Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1886 — MARION ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

MARION ITEMS.

Thursday, May 13. —The weather warm; the ground in good condition for planting corn, and farmers were at work in good earnest, when about six o’clock p. m. it began raining from the east or southeast. The wind changed to nortiieast followed by rain, hail and wind, carrying nearly everything before it. The top of wind-pump and roof of corn-crib, on premises of Prank Watson, were blown off*. Fences were blown down; stock ran to and fro for shelter; trees t tripped of leaves and young branches; fruit damaged; garden stuff beat into the ground; young chickens and turkeys drowned, and Hooding the country with water. — Glass destroyed: For Harv. Wood, 16 window panes; 36 in residence of mother McCord; 29 at Peter Wasson’s; and considerable destroyed in residences of Frank Watson and others.

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