The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-07-28
DESTRUCTIVE STORM.
ELECTRICAL HAIL STORM SWEEPS Sec
TIONS OF CARROLL COUNTY.
Crops Badly damaged --Caille Bruised
by Hall---BrldgeS Washed Away
Turkeys and Chickens Drowned
BY The Score.

Two distinct terrific electrical
thunder storms accompanied by hail,
swept over this city and county last
Friday, between and o'clock in the
evening, damaging truck farms, fruit
trees, telephone wires, growing vege-
tables and Towering plants. 1t was
the severest storm here since May 6,
1894. Rain fell in torrents, and at
times the streets we're as white with
hail as il covered by snow. Measured
at the Weather Bureau in this city,
the hail was found to be four inches
In circumference. Leaves were cut
from the trees and the ground cover
ed with them, and the corn was beat
down and in some places in the coun-
ty cut into ribbons. The farmers
were in despair. One man had just
been congratulating himself on the
appearance OF a fine large field OF
cantaloupes, but after the hail struck
it he said it wasn't worth ten cents.
The corn-field on the farm tenanted
by Noah Miller, near Morelocks school
house was badly damaged by hail
nothing being left but stalk and ear
The bridge which crosses the
stream west of Coal Chute was wash
ed out of line and undermined. A
tree at Roop's Mill, Meadow Branch,
was struck By lightning and the bark
torn off from top to bottom. The
pany's Office was struck by lightning
and partly destroyed.
Grattan Doyle's Conservatives and
plants were damaged to the extent OF
several hundred dollars, the hail
hr1 n1yir
the glass and playing havoc with the
flowers.
Two large trees were blown down
on DIR. j. w. Hering's lawn. At Jos.
T. Hunters near this city, lightning
tore out the telephone, struck the
wind-pump and splintered the rod SO
badly that it could no longer be used.
Thirty young turkeys were drowned
at the farm of Cornelius Hull, near
Krider's church, and chickens were
in many places drowned by the whole
sale. One man lost sixty chickens
and a farmer near town lost one
hundred young turkeys. The water
ron the lower part of John street rose
to great height and did consider
able damage to the Brass Works.
The barn of Geo. G. Main, located
between Mt Airy and Watersville was
struck by lightning and destroyed.
Mr.. Main and others, got the horses
from the barn and also all the ma
chinery. The barn contained about
], 100 bushels of wheat which had just
been threshed and also 80 tons of hay.
The large strawstack TN the barnyard,
containing about so tons, was also
burned. The loss Is about $4,000,
partly covered by insurance.
The storm was evidently more Sc
we're in Uniontown district than in
the neighborhood Of this city.
At Tyrone hail as big as hen eggs
played havoc with the cornfieIds on
the farm of Levi Maus, and on the
farm of John Royer,on the Uniontown
kpad, only the bare cornstalks were
" standing. Large Jumps were rails
I'll over the backs or cattle by the
Hail which bounced off hay
rs was piled around them to
of Is inches. The destruction
and fruit was very great.
me places windows we're brok-
rden truck was beaten down
hit blossoms and even the fruit
was severed from the branches.
furious feature Of the storm is
the area was 50 well defied. At
%nion Mills there was neither rain
nor hail; in Bachman's Valley rain
fell but the hail did not amount to
anything, nor was there and hail at
Wakefield.
The hail partly destroyed a melon
patch for Elmer Myers, near Pleasant
Vally, on Friday last. The hail was
as large as walnuts and in striking
melon would split il open.
A barrack owned by Jesse Taylor,
near Reese, was struck by lightning
on Friday afternoon, during the storm
and destroyed, with contents incud-
ing of this years wheat and hay crop.