Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-19
BAD HAIL STORM
HITS OMAHA WITH
A TERRIFIC FORCE
Windows Broken and Shrubbery
Battered ALI Over the City at
Noon Sunday.
EXTENDS WEST TO CHUYLER
Small Oss ons's Battered
IL v,,'''''S Faith of
VkAelsee .ad and Hail.
DAMAGE HEAVY IN THE CITY

A bad hail storm which in many
parts of the city shattered indow
banes, broke lights and literally
battered the leaves off the trees,
fell about noon Sunday. Immense
hail stones, some of which were as
much as five inches in circumfer-
ence, fell in parts of the city and
in practically every part more or
less hail fell. The hail storm was
followed by a heavy rain.
The disturbance seemed to be kind
of a stray storm. according to reports
to the railroads, and the heaviest part
of It struck Omaha. The storm area
consisted of but a narrow strip about
two miles wide from Omaha to Schuyler.
South of Schuyler the storm extended TO
Wahoo and around Yutan and Mead.
From Omaha the course ran TO the
north toward Sioux City, but in this
latter section no hail fell, merely heavy
ram.
NO Hail Mt Florence,
Florence on the north and Ralston on
the south of Omaha reported no hail.
At Ralston hardly any rain fell. the
storm seeming to keep to the north.
That little damage was done 10 the
corn in the storm area are reports to
the railroads. Truck gardens and some
of the smaller grains suffered, hut very
little of the corn.
Train service was not in any way
hampered and telephone and telegraph
wires did not suffer greatly. The tele-
phone company reported that in the
south part of Omaha some of the lines
were out of order as a result, but that
all would be repaired and In full work.
ing order this morning. Toll wires we're
not affected, except at few points be-
tween Omaha and Fremont. At Water
loo, where an extremely heavy rain fell.
the Union Pacific track was consider
ably softened, but trains were not at
all delayed.
Fremont Depot HIT.
At Fremont the Union Pacific depot
was struck by lightning. but no damage
resulted, a few bricks being torn loose
from the steeple being all. Two tele-
phone wires were struck by lightning in
Council Bluffs near the School for the
Deaf.
Tho Burlington reported hard hail
storms at Chalco and Yutan, but that
at Ashland only heavy rain fell. West
of Ashland the force of the storm dmin-
ished and west of Greenwood no storm
at all was reported.
Irvington was not included In the hail
and storm area, although a mile south
and west hail damaged corn to consid-
cradle extent in a quarter~mile strip.
In Benson fruit was damaged severely.
apples, peaches and other fruits in the
orchards there being beaten from the
trees.
Green houses in Benson and the west
ern part of Omaha were damaged
severely, but those in the north part
of the city did not suffer at ALL
Big Loss at Bennington.
BENNINGTON. Neb., July 1S--(Special
Telegram FARMERS Will lose heavily
in this vicinity from the storm OF to-
day as the hail and wind beat down
small grain fields, blew over the corn
Of farmETAOlN IN So. Inn. N. N
and also blew down some buildings
and trees of farmers living in tho wake
of the storm On the big Wayland Ma
gee farm about 90 per cent of the oats
were pounded down to the ground and
from 20 25 per cent OF the corn is
down, but this has a chance TO straighten
up.
The width Of the storm area was
about two and a half miles and the
damage will lie considerable.
Loss at GreenhOuses.
Hailstones as big as hens eggs and
lmbued with sufficient energy to batter
holes in the roofs OF street cars and split
shingles on houses. fell over a large area
I'm the Lake Manawa district yesterday
afternoon. The huge greenhouses of the
Wilcox company sustained damages that
the owners place at $4,000. All but about
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