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Show A Hail torm Fort Collins, Col., July 4. 'TO : A most terrific hail storm visited this section of the Cache a la Poudre on the evening of th first of July. It commenced hailing about six o'clock and lasted over an hou-. Hailstones were picked up two of which weighed a pound. They resembled re-sembled nieces of ice broken off a large piece. The storm came from the south, cross"d the Poudre at Mr. Coy's, about a mile below Ft. Collins, d -ins but little damage there, run off on the prairie about ten miles and then returned with tremendous force, tak ins in a strip of about two m les above Ft. Collins on the north bank of the Poudre, and abutting on the stream It is needless to add that it destroyed everything in its course. The cloud broke over Mr. Bush and Capt Hawley s farms, where hail lay ten inches deep at coon the next day, although the sun was scorching hot. Cattle were knocked down by it and sun flower staiks were cut into threads. We kept an eye to the windward for grasshoppers, b never expected anything any-thing of that kind. Denver News. |