The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-14
FARMERS USING HAILASICE
A Terrible Cloud Burst Upon The
South Bound.

A Hail Storm Along With It Piles Up
Hail Stones to Depth of Three Feet
Along the South Bound Track-The
and Cayce in South Carolina-It Was
Local, However, and Did No Damage
Except to Crops - Caused a Few
Washouts But They Were Soon Re-
paired.
A tremendous cloud burst deluged the
section of country day before yesterday
between Dixiana, few miles this side of
Columbia, and Cayce, the junction of the
South Bound railroad with the Richmond
and Danville.
Information was received here by the
South Bound officials from the section
master of Dixiana, that with the cloud
burst came tremendous hail storm which
extended along the line of the road be-
tween Dixiana and Cayce for distance
of about three miles and several miles
into the country on either side of the
track. kilograms to the company here
stated that the hail stones were piled up
waist deep in the bitches along the track
and up to the level on the track itself.
The story was such an unusual one that
the officials INDUCED in a good hearty
laugh when it was read. They thought
that the matter had been largely exag
gerated, but little later the report was
confirmed by a telegram from Conductor
Iillman, who was carrying a freight
train from Savannah to Columbia, and
whose train was caught in the storm. His
telegram told of heavy cloud burst ex-
tending over radius of two or three
miles, saying that hail stones were piled
up in the bitches along the track to
depth of feet or more, and that there
had been several small washouts along
the road.
Things began to look serious and Road
master j. A Robertson left in short order
for the scene of widespread destruction.
Yesterday morning telegram received
from him not only confirmed the former
reports, but added foot to the previous
kilograms, saying that the hail was piled
up IN the bitches to the depth of three
feet and in some places even more. The
farmers, he said, were all along the track
with wagons carting off immense quanti-
ties of this hail to use for ice. The crops
were damaged to very great extent by
this heavy fall of hail stones, but the dis
turbance was largely local, extending
over a space of only few miles.
Conductor Tillman, who reached the
city again yestesday, confirmed all the
reports in regard to the storm, and said it
was one of the severest he was ever in,
either under shelter or out. The clouds
gathered in the afternoon, and at O'Clock
or shortly after, without any warming the
burst came and with 1t the hail The
storm lasted only twenty or thirty min
utes, but during that time was one of the
most severe that has been seen in this
! section in years. 1t damaged the local
| crops to a large extent and caused several
washouts on the South Bound railroad
along its path, They were small ones,
however, and there was q force of hands
near the scene which was put to work on
them at once. The repairs were finished
| yesterday in a few hours, and fortunately
none of the trains were materially de-
| layed.
| So far as has been learned by the South
Bound officials here the storm hurt no
| one, the crops being the only thing that
suffered. Nothing definite as to the ex-
tent of it, however, has been received,
and it may be that it is more serious than
at present thought. All indications, how
ever, point to the fact that it was only
local and did not go outside radius of
| two or three miles.