The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-05-23
STOR MS FURY
WAS TERRIFIC
Scores of Trees Barre
Laid Low Or 5 dly
Damaged
POLES KNOCKE2 J
OVER; WIRES OWN
Reports From aside
Towns Tell of Blocked
Highways

noon in its sweep through Vermont
New Hampshire and Maine into the"
Atlantic ocean and in the short space
of few minutes scores of trees were
either laid low or stripped of their
branches, streets were blocked, electrie
power and telephone poles leveled and
wires scattered in great confusion. So
fierce was the tempest that people
teams and automobiles scurried for
safety and there were no injuries re.
ported.
The storm, from reports received to.
day, did the most damage in the vicin.
ity of Waterbury, Morrisville, Hyde
Park, Hardwick, Cambridge and St
Johnsbury. highways being blocked by
great trees fallen across the roads. Hail
added its force to the general fury, and
in Burlington the hailstones were re.
ported to measure nearly an inch thick.
One fatality was reported at st. AL
bans when Archie Lamott picked up
| live .,e, which had been blown down
and was electrocuted.
Electric and telephone wires were
put out of service in Barre to such an
extent that there was no electric cur
rent from | o'clock in the afternoon to
o'clock at night; and 81 telephone
lines carrying nearly 2U0 telephones
were put out of commission. The New
England Tel. & Tel Co. expected to
have its service entirely resumed by
this afternoon, but the Montpelier &
Barre Light & Power Co. estimated
that the work of repairs would necessi-
tate a longer time. AT least two poles
supporting electric cables were felled
to the ground by falling trees and hun
| dreds of feet of wires were laid down.
Parks and cemeteries suffered serl-
ous loss in the telling or damaging of
| beautiful shade trees. Tin covering on
| the roof of A. G. LaPoint's house on
| Elm street was ripped off in large
strips and other minor damage was
done to buildings throughout the city.
| At the carbarn the waiting station for
| the Country club was hit a broadside
with such force as to tip the little
structure over toward the Central Ver-
mont track.
Nowhere in the city were the caprices
| of the storm more in evidence than on
the upper levels of wards one and two.
Sw fine shade trees in Elmwood ceme-
terry and vicinity were badly mutilated,
although not uprooted. A stately maple
in the rear of the Currier residence at
| ll6 Washington street was torn in
two by the wind, and the loose half
went crashing into the verands roof.
Liberty, Orange and Hill street were
directly in the path of the hurricane. A
large poplar tree in front of y, B.
Kelly's house was uprooted and when
the stree toppled telephone pole
went with it. On the Washington street
corner of Liberty another telephone
pole was tilted at menacing angle
and at the home of Mrs. Karl Lane two
poplar trees We're blown down. Three
trees on Orange street were snapped in
two and around the Gospel village com-
mon three more trees yielded to the
fury Of the storm.
A falling tree on Richardson street
missed by inches an automobile owned
bv ] b. Carswell, who was hurrying
to shelter when the storm broke.
On the corner of the lot owned by
Mrs. Isabelle Smith on the corner Of
Elm and Jefferson streets, a massive
elm crashed 10 the ground in three
parts. one of which struck pole sup
porting wires, breaking the pole and
tearing down several feet OF wires.
Similar breakings of the wires oc-
Cured through the fall Of trees or large
sections of trees on Beacon. Cliff, Acad
envy. North Seminary, Second and
Prospect, streets and at Grant avenue.
In front of the home of C. Trentini. a
large poplar tree was pulled up by the
roots In falling il tore the electric
wires completely out of the Trentini
home and threw such weight against
the cables that it nearly pulled down
q pole nearby.
Large limbs were blown from trees
along North Main street, and in one
or two instances whole trees were the
victims of the small cyclone. In the
City park and Currier park large
branches were torn from some OF the
beautiful shade trees. Much more work
was added to the duties of Cemetery
Superintendent gladding in preparing
the burial grounds for Memorial day
for in Hope as well a. in Elmwood
cemetery several trees were sent crash
ing 20 the earth.
Barre motorists to Fairlee yesterday
report that telegraph poles were blown
across the railroad track az that point,
completely blocking the passsgeWay,
and that trees and branches were
strewn across the road 50 that motor
lists were Constantly forced to turn into
bitches TO get by. From Williamstown
comes the report that that village was
immune from rain. but that between
Barre and williamstown the road was
blocked in many places by fallen trees
and branches
Lightning Strikes
On Essex street lightning struck the
two-tenement house of William Wylie.
and after ripping of about one-third
of the fat tin root thrust it 10 the
ground. The brick chimney which pro
irided from ihe roof was a. the same
time scattered and laid iHto bits about
che roof. Mr. Wvlie and family were
n to- home az the time.
In Washington THE farm of Eugene
Eastman bore . few marks 81 storm
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