The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-04-25

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N The year 1915 was known through
the United States as the year With
X out summer. But little grain or
fruit nlatured north of the Potomac.
/ In Harrison couny there was frost
I in every month OF that wear. While
| the crops were very short there was
enough 10 supply the wants Of the
inhabitants
/ IN he year 1920 occurred the
greatest sleet ever known in this
country A5cold rain set in which.
ffroze as it fell. and the forest was
/ bent TO the ground with ice in every
directions.
As the sun next day shone down
upon the woods, they resembled a.
forest of Elittering glass and present
ed a rare and beautiful sight. Every
little. twig was as thick and looked
like a glass candle. Great trees.
were broken and for days the pub
Lie roads were cbstructed by fallen.
limbs and trees and nearly all one
! day the branches could be heard.
breaking. Nothing like It was ever.
II seen before or since
On the night of November 4 3. Saa33
occurred what has always been spok-t
en- OF as the night on Which Tue
stars fell.
For hours the heavens We're ablazc.
with shooting Game. flaming met
eors. tongues and balls of fire and
sheets or flame. darting in every a
rection presenting a grand ana Drill.
liant though terrifying spectacle
Many of these as they approached
The earth seemed to go out or dis
appear.
This brilliant and unusual display
created great excitement ana terror:
Many supposed that the END Of
things had at last come. and hun
dreds prepared themselves accord
i,ine!v and PRAYED for protection rom
the threatened calamity
iii Towards morning the sky cleared.
nature assumed her Wanton aspect.
Old Mother Earth continued on hcra
course as usual and the people Dc
came calm
This phenomenon was prohahlE8
caused by al comet passing across LIS e.
earth's orbit. causing meteoT:eff
In the year 1925 considerable eS-
element was occasloh'e e' pyl Ins ..lslr
,,tera..Bt, appearing on the bladeS o.
wheat. Superstittous people belize
lac tiat this letter stood for blood.
and that it!foretold war or SOME
| other great ca lamity was impending OH
| About the year 1888 hurricane
starting on Middle Island creek Pc
flow West Union and moving east
ward to near Salem and 5Br1stol a5 r
then turned northerly to the loWeF
part OF Indian run.
The pathofth isblizzardWasth- IA
The path of this blizzard was atm
4 er irregular and att intervals would
| skin or Jump over a Till and resume
| It's general direction.
i III destroyed 4 brick house near
I West Union and cut a wide swath
In the time uprooting large trees,
I twisting some rromftheir stumps and
! Aineinr others hundreds or feet
i away from the place Of their growth
Eand destroyed everything in its path
way.
This IS the only destructive wind
\ storm known to have visited .Harrl-
son county since it was occupied bE
1.-THE white people.
In the spring of 4 s52 occurred the
great flood in Elk creekand the West
| Fork river Which carried away
nearly all the bridges and did inn
mense damage to- growing crops.
fences and houses.
| On June S. a $50. occurred 2 heavy
frost. which destroyed every living
thing in the shape OF crops. fruit and
garden yegeta hles.
4$l&& SOME lev WHEEL iltslu u 81
above certain line on the bills es-
l.caped damage.
| Corn was rcnlanted and the wheat
fields .p1oughed under and sowed in
Ebuckwheat and good crops were rails
4 ed.
I IN July 1885 another great food
occurred. which was more destruc-
ltive than the one or 1852.
The -Maulsb bridge was the only
Ione left standing on the West Fork
itriver In the county. and not a bridge
was left around Clark sburs.
January1. 1910. Snow fell two
fleet deep. Thomas Raymond says 1T
IFS the deepest snow. since the winter
4 OF 1870 and 1850.
"A very severe winter occurred in
1880. the Thermometers ranging nj
E5Clarksburg from February S to L ST
lat from s degrees. 10 degrees, 90
degrees to 3 degrees below zero
One day. the sth, it was below zero