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All Hail

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
July
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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The losses by the fnrious hail-storm that recently swopt over Rodmau, Green Scttlcmcnt., Adams Oeútér, and the adjacent región in Jefferson county, N. Y., foot np to 100,000. This is prineipally suffered by farmers, many of wliom are ruim-d. A gentleman who waa n Adams Center during the stonn describos the scout; as having been terrible. The storm came froin the southwest. Hail feil for tbirty minutes in vast quantities. The stones were of enormous size, some of them weighing half a pound, and measuring ninc inches in circumferenoe. They corered the ground nearly a foot deep. Many persons who were cauRht in the storm wore lünlly injured beforc they conld find shelter. One man was driving a team near the village, and was so badly lmrt bel'ore he could leave his wagon and crawl in under a bridge that he chancod to be crossing that it was feared he would die. A youug man named Green was hit in the head by one of the hail-stones, in roaching out of his door to secure a large one that had fallen near, and was rendered unconscious. Some of the hailstones wore sharp, square pieces of ice, some as largo as threo or four inche. Horsos and cattle were killed in the fields, and growing crops, orchards and gardens utterly ruined for miles. Wasliburn's Hotel, Alsop Blonk iind Hungerford Collegiate Institnte were damsged to the extent of several thouBiuid dollars. Expensive memorial wmdows in the church at Adams were destroyed. Ñot loss than 10,000 pam s of glass were brakeu in the. ehurch. The damagein Adams and vicinityisSGO.OOO. Alter the storm it took an hour to clear the sklewalks and streets of the accumulation of hailstones. The village i)resented an appearance of the utmcn.t ruin. Branches of trees filled yards and streets, and chiekejas, geeso, pigs and dogs wero strewn on evo.ry side, and evei-y vcstige of vegetation was deatroycd. The littlo village, of Green Settlement was almost demolished, and great suffering existcd among tlie people. For five miles around the complotencss of the ruiu presents itself. At Bodman the storm of haiïlasfed flftecn minutes, and was followed by a deluging rain which lasted as long. A scène similar to thnt at Adams followod - ruin and detsolntion on every hand. The damage is $40,000 in Bodman. Tlie storm there, although occurringsimultaneously wlth that at Adams, seems to have been distinct from it, as it carne from the southwest, while the Adams visitation was from tho northwest.

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Old News
Michigan Argus