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UNCORD, N. U FRIDAY. AUG. i:
1902.
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THURSDAY'S AWFUL STORM.
Concord Suffers
Rain in Torrents With
Odell's, Cannon's and the Lippard
In ' Irretrievable Ruin-D. P.
Bigfger's Horse Killed By Live
'Thursday evening as night ap
proached thel.eavens displayed
little to cause misgivings, though
balmy weather was not promised.
Soon, the rumbling thunder in
the northeast became a little
ominous and the sheet lightning
became more threatening. Withal
it was hoped that ro fear ot evil
would be realized.- About 8
o'clock, the clouds loomed up
more fearfully and quickly the
rain, with considerable hail, sud
denly dashed upon the town with
terrific force, playing with sirong
buildings as the child, would
break its toys.
Odell's Mills.
Probably the first great dam
age in the path was suffered at
the Odell cotton mills. Here in
Mill No. 4 a section of wall con
stituting about half the north
wall 18x20 was dashed in. The
other section would probably
have gone in but a stout post
near caught it and held it. This
section can be sprung back and
held firmly.
The falling wall ruined a
slubber and greatly damaged
another, beside the dust and grit
were thrown all ,oveir. the room.
The wind tore through one win
dow on the opposite side. As
much ajs 60 squares of roofing
was torn off of this mill.
No. 3 mill lost about IS squares
of its roof.
In Mttl No. 2 the wind raised
'the roof wijh.ite heavy sheeting
rafters, bea'ms, etc., and - ttie
operatives saw them quiver like
blowing into fthe leaves of a book.
Nearly ,all o it settled down
however toits place. A few
beams are, not properly adjusted
5nd some of tha machinery is
temporarily still on account of it
The, cost of repairs, to the
building will be less by
m far than the damage to twoJ
slubbers and the immense quan
tities of oos on which the
water pojsvered in tftrreD.
Mr. 41" M Burrage in Jheath
Mr. J M Barrage seemedon
thlline and the wind took hisj
baf andfjlaksmitb shop snap
ping the timbers as feebtb reeds
and hurled them abftut Straogg
esp4 all fi rj&dftufcses, cows,
etc., to the number of som six
head and not one was injured.
0The Lippard Mill.
At the Lippard Mill the wind
the Wonst Blow
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Hail and Thunder Strike
Cotton Mills Suffer Severe Losses-St.
Dayvault & Bro's Clothing FIooded-The
Wire Treis Wrenched and Ruined.
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At the southwest end the north
wall wars dashed in upon the
spinning frames and passed out
at the end, making a clear gap
of all the end. Strange to say
the corner was left with about
an equal opening on each side.
A gap of some 30 feet of the
rafters hung suspended between
the corner and the part on the
side that stood firm.
Only a small per cent of the
machinery is ruined.
The She alky House.
Next in tho lino seems to bo
the Mark Hitch or Shealey house
now occupied by Mr. George E
Fisher. A large, tall 'chimney
top was broken off at he boxing
on the back side of the house
and crashed down upon the roof,
breaking rafters and joists, tak
ing more than a quarter section
of the roof and bursting the
ceiling, which did not quite come
down. It hangs'seeming ready
to fall to the floor. The house
was deluged at this end with
water.
Mr. Claude Dry's smoke stack
was partly blown down.
Bbll& Harris Co. in the Line
The Bell & Harris furniture
store .was in the line and had
some roof torn up and water
poured in upon their goods.
D P Dayvajjlt & Co,, Suffer.
D P Dayvault & Co. suffered
from floQds of waiter in the cloth
ing. department.
The tin roof on the back end
wasrolled dp and hurjed over to
the. south side. Some of the de
partment force was present and
quickly , carried the oodsto the
uninjured part though they got
wet as water could make them.
St. Andrew Church.
As if the Divine had forgotten
His ownhe angry sorm caught
St. Andrew's Luhteran church
and dashed it into rljbbish and
kindling wood. It is tb most
uujjjictc wicii r,u.o
there are no words to describefit i
but ruinfutter ruin It is spread
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out orjsabout twice its foundatitn
wift littletoremind one of any
shape it ever naa.
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Cannon Mills.
The Cannon , Mill No. ,1, the
weave room, had just had the
roofing paber laid by the Char-
caugni me roonng-on uie engine . lone ivooung v,o., wnu j Walter, wero wrecked, as was
and lapper rooms and rooled it ready to pitch and gravel it. iQno Qf Warren Coleman's tene
up aqd strewed it in bunches! This roofing wascleaued off clear 'ment housos it was unoccupied
almost to the street. and the Hoods beneath are easily 1 .lt lh ,5m TTio , . .
in Her History,
Terror to the Timid.
Andrews E. L. Church does Down
Rich Home Greatly Damaged -fir.
l.u. T n .!,
conceived but the dnmage not so
easily reckoned. j
At No. 2 on the north wingj
the giant force lifted the roof, '
including the throe inch sheet-
. ing, the rafters and tho beams
with their line shafts ar.d hang
ers and hurled them over. Most
of the wreck fell over the build
ing and ou to the ground but
parts hammered groat holes in
the roof. The north end wall on
the upper story was dashed in
and even tho wall below was
partly wrecked. A little carpen-
tor shop, at the end was also
wrecked.
In the wrecked part there are
some valuable machinery such
as warpers and spoolers that
were among the losses to
reckoned.
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In this department too the
sprinkler pipes were broken off
and the tank had to simply run
dry through them while -the
floors beneath, half knee deep let
the water escape slowly through
whatever opening the liquid
could find. The damage to this
mill like that of others is hard to
estimate but will run far into the
thousands. , ,
, The boiler room roof also was
partly unroofed.
