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Show HAILSTORMS DO DAMAGE IN FLORIDA Ocala, Fla., April 10. Hail and wind storms, accompanied by a sharp fall In temperature, last night did many thousand dollars damages to vegetables and citrus fruit crops throughout central Florida. Orange groves and melon and tomato fields suffered severely. Southern Florida, however, where the bulk of tho peninsula pen-insula cltniB fruits are produced, experienced ex-perienced only n cool rain. Frost in the state was confined to the northwestern north-western section, where crops were not sufficiently matured to suffer materially. The heaviest loss was in this section, sec-tion, which was swept by a storm of cyclonic proportions. Houses were unroofed, windows broken and sov-eral sov-eral large orange groves destroyed. The melon In this and adjoining counties, coun-ties, the ceutcr of the melon belt of Florida, is believed to be almost a total I0S3. |