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The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], The class of citizens Usys to us (search)
Severe hail storm in North Carolina. --We are permitted, says the Portsmouth Transcript, of yesterday, (Thursday,) to make the following extract from a letter dated Gatesville, N. C., July 15: "I am sorry to say to you that we had one of the greatest hail storms to visit a portion of our county, on Saturday last, perfectly demolishing everything in its range. Fortunately, though, it only passed through a very narrow slope, ranging about one mile wide.--There are farms that had crops on them on Saturday morning that were worth thousands of dollars, and in the evening not worth one cent. Corn, cotton, peas, potatoes, &c., &c., completely destroyed. When I say destroyed, I mean that there will not be a grain of corn nor a lock of cotton made. It did not do much damage in this place, only one edge of it touching here. The damaged portion is about a mile from this place north, and going through several of the best farms in the country." A gentleman who reached Portsm