Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-06-16
OLD NORTH STATE.
VERY DESTRUCTIVE HAIL-sTORM
NEAR WAKE FOREST.
The First Train-A Horrible Acct
dent ON the Initial Trip-Dcnth
Military Wedding.

RALEIGH y. c., June 15.-(speclal)-
What IS asserted TO have been the worst
hail-storm ever seen in this section, oc-
CURED late Saturday afternoon near
Wake Forest this county. II was over
strip OF country two miles wide ana
six in length, and within this area the
crops are literally destroyed. Luxuriant
crops OF corn and cotton are beaten 10
shreds. The farmers are. in many cases,
already ploughing I'm order to SOW peas.
A gentleman who was I'm the storm
stricken section yesterday says that
fifteen hours after the great fall Of hail
he saw hail-stones In drifts fourteen
inches deep, the measurements being
made by a professor Of Wake Forest Col
lege Last night in many places hail
remained on the ground and even on
roofs
The rot or blight has greatly affected
many crops Of grapes In this section
Some are destroyed.
The first passenger trains between Nor
folk and Chattanooga over the Southern
railways new route uassed here yesteI-
day. The trains are vestibuled. Old en-
company will put on high-pOWcrcd ones.
The train on this new route, due here
At 4l0 yesterday afternoon. came in
with its front covered with blood, and IL
brought a CHASTITY lOad-the bodies OF
Joe Hardy. an old negro man, and OF
little negro girl Of g. They were killed
by the engine two miles from here. The
old man, in company with the girl ana
her younger brother. was walking on
q
which he was leading by a rope. These
remained on the track aud the girl and
the old man tried TO get them off. They
saved the boy but lost their lives. The
bodies were literally torn 70 pieces. That
OF the girl was found on the pilot Of the
locomotive. The goat was struck. but
not killed. The little boy stood beside the
track weeping II was n pitiful scene.
The place Is near curve. and the grade
is very steep. II was impossible to stop
the train quickly.
BADLY WASHED.
The heavy rains which have fallen On
the past three weeks so frequently have
badly washed the farms; in fact, this in
jury IS greater than in several years past.
Mr.. G. j. Cunningham Of Franklin.
Macon county. is here and has o stone
weighing 2ll carats, which he says IS
diamond. He says further. that he has
been offered $4,000 for it, and that state
Geologist Holmes assures him DO is q
diamond. He seems to % making no
effort TO sell 10 or TO ascertain It's real
value and says he has for two years
carried it in his pocket
Mr.. \. G.. Higgins, Of Onslow. one or
the clerks i'm tho office OF the Collector Of
| internal Revenue here Is very sick with
catarrh Of the stomach.
Df
Morehead City tomorrow % arrange FOR
a music festival 10 be held there i'm july
three nights-at which IL IS proposed 20
have much OF the best talent I'm the state.
Many North Carolina teachers will at
tend the annual meeting OF the national
Educational Association. at Buffalo. "
Y. July 7th 10 1lth. The trip VIII De
made via Norfolk and the Ola Dominion
steamers. Raleigh will be well repre-
WILL BE COMMITTED.
The death sentence Of Gus. Thompson
one Of the two men under sentence TO be
! hanged at Lumberton. 1uiy l9ih. viii De-.
! c0mmutcd 90 imprisonment for He, al
hard labor. i'm the penitenuary
Jieutenant-Colonel W. H. Hughes. oi
/ the First Regiment. North Carolina state
| Guard. rs 10 wed at Norfolk a daughter
Of Mr. NJ L. r. Davis. leading mer-
chant. II IS 20 be a military wedding
| Governor Carr and staff, the stan, field,
and line officers Il the First Regiment
and the field and STAFF officers Of the
! Second and Third regiments, viii be pre-
! sent by special invitation. The officers
Of the Fourth Virginia Regiment Will
! also attend.
The delay Of the Seaboard AIRLINE in
| locating it's shops puzzles most people.
/ who cannot see the reason for It. The
| choice of sites appears 20 be between
/ Raleigh and Hamlet.
| Mr.. l.. Essential died here last night
! and his body was taken TO Baltimore for
| burial His estate IS worth SO 90. re
was for many years q leading clothier
/ here. and was afterwards in business at
/ Grecnviue s. G. lie leaves three sons.