The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-22
B|LIGH1IN FROST
Terrible Havoc Wrought Among the Truck
ers Of This Section Tuesday Night.
THE LOSS ESTIMATED AT A MILLION
Iho"sh the Total Damage Will Never
DC Potatoes ana Tomatoes
S"'erc" Most, but Everything Felt
Inc Finger OF tho Blight-strnw.
berries, Pears ana Vegetables Hurt

ms section was visited Tuesday night
~ one OF the heaviest and most de-
slructive frosts in its History ME
amount OF damage done to crops In al.
| most lncalculable. The full extent of tha
.oSs TO truckers will not be known until
the season IS over, but it will mount
| II not more.
| iI came, as destructive frosts always
! 40. Just at the worst time. ONLY th;s
| time 1t was 4 little bit worse than any
| other News received from all over the
! t'uckihs section of Southeast Virginia
| ana Northeast North Carolina Indica te
thnt the damage was general and I'M
sparing.
THERE WAS ICE.
IN number OF cases, notably on
western Branch, ice was reported. and
everywhere the ground was badly frozen
ana mas not yet been thaNved out. Unless
soou rain or some very hot weather
comes Immediately the loss will be much
greater. 49,
As It Is nearly all the cucumbers ana
tomatoes have been destroyed while tho
potato crop is terribly damaged and will
De snort. One of the results Of the blight
t.ttial VIII be felt most by the people in
Inc critics, as we'll as the country is the
usiInaSc done the fine strawberry CROP.
fcas We're also badly hurt and beans:
III Tact, almost everything in the ground
except, possibly. cabbage
WILL FOOT UP A MILLION.
IN q general way the total loss to
truckers here is estimated at moi less
IMAM u million dollars, n heavy blow
from which there will be MANY who will
IND 1t hard to recover.
IN some sections 4 vigorous effort was
n'lle 20 save the crops, or at least mini
mlze the damage, and in some instances
tires were burned in the fields But
4 I,.>. ia
1rost at this time of the year is a foe
that cannot he successfully combatted.
1T cannot be gotten at. There is moth
ing tangible about it until the next
morning, when the havoc it has wrought
becomes sadly apparent.
The marketing OF even what cron re-
mains will be retarded a few days, and
the loss 10 the truckers will be felt
hardly less among the business men here
tnan among the truckers themselves for
the greater part Of their custom Is dis
trlbutcd to the merchants of Norfolk
FROM ALL POINTS.
From all parts Of Southeastern Viz
Ginin come distressing reports concern
| ing the damage done.
Everything in the eastern counties
| WAS killed was the brief but dis
tressing iepnrt given a Virginian rep
| rescntahNe yesterday afternoon by Mr.
| Gray, or :he wea Their bureau. when cues
| toned rs to the extern; OF the crop dam
age.
| Mr. richardson trucker from Lam
be: is Point, reported that all the beans,
tomato plants and Irish potatoes in :ha
region were cut down by the frost,
and, with The exception Of the potatoes
will have to be rcplantcd
| MI. John NJ: lSei kley a truck farmer,
| from Knots Island n. c., reports, the
entire Vegetable crop as lest, and that
the fruit crop is also ruined.
| IN PRINCESS ANNE
| Mr. Wilson Halstead, Of Princes, Anne
| county. reported to the market people
mat one-thiEd Of the crop OF peas and
the frost, and that all The tomatoes are
| cut down and entirely lost
| Mr. j.. w. Lambert Of Lau.Ncr,'s
! Point. when interviewed yesterday az
te.noon by Virginian representative.
said: Il was down on The Little C,,erl;
road THIS morning and found that the
bcan and tomato crop in that section has
been entirely ruined by the frost, ana
| mat the potato crop Will he ahou; 20
days late. The beans and tomatoes
VIII be rcplantcd, but the pottoes viii
| GEow from The same roofs The tomato
crop is he most entire wreck Of an
saw. and one field on Mr. Ben Sales
| place there We're 10000 tomato vines cut
| 10 the ground. The places in the interior
| suffered, OF course. more severely than
those near the salt. On my place, cit
| uated directly on Lanibe!t's Point oul
of ten thousand tomato vines scarcciv
one thousand We're injured by The cold
| while on the Whitchuvst place. back m,
the Little Creek road, The ice was n.
| quarter Of an inch thick"
! The general opinion amoun.. ;h,
| truckers Is expressed in the familiar
Jingle: where OATS. peas, beans and
| narlcH grows, you, nor l. nor nobody
| KNOWS since the cold wave struck