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

spring, expecting to realize some money
from the sale Of them. Help from the
merchants of Augusta and from all
friends and neighbors would be most op-
perfume at this time. 1t seems to be the
settled opinion in regard to the origin of
the storm that there were two ctirrehts tf
air, one from the soAtheast and one from
the southwest, the clouds and winds COL
liding lie in hortheasterly and nothwes-
terly directions.
Around Bel:Air the places of Mr.. Fisk;
Mrs. A: E. Wright; Maj. Joe Hill aid
Others were seriously damaged.
IN WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The storm played great havoc in'Wash-
ington county. The crops, which
the day before were unprecedentedly
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 az they were in mid
winter. Orchards have been stripped OF
fruit and foliage. In some instances the
storm destroyed portions of crops on Ger.
tain farms, while other portions were
only partially injured. Hail stones,
varying in size 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 us.
1t is 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-half inch larger. He
also states that Mr.. w. G. Bryant, of
Riddleville, informed him that he meas
ured some hailstones after the storm
passed which measured 16 and II inches,
and were as large as child's head. The
glass in the windows of the dwelling of
w. G. Riddle are said to have been
broken out by the hail; and his crop
almost utterly ruined. Messrs. Il. II,
Holmes, Minor Bass, j. Rogers, Eben
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 1000 bushels. About 3
p. m. of the same day another cloud
formed, near the same point where the
storm began in the morning, and moved
northeast across the upper end of the
county, unroofng houses, and in some
instances blowing down small houses
and outbuildings. 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 a. 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
it ruined, and does not see how it will
make anything, certainly not half a crop.
Cotton generally was stripped to the
stalk.
About 8 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 Sandersyille
Courier, writing from Sun Hill, says:
"The hail storm which passed through
this section yesterday morning, at 1880
o'clock, was about six miles wide; the
damaging portion being from one-half
to mile, passing through the farms of
James NJ. Minor, II. 81. Holmes, @. D.
Thigpen, w. G. Riddle, J. F. Tanner,
ST., j. R. Pate. In many places the cot.
ton is beat to stubble, and corn stripped
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 a cocoanut, and lay on the
ground one hour and half. Considera-
Bile fencing and timbers we're blown
down in course of the storm"
A correspondent of the Savannah Ne,os,
writing from Tennille, says:
"About seven o'clock yesterday 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 we're, 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 were 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
wide and went in a due easterly direc-
ton. Corn is broken down by the winds,
and the hail has frazzled the blades until
they resembled 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 suffered severely by be-
ing bruized and threshed off by hail and
wind. The principal sufferers in the
track of the storm are Messrs. W. Fl.
Parker, w. L. Jernigan, ]. T. Cook, R.
F. Cochrane, A. r. Adams, S. R. Kelly,
John Elkins, Captain w. G. Matthews,
Captain J. D. Franklin, Captain T. J.
Gilmore, Mrs. E. Sessions, j. W. Ses-
sions, B. S. Boatwright, Hardy Martin,
r. R. Smith, ]. r. Sumner, John A. Bull
lard, B. 81. Sanders, Joel A. Davis, Jared
Rogers, Joseph Joiner, and DR.. w. l.
Dulldkus 4hO UOOQo aOW 0iO
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 o'clock
yesterday Sunday morning our section
was visited by a hail storm, which,
though of only few minutes duration,
was remarkable for the immense size of
the stones which fell. At Riddlevlle,
six miles southwest of here, we are in
formed by reliable parties that many
stones fell as large as q mans two fists,
and some parties, who are regarded as
truthful, assert positively that they saw
stones fall as large as a 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 two pounds
an average of one pound each. From
the best information we can get, the
storm extended over an area of several