The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-04
A SEVERE STORM
 SUNDAY MORNING
Hatfield and Other Points to sou,... Suffered Much From Hail Roof, 4. ,' Riddled, Crops Ruined and sta.l
 Killed Mena Escaped Harm

This section was visited O., Sunday morning by a wind ,., rain storm of unusual severi,, but Mena escaped any dam,a except that some corn was blo,s over. As many feared, o,h.. points near suffered severely.
 At Hatfield, about 12 m;,.. southwest of here, there was |. most disastrous hall storm. cording to reports, that ever v;.. ited Polk county. There ue,. no lives lost so tar as known. b,, the damage 10 buildings and crops cannot be estimated at ,h;, time. In the region immedia,e, to the southeast and uorthwes, :. that place the devastation is ss complete as though cyclone had passed through 1t.
 The wind was probably hin. f any heavier than at Mena bn, he hail cut the crops to pi.rss besides killing all the poultry and small animals not under cover
 The Hatfield Mercantile Com pany's store suffered loss of bs. tween $500 and $500. That o,r, of the roof covered by tarred ps. per was ripped to pieces aud the feed, etc, underneath, was ey. posed to the clements.
 Tom Dover's store is perham in worse shape than any of fine others. His loss has been esli. mated at from Sl,500 10 &. coo and was due to the fact that bis building was covered by paper roofing only.
 F. NJ. Waylaud at Hatfield re. ports that his wife lost thrlv chickens, they being killed by hail breaking through the roof of the chicken house.
 Mir. Gam, who lives this side of Hatfield, says that hail broke through a roof and killed hogs at his place.
 The storm swept path half a mile wide and the first signs Of trouble are to be found at Six. mile creek and continue in exi. dence for miles beyond Hatfield
 No fruit is left in the neigh. borhood and garden truck crops are seriously injured.
 Insurance firms iu Mena have already received requests for quo tations on cyclone in ,urauce, less than twenty-four hours after the news of the storm reached here
 A feature of this hail storm is the size of the hail, some of which are said to have measured three inches across. Monday morning sightseers were able to pick up hailstones weighing 21S ounces
 Both telephone and telegraph wires were down, bat were re. paired Monday.
 J. K. Bs tes. whose home IS on Mountain Fork near Bulger, was in Mena Monday and says that the wind and hail was most dl' astrous in that vicinity. He says that fruit, early corn, cotton aud garden truck are totally ruined aud that the roof of his house aud others nearby were riddled by the hail, some of the hailstones com ing clear through and falling on the floors. In places the timber was stripped of foliage. Many chickens and pigs were killed oa' no person was injured so tar as reported.
 The vegetation that was beaten down is rotting and the stencn said to be almost unbearaole ID places.
 Mir. Bates says that some ol the farmers are talking ot secur' ing early seed corn and replant'ug their crops,
 The remarkable feature ot 'a' storm was that it came almost uf rectly from the north, 1t pe'ns said 70 have been the strongess wind ever known here to oou' from that direction.
 1. NJ. Da, is, manager oi '0s telephone company here, ss,' that at point a few miles sou'a '. of Mena, the long distance V''s is of highly tempered copper aa' " where the hail storm passed oua s day morning this wire was Drosss .s off close toleach post for sp'''