The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-07-03
THE STORM.
Section Trains All Put Out OF
Timc---Ihe RiNcr-s Mighty Room.

An Unprecedented Rainfall for This
Section Trains All Put Out Of
Time--The Rivers Mighty Boom.
The rainfall registered at three O'Clock yes.
teTday afternoon at this place for the pre-
viouS TWEEN y-four hours was three end a.
half inches-to be exact, &c inches TIE
barometer at that time was falling steadily
surely forecasting more OF the storm, which,
in fact was raging at the time. The rainfall
during the severest poTti1n-Thursday night
was 2sl inches. this being the heaviest
fall ever recorded here. In fact, the whole
storm has resulted in a larger rainfall than
has ever been recorded in a similar number
sf hours.
Since the lsu of June, the rainfall has been
81 inches-over one-fourth of the annual
rainfall, which averages SIS inches. The
maximum rainfall recorded here was in
lS77, when It was 81 inches; and the mini
mum fall WAS 81 p inches, in ls75.
TNuTE.-Our figures are taken from the
measurements of the signal office Their
gauge is NJ n considerable altitude and does
no corr city give the figures for the surface,
which arr ttuo- thirds greater.
THE DAMAGE.
l44flls tafn1He has bttu uONt Dy WlDU. dS
there was but little accompanying the storm,
though we are reliably informed that a num-
Der of trees Were blown down in the north
west port on of the county, snd, in the west
ern pant OF the city, some fences were blown
down. The damage done in retarding the
grain harvest cannot now be accurately CAL
cuiat.d. There is "A great deal of grain already
cn, and in the shock, and sprouting is inev-
liable IN many cases Wheat not already cut
is dead ripe and II will be hard to complete
the work OF harvesting without a heavy loss
nom snat;rrIug the grain
TIE RAILROADS.
The storm caused high water which over.
flowed the tracks, caused wash-outs. bad
tracks .. e.. upon all our roads. throwing an
uncertainty into the movements of trains as
r.. ! a. Il was unpleasant To travellers.
The Kansas Pacific suffered the least. be
tu., Only about fifteen minutes late, caused
10y bad Track The storm did not seem to ex-
pend much Of it, force along tnts line.
Tn. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific pas
seng.r train. due here at loco yesterday
m1Tni,,y, ala not arrive until shout one
O'Clock. There Were three wash-outs upon
= h.. rnad b.tween Platte City and Edgerton
Junrtiou, which caused the delay.
Tb.. Missouri Pacific trark was overficwed
iuSf neluw Pomeroy, near Quindsro, by back
water. 'rom the river. so that trains in the
nom kaEsas City aud Afchison
were abandoned At noon, however, the
track was reported clear and trains came
through on tIn-- The point T. AT kickapoo,
about Seyeu miles above herr, where the
banks have been csvIng, is passed by trains
Tie Xmas City. st. Joseph & Council
Bluffs rhad has wa h-out or overflow at
r-srkville, which seriously Impedes the run
ming ni the trains
Th.. Kansas Central passenger is laid out at
iTclyNIile, but Is expected In to-day.
AsUBLIME SPECTACLE.
About o'clock yesterday morning pncu-
liar ciuUi came up from The southwest. In
fh. direction of Pilot Knob, seeming v
paused for moment over this city and then
went wniriing aw to the southwark IL
Ird ali thu appearance Of an auroral arch. or
Il Il Ia .-e vail s.i htiy punched together. The
lDprr portion was black night, with
,rIfskS oi deep gray at irregular Intervals,
,ynIle "a !r'Lge ot the same color skirt-d the
over p4rl IL WAS that class Of n cloud whicn,
" tea move cir>ey confined, has the terrible
DrI,aiu Il ~ ing IN IT. train but, in thus Iu
,1anC-, l. was too much spread out to be dan
: rnuN. ThnS.. VINO SAW IL, however, As II
peculiarly iodcd shape changing into
thousand faut"sUc forms, were
truck Win ave al the spectacle afforded
lh- wrat'rr wise people. who knew the
character uf the cloud, and Of what IL WAS
etIIe precursor, instinctiveiy
""k'd mound & : places oi safety. The pas
Igr "t to ct"ud through the MIR was accnfn-
panied IS :. the wind and "A peculiar whist
ing Iurs'. 'ch did not tend 10 lessen tue
...T> OF tiie beiuid.r>.
THE nIvER.
TIE gr..a' guaud frv now is, where will the
'i,.r-r sr SO: buTing Thursday nilht IL
To U'ciuck yss,erdny marked sixteen feet
md iuu. ircht-S aiso>e low wafer mark, and
VH- -a.rtdrIy rising. AT eleven O'Clock last
tlgHt q wa~ co tidenrIy expected that IL
Won 4 r.sts u t-ute,.u feet 10y morning.
r." max InGm tsmperature yesterday
vss751.