The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-05-24
The Recent HAN storm-Its AP,
pearanee rs it sailed Along the
nky Past RarnesEine.

The Recent Hail storm-Its AP,
pearanee rs if sailed Along the
Sly Past BarnesEtlle.
Bnnss1Ile Batsrphie
On Monday evening about Eve o'clock
an immense black cloud arose in the
northwest, as the successor Of the other
clouds that had lowered in that direction
all afternoon, and moved with a grand
sweep from west to east. To the deni-
lsns Of GAINESVILLE It was an immense
mass Of blackness, like q great ircn-clad
FALLING along the sky, from whose bull
warks . thousand cannon were discharg-
ed, lighting up It's ragged sides with Wv
ed AGshes OF lightning. II vas q Storm
cloud raging in all It's majesty and fury,
but far enough away to remove appre-
hension Of danger, yet no one knew how
soon it might come down and engulf
the town. II was the cloud OF the great
hail storm, which swept that evening from
Guernsey county, across Belmont, into
The Virginia Panhandle, and lost itself in
the Western edge Of Pennsylvania. Re.
porters Of the EataprIe first noticed 1t in
The region between Hendrysburg and
Fairyiew, where for q space Of two or
three miles wide hail fell In large quanti.
ties, and in pieces a. large As hulled wal
nuts. AgentlemAn who has passed over
the track Of the storm in this region says
that the path OF the greatest destruction
was only about half . mile wide, located
about two miles north Of H~endrysburg,
Within this limit the wheat zelda were
very seriously damaged, but outside Of
that narrow belt they escaped with little
injury. The hail struck the stalks and
broke them of at the first joint, or fell
upon the heads and doubled them up in
either case running the grain. The fruit
crop Of course suffered q great deal also,
but was protected from that enemy, Is
from the frost, 10 come extent by the
foliage OF the trees. The storm
went eastward through Egypt and
struck MorristoWn. By this time II
seems to have widened and IL south
ern edge rested on the village Of
Belmont At the latter place the hail
stones were an inch and . half in diane.
ter. Many Of them were circular or oval
disks, with protuberances radiating in all
directions, some Of them having a. many
a twenty points, each from hall to three
fourths Of an inch long. North Of Bel.
mont and east OF Morristown the storm
was very seyere-in some places more
violent than the memorable hail storm Of
last summer. Between Morristown and
Lloydsyille whole fields Of wheat were
utterly destroyed. Great damage was
also done to oats and grass. As = matter
Of course, more or less injury was done
TO fruit and ornamental trees. Sixty.six
panes OF glass were broken in the house
Of Mr.. Harden, who reports the hail as
large as hens eggs. Our st: Clairsyille
reporter tells OF the destructive work Of
the hail in that region. The storm con-
linued its course 70 the east, striking the
city of Wheeling, breaking . large guam
tity Of window glass, continuing up
Wheeling Creek, passing over West Alex.
ander, but not reaching Washington, Pa.
We have not been able to learn definitely
the width Of the storm, nor whether 1t
was continuous all along the line, but
across the whole Of Belmont county. 8
distance Of thirty miles, along the Ma.
tional Road, there is 3 strip Of country
where the field crops and fruit are more
or less injured. While the damage in
several places is severe, the loss Is much
less than might be expected. Let US be
thankful that the country as q whole Ia
uninjured, and that there are Thousands
Of fields aud orchards that will yet yield
an abundant harvest.