Campbellsport News, August 12, 1915

HAIL DESTROYS CROPS

   The storm and hail, which visited the eastern part of the county last Saturday, did great damage to crops, especially between Campbellsport and Dundee, where hundreds of acres of crops were totally demolished by the hail.
   John Rinzel, Michael Tunn, Michael Polzean, Bernard Doyle and Ralph Romaine, are reported to have lost their entire crops of grain, corn and potatoes, all of which was pounded into a pulp through the heavy fall of hail.
   Other farmers in that vicinity lost from ten to twenty acres of standing crops and it is estimated that hundreds of acres in the county will not return seed grain this year.
   During the storm Saturday, lightening also killed a cow on the August Lade farm, and John Bohlman reports the loss of a valuable cow through lightening striking the animal while in the pasture Saturday afternoon.

(Scan courtesy Alan Krueger)