Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-03-22

The Parkersburg Gazette of Saturday, gives
the following account Of great hail storm in that
place. PaIkersburgh has for once, at least. been
ahead of Wheeling, we had nothing, Webeiieye,
OF this big storm here:
Great Han Storm.
About Eve O'Clock on Thursday morning last,
this place was visited by the The most terrific
haiI-storm ever known to the Oldest Sinhabitant.
The day and night preceding had been unusually
warm and sultTy, but no one expected such yisi.
lor at this sssson of the year. The storm was
heard afar; its dull, deep giving token of the
mighty avalanche approaching. For some min
utss before the hail began to fall upon the roofs
and houses in town, the sound of its falling in
river and forest was distinctly audible, waking
many sleeper from his morning snooze. The
swift winged tornado soon reached our village nd
then began sucha shower oficy missiles as is sell
dom poured on earth. High Wind and vivid flashes
OF tightening accompanied the copiouS outpour ng
rom above and; during the storm's continuance,
There. was the best specimen of rumbling we ever
heard-the combined noises very nearly resembling
the unloading OF Ten million of brick, only more
80.
The hail storm lasted but short time. and was
succeeded by plentiful fall of rain. or the
damages occasioned by this visitation, we can
speak only generally. Nearly every house in town
Suffered more orless. Those having q southwes-
ten exposure lost nearly every pane of glass on
that side. Some idea OF the destruction 10 win
dows may be formed from what was experienced
by Hutchinson's Building-part ofwhich we occu-
py. Out Of 596 lights in the front, which was ex-
posed to the storm, only ten escaped its fury!-
Our front Office looks very like Jail, at this
present writing-ihe sash only bein. le(t IN the
windows! Other houses were as badly riddled-
the Episcopal and Catholic churches, worse.s OF
the size of the hal-s.o1es we cannot speak, with
out risking our reputation for yeracity-becausr,
II We ncthing extI nuate tell the zeal truth, peo
pie abroad will think we romancing: IL, on the
contrary. we abate one ounce in the weight Of the
that we haven't done the Storm justice. In this di
lena, we shall content ou'self with expressing
the opinion of others good men and true,' to wit:
Some declare that. on the morning in question,
they saw hail stones large hens eggs; others
maintain that some specimens frllon their prem.
ises as big as The biggest goose eggs; and still an
other asSerts and Wi swear thai, after the storm.
he pckeo up some stones so big that he knows nc
fowl who's. eggs will bear comparison with the
dornicks aforesaidI-the last witness IS stone ma
son, and this act may throw some light upon The
seemingly extravagant testimony. We do moi
wish to enter the arena upon this yex, d question,
but would merely testify, that long after daylight
we saw some hail-stones about the size of The
largest hickory nuts. That they were very large,
generally, is manifest from the effects OF their fall
ing upon houses and timber Young trees were
fairly barked in many places, old shingles were
completely splntered, and even Tin roofing was
able to stand the storm~-:he fine houses opposite
now lea king, though rooted with the best tin. Il
is said 10 be San i'll wind that blows good to hobo
dy;' that of Thursday morning cannot be rated
for this storm created demand for all the glass
and furnished employment for all the GLACIERS in
town--in fuct, durIng the whole day, ours was
village Of glaciers.