The Loss from Storm

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 17, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 19.

The Loss from Storm.

The Woman's National Daily of April 26 gives an estimate of the loss to the fruit crop and other crops resulting from the April storm which recently swept the western, southern, and central parts of the country. The loss in Illinois is estimated at six million dollars; Kansas and Indiana, each five millions; Iowa, eight millions; Ohio and Tennessee, each one million; Wisconsin, three millions; Michigan, ten millions; Nebraska and the South, each two millions; the Northwest, seven millions; making a total of fifty million dollars. The fruit crops suffered most, and in many sections will be a total loss. One strange thing about the weather was that while Memphis, Tennessee, was shivering in 30 degrees of temperature, Edmonton, Calgary, and Medicine Hat, away up North in Canada, were enjoying a temperature ranging from 82 to 86 degrees. Later reports seem to indicate that the loss in the South is less than was at first reported.