Show GREAT gitt HAIL STORM OM ox LAKE superiors A correspondent of the detroit advertiser writing in from minnesota mine under date of sept 11 lith tb says bays yesterday we had a hail storm here that for violence has never been equalled equal led the hail fell thick and heavy for about twenty minutes bome some of the stones being seven binckes inches in in circumference cum ference and weighing four ounces the storm torm f 3 then abated for a time and those who had the lights of glass in the windows of their houses broken proceed edel ei to replace them with others but their haste availed them nothing for a second storm came on fiercer than the first it lasted for about half an hour hoar and the glass that was not demolished by the first storm had to suffer one piece of ice was found that weighed half a pound the effects of the storm were only felt within a small space as iu in places one mil mile distant from this ao na hailstones fell at this mine and in this immediate neighborhood I 1 should think three thousand panes of glass have been broken the stones the w windows destroying tr ayin mirrors a and nd earthenware and damaged furniture but the greatest damage P has hag 1 been to the gardens cabbage were cut in pieces 1 small smail enough for 11 krout 1 tomatoes were i knocked off the vines and pounded to a jelly I 1 pumpkins were skinned and I 1 saw three that i 1 were split in halves as if done with a knife carrots beets onions onions parsnips par snips and potatoes were actually beaten out of the ground and so nearly destroyed that they tiley are useless except to feed cattle I 1 cannot yet say how much dama damage has been done but hear of one inal d cafe who has lost nearly three hundred dollars in garden gardea stuffs elass glass and furniture |