The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-28
WIND AND water.
Terrific Storms of Wind, Rain
and Hail Visit the City
and Country.
The Mighty BTazOs Again Oh
the Rampage and Com
tinuing to Rise.
The Highest Waters known
Flooding the Farms south
of the city.
News From the Country Any
thing but Bright 49, Last
River Ranarsa
WIND, HAIL AND RAIN.

After the terrific storm of Sunday
the sky cleai G. up the river began rap
idly subsiding and the general express
sion was that the wet season was over
at last. Tuesday night the moon
shone gloriously bright in sky OF
perfect azure, flecked only here and
there with tissues of clouds that look
ed as If the Aries had been shorn and
the fleecy locks scattered across the
sky BY the shearers. The lovers were
out promenading, billing and cooling,
the knocking birds were doing their
level best to fill the air with melody,
and the resonant voice of the coon
promenader was heard in the streets.
All nature was smiling as brilliantly
aui pleasantly as "sweet-siXteen,"
ANXIOUS TO get married and every one
was flirting with her. But about 4
o'clock the sky became sultry, the
moon went of in pout behind the
clouds. and there seemed to be strong
indications of big family jar in Dame
Natures household. AT $3.50 yester-
day morning the elements just turned
themselves loose for II picnic. The
Northwest wind blew harder than an
offensive partisan" at election
cock aud batiledore with
everything loose and some things that
were not loose. When short of club.
the iratc participants in the row broke
of good-sizcd trees for the purpose,
or ripped oil board here aud there,
and in a moment of extreme excite
ment. when the fracas was at its height,
the frame of Capt. r. A. Blair's house.
on North Fifteenth street, was dis
sected by the combatants. Old Jupi-
ter roared aud beloved his displcas.
ure in all sorts of notes. and the
"Electric girln of the family got in
some of her livelicst work with
most startling effects on the audience
both indoors and out, In the midst
of all this aud interningling with the
rumpus throughout here was profuse
weeping of the very profusest sort
by all the family and they opened the
windows letting the floods come
| down until every street was a raging
torrent of water. For more than an
hour this sort of thing was kept up
and then out came old Sol and his
| temper became so excited at the ruin
which he saw in the fields and in the
town that the heat of his enraged
chances was simply unbearable. lie
scorched the wheat and oats in his
wrath and thus added to the ruin.
Old Father Brazos rose in wrath al
the excessive prohibition enthusiasm
of the elements and became SO excited
that he got entirely out of his bed
and went to racing around in the
harvest fields, shouting "This is wha'
you git for weepin all over me-
In the evening about 6 O'Clock there
was another and even worse repeti
ton of the disturbance. The Elec
trio girl Just did her prettiest and hei
conduct was still more shocking
than in the morning, aud even the
telegraph tiend refused TO wOrl
while her startling exhibition was il
progress. The streets, especial,
Fourth, was flooded from door-sill +
door-sill opposite, aud Waco assume
a most decided Venetian aspect. Til
sun in sulk started off for Chin
and the Afghan boundary, and oil
Vulcan will be busy for the next
days forging u fresh supply OF thun
derbo,ts for Jupiter Tonans.
At the present writing 1t looks a
if the disturbance in the family WI
liable to continue for an unlimite
length of time, and Old Brazos d
clares he will make wreck and ruin
. everything in his reach. Already
has his "back up" and is still "a hi
tin" it at the rate of several inch'
per hour.