A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . Third avenueand West First street, and one screen door opening outward was torn from itshinges and another partly unhinged. A hogshead was blown from a platform tothe middle of the street. A lot of tin was ripped from warehouses in this neigh-borhood and sent whirling and whistling toward the courthouse. A tin ice can ofthe Atlantic Ice & Coal Corporation was blown 50 feet to Fourth avenue. At the Wyatt Book Store a plate glass over the show or d
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . Third avenueand West First street, and one screen door opening outward was torn from itshinges and another partly unhinged. A hogshead was blown from a platform tothe middle of the street. A lot of tin was ripped from warehouses in this neigh-borhood and sent whirling and whistling toward the courthouse. A tin ice can ofthe Atlantic Ice & Coal Corporation was blown 50 feet to Fourth avenue. At the Wyatt Book Store a plate glass over the show or display windows wasblown out, three show cases were broken and the picture rack was demolished. A pair of penny weighing scales was torn up in front of the Strand movietheatre and a traffic sign at Broad and Third avenue was blown over. The following sustained broken plate glass windows: Bartlett AutomotiveEquipment Co., Gammons, G. H. Hays, the McDonald Furniture Co., O. Willing-ham and several of the fronts of the wholesale houses on the west side of Broadstreet between First and Second avenues. Miscellaneous—Two Playful Windstorms 439. BROAD STREET BY NIGHT, CARPETED IN 3 INCHES OF SNOW, JAN. 27, 1921. Many small windows, awnings and signs were caught and broken down. Treeswere blown down in the yards of Wade Hoyt, 603 West First street; 600 Broadstreet, corner of Sixth avenue; J. W. Bryson, 10 Seventh avenue, the old W. place (large tree against center of house) ; the old Underwood cottage,across West First street from the Bryson home (large tree took off corner andrested against house) ; the cottage of Miss Julia Omberg, next door to the Lanhamplace on West First street; the home between the Wade Hoyt place and the Oostan-aula river. Limbs were strewn over the yard of Ed Maddox at Bioad and Seventhavenue, and across Fifth avenue back of the Hotel Forrest. A large sugar berry tree at the corner of The Rome News office blew towardthe building, narrowly missing P. J
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