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The Camden Chronicle
Camden, Benton County, Tennessee
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In France, lightning cyclonic storms are increasingly countered with artillery. A hailstorm recently destroyed Bordeaux vineyards, but Saint Millon growers, warned by telegraph, used five military guns to disperse an approaching storm cloud harmlessly.
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Lightning cyclonic storms with artillery is becoming frequent all over France. Recently a terrible shower of hail destroyed the vineyard crops in Bordeaux, but the growers of Saint Millon, having been warned by telegraph that the storm was traveling toward them, immediately appealed to the military authorities. Five huge guns were got ready and when the towering black cloud came sufficiently near it was cannonaded into shreds, which drifted away harmlessly. —New York World.
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Saint Millon, France
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vineyard crops destroyed in bordeaux; storm cloud cannonaded into shreds and drifted away harmlessly in saint millon
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Lightning cyclonic storms countered with artillery are becoming frequent all over France. A terrible shower of hail destroyed the vineyard crops in Bordeaux. Growers in Saint Millon, warned by telegraph of the approaching storm, appealed to military authorities, who prepared five huge guns and cannonaded the towering black cloud into harmless shreds.