The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-07-30
SAD HAVOC PLAYED.
Further Particulars About the DlSaS
;rouS Hail Storm i'll the Edge OF
Vance and Warren.

Further Particulars About the DiSaS-
;rvus Hail Storm i'll the Edge OF
Vance and Warren.
From the Warrcnton Gazette we get
the following additional particulars Of
the destructive hail storm that visited
portiols OF Vance and Warren counties
sunday before last. mention OF which
was made in these columns last week
1t seems to have started about the
late DR.. Wards. near Southerlln's
mill. and came i'll a northeasterly dl
rectiOn about five miles to Mr.. Lewis
\. Watson's. where it practically eX-
hausted itself. the last heard Of it being
al Beardsley's mill. Its track was
from haifa mile to one and half
wide. and its greatest violence being in
the centre of the east edge.
From Mr.. John Allen, who was in
its path. and who is familiar with the
facts, we Get the particulars. He says
the hailstoncs were from the size Of
hens egg down and of every conceiv-
able shape and very rough and jagged.
Some Of them were fiat and measured
three inches in diameter. Mrs. Tom
Steed's entire crop was almost totally
DESTROYED. James Edwards. w. B.
and James Tunstall's, b. F. Best's. W.
J. and r. G.. Clark's and Mrs. John
| Collins tobacco was q total wreck,
and their other crops badly injured.
Mrs. Robert Smithwick's tobacco was
wiped from the face Of the earth. Her
son Walter has no crop left, and speaks
of going to South Carolina to cure
tobacco. 7. O. Mabry's tobacco shared
the same fate. Austin Aliens splendid
crop is wreck and a sad one to con-
template. Probably $50 trees in his
yard and orchard were uprooted and
his loss is very heavy-not a plant of
his tobacco or cotton left. Monroe
IIayes's crops were destroyed. Walter
and Robt. Aliens crops, with the eX-
ception of corn, were ruined. Messrs.
J. w. and Lewis and Howard Allen
suffered heavily in their tobacco. Mr..
Lewis WatsOn's tobacco and cotton
and orchard are as but passing men,
ory. Tom WatsOn's tobacco was
beaten into shapeless mass. He
says he had ':1S acres, and it is not
worth Is CENTS His corn was also
ruined. Mr.. J. L. Rodwell, their
neighbor, was about equally unfortu-
nate. Tom Daniel. who was farming
On p. II. Aliens farm, suffered a lmost
irreparable loss. Ninety thousand
tobacco plants were swept away as
chaff before the wind. His and Mr.
Aliens loss in tobacco alone will not
be less than $4,000. Mr.. Glen Hun
ter's tobacco, or that part Of it in the
destructive pathway, was beaten into
Jelly. Mr.. Blunt Plummer, who had
ten acres of tobacco at Largo. about
two miles from his home, had every
plant Of it hacked to pieces as if it had
passed through cutting blades. Mr..
Allen and Mr.. Plummer and others
tell us that in many places the tobacco
stalks near the ground were cut in two
by the hail as if by a sharp knife. Mr..
Il. J. Mills fine crop was not very
seriously injured, as also was Messrs.
George and Walter Roses, while their
next neighbor, Mr.. Beardsey, where
the storm seems to have spent itself
reports his tobacco all utter ruin
Where any tobacco stalks are left
standing they are being cut off in hopes
of q sucker coming, but this is at best
a forlorn chance. AS stated above WE
get these data from Mr.. J. Allen, anC
we are confident that they are as re
liable as it is possible for them to be
under the circumstances. He thinks
the loss cannot fall under 100000
which is fearful loss to 50 few.
: The path of the Bosom of destruction
passed over one of the best, fairest and
most prosperous and substantial parts
Of our community, and we sincerely
trieve with our friends and fellow citi
zens in their calamity.
IATER-Since the above was writ
ten we have been favored with later
advices. Messrs. Lewis Watson, Wal
ter Allen and Eddie Rodwell all tell Il:
that the damage is certainly as much
as $4,000, and probably 100000
) Mr.. Watson says at Austin Aliens i
looks as if u battery of artillery hat
played for half day, and all old sol
diers know what this means. Hi!
fences were leveled, his soil washed
away, and his crops battered an(
beaten as if by maui He says the
crops generally in the halls pathway
were very good, the corn and tobacco
being very fine, and that the destruc.
ton was great and appalling.