lines from the
| Connecticut River Power Co. in Vernon
Were upset, including the lines to Keene,
Bellows Falls, the Brattleboro Retreat,
and others, and a large force of linemen
are working today to remedy the troubles.
One of the front plate glass windows in
the headquarters of Company in the
Barber building was blown out and shat
/ tered. Some south windows were left
open by an occupant of the room who
sleeps there nights and who was sleeping
so soundly that he did not hear the crash
of the window, although nearly all the
other tenants were awakened. The man
did not awake until the janitor. Chaun-
cey Young. who was brought from his
home by Chief-of-Police George Wilson
entered and shook him. The window was
blown out between 1 and o'clock.
Road Commissioner G.. j. Dube received
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