The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-08-02
A VERY DESTRUCTIVE
HAIL STORM.
Visited Wilmington Last Saturday
Afternoon.
CAUSING GREAT DAMAGE.
To Florists, Manufacturers and Others
Throughout the City.

On Saturday afternoon this city was
visited by IL terrific rain and hail storm.
1t was about 43O o'clock when tho rain be.
gan falling, when to tho surprise of the
people hail commenced to fall. Never be-
| fore In the memory Of our Oldest citizens
was such fall OF hailstones witnessed.
They fell with force and caused consider
able damage throughout the city.
John Mnlavin attempted to cross tho
tracks of the F., w. Il B. at the foot Of
King street in tho storm and was struck
by II fast south bound express train.
A delivery team Of Hartman s. Fehrcn-
bach was standing at Fifth and Jefferson
streets when the pelting hailstones caused
tho horses to run away
They ran to Fifth and Tatnall where the
wagon collidcd with the carriage Of DR..
John G. Fahey. The carriage and harness
wcro wrecked and tho horse slightly
| injured
The florists throughout the city suffered
tho greatest loss.
Charles Sparks, on Walnut street above
second, had 500 pnncs of glass broken.
James j. Haggerty's hot houses at No.
1916 West Sixth street were completely de-
molished
Harry p. Potter had about $500 lights
broken in his hot houscs.
Tho conservatory Of tho McComb estate
Twelfth and Market streets was complete
ly wrecked.
About 800 damage was done to the con-
scrvatory of ]. Taylor Cause.
Every glass in the large green house of
NJ. Il. Hayden, on the Newport pike was
broken and several plants damaged.
Tho grocn house Of II. l.. Baylis was left
without sound pane Of glass
AT tho morocco factories of Tadman g.
Mitchell and tho American Leather Com
pany thoro wore about thirty panes of
glass broken. The Ford Morocco Factory
was also da magcd in similar way.
While tho men in the machine shop Of
tho p, W. & b, railroad company were
vt work tho hail stones broke about 900
panes of glass in the skylights causing tho
pieces Of glass.
In tho tool house and erection house of
tho samo company thore were over 600
lights demolished.
The windows on tho south side of St.
PauPs Roman Catholic church wero brok-
eIl
A largo window in tho residence of Isaac
Baird was broken.
Two pnncs in tho windows Of A. j.
Lang's house were broken.
Tho windows OF Hanson's grocery store
ut Ninth and Adams were badly mashed
by the hail stones,
At the Grand Union barber shop a hail
stono broke one Of ihe paues In the win.
dow.
Asbury NJ E. Church had several win.
dow5 bruken.
j. II. Cummings, tho photographer at
No. 3o2 Market street had the slsylighb of
his work room broken entailing loss of
about 500.
Hurry ierger's studio lights are three
eiYhts of an inch thick yet q hailstone
broke one of them.
- Several pancs of glass were broken in the
store Of y. NJ. Weir a. Co., at Fifth and
King. The fcl: roof of the store was rid
died by tho hailstoncs.
Ono of the windows in tho Every Even.
ing office was brokon.
In south Wilmington there were several
windows broken.
Lightning split Curb stone opposite
Mays saloon and killed flock of young
ducks.
Richard Gropp worked hard with team
on King street AMI prevented n runaway.
Fred Hoisler was thrown out of his car.
riaGc during runaway while returning
from EdgnmoOr.
John Ryan team ran away and camo
near going off tho wharf at Pussy and
Jones works.
A team attached to cab while going to
II funeral ran away near Rivcrview and
broke tho pole of tho wagon by collidlng
with a atelcgraph pole.
Over20O lights were broken ut tho works
of tho Harlan and llullingsworth Com
pany.
A daughter of Mrs John A. Mcland was
struck ia tho cyo by hnil stone while
sitting in the paylOr ut her home No. ZIG
Church street
Several teams ran away but did no
damage.
There was no hail from New Castle to
FELTON, where the storm travcrsed the
country il u swath Of about two miles
wide.
The corn from 1Invro dc Grace to this
city was badly broken by tho storm.