The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-24
IAN APPEAL FOR AID
MOVEMENT TO HELP THOSE WHO
 SUFFERED BY STORM.
sI5O.OOO Loss By the Destruction of Crops Around Enterprise, and the
 Total Damage Will Be Much Greater.
Enterprise. Ala, July 22. 1904.

enterprise, Ala, July lJUf. Editor The Advertiser:
 You will please find inclosed circular referring to the great destruction and loss of crops last Monday evening in this County, caused by severe hail storm. The path of destruction is about eight miles wide between Elba and Enterprise and devastated some of the prettiest and best crops of South east Alabama. In many of the low places hail stones are to be found to- day (Friday. The destruction wrought cannot be imagined. and one only has to look at the waste fields to tell the helpless condition in which some of the people are left. Corn is torn and shattered to pieces. and cotton is strip ped of the green foliage and the bare stalk is left as an evidence of the se- verity of the storm. Waste fields are plentiful now, where crops of corn and cotton grew in bounty and beauty only a few days ago.
 Last Monday morning. from appear ances, there had never been better crops growing fin the path of the storm, nor had prospects been brighter in this section for large yield in corn and cotton. Now, these bright prospects are blasted and there are mnay homes left in a pitiable condition. Many of the leading citizens of Enterprise, as, soon as the loss was ascertaned. or ganized themselves for the purpose of aiding the sufferers, and the organiza- ton is making some headway in the way of securing necessary contribu- tions for relief purposes.
 Yours truly,
 O. c. Doster, Jr.
 Following is the report of the esti- mating Committee:
 We the Committee appointed to esti- mate the loss of the crops in the hail storm district, in the eastern portion of Coffee County, submit the following report:
 We based our estimate on cotton at three acres to the bale, with usual conditions, and corn at twelve bushels to the acre.
 Many of the farms, with favorable conditions, would have produced a bale CT crops, and vegetables especially, to- tai loss.
 Loss on cotton, $100, ,oo0.
 Loss on corn and other crops, $50,- 900.
 Loss on tenements, stock and land cannot be estimated. Respectfully submitted,
 w. E. Law. Chairman; J. W. Goff. W. s. Edwards. J. H. Hundley, w. H. w dIfcI DTOCh, w M ATHlOuT, J. E. Helms, Committee.
 July 21, 1904.
 Enterprise, Ala, July 21, 1904.
 We, the Soliciting Committee of the Relief Association, organized the 18th inst, for the aid of the sufferers in the hail storm district, offer to a generous public and benevolent citizens the above report as our plea for contribu- tions and most earnestly insist that every person to whom this call may be made will respond as liberally as their means will allow. Whatever amounts individuals, firms or corporations may contribute, will be forwarded to J, w, Malone (Secretary and Treasurer) who will receipt for same, subject to the order of the disbursing committee who will use the same as the needs may appear.
 Most of the sufferers are tenants, and are in need of immediate relief. The stricken district extends twelve miles long and four miles wide.
 We will publish in The Enterprise Weekly the names and amounts of all contributors.
 The hopeless destruction of the storm swept district cannot be described; pieces of hail larger than an ordinary hen egg were found in large quantities, and in some places hogs were found half buried in banks of hail. About 75 per cent of the sufferers were land renters and depending on the crop, not only for their living. but to pay for the past years supply. old men say they never experienced anything like such widespread desolation before, And it Is earnestly hoped that those more fortunate will contribute to the fund now being raised for the partial relief of the distressed.
 All papers sympathizing with the distressed please copy.
 W. H. Holloway, c. W. Carlisle. M. B. Hildreth. c. r. Mizell. T. D. l.. Edwards. W. E. Law. J. w. Malone.
 I hereby endorse the above.
 A. M. owen,