Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-07-02
Terrible Hail storms--snow.

Terrible Hail stOrms.-snow.
The clouds appear toibs charged with an
unreasonable supply Office, as well as Lake
Superior. The telegraph briefly announced
a terrific bail storm in Washington city,
June 21st. The papers of that city des-
cribe it as truly frightfa as well as devas-
tatine. The hail stones we're at first rather
small, but afterwards of enormous size,
some of them, the Union is informed,
weighing from half a pound to a pound
The storm lasted about half an hour, I'M
roofing houses, uprooting trees, and break
ing thousands of panes Of glass. Animals
were pelted TO death, and n man was
knocked down by the hail before reaching
a shelter. The gas lamps were so broken
that they could not be used in the evening.
The storm was not very wide, but swept
some twelve miles in length. In George
town, three miles from Washington, 1000
panes of glass were broken, and much
other damage done. The Washington
Union says:
The appearance of the city after the
storm was certainly frightful. The streets
were covered with hail stones, of all shapes
and sizes, and the leaves and limbs of trees,
and the cutters were swollen to the size
of small rivers. The Presidents green
houses were nearly destroyed, and the
damage to his garden has not been fully
ascertained. The roof of the White House
was somewhat damaged, and a number Of
lights were broken. The sky-light of the
Capitol, the glass of which is three-eightbs
of an inch in thickness, was completely
riddled, and, but for the prompt action Of
Captain Huntington, considerable injury
would have been done to the books of the
Congressional library. The carpet on the
floor of the library will have TO be taken
up. From twenty-five to thirty panes of
glass were broken and cracked in the sky
light of the House extension, and from five
TO six IN the sky-light of the Senate extern
sion. The sky-lights of the Capitol work
shops were totally demolished, and the
number of panes of glass broken is estl-
mated at between seven and eight thousand.
There is not a whole pane of glass left in
the temporary -skylight of the Capital ro-
tunda. The government greenhouses
and all private greenhouses were almost
completely destroyed. The plants in the
government greenhouses were not serious
y injured. The observatory of Senator
Douglass was completely riddled, and
about one-third of the glass of Mr.. Cor
coran's observatory was broken. The Pet
ent and Postoffices, owing to the quality
of the glass, have escaped without much
damage. At least two thousand panes of
glass were broken at the Smithsonian In
stitution.
A similar storm visited DeKalb county,
Missouri, the afternoon of the goth. A
letter says:
The hail stones were about the size Of
goose eggs. They struck a negro boy be-
longing to Mr.. Rather Boone, and killed
him instantly; they beat down and serious
ly crippled two negro men who were work.
ing in a field; and a white man, whose
name / heard but have forgotten, in saving
a child by covering it with his body, had his
shoulder dislocated by their pelting. The
stock in the fields suffered most terribly,
while many of the young calves, lambs, and
pigs were slain. The hemp, corn, and
wheat, were battered to the ground, and
general damage was done to everything in
the range of the fearful tempest. Fortu-
~nately, its track was short and narrow, en-
bracing only some three miles in length
and a mile in width.
The Oswego Times records that the
night of the 22d of June snow fell in that
city, and the Buckeye State that about
halfpast 8 O'Clock on the afternoon of the
22d day of June, there was a slight fall Of
snow at New Lisbon, Ohio.