Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-23
Accounts of damage inflicted seem
most incredible. Hailstones as large

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almost incredible. Hailstones as large
as hens-eggs are commo My reported
ard struck comparatively new build
ings with such force as to drive them
through shingled roofs and making
veritable selves of many roofs, caus-
ing the reshingling of good share Of
the barns and houses. In many places
the leaves were stripped from the trees,
leaving them as bare as in the fall and
dead birds are lying everywhere. In
many cornields the corn is so cut and
then pounded into the earth that it is
impossible for one to tell what the field
contained. Small grain and grass is
cut as if with'a mower and many re-
port their fields to be cut as clean as
with lawn mower, and not trace of
the cut grain or grass to be found.
Some of the farmers in Albion have
not even pasturage for their stock,
their land being completely bare.
Just northwest of Cresco the damage
was comparatively slight and north
ward until the vicinity of the Iowa was
reached, here and there were strips
and fields where the damage was not
so great, but from there east destruc-
ton was universal. While the hail
was most destructive west and north
of Cresco, the fury of the wind was
more apparent east and northeasterly
of Cresco, where several barns were
totally destroyed and almost every
windmill blown down.
Joseph Whalen living near Canton,
Mimi, had a close call for his life.
Coming home from Decorah he at
tempted to cross stream when the
bridge went out. He got out one
horse and in attempting to get out the
other was so stunned by the hail that
he was rescued with difficulty and re-
mained unconscious for several hours.
George Light, of Kendallville, was
caught out in the storm and pounded
into insensibility by the hail, but was
recovered sufficiently to go home on
Monday.
1t is impossible to give a complete
account of the damage, but to give
some little idea of the violence of the
storm we give the following instances
of damage.
M. H. and Harrison Culbert each
lost barns south of Kendallville. The
formers barn was insured.
R. H. Burr, east of Cresco, had his
big new barn and machine shed smashed
into kindling wood and scattered for 20
rods. 6x6 timbers were broken like
lead pencils and a stone foundation
wall % inches thick at the top, was
toppled into the basement. Fortunate
ly for Mr.. Burr he had taken out S.
600 windstorm insurance only a few
days previous to the loss.
On the Bents & Huber farm east of
town every window in the west and
north of the house was knocked out,
and it will be necessary to partially re-
shingle both the house and the barn.
Philip McCarville, the tenant on the
farm, had about 40 pigs killed by the
storm and only has four left.
Zack Gardner had about 100 young
pigs killed, and 81 lights of glass brok-
en- out of his house.
Curtis Miller took out 166 panes of
glass yesterday to partially replace
their loss and it will take over 200 to
complete the job.
All the stained glass windows on the
west side of the new church at Ply
mouth Rock were knocked out.
1t is reported that the Catholic
church at Bluffton was nearly demol-
ished by the wind.
j. G. Burgess, living on the former
John Crawford farm in Orleans, had
his barn blown to pieces.
Claude Morton, of Orleans, bought
1877 panes of glass to fill the holes in
his windows.
Geo. Ludwig of.Albion was in towr
yesterday after 10000 shingles with
which to commence res hingling both
house and barns.
At E. E. .Eddy's place the shingles
were stripped from his barn as neatly as
If taken off with spade.
At P. l. DeLange's Farm the roofs
of his buildings are riddled by the hail
and this is common to most of tn.
buildings from the vicinity of Bonail
northeast to Canton, MINI. Fred Todd
living northeast of Kendallville, hat
the roofs of his buildings, which wer'
new only five years ago, punched full
of holes by the hail.
| Tragedy at Decorah.
i West Decorah was the scene of al
attempted murder and suicide yester
| day morning. Harry Crawford, an oil