Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1901 — Tornado in Virginia. [ARTICLE]

Tornado in Virginia.

Norfolk, Va., was visited by a tornado shortly after 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. The whirlwind came In the usual funnel-shaped cloud, and was about fifty feet in width. Fortunately its path was in the outlying portion of the city and not through the thickly populated sections. The roofs of twenty houses were blown away and several people were Injured by falling timbers. In the country au the outbuildings on a large farm were demolished. Several houses in the town of Berkeley were unroofed. These were torn up and chimneys blown down throughout the section passed over by the cyclone.