The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-06-24
IHk HAIL SToRs.-The violent hail storm
"nicn visited Washington Sunday evening did a
great deal Of damage The Star, in q description
OF ifs efFacta aer.

INK HAIL SToRM.-The violent hail storm
"hicn visited Washington Sunday evening did a
| great deal Of damage The Star, in q description
| OF its effects, says:
houses were unroofed; FIRE bells rang; cattle puns
ed Ion point to point, believing In piteous fright.
On hke pipe stems; shutters were twisted from
houses; the streets deuz red with water which
moved win sluggish currents its drainage being Inn
Peded oy the sdmixture of frozen sleet which did
not melt Immediately, owing to the sudden and un
comfortable lowering Of the temperature in conse.
quence OF the falling hail. The rsd lightning like
iaiIy active part. Every where was presented some-
.nins narthng-something out of the course of ma
turs.
The smithsonian Institution lost 2 900 pane, Of
eias'; buShes gardner lost 500 panes and had his
ssroen no~ers and rare plants ruined. The beautiful
htH OF oats In the pub!ic square west of the Smith
sonisn INSTITUTION is cut down il with sc7the. Ap-
paentIy not more than stalk out of fifty s left
sIsnoing' where was the most vgorou, field of grain
We nave seen this season. 1t 10 cut off almost hor.
kontaiiv about one foot frcm the root In nearly all
tne private gardens tbs grape vines, peach trees
rawoeIry vines and vegetables are entirely ruined
inc government Green House at the foot of the
Capitol 10 nplete wreck, the United States Ho-
tei has Loaf 4e0 psnss of glass and ed dams
OF some $500; the new Governm snt Armory has lost
every pane OF asss on its north westerly ront the
sky lights at tn, Capitol, "a specimen of which 10
now before u.s. OF en- inch thick, crack cd and
broken; the root Of Flat Flemngs stable vas 90 bro
IN as to expose the horses to the pitefs fall Of
hal and fearful cacortin9 ensued among the horses;
the American house (Mrs. Beveridge's) was struck
twice by lishtning. by which the top of chimney
was demolished. the plastering torn of the ceiling
OF the private entrance and the carpet ripped up
one CT the psrors large tree at the corner of Four
and-a nat street and the avenue torn up by the
the roots; tree at the residence of Col Seston
sttcck oy lightning, and the pavemens along Penn
sylvania avenue this morning str ewn with green
ooughs and leaves of trees
The lightning rod at the Rev. Mr.. Tessdales church
undoubtedly saved that edihce from destruction
bai oil fe was seen to pass down 1t, causing vivid
light
Rev. Mr.. Carother's church, corner of Fifth and
streets lost 200 panes of glass; the tin roof of
the church was also badly bruised. The Rev Mr.
Carothors himself while in the neishborhood of the
church was SO much stunned by the electric fluid
to be rendered unconscious for time
Grace Church, Island. (Rev. Mr. Holm esd's) also
suffered severely from the hail.
The Presidents green-houss, hitherto 90 attractive
an object, under the careful sups sriutendence OF MI
Watt wss demolished
The lights not lit last night in consequence
OF ths general destruction to street lamps by the
storm IL is estmatsd that the cost to the Govern
n1ens and Corporation of repairing breakases upon
the street lamps will not be less than 81 000 The
Odeon Building got some hard knocks, as was to be
expected from its prominent position The Rurnet
Hou.e lost 6S panes of glass; Mrs. Kings street,
SO Trinity Church some 6 500 or $500 worth of stain
ed glass
SONS Of the hailstones measured six inches in cir
cumference; and it not difficult to make up q
pound weight from ten of them.
The storm, luckily, did not q" cut very wide
swathe" in its eourss, and was not felt
the city es the halfway tree" between this place
and Alexandra.
The Star estimates that so, 900 panes of glass
were broken in the city. The storm also visited
Georgetown, where 1900 panes suffered. The
Thermometer there suddenly went down from so to
70, and the hail stones measured 81 inches in di-
ameter.