| Show losi M T Tf T M f HAIL Il IlI I Visits Thatcher Arizona DC le 1 c strops Crops Kills Poultry nud Docs Does Great Damage c RUIN AND AHO DISASTER IN WAKE Several People H Windows of e f Whole Town 1011 In Iii I II Special Thatcher Grahim Co 00 Aril APIs Sept opt 14 A hell at storm torm rm burst over Thatcher on ott Sunday r evening Sept t 11 ii which 1 crops ere killed poultry and nd Injured slid and nd i awne m people bt The rh damage to property properly will probably amount to 1000 Th rite storm torm came eme dur duro durIng lag Ing the stake conference and amid abrupt abruptly ly Iy terminated time the Mm same III Jut Just about 7 T the Ute rain to descend People were hurrying to get et through the evening meat meal when their attention wee was a o to tu the welt window windows Soon oon the tb lights were ware broken and the windows window on omu time the west westside est It side were ere all III beaten to pieces With the tho Immense halftones which came from the tha northwest The Th cloud could rould lo be mn seen n from a long IonA distance and stood high bight above Thatcher Aa As mow Inow and natural Ire ite 11 is II n a rarIty lI In Arisona the people gathered up paths pall full of 01 the mind and Indulged In eating th the chunks chunk of ot frozen frozin rain The writer tinier measured lOin corn of nr th the larger and struck truck an average ot of lk 24 3 In circumference some measuring 34 and the larger burger a 1 I lichen Inches ranting In aiD and shape from Irom tin Hn ordinary china mar marble marble ble bit to what the boys boj call taws awn as a large as a walnut The hIle t of the storm of hail hall listed lasted about 40 10 minutes When It sub subsided subsided sided the streets Ireeta were ere rivers rIven of ot water When morning rune caine It revealed a d di ae city ell and country All time the west Wilt windows of or every t house houe In town In Including eluding the beautiful lights light III In the tha Ih meetinghouse Wen verc W rt broken In Fields 1 of ot corn nii alfalfa and other vegetation were wre stripped tb the ground leaving only stalks standing with drooping form to 10 mark what had been looked bake upon n a at a prospective valuable drop droll Apple Aiple and other 0 fruit trees were wr strip pod fled of all their fruit trul t The apples were bruised and washed hed away In III the flood Shade trees treM shrubbery tend and lower flowers had hut but a maw of stalks and fallen leaves beeves loft left Young Youn tre trees s even were trite stripped of ot b bark rk lUl trusting tru to 0 tho thu shelter helter of ot t trees trell ca for tor protection were killed and birds were war found dead In large numbers Horses were vere driven frantic and cut ut against fences fence Their ware cowed with great welts as though stung by 11 pots Pals onous Insects Many were wen caught In the tha storm and amid severely punished A little littleboy littleboy boy bo son san of or William Moody was re r from rom rain Safford with Io lee loe train from the factory In an nn open wagon The Ihl little fellow was staB nearly nearl henri beaten belten to death be before before fore he could set get to shelter Mayor K E 0 C II Phillip PhillIps and wife and child were down In the time Held field and before they the could get got their hernia hend vore beaten Into sores Bores and welts Two young men en on route to meeting inciting on finding they could not nor pros press their hone horal longer jumped out nut and anI cut the animal Kerby one olle of oC the party Jart lost loat hl hat and tie be lie before toro fore ho could reach shelter helter lilt his head was WOR covered with bruIses bruise The gutters gutter of ot Hat roof houses nausea and store buildings were wore soon lIoon clogged tip lip and th the water beaten through walls traIls and ceilings de tie destroyed and atmil considerable soiled In all It lit is estimated the time loss lois will reach fully 5 O |
