New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-06

The following letter IN relation 10 the great hall-
Storm which lately passed over some parts of Iii
nois, is from an old resident OF this town. who Is
known to many Of our readers. His description Of
the storm and its effects cannot be otherwise than
interesting to all who read
Warsaw (NY) Mirror
McDoroucH Co III North, 4 West of3d Principal
Meridian, Sunday Evening, June Z, 1850.
DEAR FRIEND Nj: | sit down to give you
q little sketch of late Hail Storm, OF which you
may have seen some notice in the public prints be-
fore this reaches you.
l crossed its track on thursday P NJ three days
after the storm. The first fields Of wheat saw
after reaching the desoiGted region were totally
destroyed. / stopped and went into field to ex-
anime the wheat. | found it entirely cut Of
every stak-and it exhibited the appearance Of a
meadow which had been moved while the grass
was young and tender, and the hay well dried.
The wheat was up so that the head was formed
and almost ready to put foth-so that there is no
possibility Of its coming up again. The spring
wheat and oats | think will not be lost. The ef-
feet Of the storm the orchards and cultivated
shrubbery-of which there is good deal IN these
countes-is equally disastrous; or at least for the
crop Of fruit this year. Many of the young or
chsIds and all the nurseries, if not killed, will be
OF no value, only that they may be cut off at the
ground and grated next spring-the bodies being
so perfectly bruised and manged as to render them
worthless for future use or cultivation
The native forests exhibit almost as sad picture
ofdesolation. At noon on Monday last they were
literally loaded down with the verdure, foliage and
blossoms Of Spring. When | passed along they
were as leafess and dry as in the month of Febru.
airy, and the underbrush looked as if the HOLSTERS
had been using it to drive their OK teams.
OF the precise extent OF the storm | have no
definite knowledge; but it is variously reported
from 50 to 100 miles in length and from to 10 in
width l am, however, pretty credibly informe d
that it extends from Monmouth the County seat OF
Warren, to Beardstown-(you will see by the
map What seems to add 10 the calamity is, that
the wheat crop has seldom appeared as promising
as il is this season, and the price is high, from 90c
to 81 80 at st. LOUIS and farmers had strong hopes
Of "a good time coming and you know the higher
the hopes the greater the blast.
met with u noble, hardy Pennsylvania Dutch
man. who told me he had lost $50 acres Of the best
wheat he had ever seen in Illinois said be was
Just going to buy reaper to cut it, but said he :;
Thank Cop had not closed the trade" He cried
like child v lille he told me the story.
AS passed Oh, | came TO a house where several
men and women were out in the shade OF their
house, for their trees now afforded no shade. /
reigned up my horse 10 stop and talk. The gentle
man asked me TO come in the yard, and he would
show me q curiosity. | went, and he conducted
to the side of a small branch or stream, by the
side of which lsy dritt Of hail. some four or five
yards in length. from two 10 four feet wide, and
from thsee to twelve inches deep and the stones
from the size Of marowfst peas to that OF prairie
chickens eggs-pefhaps YOU would understand me
better if should say patridges' eggs-but they
were not so large. And this was three days after
the storm, and one or two days had been very
warm, though at this tine it was quite cool.
Now perhaps you may think this is another " Hi
nos story" bit q IS true here-and can be proved
by plenty Of witnesses
One OF the women in the group above alluded
to, showed me her orchard, which she considered
totally destroyed. She pointed me to large cher
~ tree-the ground under which was completely
covered with her Or Heart cherries, but not
cherry or leaf on it, and on the winiward side
but little bark.
The fruit crop, Sc well as the grain crop, in this
part Of the State, was never more promising than
Il was this seaGonbut all the fruittrees and forest
trees IN the range Of this storm are totally stripped
both Of fruit and foliage
Almost every house has the glass ell or nearly
all, broken out on two sides. have not heard Of
any loss OF human lfe or Of grown cattle or horses
but en- tod OF many instances Of pigs and poal-
Try, lambs and some calves, and ots Of prairie
checkers and other birds, being found dead la
skoIt ] have never heard CT kBoSn, either BY his