Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-07-03
COUNTY STORM
CREATES HAVOC
Tornado Sweeps Southern End OF
Shenandoah County-Damage
Runs Into Thousands

storm, which for intensity has
seldom been eQualed In Shenandoah
County. struck that section OF the
county from near Hawkinstown to
Rude's Hill, leaving ruin in its wake
and causing tens of thousands dol
lars of damages. The center of the
damaged area was at Mt. Jackson
and in the Mems bottom section,
and on the farm of Lee Long, at the
intersection of the Shenandoah Cav
erns road and the Valley Turnpike.
At Mt. Jackson, the velocity of the
wind was particularly high, roofs be-
ing torn of. trees uprooted and build
| ings damaged.
Telephone poles were strewn along
the turnpike between Hawkinstown
and Mems bottoms and outlying
districts were cut of. Just what
damage was done in the country has
not been ascertained.
Damage at Mt. Jackson
The roof of the house of S. v.
Robinson was torn off and hurled
into the yard.
Lightning struck the house of v.
L. Dellinger and the wind blew the
roof Off
Damage to the National Bank
building consisted of part of the roof
being torn away.
Three miles south of Mt. Jackson.
the Cedar Grove Church of the
Brethren was unroofed.
Two silos. several small buildings
and score of trees were blown
down on the "Strathmore" estate,
now owned by the millionaire horse
breeders, Jones Brothers. The corn
in the fields was riddled, and the
wheat shocks were tossed about like
leaves
All the silos on the Mt. Airy farm,
owned by Mr.. Kelleher, the Seattle
millionaire. were crushed. The corn
in Mems bottom, perhaps the great
est corn land in Virginia. was rid
died.
Between 100 and $50 trees in rur-
key Knob orchard were uprooted.
A tree was torn up by the roots,
and hurled across the porch of the
P. NJ. S. Bird house. the Capt J. G.
Neff property, and the corner smash
ed in.
Shenandoah Cayerns Information
Bureau. situated on the Valley Pike.
was moved from it's foundation.
A big sign of the Shenandoah Cav
erns, set at the entrance on the Val
ley Pike. was blown down.
The roof was torn from the house
of Ed Neff, located ON the Shenan
doah Caverns road.
The silo on the Carson Neff farm
was blown down.
A tree was blown across Russell
Wits car, parked on the pike. and
the radiator was smashed.
Lee Longs Loss Heavy
One of the heavy sufferers of the
tornado was Lee Long of Harrison
burg. The house on his farm on the
Shenandoah Caverns road was badly
damaged. 1t was unroofed and two
chimneys were crushed. The kitchen
was destroyed and several cattle
sheds were blown down. while the
beautiful shade trees were uprooted
This house is one of the noted homes
in the Valley. 1t was once the home
stead of the Peachy family. and
was used as the headquarters of Gen.
Stonewall Jackson during his cam
paigns in the Valley. The corn on
the Lee Long farm was chopped to
pieces and wheat shocks were scat
tered about the fields. The roof of
the Long house was blown Zoe yards
across the pike.
In the section northwest of Mt.
Jackson the storm did considerable
damage. particularly to the orchard
of C. C. Bowman, where the 150
acres of apples were practically
ruined by hail.
Corn was whipped to pieces by the
winds blast and probably the only
peach crop in the county. that of
Tavenner and Tisinger on Buck Hill,
was destroyed.
I That there were no casualties is
| little short of the miraculous. for
many of the buildings caught in the
vortex of the storm were occupied
at the time.