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Show Great Hail Storm. Two Visits Cardston, Alberta and Cut Great Didos. Hailstorms visited Cardston.Canada, on July l!.1rd and 21th, the latter being be-ing the worst ever known there. It destroyed 'J00 acres of grain, six acres of beets, garden stulT, etc., valued at $0,000, belonging to Thomas Wolford. Other losses arc enumerated as follows: fol-lows: J. Hansen L'OO acres, Illshop Hatncr SO acres, Mr. Cazler 1!00 acres, Mr. Cowley 2M) acres, Mr. Tanner 210 acres, Herman Ilowdcn 10 acres, Mr. Matkln 100 acres of grain. A rough estimate places the total acreage destroyed de-stroyed at 2,f00. The crops of Messrs. Low and llarbcr arc also destroyed.! A clipping from the Albcrtastar says "Windows In stores and houses were I smashed wholesale and the repairing that had been going gaily on all day will have to be done Over again, What 1 Is most needed now Is a carload of glass. A good many windows facing the west, that escaped the llrst day, lasted only about two minutes, and the stores and olllces on'tlie east side of Main street vvcie wrecks at once-thc once-thc Scott Studio, The Alberta Star, The Chinese Laundry, Mr. Donovan's oillce, The Alberta Lumber Co, Ilui-ton's Ilui-ton's Hook Store, Mr. Anderson' house, Atkins Hook Store and the Woolf hotel. Stores on the other side suffered suf-fered heavily where there were skv-lights skv-lights or west windows. |