Wyoming County Mirror Warsaw, Wyoming Co., NY August 10-1852 -cont'd- Terrible Hail Storm. Last Thursday a destructive hail storm passed over the south part of this county. We have not learned its extent, but the following letter will show its violence near Griffith's Corners, in Pike; and we learn from other sources that it was equally violent in other parts of its course. For want of room we omit some of the preliminaries of the letter: Pike, Aug. 5th. Friend Holly:-- A little before noon a cloud was gathering in the west from which we were expecting a refreshing shower. We had partaken of our dinner and were enjoying a little after-dinner idleness, when it suddenly grew very dark, and the heavens were overspread with ominous frowns. The clouds were in great commotion. They met in our zenith from opposite directions, and, careering in mingled confusion, seemed to pass in an aerial whirlpool to the regions of upper air. At this time the rain commenced falling and the wind blew furiously. It had rained but a short time before there fell an occasional hailstone, then another, and another,--"thicker and faster," till a merciless, cold, and icy hurricane rushed upon us, and over us, in maddened fury. The window glass, shattered to fragments, came dashing pell-mell, from their places, followed by hailstones, bounding and rolling in every direction across the room. Without, trees were upturned and fences prostrated, and the cattle were running hither and thither, in search of a shelter from the pitiless storm. The hail was accompanied with torrents of rain; and a little stream, that a few minutes before had run purling through our door yard, rushed, a torrent, spurning control. The continuance of the storm was about 20 min. and ended in a drizzling rain. This gave us an opportunity to venture forth and view the wreck it had made. The hail was drifted beneath our door to the depth of sixteen inches, and above a sluice across the brook near out house, it had been swept by the stream to a depth of three feet, a breadth of six feet, and a length of seventy feet. The ground was covered to the depth of four or five inches, generally; and we might see the dreariness of winter contrasted with the verdancy of summer. But the fields, which a short time before had been so beautiful! They are trampled by the feet of the storm to a mangled shadow of their former luxuriance! Indeed of the standing grain over which the more violent part of the storm passed, not a pint will be saved. The cornfields present armies of leafless, tasselless, silkless stalks, shivering in the breath of December. Oats and barley are completely threshed and leveled to the ground;--the before unmown meadows are now mown; the trees are partly stripped of their verdure;--wood and coverlids are on quick demand, and the hail lies in drifts about our houses. The direction of the storm was W.N.W. to E.S.E. Its breadth from North to South was more than two and a half miles. I do not at present know its extent from East to West. There was but little hail in Pike village. The storm divided to the north west of the village, one branch passing east, to the south of East Pike, and on in a direction a few points to the south of Portage, and the other to the south along Spencer street into Hume. All the window glass in Pike Village has already been purchased, and when another lot arrives, father is going over to purchase sixty six lights, the number broken for him; and our neighbors have suffered quite as severely. Wishing to inform those who are surrounded with rural fields smiling with a promise of plenty, that ours hold to our view in their skeleton hands the picture of a coming winter, I remain, Yours, &c., S.N.G. Since the above was in type, we have received another letter from a farmer, living a mile south of East Pike, which we copy:-- East Pike, Aug. 6, 1852 Mr. Holly:--Yesterday, just after noon, our town was again visited with a terrible hail storm, sweeping everything clean in its course. The track was near two miles wide, length not yet known. There is not anything left worth harvesting on this strip. The hail lay four inches deep on the ground when the storm was over; and now, (nearly twenty hours after,) the fields are white, and drifts a foot deep are to be found quite plenty. The hail-stones were as large as the yolk of an egg, and some even larger than that. The damage may be estimated by thousands. Yours, &c. *** Later.--We have received still another letter which we have not room to publish, but which gives some further account of the extent of the danger. In the neighborhood of the writer, (including one mile between East Pike and Griffith's corners,) the estimated losses are as follows:-- A.W. NOURSE, $400; G.M. FLINT, $300; L.J. GRIFFITH, $150; S.N. GRIFFITH, $450; S. DOLE, $350; M & N Van SLYKE, $300; others, $550. -- Amount, $2,500. The writer says that without doubt twenty miles have been as badly damaged as this mile, making at least $50,000, and probably much more. This loss must be severely felt by man farmers whose crops were the main dependence to pay debts and for their support during the coming winter. Such a hail storm was never before known in this section of the country. *** submitted by Linda Schmidt and Kathy Then