The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1945-06-18
THE UNION COUNTY JOURNAL. MARYsvILLE. OH

the Marion Reserve Power COM
pany, said. "Our crews were out
from the time the storm hit until
6 pm. Sunday restoring service
throughout our territory. The dam
age was as bad, if not the worst,
we have ever had from storms"
The city of Springfield was a.
bout so percent down and damage
i'm the Urbana area was very ex-
tensive, largely from trees being
uprooted. South of Woodstock
trees were up-rooted literally by
the Dozen" Mr.. Bigler added. ct
was in our rural areas, particularly
below Woodstock that we suffer-
ed our biggest loss"
Business men, not known what
lights were on, simply locked their
doors and went home. When the
current was restored, practically
every store in town, and many
homes, too. were fully lighted. The
business district, at 2 am. Sunday,
looked like it ordinarily does at
about 8 pm.
On S. Sourt St, across from
Randall's bakery, considerable ex-
citement was caused by a limb
which fell across two 2300-Volt
power line causing a short circuit
and quite a display of sparks and
small flames as the limb burned.
Rural Electric Less Hit
Carl r. Jenny, manager of the
Union Rural Electric Cooperative
Inc, reported about so farm homes
temporarily out of service, due to
lightning blowing fuses in individ-
ual transformers. These were all
quickly replaced and full service
restored by this morning, Mr.. Jen'
ny said.
I'VE got off pretty fortunate
without any serious Breaks he
added.
Trees Blow on POrches
Front porch on the home of Fred
Rea, 30 w. Third ST., was shear.
ed off when half of a large maple
tree which had blown across the
B. Turney, 214 w. Third ST., was
blown over. No one was injured
but Mrs. Rea narrowly escaped
possible death. She had started or
to the porch to bring in chair, but
went back in the house to get
coat when she saw how hard it was
raining. The tree fell over as she
was going after the coat. In the
house at the time were Mr.. anC
Mrs. Rea and her father, Ire
Means. This loss was insured with
the Banks agency.
John Wise, residing about five
miles north of MarySville on the
Marion rd., had a similar exper'
ience, although his porch was not
completely flattened as in the case
of Mr.. Rea's home. A small maple
tree beside Mr.. WiSe'S home fell
over on the porch, damaging one
corner of it, he reported to the
Sawyer agency this morning.
Car Hits Tree on Road
Carl Langley, Marysville Rt. l
narrowly escaped serious injury
about IL pm. Saturday when his
automobile ran into a large elm
tree which had blown across the
London rd., about eight miles south
of Marysville. Because of the poor
visibility, Mr.. Langley was unable
to see the tree until he was prac-
tically on it, and skidded sideways
into it, as he applied his brakes
One limb of the tree went through
the side window of his 1910 Ford
coupe, narrowly missing him. The
car was badly damaged, Mr.. Lang
ley reported to the Sawyer agency
Barn Demolished
A large barn was practically
demolished on the William Streng
farm, two miles east of Milford
Center on the Plain City rd., he re-
ported to the Shea agency in Mil
ford.
Il have had about Is or 20 other
lesser claims, mostly chimneys or
sections of roofs blown off" P. j.
Shea said this morning. Il expect