Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 11
Marlin, Texas,Thursday, May 9, 1907

DAMAGING HAIL STORM AT RIESEL
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Corn Beaten Down and Much Young
Cotton Ruined.
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       A severe hail storm visited Riesel and vicinity Thursday at 8 p.m. and did considerble damage to the crop.  Stones were reported to be still on the ground early Friday morning.  The rain there was also heavy.
       The information was brought to Marlin by Perry Bryant, a farmea (sic) who lives between Perry and Riesel.  He says that corn on his place is beaten down and that much of his cotton is ruined.
       The storm was most severe and in some places the stones were heaped or drifted up that morning.
       There was some wind but no damage in this respect.
       There was a deluge of water near his place and the roads and lands are badly washed.
       The hail extended south to Perry, but the extent of the area in other directions is not known.

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