Horse Killed.
As the Miltonian Hotel bus
was gotog to, the depot along
Corbin street near the crossing
of Spring street, a tree having
blo'wn down, that carried the
wires with.it, the horses came in
contact with the abnormally
charged wire. They both fell
and lay trembling and helpless.
Parties coming to the rescue und
cutting the wires, one horse was
saved but Jhe other was found
(dead. It was the gentle, plendid
bay horse belonging to Ml. Big
gei the proprietor, andfalls as a
severe los or him.
The Oil Mill Did Nqt Escape
Therff were matches of rfcofin"-
qW the oil min Dtings torn
ux riff great damage wa uone.
Th mftl proper, the hull house
and the ginqery suffered some
damage. The ulteriu was
pearly all blown off. Superin
tendent BuchanOti say it will
cost less than'200 tojpestore the
damages. ' I
. Mk&Ed Parnell Catches
the Breeze.
Mr Ed Parnell has just erect-
a stable for livery purposes
over between the Cannon and
Buffalo mills. The wind caught
lit and wrenched it evrjrelj but
left t standing and redeemable.
Noai this stands his cottage,
which was forced off its pillars
and pushed south about 3 feet,
It is sharply wrenched
MALI.RK Losses OF BUILDINGS",
Several small buildings, chiefly
barns, belonging to Mr. M C
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lt L 1 UJ X-L I O Jiil Ulil 14 KJ
( tie Threo
Mile
Branch
w;is bown dow1
Many smaner outhouses about
(Jlhson,8 Mill ,vere overturned
bat fortunately ho mill was uu-
,armed as was the furniture lac-
tory. There the saw mill smoke
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MitCU WitS UJIIJUSil UIOWU UUWU clS
if to rotnind them of what might
have been.
The chaingaug tout was blown
down.
Trees Suffeku.
Tho venerable oak in Mr. W
A Smith's yard faired badly and
displays great wounds from am-i
putated limbs.
Mr. W J Hill lost a highly
prized oak in his yard, also the
Urcat tall cedar that stood near
, ih front niazo was brokp.n nif in
, norse, nowever, inaue a streak
tough splintery form about sixland coming suddenly in contact
or eight feet above the ground.
Judge Montgomery lost a brokfl- conriection and parted
maple that he prized. 'company with both. The parcher
A number of treesalong North' weDt t0 ,.smashes and &mither
Union street lost some of their lnes''andthe horse went to the St.
symmetrical beauty as if by tho cloudf whero he was persuaded
hand of areckless trimmer: The to let up on runniug.
head of spring street looked like '
the axeman had played havoc. Notice Children of the Conrcderacj.
vf x? n t i ' I. Ml the children who wish Jo
top to her beautiful residence
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apd several favorite trees. There
are other losses of very much
valued jtrees and some wreckage
not considered beside some of
the greater losses.
There are a,good mauy fences
Notes on the Storm. . :
, , 4 winner, irom seveq acres alone
Men that know how to build has taken about 2m busbels
up large businesses are equaUo aa(j he expects to sell his entire
emergencies The writer was1 crop at 30 cents a bushel. He
struct with the prompt action of Jestimates his expenses per acre at
Cant. J M Odell at having se- $.39 and his net profits at $12,-
cured Mr. R A Brown by 5
o'clock this morning to make
brick repairs and,having all his
plans well matured for the gen
eral direction, 6i the work.
Whatever others might be de-
biting in their minds he knew
. . . .
what hal Been dmageo! and.wS.s
not hesitating about the quioirest
possible way to bo prepared for
mcfre bad weatpjr again.
Mr. J B Sjgerrill ancJ Mr. J C
LJ)paiil h&I a force of harjils
earltvat work britjging orddl out
of chaos. -
Mr. J V Cannon is out of town
but there were groups of hands
at work on the Cannon mill
' olearitv? away for rebuilding at
once.
I Men seemed to spring forward
to filt up the heaches made Vy
tho stprm and business went on
j at parly morn as though tiothitig
had happened or as if so'tuthing
'had happened in spots.
With all that the storm did do
j there is left very much more
that it did not. do but this one
thing is worthy of mention.." We
failed to hear of an individual
that was the least hurt. This is
the silver lining.
The wildest guesses could bo
made on the money losses by the
storm. By far the greatest is
that to goods Hoc dud in the Odell
and the Cannon mills.. On?side
jof thoSft probably iru might
,bo ample to cover the bill
Kan Away With the t'.u rarclier.
A rather ludicicu-; luilo run
away occurred cu :-i.o b Lively to
day (Fridny) j:..M Mr. John
Smith's ground poa parchor was
ldaded on Mr. A M AMmau's
wagon and the horse 'jonc'inhd
to take a spin. The Jim s became
attached to the parcht r so that
the traces seemed to be the at-
!.
i Liai.iuii uulwuuu uiu iiurhtj una
1 the wapon while the .roundpea
; Darcher .DhonGti OV(,r t,,K, inps Ui
futU.t upm;a mv
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ith M Eli Overcash's wa-cn
take partfin the ''Flower Festi
val" will meet with Mrs. Allison
very promptly at 3 o'clock Sat-
urday afternoon
Suc'e?frul Poixto RaiHincr.
James W McGee, a farmer liv
ing near Orrick, Mo., took a
chance on potatoes this year and
t crr a (
i useu aw acres in raising mem.
(H.is ventuIe has Pved a great
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