Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-07-26
CYCL0N|C STORM
HITS WILMINGTON
Trees Blown Down and Other
Damage All Over Town Done
by Gale on Saturday.

Wilmington was visited by n cyclonic
storm saturday afternoon, trees were
blown over, poles and wires wrecked and
other damage done The high wind de-
vcloped about 3 O'Clock and tasted oniy n
lew minutes
II was freak storm. About Gordon
Heights and other places hail was report
ed, hut no such fall was observed here.
Widespread inquiry for damage through
city and county was elusive for the re-
Spouse usually came that the storm must
have been worse some where else than
here
Very little damage was done TO the
lines Of the Wilmington and Phlladcl-
phla Traction Company, traffic beng de
laved for about 20 minutes when a tree
blow across Thirteenth street, west of
Market street and had TO be cut away.
and another tree blew down mt Fourth
and Monroe streets \ part Of u tree blew
down at Elsmcre hut WAS cleared away
hcforc traffic was held up for any length of
time.
Power was oil for about eight minutes
~ result Of the blowing out of switch
NJ the Fifth street power house. Car 81. of
the Nandeycr avenue line, was struck ut
Ninth and Church The motor was burn
Ell out No passenger was hurt
Trees were blown across the trolley
limos al Thirteenth and Washington and
sixth and French streets
The Independence Fire Co. responding
o. q stlll alarm NJ Eleventh and Church
streets. for fire supposed to have been
caused 10y lightning discovered fire in a
house there supposed to Toe caused by
children playing with matches The fire
was IN a mattress on "A bed and caused
about $50 damage before Il was CNtlnglIish-
ed
The Wind blew on portion Of the roof
oi a round house Of tho PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad Co near the Todds Cut plant
Onc II the most freakish things of this
freak storm happened IN Gordon Heights
on Ninth street northeast of Lorc avenue
NJ tins spot. G. H. Rogers and Taylor |.
Thompson. local contractors. had two
houses nearly completed ard'rcady for the
plnstcrcrs In the height of the rain storm,
4 miniature cyclone singled out one OF the
houses and after first levclIng few small
trees ~ a resting place kicked up the en-
ARE Second story ard depnsItqd Il on ton
uf the trees M,a while, the hurricane
blew down the wals. ara tlcn vanished
after cntailinR a loss of SI.5O0 The !
popularity of the storm work lay in the !
TACT that the other building was not I
damaged nor we're surrounding properties /
harmed The two houses were being con |
structcd a. residences for the contractors. |
hut when asked n Just which ono ii the |
builders the destroyed house belonged. the !
reply was made that II was Gftv-hft, |
loss. "a neither had made selections
An automobile apparently with wheels |
locked. whlch had bccu standing on Fourth
street NJ Shplev was driven hy the wind !
east along Fourth street and across Mar
let until il finally lodged against ill.,, curb
lng and thus prevented i from going
through the glass windows N the front of
the smith 7olllngcr store
At Front and Monroe streets a large
tree wa. blown down across the trolley
tracks there and had To lc chopped
away fcinrc car service could 30 started
N Ninth ard Market streets large
.frcl uirurr arranged on ono Of the upucr
loors preparation, e. being put INTO place
we've picked up by the wind and thrown
~ tn street below One &c them fcl
through window of the Miller Bros
+ lrc The girdcrs were for the Delaware
rru-t CO now building
Tho Wind caused good deal of damage
ii tie trrps M the cen ter, ~ Friends
}lc,tiur lIutI-C. Fourth an West street.
81 ~hellpnt Park a number Of ,rcc>
, cte blown down and branches thrown
Bout
The trcc~ in the churchvard Of II
l,'e Episcopal Church Twenty-fir.t
Market streets were badly damaged
the vnd and many branches blown
uWn amt about tie grounds The church
aiding however WAS not hurt although
rnmor spread that the new portion of
~ building had bccn struck bv lightning
some valuable locust trees on the l. II
Brennan estate ~ ThrtN-hfth and Market
stiert~ were ,WrcclCd
Tho following + the list Of trees reported
s blown down about Tho CITY.
lanca.tci everuc and Jackson street
twentieth ,t-ctt between Market and
atnal - frot 81 a02 krkWood street
.ppn~ite Qli Adpm> .trcct Tatrall street
between Third and Fourth streets. Tatnall
.trcct btvecI Fourth ard Fifth streets:
rcnnd and Tstra1 streets. opposite 5Il
jefferson .iroei opposite Sli West Tenth
frrtt +, trogt IF lOl- Adams street
uncprd evcnuc and Iatnail street: on
jefferson between Twelfth and Thirteenth:
.trcets. seventh and trench streets ut
t93 last Eleventh street, on Fourth !
troet between West and Washington
streets: 1929 West Fourth street: 5l2
II ct Third street on Thirteenth street
etwccn hing and French streets. or
n aluut street between seventh and Eighth
.trcct, on sixth street between French
md Walnut streets, Fourth and Monroe
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