Canton Weekly Register

Terrible Hail Storm in Missouri.—A hail-storm of unprecedented severity passed over a section of De Kalb Co., Mo., on the evening of the 18th inst. A correspondent of the St. Louis Republican says:

The hail stones were about the size of goose eggs. They struck a negro boy belonging to Mr. Rattler Boone, and killed him instantly; they beat down and seriously crippled two negro men who were working in a field; and a white man whose name I heard but have forgotten, in saving his child by covering it with his body, had his shoulder dislocated by their pelting. The stock in the fields suffered most terribly, while many of the young calves, lambs and pigs were slain. The hemp, corn, and wheat were battered to the ground, and the general damage was done to every thing in the range of the fearful tempest. Fortunately its track was short and narrow, embracing only some three miles in width.