Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1917 — Some Hail Storm, This. [ARTICLE]

Some Hail Storm, This.

Francesville Tribune. W. R. Jones is a reader of the Washington, Kansas, papers, where his sister, Mrs. Reves resides. Last week's Palladium reports a storm there during which hail fell from six to fourteen inches. Growing crops were destroyed and the mass of hail was so great upon one roof of a business block that it crushed it in, causing considerable damage to the stock, night and the next day at noon the hail was a frozen mass everywhere. The storm occurred at 8 o’clock at