Rocky Mount, Aug. 28—Rocky Mount was in partial darkness tonight as efforts were being made to check up damages caused by a violent storm which hit his city and vicinity late tonight.
The storm was marked by an unprecedented rainfall, violent wind, which at times assumed almost cyclonic proportions, a terrific electric display and a heavy fall of hail which shattered windows and leveled fields of cotton and corn over a wide area. The storm continued with unabated violence here for nearly two hours.
Here in the city large trees were uprooted and blown down. A number of small houses and outbuildings were reported destroyed, while chimneys were leveled in a number of instances. In several places streets were blocked by falling trees. Havoc was played with local telephone and electric light service Numerous telephone posts and liens were down, while it was necessary to cut off the electric current on account of the wires being broken and across the sidewalks in a number of places.
Basements were literally flooded by the downpour of rain, and streets in several sections of the city were veritable lakes tonight. In the business section a service station and billboards were partially blown down, while several big plate glass windows were shattered. The violent wind and hail stones almost as large as marbles combined to play havoc with windows in the residential section. No reports have been secured tonight as to how wide an area the storm visited or the damage which is caused in outlying sections. Crops, however, were believed to have been leveled by the violence of the elements.
At an early hour tonight no casualties had been reported, although authorities were still engaged in making a survey of the situation here and in the outlying sections where it was said equally heavy damage ensued.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, August 29, 1924
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