The evening world., 1894-09-08
Rain IN TORRENTS.
The Long Drought Broken with a
Vengeance.
Grand Electrical Display in Homer
Of the Occasion.
Parched Crops and Dried Springs
Get q New Lease OF Life.

The drought was universally broken
to-day, and broken at this point with a
vengeance.
IL rained all over the country be-
| tween the Rockies and the Eastern sea
board. and at this point the rainfall,
which was almost continuous from the
time 1t began. at 8 o'clock this morning,
was varied with two short heavy down
pours and a grand electrical storm at
2 o'clock this afternoon.
Upon the last COCA sion the water came
so hard and fast that it was fair to con-
clude that II the windows OF heavens
were open for Noah's deluge the whole
side of the house had fallen out this
afternoon.
There had been intermittant showers,
interrupted by periods of drizzling rain
with such a heavy percentage of humid
ty brooding over all that there was
little relief offered at any moment from
exposure to the prevailing moisture.
Just about 3 o'clock. however. the
gray blanket that had overhung the
city, all day. thickened and darkened,
until lights had to be turned on in
homes and offices all over town.
At almost exactly o'clock the storm,
whose energies were gathering In the
ClOulS, DuTst WIN great Jury
Torrents fell, through which the light
ming tore, and the thunder pealed for
nearly an hour with savage earnest
ness that made grand display, II 1t
The streets were converted into wide
cutters that ran with foamy, black
water, like mill-races, and in many
highway and walks covered like a lake.
The total rainfall at this point up to
3 o'clock this afternoon was one and
thirty hundredths inches. ninety hun
dredths of which fell during the thunder
storm.
At o'clock the Weather Bureau an
nounced that repeated showers might
night but that such a heavy one as that
OF the middle Of the afternoon was not
looked for.
Weather Forecaster Dunn was par
drenching, as he had prophesied 1t in
these columns and elsewhere three days
II take great deal OF satisfaction
over the fact that it rained to-day"
said he, las | should have been sorry
to have missed the first downpour after
the long drought.
serious one this year" he Continued
The Northern States have been drought
stricken, while the Southern States have
been deluged
had a fine field for profitable Industry
in the North this Summer II they can
produce rain. They have not been heard
from"
Mr. Dunn went on to say that many
people seemed TO believe that because
we have had dry Summer that IL
must be compensated by a rainy and
Fall and Winter.
+" Such Is not necessarily the case"
said he. "The average OF sunshine IL
about the same throughout the year.
and the average of evaporation IL ac-
about the same.
"If the Influences that govern the de-
post of moisture upon the earth were
even, there would never he droughts in
localities and floods in others"
The rain continues over the Middle
Atlantii and New England States and
the lake region. There is dense fog
on this coast. and the percentage OF hu-
mildly here IL very high and rising,
making the weather extremely close
and muggy The humidity registered
% per cent. at o'clock with an Upward
tendency.
The temperature here was "A degrees
at o'clock, with n twelve-mile breeze
prevailing; Boston, 60: Albany. Go; Wash |
ingtOn, 10: Chicago. 20. and St Louis |
u. The warmest place in the country
was, as usual, Key West, at 81 degrees, |
and the coolest Havre. Mon, at A.
II Is slightly warmer at all points in |
the West and Interior.