The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-09-16
TYRRELL COUNTY
GETS ITS SHARE
OF STORM DAMAGE
"Hazel's" Memory Diminished A:
Estimates Of Damage
Come In

COLUMBIA.-Hurr Donna,
the report of which is the story
of the week, made a lasting i'm
preston also on the populace of
Tyrrell County. The memory of
Hazel" regarded by far the
fiercest blow of recent years di-
nlinished in proportions here and
made it's bow before the mighty
Donna.
With her wiles, she kept us
guessing, first lulling us to sleep
twice, and then to come back each
time with a much more powerful
punch.
Since the storm, roofing is SELL
ing here like the proverbial "Hot
Cakes. A good guess would be
that at least 1870 of the homes
We're left with leaky roofs or none
at all. Especially noticeable was
the many huge Oak trees that
went with the impact, some twisted
of at the stump. The solid Oak
the vulcan of the forest, lost its
solidity rating when Donna decided
to take over. Hugh limbs, small
limbs and uprooted trees belitter
the whole countryside. Pecan and
walnut trees gave up their fruit,
abortive at their feet.
Gone is the football fence at
Caravan Memorial Field, which
was in the process Of being re-
painted by Jim Liverman. The
Gymnasium at CHS, a compare
lively new building was left with
only part of roof, A power pole
with transformer crashed down on
top of new 1860 Chevrolet car
owned by Miss Hettie Jones on
north water street. A mule owned
by Clement Alexander in Travis
section was killed when the stock
house collapsed. A 213 foot stump
age tree at the right front of the
Chapel Hill Church in Travis sec
ton twisted and fell, falling away
from the structure as if some
powerful Being spared the Holy
place. Another crashed in the yard
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. 7. Reynolds,
with top just skimming the house
but leaving damage to CHM
ney and window pane.
A pecan tree fell i'll the drive
way of the Rev. J. A. Brickhouse,
where his car is usually parked.
1t was driven away just minutes
before the tree crashed. Calves be-
longing to Robert Weatherly were
found unframed when the collapsed
barn in which they were lodged
from the tempest, was flattened
on top of the animals. A huge
limb from the top of pecan tree
from the yard formerly belonging
to Paul L. Liverman fell on the
garage at the A. L. Walker home.
A empty garage at the home of
Mrs. Blanche Woodland blew down,
and numerous others.
When the wind changed about
4:3O am, a deluge of water from
the Scuppernong River pushed in
waist deep in the yard of H. I.
Davenport; many inches deep in
the lobby of the Columbia Hotel,
and knee deep at the intersection
of Elm and Bridge Streets. Pour
ing out as quickly as it came in, it
left behind about three inches OF
silt over it's wanderings.
Warned of the nearing of the
storm about 200 people sought
shelter in the Columbia High
School Building and about Is in
Tyrrell Training School. Civil De
tense Director L. P. Scott, Cecil
Lilley and John A. Haridson
V.E.&-P. Co., representative all
night made rounds throughout the
town for possible victims in dis
tress.
Most of Columbia was without
power for about IL hours-some
.