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Domestic News
February 6, 1788
The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Freezing rain on Saturday night caused extensive damage to trees across Worcester and a hundred miles around, ruining many apple and peach orchards and breaking branches from elms and oaks.
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WORCESTER, Jan.24.
We learn that very great damage has been done to trees of all kinds by the rain on Saturday night last, which freezing on the limbs as soon as it lodged on them. so overloaded them with ice, as occasioned them to break off: and the woods and orchards for an hundred miles round, we are told appear deprived of their branches, which lay in heaps on the ground, as if piled there by the hands of the pruner. A large number of apple and peach trees are entirely ruined. Even the most stately elms and oaks are in some instances split, and main as well as smaller branches broke off.
We learn that very great damage has been done to trees of all kinds by the rain on Saturday night last, which freezing on the limbs as soon as it lodged on them. so overloaded them with ice, as occasioned them to break off: and the woods and orchards for an hundred miles round, we are told appear deprived of their branches, which lay in heaps on the ground, as if piled there by the hands of the pruner. A large number of apple and peach trees are entirely ruined. Even the most stately elms and oaks are in some instances split, and main as well as smaller branches broke off.
What sub-type of article is it?
Weather
Disaster
Agriculture
What keywords are associated?
Freezing Rain
Tree Damage
Orchard Ruin
Worcester
Ice Storm
Where did it happen?
Worcester
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Worcester
Event Date
Saturday Night Last
Outcome
very great damage to trees of all kinds; large number of apple and peach trees entirely ruined; stately elms and oaks split with main and smaller branches broke off; woods and orchards deprived of branches for a hundred miles round.
Event Details
Rain on Saturday night last froze on tree limbs, overloading them with ice and causing branches to break off.