Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-05-29
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OF RESENT RAINS.
Portions Of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. Ter
nessee and Virginia Suffer from Hard Rains

Abbcvillc, S. c., May 22.-Wc had
q hard rain and hail storm in this
section Sunday afternoon and great
damage was done to the grain and
cotton crops. The grain crops Of
Messrs. Hill and Sons, Magill, Thorn
ton, Sondley and a. w. Smith were
practically wiped out by the hail,
the latter gentleman having fifty
acres Of fine oats entirely destroyed.
Where cotton had not been chopped
out there is hope of saving stand.
In town and above here the storm
was pretty heavy, but no damage
done.
Smashed Car Windows.
Augusta, Ga, May 22.-Rcv. DR..
Klugh, pastor of Union Baptist
church, this city, said to Chronicle
reporter last night: "I am just back
from the promised Land South
Carolina, where | went to preach Il
funeral, and, on leaving the station
our train struck great hail storm.
Hail fell thick and fast, in all sorts of
shapes and forms, varying sizes from
a plum to large baseball. Thirteen
windows of our train were COM
pletely smashed. 1t seemed that
bands of boys were rocking our train
as it passed on in the black dark
ness till we reached Nerdrey. Here
we found the ground well covered
with blocks of ice. Doubtless great
damage was done to both animal
and vegetable life. No one in that
community has ever seen the like
before. | fear that some who left
the church en- route home were killed
or fatally injured on the way.
Very Destructive in SaIuda County
Saluda, May 22.-Sunday morn
ing, where there were large and
promising fields Of wheat and oats,
now there is naught but ruin as a
result of the destructive hail which
fell in many sections Of the county
late Sunday afternoon. Reports
have been received from the Ioar,
Richardsonyille, Bleasc Cross Roads
and Denny sections SO far, and the
damage cannot be appreciated unless
one were to see the destruction
which was wrought. The wheat
and oat crop, which was much above
the average, was destroyed com
pletely in many places, while the
cotton and corn will have to be re-
planted. The area Of the hail storm
was about twelve miles in length,
but fortunately it was not 80 heavy
in many places. Near Richardson's
vile several crops were demolished
and the same fate met others at
Ioar and Denny's. Where the hail
stones were piled up by the wind
against fences they measured as
much as eighteen inches in depth.
The stones fell az large as guinea
eggs and the foliage was stripped
from the trees. Window pancs
were shattered wherever exposed.
MIR. T.. O. Attaway, a large and
prosperous farmer, living three miles
south of Saluda, stated this morning
that where he was expecting to har-
vest twenty bushels of wheat to the
acre he would not get five. This is
but one Of many similar reports
made to your correspondent this
morning from many communities.
Additional reports received late
this afternoon indicate that the de-
strnction by the hail Of Sunday was
more far-rcaching than it was first
supposed. 1t now appears that hun.
drcds OF acres of wheat and oats, in.
stead of few farms, we're com
plctcly ruined. Mr.. w. O. Carson
has Just come in from orc portion of
the hail stricken district, BRINGING
with him a bucket full Of the stones.
which now, after twenty. four hours.
measure from a half to three quart.
ers OF an inch in diameter. lie says
that me hail in some places was still
foot in depth on the ground.
Three Drowned in Tennessee.
Elizabcthton, Tenn, May 22.-
The greatest food in the history OF