A storm approaching tornado proportions visited a section of lower Providence township Friday afternoon, with high wind and a heavy hail doing considerable damage to growing crops. Information to this effect was brought to the city Saturday by L.H. Robinson and other citizens of lower Providence.
The storm in its fiercest aspect began about the J.A. Blakeney plantation and extended eastward across the township, taking in the plantations of L.H. Robinson, W.T. Robinson, L.C. Kimball and others. The hail came down in heavy showers, it is stated, and hands working about three miles from the homestead on the Blakeney planation had quite an experience when they started to the barn riding the miles they had been plowing. As the hail beat down on them, the mules refused to go into the shower and stopped, turning round and trying to go back away from the shower of pelting icicles. The plow hands had to dismount and hold the animals under the limbs of low trees nearby to somewhat break the force of the hail and prevent the animals from becoming frantic.
The wind struck the rural store of W.S. Robinson and damaged it considerable. It also struck the garage on the L.H. Robinson plantation and partially wrecked it. For some minutes the wind blew a heavy gale.
The hail did much damage to both corn and cotton, according to Mr. Robinson, over a stretch of considerable territory.
From The Charlotte News, June 25, 1921
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