The Review and Herald by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 30, 1865

The Review and Herald.

By Editor

BATTLE CREEK, MICH., THIRD-DAY MAY 30 1865.

On Sunday, May 28, between the hours of 6 and 7 P. M., a severe hail storm passed over the western portion of this city, exceeding in severity anything that has been witnessed here for many years, at least. Hailstones were plentiful of an inch and a quarter in diameter. Windows were broken extensively on the sides of buildings exposed to the storm, fifteen lights of glass being destroyed in the Review Office. But gardens and fruit suffered most severely. The young and tender plants of almost all kinds, that were just reaching a vigorous growth, were beaten into the ground, as if brayed in a mortar, and trees were stripped of their fruit, and of a great portion of their leaves. Fortunately the path of the storm was only about one mile in width. As it is, the damage is incalculable, but had it been more extensive, it would have been one of the most terrible visitations this generation has witnessed. At this hour, ½ past 8 Monday morning, beneath the shining of an unclouded sun, bushels of hailstones could be shoveled up within sight of the Office in almost any direction.