STORMS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 16, 1877

BIG STORM IN VERMONT.

Soon after midnight Sunday, at Bennington, rain commenced pouring in a flood, and continued until morning. Immense damage was done to growing crops along the valley between that place and Rutland. Otter Creek overflowed, and swamped all before it in the vicinity of Danby and Wallingford.

Manchester had a cyclone the other day, which made a clean sweep through the woods, and then tore up scattering trees down through the pasture, some of them butternuts two feet in diameter. The air was full of dirt, sticks, leaves, fence rails, and trees to the height of three or four hundred feet. Some of those who saw the cyclone say it resembled a huge umbrella. It made a noise like escaping steam, which was distinctly heard at the village, three or four miles distant. Happily the storm spent its fury before reaching dwellings or property.

The thunder shower of the 17th was the most terrific ever known in Pittsford, and caused immense damage to roads, bridges, and crops, in some instances washing whole fields of corn and potatoes out of the ground by the roots.

A TERRIBLE FRESHET.

One of the most destructive floods that ever visited that section occurred in Brandon the 30th. It was caused by a heavy rain fall in the town and on the mountain, overflowing the Neshobe River, which had not been known to overflow for many years. The destruction to gardens, buildings, etc., in that part of the town known as Forestdale was terrible. Where before were waving corn and growing produce, now are huge boulders and beds of gravel washed down by the freshet. Buildings were moved from their foundations, and one or two small barns were demolished. Cattle were floated off, but recovered in Brandon village. The streets were gutted; the underpinning to buildings was washed out, and the water dashed through them, washing away goods and doing much damage. There were no lives lost, but there were some narrow escapes. The water was twelve or fifteen feet deeper than its natural current. It is estimated that the total damage will amount to $10,000.—St. Albans (Vt.) Advertiser.

A SINGULAR STORM IN LONDON.

There was a terrific thunder-storm in London on July 5. Three peals of thunder were heard in quick succession at Kilborn, and a sheet of fire flashed in the street. The thoroughfare for some distance seemed to be in flames, and a material similar to molten metal descended, leaving behind clinkers from an inch to six or seven inches in circumference. The street for the distance of fifty yards was covered, something like a couple of bushels having been picked up by persons in the neighborhood. A child was struck by some of the liquid, and severely burned. The fire ball then struck a telegraph wire, which passed over the street, completely burning it up for a distance of five hundred yards. For ten minutes after the fall of the thunder-bolt the whole neighborhood was enveloped in a thick blue and yellow fog.—Sel.