The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-06-20

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spring, expecting to realize some money
from fhe sale of them. Help from the
merchants Of Augusta and from all
friends and neighbors would be most up.
portune ct this time. Il seems TO be the
settied opinion IN regard to The origin Of
ene stofm that there were two ctifrefls Uf
The southwest, the clouds and winds col.
liding lie in iortheasterly and nothwes.
tef'y directions.
Around Bel the places of Nr. Fisk,
Nina. A: E. Wright: Mai. Joe Hill afd
others werv seriously damaged.
IN WASHINGTON COUNTY. Z
The storm played great havoc inWasi,.
ington county. The crops, which
the DAY before were rnprecedentedly
good, were in many cases entirely de.
stroyed. We learn that the fields which
were In the tasseling and silking state,
are now as bare as they were in mid.
Slnter. Orchards have been stripped Of
storm destroyed portions of CROPS on cer. ssl
tain farms, while other portions g. were u
only partially injured. Hail stonea.
varying in siEe from that of buckshot
up TO goose egg, were picked up after
the storm was over. Some marvellous
tales of injury to persons who were
caught out In the storm have reached ue,
IL 10 also stated that horses, cattle, sheep.
hogs, poultry. ETC., suffered terribly. Mr.,
Enoch Smith measured one hail stone
which was
NINE INCHES IN CIRCUMFERENCE.
He assisted in measuring another
which was one-haif inoh larger, Us
also states that Mr.. w. G. BRYANT. of
Ridd'eville, informed him that he meas,
ured some hailstones after the storm
passed which measured 16 and II inches.
and were as lerge as q cbild's head. The
glass IN the windows Of the dwelling OF
w. q. Riddle are said to have been
broken out by the hail /; and his crop
almost utterly ruined. Messrs. II. II.
holmes, Minur Bass, J. Rogers, Ebep
Smith, Thomas b., VIM. and Enoch and
Mrs. Nancy Smith and many others have
suffered terribly. Mr. J. T. Cook, near
Tennille, estimates his loss in his corn
crop alone at 1,GoG bushels. About 9
P. m. OF the same day another cloud
formed. near tie same point where The
f.o-m began in the morning, and moved
mort beast across the upper end of the
county, unroofinng houses, and in some
instances blowing down small houses
and outbpildings. Fences were blown
down and trees were uprooted and piled
across each other in such quantities as to
seriously damage the crops and prevent
further plowing. This cloud also poured
out hail in tremendous quantities.
The storm at Tennille commenced
about q. m. The crops were almost
completely ruined. One of the sufferers
said that before the storm he would have
refused an offer of twelve bushels of corn
TO the acre on his crop; now he considers
1t ruined, and does not see how it will
make anything, certainly not half q crop.
Cotton generally was stripped to the
stalk.
About 3 p. m. another storm, with
wind and hail, visited Sessions, Boart-
wright, Martin and others, blowing all.
or nearly all, of Martins timber down.
"A correspondent of the Sandersville
Cour.er, writing from Sun Hill, says:
The hail storm which passed through
this section yesterday morning, ct 1880
O'Clock, was about six miles wide; tho
damaging portion being from one-half
10 mile, passing through the farms Of
IA lanes al. Minor, 81: 81. Holmes, @. d.
Thigpen, w. @. Riddle, J. 2. Tanner,
ST.. J. r. Pate. In many places lhs cot
ton is beat to stubble, and corn stripned
of every blade, and beat down to the
ground, and much Of it cut down. Hail
stones fell from the size of birds EGG
to the size of q cocoanut, and lay on the
ground one hour and half. Considera-
BILE fencing and timbers were blown
| down in course of the Storm"
| A correspondent of the Savannah Me,cs.
writing from Tennille, seys:
About seyen o'clock yesterdly morn.
ing Sunday this section was visited by
the most severe and destructive hail and
wind storm that the oldest inhabitants'
ever saw. The storm came from the
west, and the gates OF heaven were
opened, as it were, deluging the earth
with floods of rain, hail and wind. The
stones were as large as hen eggs and of
every conceivable shape. The soft
ground was perforated with them, and
the fence corners we're piled half.leg
high with these missiles from the clouds,
at this writing no estimation can be
formed of the damage Or Its extent. 1t
seems to have been only about mile
| vide and went in due easterly direc-
ton. Corn is broken down by the winds.
| and the hail has frazzled the blades until
they zesembled the old battle flags of the
| army of Northern Virginia. Cotton in
many places is entirely denuded of every
Leaf, and only the stem of the plant left.
The peach crop anffared severely by be-
ing bruized and threshed off by hail and
=%iaa. The principal aufercrs in the
track of the storm are Messrs. w. II.
Parker, W. l.. Jernigan, J. T. Cook, r.
| T. Cochrane, A. r. Adams, 8. R. Kelly.
John Elkins, Captain w. G. Matthews,
Captain J. d. franklin, Captain T. J.
Gilmore, Mrs. E. Sessions, ). w. Ses-
sions, B. 8. Boatwright, Hardy Martin.
r. r. Smith, j. r. Sumner, John A. Bull.
lard, B. III. Sanders, Joel A.. Davis, Jared
Rogers, Joseph Joiner, and DIR. w. /.
Bullard. The woods now are nearly COW
cred with green leaves knocked off,"
Another correspondent, writing to us
from Davisboro, concerning the late
severe hail storm which took place on
Sunday last, says: "At about 8 o'clock
yesterday Sunday morning onr section
=Gs ::-::caa 55y Ass!. s. .5...., l:sa .s..:a..
though of only few minutes duration.
was remarkable for the immense size of
the stones which fell. At Riddleyille,
six miles southwest of here, we are in,
formed BY reliable parties that lany
etones fell as large as o. mans two fists,
and come parties, who are regarded as
truthful, assert positively that, they saw
stones fall as large as o peck measure.
An acquaintance of ours, and reliable
man, states he.weighed two of the stones
| five minutes after they fell, and they
weighed in the aggregate swo pounds
On average of one pound each. From
| the best information we can get, the
storm extended over an area Of several
miles, and in many sections did consider