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Show HAlI.STOXK'-i KILL STOCK .Speaking of hailstorms, it is seldom sel-dom that even the oldest inhabitant can heat this report sent in to the United States Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture by one of the Meld workers at n station in Colorado. "Most of the hailstorms have occurred oc-curred since the winter wheat was harvested. In some sections sucn severe se-vere storms were experienced that corn andi row crops were cut to the ground, small pigs and poultry killed kil-led outright, and buildings were severely se-verely damaged. "A St. Louis and Denver train on the Burlington line was caught In a very severe storm and was compelled com-pelled to stop until the storm passed pas-sed over. During the storm all of the windows and ventilators on the north side of the coaches and1 many on the routh side were broken out. The hailstones hail-stones were said to be simply pieces of rough ice, many of them the size of hens' eggs. The stones were so large and driven with such a strong wind that they went through both sashes and the screens In the Pullman Pull-man car windows. Where the curtains cur-tains were pulled down as a last resort, re-sort, they were repped to shreds. The passengers took refuge under the seats on the north sides of the cars. After the storm the hail was said, to be several inches deep over the floors of the cars, and when the train was finally able to pull into Akron, a distance dis-tance of 4 miles, many of the passengers pas-sengers were given medical treatment treat-ment for gashes made by flying glass and bruises from the hailstones The train was abandoned at Akron andi! a new train made up to carry passen- r,-Ts past." i i |