Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-08-30 | Page 6 | Damage from Storm Reaches High Figure

DAMAGE FROM STORM REACHES fiGURE Conservative Estimate of Loss to Cache Valley Valey Farmers Placed at 1 Special to The Tho Herald lerald Logan Aug 29 As As tho the reports come como comeIn comein In from tho the various settlements visited by ly the disastrous hailstorm of Tuesday Tues TUes- rl day clay night it I is evident that tho the damage dam darn ago age to crops and orchards will wil reach a high figure While It i Is not possible to more than estimate the total It I iSco Is la co conservatively I V e I y p placed la cod a at t b between C tWo en and by farmers fa familiar familiar ta- ta with wih the district The Tho loss of grain aleno lo in stated to tobe tobe tobe be bushels It I is deemed improbable im tm- probable that the fruit growers Willbe will willbe wi be able to ship one car of ot fruit whereas where where- as thc they anticipated sending out about eighty cars The Tho only acci accident ent reported happened hap- hap to Mrs J J J. J Plowman of ot Smithfield Smith Smith- field flold Cold who was driving dr in a buggy bugg She had a narrow escape from death b by lightning She was as stunned and her hair burned but hut has recovered fully tuly today Reports from tho farms toll tel of hundreds hundreds hun hun- s of chickens chIcken being killed b by the tho hall hail hall Domestic animals suffered considerably considerably con con- also George Romney Jr has hns lost his en entire entire entre en- en tire tre grain crop James Cragin of Smithfield says san ho will wi not be bc able abl to supply one bushel of ot the 1100 bushels I of apples he disposed of ot In advance Somo Some of ot tho the hailstones were driven en five fl e Inches into watermelons watermelons- The Tho grain g not cut Is entirely destroyed Beets sometimes rally raly if thc they have ten to twelve weeks of or growing er or The beets will wil not be harvested until the last of October so they ma may prove marketable