Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

The late hail storm in Minnesota was of a most destrutive character. In Freeborn County, we are told, it raged as a tornado, tearing hundreds of oak trees almost into shreds, tumbling down fences, flattening corn fields, demolishing gardens, and doing much other damage. In Fairfield, Geneva, Clark’s Grove, etc. the storm was characterized by severe hail, which cut to pieces whole fields of grain, and completely destroyed numberless gardens. Some of the hail-stones were the size of hen’s eggs. In the neighborhood of Faribault chickens, pigs and sheep were killed outright, and cattle and horses who could not get under shelter, were almost crazy with the fierce peltings of the storm.