Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1877 — A Mississippi Hail-Storm. [ARTICLE]

A Mississippi Hail-Storm.

On Wedneaday, the 6th of April, there was a most terrific hail-storm hers that I ever saw. I bays resided in Amite county sixty-two years, and never before witnessed anything like it. About 12 o’clock m. I observed a black cloud iu the north in dose contact with a yellowish looking cloud (which always indicates hail) and which had also the appearance of being accompanied with wind, aud seemed to move to tbe northwest. In a few minutes the wind came up, with hard rain, and in a few minutes more the hail commenced to fall, and tbe storm burst upon us in all itt fury, blowing, raining and hailing in a most alarming manner. The storm was about one or two mil** in width, and eame up from the northwest, veering aud travelling in a northeasterly direction. It was all over in about thirty minutes. My yard was completely covered with hail, and never did I aee ao much rain fall in so short a time. A great quantity ot timber was blown down, aud the feUcea were acatured in a distressing manuer. The gardens were ruined. The. fruit erop, ( think is completely destroyed. In the hollows the hail was washed down by the water and left in some places in bodie* ten feet square and from two to three feet deep. The stones were from the size of a marble to one aud one half iuobes thick. On the fifth day after the etorin there were wagon loads of the bail still to be louud under the Irpsh. After all this terrible hail storm I believe there was no person hurt and but little properly destroyed; for which we should all be v„ r y thankful.— Qor. Magnolia Herald. Now that Nleholia is to be governor and “tbe white men are to rule,” we maylook forevoy WhiteLeaguer to rnsh to the fields and begin the raising of immense crops to restore the material proa* pemy of Louisiana. We may look for every white mau to grasp the live and other plantation tool-, and begin by honest toil to restore the prostrate iudustry of the state. We may look—-but what will w® too—Burlington Hemkeyt.