DISASTROUS HAIL.
PANIC IN A TOWN. BUDAPEST, June 10. The bad weather has culminated in disastrous hail that ha« destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of corn and fruit trees. In Kecskemet, the famous fruit centre, a hundred thousand acres of corn have been reduced to a state which prevents the corn being need even as fodder. The hail storms caused a panic in the town, as they were accompanied by great noise and darkness, and disturbed the supply of electricity. The glass roofs of several factories and of the hospital were broken, and workmen and patients were wounded by broken glass.
Sixty-two persons suffered injuries from the hail in the streets, and were taken to hospital, and a young shepherd was battered to death in the fields. In the town alone sixty thousand panes of glass were broken, and the damage suffered by slate roofs is assessed at one million and four hundred thousand
pengos. The only district to escape the disaster of Kecskemet was Bugas, where some of the apricots for which Kecskemet is renowned are grown.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 15
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