Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-11
THE GREAT HAIL STORM.
sUME BAD wORR LAST rRlDaxSrGnr.
Immense Destruction In tho Lower End
what the Wisds and Weather
wrought In Their mad Fury.

the extent of the storm of Friday night
one of our reporters drove over part of
the track yesterday, aud was surprised to
find tho great extent Of the damages.
There has never before been o bad storm
in this section that took. in such large
extent Of territory. Nearly always they
had been narrow strips of hail. never more
than q mile wide but this seems to have
g0ne in several wide strips and in tho
centre to have been the very worst.
From Safe HarbOr by way of Willow
Street it was terrific, destroying the tobacco
completely and cutting the corn to shreds.
Around the latter place very heavy winds
accompanied the hail and rain, and the
corn is badly down and tangled. Going
on to Strasbug its course is marked by sad
havoc the worry best tobacco of the sea-
son is ruined. Some farmers lOso as high
As thirteen acres. ]. F. Herr had eleven
acres, very little of which had been cut
So it is all through this section very little
of the largest tobacco had been harvested
From Strasburg down to Bart (nearly over
the same route OF tho big Storm of last
year) this storm passed, leaving nothing
standing but the bare stalks. On down
through Eden, into COleraine, some of the
I" boss tobacco" which has been frequent
ly noticed in this paper. fell before tho de-
strOyer.
Around Providence aud CamargO, the
storm was very heavy. The streams were
swollen almost rs high as during the late
big flood, and the roads and bridges are
again IN bad shape, and tho tobacco is
ruined. This same section suffered from
very heavy storm just about 4 year ago,
which used up corn and tobacco badly.
In the vicinity Of Quarryville the hail
was not SO severe some fell just north of
the village and tho crops Of Daniel Nc
Laughlin, and several others, were badly
damaged. East of the village about two
miles. the damage is extensive, but west
Of it tho severest part of tho storm
seems to have gone, and tho Buck
was the centre Of that strip. A more com
p'ete scene Of tiesOlatiOn could not bc
seen than the corn and tobacco fields show
at this place. The tobacco was fully three
weeks late in that section, and as Il con-
sequence there was comparatively little
cut and had the storm held off for two
weeks moro there would have been housed
very fine lot of tobacco for this year.
Tho heaviest losers arc such wellknOwn
growers rs DIR. Deavcr. DOwncs, Kautf.
mans, Penny, MoOres, Walton, johnson,
McMichaels, RiEeherts g., all Of whom
arc largo growers, aggregating saveral
hundred acres.
The roads and bridges are very badly
washed, and in sOmo places arc almost i'm
passable. 1t is about the same along tho
river.
Liberty Square suffers badly, but
some of tho vegetable matter being beaten
sInyCu into thu lnch %
the tobacco but the stalk.
In and around Centroville and over by
way Of the Unicorn tho loss will be heavy,
and tho damage is great down about
Pleasant Grove, as we'll rs almost tho
whole lower end Of tho county moro or
less. New Texas seems to have been .
very heavy sufferer, the heaviest part of
the storm going through that section.
Tho damage extended into Chester
county and into Cecil county, Nd, and
parties from thcro say the damage is very
heavy.
The hail insurance companies will lose
largely and the adjusters havo SO much to
do that other parties L:.ve been called in
to appraisc losses.
In many cases the loss is total and is so
made by tho adjustment.
AS VIC said before, this storm has been
the most extensive over been known in
this county and those adjoining, and the
loss will fall very heavily on many who
arc not able to bear it, being wholly de-
pendent on this crop for their living, and
having nothing else to depend upon. This
is a crushing disaster to them, and many
Of them will not plant another crop. As
to the corn it is so far grown that the loss
will bc mostly confined to tho fodder. Of
course, the very late will be ruined.
From Our salisbury Correspondent.
At lato hour on Friday night a terrific
thunder storm, accompanied by hail,
passed over this section of tho country.
There was some heavy thunder and sharp
Tho rain fel! in torrents for
about four hours, and in consequence the
streams were greatly swollen. Great
damage was done to the tObaccu, corn and
other crops by the hail. Along tho
considerable tobacco and gar.
den crops were seriously damaged by the
hail. Tho corn in some places has been
entirely stripped of its blades, and in other |
places badly beaten down by tho rain.
Benjamin Weaver, near Springville, had |
five acres of tobacco badly ridd!ed and his |
neiehbor, G. A. Worst, had fine patch |
entirely destroyed. Tho crops in the vi
c!nity "f Pequea Presbyterian church arc |
Samuel Worst and Henry Wan
ner each had five acres of tobacco bat /
tered to pieces. Peter Esch had three |
acres cut to pieces. But little damage was |
done to the crops in tho White Horse or |
Gap, but Il great deal of tobacco was |
much cut up at COmpassville. At Buyers
town the tobacco crop suffered great losses. |
Isaac Eby lost large number of acres of /
fine tobacco, there being as high as twenty /
holes cut in ono leaf. Across the line in
salisbury township the storm proved
more disastrous than in this township.
Many hundred dollars worth of
tobacco is destroyed.
In SimmOnstOwn the house occupied by
Si.as Austin was struck by lightning and
the roof was badly shattered. The cOrnice
was torn off and tho porch post splintered.
None OF the inmates were injured. The
hail near the Nine Points was as large as
cherries and was very severe. Window
panes were shattered to pieces and the
crops were literally cut up. At a rough
estimate thcro is at least SEQ, 900 worth Of
tobacco lost in this township.
Many poor people who had nothing to
depend OH except their tobacco crop will
DO almost rendered destitute. The ma
Ority Of the crops were not insured.
List of Unclaimed Letters.
The following is list of unclaimed let
'ers remaining in tho pOstOflice for the
week ending Sept. IL. 1882:
Ladies List-Ellen Brown, Lizzie Bowers,