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Domestic News
August 27, 1853
West Jersey Pioneer
Bridgeton, Cumberland County, New Jersey
What is this article about?
Grasshoppers devastate potato and corn fields in Long Island, NY, more than heat; swarm halts express train on Watertown and Rome Railroad by covering tracks.
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Damage by Grasshoppers: - A correspondent of the New York Tribune, in Long Island, says, the grasshoppers are doing a more destructive work than the heat. Fields of potatoes and corn are stripped even to the skin of the rinds of the former. "A few days since, it is said, the express train on the Watertown and Rome Railroad was stopped by a swarm of grasshoppers. Attracted somehow from the blackened lands to the iron track, they were crushed in such numbers that the wheels of the cars revolved on the oily matter without an onward motion."
What sub-type of article is it?
Agriculture
Transportation
What keywords are associated?
Grasshoppers
Crop Damage
Long Island
Train Stopped
Watertown Rome Railroad
Where did it happen?
Long Island
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Long Island
Event Date
A Few Days Since
Outcome
fields of potatoes and corn stripped; express train stopped by swarm of grasshoppers
Event Details
Grasshoppers causing destructive damage to potato and corn fields in Long Island, worse than heat. Swarm on Watertown and Rome Railroad track stopped express train as wheels revolved on crushed oily matter.