Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1911 — GREAT DAMAGE BY HAIL. [ARTICLE]

GREAT DAMAGE BY HAIL.

Crops in Central Newton Tp., Almost Totally Ruined. The damage wrought by hail Tuesday afternoon was immense in the central part of Newton tp., and especially so in the Makeever and Yeoman neighborhoods, where the corn is wholly ruined and oats so badly damaged as to be scarcely worth cutting. Much corn was broken off at the ground and oats were beaten into the ground. Out at Marion Freeland’s the hail knocked nearly twenty bushels oj peaches from the trees, chickens were killed, many window panes broken and great damage in general wrought all through that section. A strip of country north of Rensselaer also suffered greatly, Sam Lowery, on the W. P. Baker farm, having 100 acres of oats almost totally ruined. The total damage to crops in Jasper county will be thousands of dollars.