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Wind, Rain Lash
Ben Venue And
Amissville Area
A rain and wind ■storm lashed Rappahannock County late last Thursday afternoon, with the most severe portion centered in the Ben Venue and Amissville areas.
A large hay-filled barn at Bunree, the farm of D. G. Laing at Amissville, collapsed with hales of hay tumbling from its rent sides. A tractor was pinned inside the building.
Mrs. A. C. Latham reported a locust tree in her yard blew over onto the porch roof.
At Horner Hill Farm, owned by J. Richard Latham, on the Richmond Road at Ben Venue, fences were blown down, twothirds of the tin was ripped from a shed roof and hurled 350 yards across a field. The roof was completely torn from a large horse burn, ei'-ctric wire- downed, guttering *wisted fron, the house and boards blown from a wagon were tossed 10 or 12 feet away.
Trees were uprooted and topped and limbs were strewn over highway Route 211 between Amissville and Benvenue. One fell across the road between Washington and Sperryville. Highway Department emergency crews quickly cleared all debris.
The firemens parade at Flint Hill was temporarily delayed but resumed about eight o’clock.
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