The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-15
STORM HITS UP-COUNTRY
HAIL CAUSES GREAT DAMAGE TO
CROPS AND STOCK.
Reports From Rock Hill Tell Of Sc
we're Ruin to Crops by Immense
Quantity of Hail.


A terrific hail storm, in places with
the addition of high winds and de-
structive lightning, swept the north
western tier of South Carolina roun-
ties Monday night. Heavy damage
by the hail was reported from Ander-
son, Laurens, Cherokee and York
counties. In several instances, high
winds added to the damage caused by
the hail. Lightning also caused loss
in several places. The feature of the
storm, however, was the hail, which
swept the crops to the ground and
beat up the growing plants.
Rock Hill reports that the hail
wrought devastation in a section Of
country probably five or six miles
wide and 20 to 25 miles long. At
some places trees were uprooted, cot
ton and corn considerably damaged,
many window panes being broken.
Throughout the section where the
hail fell the crops are practically de-
stroyed and it is unquestionable if on
the majority of the farms the cot
ton crop will ever amount to one
tenth Of an average crop. The wind
and torrential rain accompanying the
hail also wrought terrible havoc. The
land in the storm stricken section
was damaged by washing to the
amount Of thousands of dollars. At
this time it is impossible to estimate
the losses.
Another considerable loss was sus-
tanned by ". E. Whitesell, farmer
living three miles south of Rock Hill.
The fall of hail at his place was very
light, but the wind was terrific and
his barn was blown down, killing two
mules and three COWS and injuring a
mule and a cow.
John T. Roddey, one of the lead
ing citizens of Rock Hill, was heavy
loser by the storm. He lost many
acres of cotton and 18 fine Red Polled
cows are missing. Seven Of these
we're found in one place in the pas
ture, three miles west Of the city,
where they had either been killed by
the hail or drowned. 1t it believed
that the others missing were washed
away by the creek running through
the pasture. In the same pacture R.
S. Fewell had ten fine COWS and eight
of these have not been found.
The crops Of scores of farmers were
wiped out by the hail and it will re-
quire several days to estimate the loss
in this particular. Burton Massey,
whose farm lies just south of the city,
states that $50 acres Of cotton on his
place will be total loss. Similar
stories are coming from every section
of the district in which the hailstorm
was heavy. Crops of both corn and
cotton will be practically total loss.
Nothing comparable to the fall of
hail Monday night was ever seen in
this county before. The hail was prob
ably ten feet deep where it drifted in
A gully, west Of the city. In low
land where the water washed the
hail stones in and piled them up,
there was quarter of an acre of
land covered with ice Tuesday morn
ing and by actual measurement the
hail stones were A inches deep at
one point and they were from two to
four feet deep over the entire quarter
of an acre Of land. After the storm
in Ebenezer it was found that the
ground everywhere was covered at
least three inches deep with hail
stones. Some Of the hail stones were
Of large size but most of them were
about the size of various kinds of
marbles so that the damage wrought
was not by the immense size of the
hail stone but by the great quantity
of ice which fell.