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The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1860., [Electronic resource], Fall of a Church Steeple in New Haven. (search)
oke the lighter wood-work up into innumerable splinters and fragments. A young tree which stood in the track of its fall was stripped of every branch, as if with a hatchet, and its upright trunk stands amid the ruins as smooth as if trimmed by hand. Aside from crushing two lengths of the iron fence of the Green, this was all the damage except to the church itself. The tower of the church is of brick, twenty inches thick, and the timbers of the spire were carried down into the tower about twenty feet, to a level with the roof only. It was at the base of this frame that the break occurred, the front wall being thrown out by the spire, which carried with it the gable end and front of the portico, and three of the pillars which supported it, but doing no further damage to the body of the church than breaking a few panes of glass. The bell fell with the tower, and the top of it was broken off. The cupola of the City Hotel was also blown down by the gale.--New Haven Journal, Nov. 5.