Wilmington, June 29—Wilmington was this afternoon swept by a terrific electrical storm, accompanies by a wind of hurricane proportions, that uprooted hundreds of trees in all sections of the city and did considerable damage to houses, store fronts and exposed automobiles. Streets were torn up in parts of the city.
Lightning split a big tree in the courthouse grounds, hurling it into the ground and demolishing a five-foot brick wall. A Ford coupe belonging to H.F. Wilder was also struck by lightning. No one was injured. The storm was confined to the city.
On Church street, near Sixth, water ran over the platform of a moving street car, while automobiles in the vicinity, parked at the curb, were washed 20 feet by the rain water.
The weather bureau reported the maximum velocity of wind at more than 50 miles an hour, though torrential rainfall measured .08 of an inch. From the front page of The Charlotte Observer, Friday morning, June 30, 1922
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