Storm damages [ConttnuMt from Pact 1) and in a few seconds I saw the chicken coop behind the house being picked up and twisted around.” Bender commented. "But Just as soon as it had been lifted up, it dlsen tegrated and was gone.” “I could feel the pressure building up in the house and just as I stepped away from the windows they began to pop, then the roof lifted right off.” Bender explained that he stood in the kitchen area as there seemed to be no time to move. “It seemed as soon as the storm had begun it was over.” A porch, which stood outside the Shenk’s kitchen, was completely ripped off its foundation and blown away. Also portions of the roof were taken off while the chim ney’s on both sides of the brick structure crumbled. Shenk noted that some of the heavy furniture in the kitcherffell to the floor. “The heavy pie board against the wall was found on the kit chen floor,” Shenk said. “That (furniture) is heavy and it must have taken some force to knock that over.” Bare framework and shreds of property. Because of the damage the insulation were the only materials left hogs were sent to the stockyards and of a hog house standing on the Shenk neighbors. INVENTORY REDUCTION SALE GRAIN DRIERS GRAIN BINS THE MOST EXPERTLY ENGINEERED DRIER AVAILABLE WITH WEATHER SHEILDS FOR POLLUTION CONTROL AND WEATHER PROTECTION. ■r -I mmmim Model Bu /Hr. Reg. Price Sale Price A-8 375 $9,709. $6,796 P-16 450 $11,170 $7,819 For More information call MARTIN DISTRIBUTORS, INC., Lebanon, PA 17042 Phone (717) 866-4906 or (717) 866-4555. No Livestock Lott Bender, had several steers housed in the field ajoining the barn and a number of hogs in a pen-type building behind the house. Although the storm knocked over the fences and liberated the steers, all but one was returned to the farm. Bender’s newly con structed hog finishing house was tom to shreds and the hogs were quickly trucked to neighboring farms and the Lancaster Stockyards on Sunday. “None of the livestock was hurt so we were really for tunate,” Bender stated. “It could have been much worse.” The front of the main bam was completely ripped off with the roof being tom away on both sides. A forage wagon which had been near the buildings was found some distance away in a field - crumpled and twisted to until it was hard to distinguish the machine. Although the silos on the property were steady enough to withstand the intesity of the wind and pressure, Shenk noted that the smaller hurr y!! IST COME - IST SERVE Volunteer workers labored for hours to replace the barn roof at the Roy Shenk property near Lancaster Farming Photo by Melissa Piper Drying Floors, Fan and Heaters, Aeration systems, unloading Auger, power sweeps. Diameter Ring Bu. Size Capacity Reg. Price Sale Price 14 ft. x 5 1883 1201.00 840.70 24 ft. x 7 .7863 3180.00 2226.00 27 ft. x 7 10,069 392600 2748.20 30 ft. x 7 12,574 4536.00 3175.20 Three black walnut trees which and limbs by the midwestern-like lined the lane to Shenk's property twister. The heavy limbs were found near Annville were stripped of bark in fields as fsr away as one-half a mile. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Oct 18,1975 Annvilie. Shenk’s farm was damaged severely by a tornado which touched down on Saturday evening. * TRAMISOL OBLETS * SULMET OBLETS * V.M.P. BOLUSES FOR CATTLE OFF FEED AARON S. GROFF & SON FARM & DAIRY STORE RD3, Ephrata, Pa. 17522 [Hinkletown] Phone 354-0744 Store Hours 7 A.M. to 9 P.M. Closed Tues. A Sat. at 5:30 P.M. 15
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