Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-09
C0L0RED RAIN.
THE FIRST AUTHENTICATED
FALL WAS IN 1910.
The Hague Seemed to 10 be DsIuqed With
Bood-A Calabrlan Downpour Of FRY
Color Black Rain in Canada
by A. 4 Duane.

For The Sunday Gazette:
There have been traditions for con-
turtles OF miraculous rains of blood.
stones, animals ard fishes but even IN
this nineteenth century We are constantly
hearing of red ard black rain. only
nowadays science has held up the glass
and the analysis, and told rs the reason
why.
The first memorable example Of red
rain fell m the Hague in 1910.
People QWOke In the. morning 90 find
III It the streams had seemingly all turn
ed 10 blood and the miraculous fluid was
still falling from the skies High and
low dropped upon their knees praying
thinking that q pluguc had come upon
them
But there happened 10 be scientific
man with small microscope, even then.
lie took some Of the red water and
examined IL, and found that instead OF
ITS being q warning acITt by Providence
10 ioretell war and bloodshed. il was
coloWd 10y minute red insects
The man with the microscope told his
discovery all over Holland. but when
the war came 10y which Louis XIV. de-
ynstatCd the country, there were many
who believed that the red rain" had
been sent as warning"
The red insect was a SORT of winter
flea, known to science as Pulices arbor-
cscents
THE CALABRIAN STORM.
On the l4th Of Alnrch. 1913. the inhab.
itonts of Gcrace. CalabriA perceived n
terrific cloud advancing from the sea
with a violent wind
At ? o'clock In the afternoon this
cloud changed 10 fiery red and totally
intercepted the light of the sun The
town was enyelopcd In darkness and
10 hsH.N 81. H.. 40
lug the end of the world had come.
The fiery rcd cloud increased In in
tenslV. thunder pealcd, and with vivid
| flashes OF tightening sheets of red rain
FELL which the inhabitants took TO be
lire or blood The rain finally grew
lighter and censed having done no harm
TO anything.
Colored rain OF u similar character 10
the Calabrian downpour which has
since fallen, has been proven TO contain
u red dust. which when heated. changed
70 brown, and then 20 black. In Il could
be discovered small particles OF mica.
An analysis proved that the dust con
sisted Of silica, alumina, lime. cnrbonic
! acid and oxide Of iron
IL Is probable that i'm MI those cosas
Il had been blown from some acflve
Volcano carried distance through the
/ upper ar, and finally descended with
the fall OF rain.
THE PIEDMONT RAIN.
A similar rain. or rather deposit Of
| dust as Il was not even wet took place
| m the valley Of Oneglia Piedmont. dur.
( ing the night of the 9th of October
| lSl4 II covered the leaves and grass,
and where IL mingled with the dew
made what seemed to be blood stains
/ q phenomenon which caused great ev,
| cltement among the peasantry
The blue rain has been found nv anal
ysls TO be caused boy deposit of cobalt
Sometimes the oOlOred rains are tinfed
| on me seeds of plants, which have been
caught hoaung IN the atmosphere.
BLACK RAINS.
! On the 9th of November. 1910 hIoo,
ram fell at Montreal. Canada
! Some Of the liquid was collected ana
sent TO New York for analysis. N WAS
round that the water was colored ~,
SCOT owing TO the dryness of Inc so.
son an immense CONFEDERATION OF soma
/ iaIge forests, situated south 81 ~,
| ONO river had taken place, the Mil
p p,oMing steadily north for some time
Rad conveyed these sooty particles 'ii n,e,
iNWer Canada AZ Birmingham I tsr,o
| anu IN May, 1866, az II in me morrin's.
| 'ne town was euyeloned m darl.n,se-'
S,as was lighted everywhere NM
npia H ram fell, which blaekened an tho
hhen PUT out TO bleach. '"o