Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-08
HAIL DAMAGE GREAT
Crops Of Many Farmers In Western
York Almost a Total Loss.
YOUNG RABBIT is BEATEN TO DEATH

Hundreds of Cotton and Corn Stalks
Stripped Almost Bare-One of Suf-
ferers Had Another Crop Destroyed
by Hail Exactly Ten Years Before
Storm of Last Thursday.
That the damage done by the hail
storm of last Thursday evening to the
crops Of farmers living in western
York county is much greater than was
reported to The Yorkville Enquirer
Friday morning is the information re-
ceived Saturday from farmers living
In the hail area. 1t now appears that
the hail storm in Western York coun-
ty covered an area about six miles wide
and extended from the western out
skirts of Yorkville on to Piedmont
Springs. Thousands of cotton bolls
were knocked from stalks Of cotton
and beaten to pieces. In many places
corn stalks were stripped bare of
leaves, only the ears remaining. The
hail storm appears to have played
many freaks, doing little harm to the
crops Of some farmers while almost
literally destroying those of other
farmers in the same neighborhood.
Severe at Piedmont.
The storm Of hail is reported to have
been very severe in the vicinity of
Piedmont Springs and in the vicinity
of Mountain View school. Crops on
the w. NJ. Faulkner place in the Pied
mont Springs section are said to have
suffered very severely while among the
greatest sufferers in the Mountain View
section was Mr.. A. c. White, although
the damage done the crops of his
neighbors in some instances was about
as great.
WatermeIons Punctured.
Watermelon patches in the fields Of
some farmers living in the path of the
storm were said to have suffered great
ly. Farmers told of picking up num-
bers of watermelons in their patches
that had been punctured by hail
stones, the holes in the melons ap-
pearing as though they had resulted
from rifle or pistol bullets piercing the
fruit.
Thomas Tells of Damage.
J. Ed Thomas, well known farmer
living in the Beersheba church section
nos a great distance away from one
section in which the hail storm did
great damage, was among those who
visited large part of the storm area
on Friday. Mr.. Thomas said that the
fields presented a scene Of desolation
and destruction that was hard to des-
cribe. In many fields cotton and corn
stalks had been left almost bare ana
the stalks themselves had been badly
cut by hail stones. In the public roads
in some places in the area great
quantities of leaves from the growing
crops were piled up in the road along
with other debris that had been cast
there by the wind that accompanied
the hail.
Rabbit Killed by Hail.
Charlie Caldwell, well known cotton
buyer of Yorkville, who owns a farm
in the Sutton Springs section which
suffered greatly from the hail said that
a negro tenant on his place found a
dead rabbit Friday that had apparent
ly been beaten to death by hailstones.
The rabbit appeared to be about half
grown and there were indications that
quantities of blood had flowed from it's
ears and mouth While of course no.
body could say positively that it had
been beaten to death by hail stones,
the indications were that it had been.
Mr.. Caldwell also recalled that on
August 3, 1912, just ten years before
to the day, crops on a farm which he
owned near Glover at that time were
beaten down by hail and the result
was that he made only one small bale
Of cotton on thirty-five acres. He is
Ul TIE OplIllOll lIletl liC u'iho6S "'''N
by the hail storm on the tenth anni-
versary of his first experience with hail
will be proportionately as great.
Some Of the farmers in the hail
damaged sections have an idea that
their crops will not be total loss on
account of the storm, although the
harvest, they say will be greatly re-
duced. Still in most sections they will
make a part of a cotton crop provided
the boil weevil does not destroy that
little portion that might otherwise be
left. Among those farmers Of Western
York who are reported to have suf-
fered great damage to crops on ac-
count of the hail storm are the fol-
lowing:
Some of the Sufferers.
Simpson Love, A. C. White, William
Hemphill, Joe w. Smith, Meek Dickson,
Robert Smith, Newton Neil r. NJ. P.
Robinson, J. Ed. Burns, S. T. Ferguson,
ST., William Ferguson, J. B. PleXico
+. r. Shannon, J. NJ. Brice, James L.
Feemster, John T. Feemster, r. 3,
Hartness, NJ. A. Mcfarland, w. T.
Galloway DR.. w. G. White, w. L. Will
liams, w. r. Gordon, viii Russell,
Lesslie and Joe Feemster, w. w. Fer
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