The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-22
HAIL CROPS
Greensboro and Environs Visited by
Storm Which Creates CONSERVATION.
Tobacco Practically Ruined and
Farms Badly Damaged.

A0F1AAS ESAuAy D011Ea&Gu-
Yesterday afternoon at 800 o'clock
Greensboro was merely a wet city.
grumbling at the state Of affairs. and
wondering If the weather man had not
about reached his limit.
AT $3.50 o'clock Greensboro was run
ming wildly for shelter from such a
display OF diabolic genius on the part
| OF the weather man as has never before
been seen here.
1t was as If, in answer to the peoples
groWls the president OF the weather
company had said Cheer I'D the worst
is yet to come-and then sent it."
The sight was n that might not be
seen more than once in a life time. The
air was filled with millions of white
balls that came tumbling and hurting
down as if the gods had become angry
with the people and were joining in the
ungentlemany sport of throwing stones
at them. AS for the sound, it would be
hard to describe it. but If steel shod
demons had been doing the can-can on
the roofs to the screech of Internal bag
| pipes. the din could not have been more
| terrific.
ANAN~N E"@@< 1oA
loose. AS the big hail stones began
! their hattering there vas but one idea
IN the head Of every ian, woman child
horse, dog and cat il he city, and that
vast to get under shelter. Horses were
unhitched from their teams in the mid
die of the. street and were taken into
: shops or under awnings. Many of them
became panic stricken and several run
cU2VG wp~a rpnnrf11 Hnn hnrca often
o%Verturning the vehicle to which it was
hitched kicked itse-9 free and took
refuge in the court house, causing a wit
horse sense at last in the abode where
legal luminaries do shine forth.
Under the awning of Galloway's
drug store not only horses, but mules
sought refuge, but the merciless hail
beat through the heavy awning and
battered all below it.
AS far as can be gathered the only
persons to whom the i'll wind blew
any good are the GLACIERS who vii!
reap a rich harvest repairing skylights
and windows.
/. The damage done in and about the
city was extensive. Besides trees and
glasses, roofs were damaged to a con-
siderable extent, and the contents Of
warehouses hurt by the breaking Of
skylights and the d%renching which fol-
lowed. Few, if any, factories have es-
, capped damage.
The downpour of rain which sue
ceeded the hail storm was as vigorous
! as the storm itself, and when the
weather man got through showing
what he could do the people were quite
; satisfied with the exhibition. and were
willing to concede that he was the
great and only and without a rival
in his profession.
; FRUIT AND VEGETABLES HURT
BY HAIL.
The hail is reported to have caused
considerable damage to the fruits and
vegetables in and near the city.
The Van Lindley nurseries report
| that the storm was especially severe
at Pomona, and that about. half of
the glass in their greenhouses was
broken by the hail and that both flow
ers and fruit suffered great damage.
John r. Young, proprietor of the
Greensboro Nurseries, stated that the
| storm was not especially severe east of
the city, and that while some hail fell
in that section it was not severe, and
| that consequently but little hurt was
suffered to the fruits and flowers
Several farmers from nearby sections
who came into Greensboro after the
storm spent it's fury, reported
that the damage by the hail and wind
had been most marked in their res
| pective sections, especially to the fruit
and young vegetables, and that both
had been injured to such an extent
that the loss would run UP n the
hundreds dollars.
TOBACCO CROP RUINED.
A prominent tobacco grower of this
county, who was in the city last night,
| stated that the yellow leaf had been al
most entirely destroyed by the storm.
The same man said that the new crop
might come up all right but that the
| present had been ruined.
The telegraph and telephone people
told a Daily Industrial News reporter
that the damage to the wires had been
| very slight, and that no inconvenience
was experience.-Daily Industrial News
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