Hail and High Winds Hit Vance, Goose Creek, Cabarrus Junction, Buford, Lanes Creek, June 10, 1919

From The Monroe Journal, Tuesday, June 10, 1919. “The Union County Paper—Everybody Needs It, Everybody Reads It”

Hail Damages Crops in Two Sections of County. . . Goose Creek Seems to Have Suffered Most. . . Impossible to Estimate Damage. . . High Wind Accompanied Hail

A violent hail storm, accompanied by high winds, did much damage to crops in the northern and southeastern parts of the county about 2:30 Sunday afternoon.

The northern part of the county seems to have been the hardest hit by the storm. Here is started in Vance township and ranged eastward into Goose Creek. It is reported that the storm raged for about 30 minutes, during 15 minutes of which hail storms, some of them described as being as large as a guinea egg by Mr. F.M. Freezland fell. Mr. Freezland’s farm was in the path of the storm.

Capt. W.L. Howie was at his farm in Goose Creek when the storm broke. In places it is said that the crops were almost completely ruined. The oat and wheat crop which stood in the path of the storm suffered terribly. It is reported that several houses were unroofed.

Mr. Mark Yandle was visiting relatives in that section of the county when the storm occurred, and after it was over he went over a portion of the area which had been hit and reports that much damage was done. The area affected is estimated at about four miles.

Just across the line in Cabarrus county the storm seems to have been worse than in Goose Creek. Mr. W.D. Fulenwider was at Cabarrus Junction when it broke and reports that shingles were ripped from the house which he was in.

In the southeastern part of the county, Buford and a portion of Lanes Creek were the townships in the path of the wind and hail. In the former county the land in the vicinity of Mr. Philip Whitley’s farm was in the path of the storm and in the latter township the effected area was near Beulah church. Crops were damaged considerably from Mr. C.A. Arant’s to the old Lee tan yard.

Mr. Whitley was in town yesterday morning and reported that the storm had so damaged a portion of his crops that it would have to be planted over if anything was made. In Lanes Creek the farm of Mr. S.E. Belk is reported to have suffered considerably.

Dr. G.M. Smith visited patients in Buford yesterday morning. While there Mr. W.H. Hopkins informed him that after the storm had subsided Sunday afternoon he went out and gathered a quantity of the hail and made ice cream.

It is impossible to estimate in dollars the damage done to the crops in both sections of the county swept by the storm but it is thought it will run into a good sum.