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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