This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bancroft Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Vk.2ADE/1741 Message Board Post: Nashua Reporter, The (Nashua, Iowa) 1899 > June > 22 Last night Cedar Falls was bombarded from above, the projectiles hurled from the celestial artillery being large chunks of ice. The hail stones are said to have ranged in size up to that of a good-sized egg, but were peculiar as being somewest [sic] flat on two sides. Great damage was done to window glass in all parts of the city. Seventeen hundred panes of glass were broken in the green houses of Joseph BANCROFT and nearly every skylight in the city was broken. Hail stones even fell with such force as to go through the tin roof on one building near the Arlington hotel. Much damage was done to gardens and fruit orchards in the vicinity. --Waterloo Reporter, June 19.