Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-08-04

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the clouds at Seringapotam- Nor is
the story told in the Chronicle of
Rheims that on June "a, 1923. man of
ice fell from the skies fifteen feet across
and six feet thick to be received with
implicit faith. Yet Missionary Father
Hue claims to have witnessed terrible
storm. which occurred somewhere in
Tartary in 1913. during which an ice
block of the size of milestone dropped
near his dwelling, and though the
weather was warm, it took three days
for it to melt.
Floods are sometimes preceded by
tremendous hail storms. Nillaret re-
lated that in l260 an inundation caused
BY hail-storm killed horses in the
English camp at Bretigny. Their
number NAV be thought exaggerated,
but it is perfectly authentic thai during
a terrific haii-storm which befell the
small town OF Benerungen, in Har over.
the floods, consisting OF hail and water,
which rushed down sloping eminence.
overturned heavy cart drawn by four
horses. and swept it along with them
into the Weser. The torrent rushed
with such impetuosity into the small
town that it blocked the gates at the OPP
posite end by raising an ice dam before
them and inundated the streets ut dif-
ferent elevations.
There are many curious and unex-
planned facts. Ii halls oftener nj Mont
pelier. Philadelphia and Rome during
the tropical heat of the summer months,
81, l..
or Guiana In the higher mountainous
regions of the equatorial zone hail is not
unusual. In CumOnia hail is unknown.
but in Caracas. which is ]. 200 feet high
er. a hail-storm takes place every five
years. Humboldt speaks Of hail-storm
on the ChimbOrazO at a height of z, 400
feet, and hail has been observed in the
Abyssnian mountains and highlands of
East Indies. In the temperate regions,
on the contrary, hail is more frequent
in the lOwlands than in mountainous
countries. In Cressier, near the Lake
of Neufchatel, the damage to the vine
yards is often serious, while at Signi-
enes, which is 1,2OO feet higher ON the
slope of Chaument, hail-storms are rare.
In the high valley of Travers it rains at
the time when hail-storms burst over
the mountain slopes situated lower
down. Sometimes insignificant cir
cumstances determine the appearance
of hail. Near the village of Casaiboro.
in Naples. there was formerly a high
hill to the northwest covered with
woods, and hail storms were unknown.
But since the hill has been removed to
make way for the pillow and the forests
cleared away, hail storms occur each
nomena connected with hail storms.
The one of yesterday illustrated some
OF these. There were pauses between
the hail stones in which the rainfall
was severe. Kaenitz observed this
phenomena He saws that at the be-
ginning of the severest storm he ever
witnessed there fell some large drops
OF rain; these soon ceased, and after a
short interval there fell hail stones
shaped like beans, of one or twO-tenths
OF an inch in diameter; this ceased, and
then followed rain, and after another
pause fresh hail of two or three-tenths
of an inch in diameter; again another
pause. and q new fall of hail OF these
successive falls of hail stones the first
possessed only slight coating of ice
over the snow nucleus; the second class
were partially surrounded with a thick
layer of ice. and the last hail stones
were generally rounded masses. one
third of an inch in diameter. In all
cases the kernel was not transparent,
while the surrounding ice was so in
very high degree.
Another popularity among hail
storms arises from the fact that the
central portion Of the region passed
over by the storm is almost entirely
free from the fall of hail stones, which
are almost invariably found in two or
more belts parallel to the track of the
storm center and some distance there
from. Thus in the storm of july IS