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A Mexican Storm

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
December
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

A Menean exehange gives an account of a fearful storm wbich swept over the rancho of Jesús Maria and viciuity, State of CoahuiUa. About 5 o'clock in the afternoon the eloutU conimenced to i lower and soon the heavens became j black as night. A torrent of rain, acj companied by the most fearful ttorm and lightning, fell with terrible fury. The torrent continued for an hour with unabated forcé, when a shower of hailstones fell, some of whieh were ncarly as large as oranges. During the time the mountains seemed to shake from their foundation, and the earth apprared to tremble as if stricken with an earthquake. The next day's iuvestigntion showed that disastrou.s ravages liad occurred. The vacqueros fonnd wl:ole herds of cattle beaten to death by tbe hail-stones, and flocks of sheep were j deckuated. The bodies of dead coyote and other wild animáis were fonnd down the valleys, evidently having fled from the mountains through fright. Crops suffered greatly, and, in one jnstance, the hail literally covered an immense íield. A nnmber of human lives were lost. The storm was the most destructivo and frightfiil ever known in the State. _ " WhatÍ8 a junction, nnrse? " askeda 7-year-old fairy the other day of an elderly lady who stood by her side on a railway platform. " A jnnetion, my dear," answered the nnrse, with the air of a very superior person indeed, " why, it's a ilace where two roads separate."

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Old News
Michigan Argus