The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-13
EVEN YOUNG CALVES KILLED
Force of the Hail in Western Part of Sedg.
wick County.

The editor of the Cheney Sentinel
gives the following details of the hail
storm the first Of the week:
a telegram received here Tuesday
morning by T. B. Campbell. agent Of the
Wichita and Western, from the agent
at Goddard. stated that destructive
hail storm had visited Goddard on the
previous evening AS no details were
given d Sentinel reporter boarded a
freight train Tuesday arriving at God
dard about noon.
After dinner Mr. L. T Smith, the ac-
commodating and genial agent Of the
roadat that place, took US into the storm
district
At Goddard the path of the storm is
about two and a half miles wide, the
town being in the center east and west.
As it Went south it widened out reach
ing a width OF over six miles four miles
south of town.
From parties who came in town from
the north during the day, it was learn
ed that the storm started north of Mt.
Hope. From that point its destructive
force passed clear through this county
passing out at the south line between
Clearwater and Viola. In its path lay
some Of the best farms in Kansas
We drove west from Goddard a little
over mile, to near the edge Of the
storms path, thence south four miles, to
a point where the storm was six miles
wide. On both sides of the road wheat
fields that the day before promised
yield Of twenty-five to thirty-five bushels
per acre. were beaten INTO a mass Of
ruin. Orchards werye stripped of fruit
ard foliage. gardens destroyed. hedge
fences. shade trees and evergreens strip
ped as If in midwinter. Along the hedge
rows lay hundreds Of dead birds and
Jack rabbits that told Of the storms fury.
Chickens by the score were killed on
every farm, and even young calves. pigs
and lambs We're beat to death in. the pit
ti!esS storm. Cattle and horses. in their
frantic efforts to escape the fury of the
storm, dashed against bard wire fences
or plunged through hedge rows. and
with bodies laceratei and bleeding. scat
tered haedlessly over the country.
The storm seemed 10 be the most de-
structive on the farms of Albert An
de7'son. Pat McGlenn. Gus. Pruit. ". ].
and Rufus McCoin. NJ Warfield. W.
Dupey. John Critten Lew Barney, Fred
Morris. l.. II. Means. Cwho lost 500 acres
OF wheao John Burwell. s L. Pope. Mrs.
Mary Stewart. Fred Holmes, Chas. Miles
NJ. Turner. Peter Linnibur +. G. Mes
Mrs Shrader, 5. r. White. J. ". Nc
Griff. ]. Curtis, Andy Coleman and Chas
Rice, all OF whom claim that Their loss
IS total on wheat. oats and rye. with a
probability that their corn may par
tally recover from the ravages Of the
hail OF course there are scores Of other
farmers in that vicinity. both north ana
south of that city whom We failed to see,
who lost the major portion OF their
crops. but in some cases they carried
hal storm insurance which will to a
limited extent reimburse them for the
loss sustained by the storm
To give one an idea Of the amount
und severity Of the hail that feel. We
viii state that We drove through hail
some ten inches deep that had drifte5
irso low place in the road, some Of
winch We picked up Gwenty-one hours
after the Storm that measured seven
Inches in circumference, but the average
SIZE Of the stones vera about the size Of
hulled walnuts.
On returning 10 the city about ) p
m We were driven around - take 4