. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 18 The Florists' Review March 15, 1917. THE BIG BLOW AT NEWCASTLE |t\ir^i'^Rii?ir«\ir?wf^rirsvirrs\irrs\ii?Svir^ BENTHEY RANGE DESTROYED. Lynch Place Damaged. Late in the afternoon of Sunday, March 11, a tornado struck the city of Newcastle, Ind., widely known in the trade as the home of numerous large growers, and the morning papers of March 12 throughout the United States carried stories of many deaths and wide- spread destruction. A paragraph of the press report said: "Newcastle is known as the City of Eoses because of its production of the
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 18 The Florists' Review March 15, 1917. THE BIG BLOW AT NEWCASTLE |t\ir^i'^Rii?ir«\ir?wf^rirsvirrs\irrs\ii?Svir^ BENTHEY RANGE DESTROYED. Lynch Place Damaged. Late in the afternoon of Sunday, March 11, a tornado struck the city of Newcastle, Ind., widely known in the trade as the home of numerous large growers, and the morning papers of March 12 throughout the United States carried stories of many deaths and wide- spread destruction. A paragraph of the press report said: "Newcastle is known as the City of Eoses because of its production of the beautiful American Beauty roses. The town has boasted of its acres of hot- houses. Many of these were directly in the path of the storm and the frail con- struction of the glass-covered buildings fell easy prey to the wind. Thousands of dollars' damage was done to growing flowers and other ; Two Places Hit. The fact is that only two places were hit. The establishment of Frederick J. Benthey, consisting of about 110,000 square feet of glass, was directly in the path of the storm. It was crushed flat, as complete a wreck, probably, as ever was made of a large greenhouse range anywhere in this country. The P. J. Lynch place, consisting of about 50,000 feet of glass, conducted under the name of Heller Bros. Co., was so hard hit that nearly every pane of glass was broken and much of the struc- tural material torn asunder. None of the other greenhouse estab- lishments suffered serious loss. The range of the South Park Floral Co., Myer Heller, president, lost only about $500 in broken glass, although it is only a short distance from the Lvnch place. P. .T. Olinger, who has 400,000 feet of glass, is off at the other side of the city and did not lose even one liglit of glass. The Peter Weiland place, with another large area of glass, is beyond the Lynch and Heller ranges and in line from Benthey's, but the storm veered and passed Weiland without damage. Wm. Dittman is only
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