The Ocala Evening Star

STORM AT LAKE WEIR SUNDAY

Many Trees Blown Down and Considerable Damage Done to Crops

A storm swept over Lake Weir and surrounding country about 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, laying low large trees, both pine and oak, telephone poles and wires, fences and cornfields.

The storm originated west of the lake, and blew east, gaining strength as it went.

It was an impressive sight as seen from the eastern shore. Thunder gave warning of its approach. A gray curtain, that seemed immovable in the distance, was seen over the island. The waters of the lake, smooth as a waxed floor before the blow, now became mottled off the western shore as the rain peppered it, and gradually the mottled area and the gray curtain advanced. The entire lake was peppered before the wind raised at all. Then the wind burst upon the eastern shore as out of a suddenly released valve of immense size, and brushed over the trees as over a field of tall grass. The storm was on in all of its glory, its gray-white light flooding the open spaces and the wind whipping the waters of the lake to a froth.

In a short time the storm had passed over. The wind died. The rain fell perpendicularly, beating out the roughness of the waters, the lake was again as smooth as before, and the sun came out brilliantly.