The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-09-19
THE DROUGHT BROKEN.
A Dronehlns Rain Lasss Nearly
the Entire Day.
THE GROUND GETS A NEEDED SOAK
And nato Vegetation will DO Bon.
Gifted, Though # Is Most TOO Late
to AN the Good Rain Would Have
Dono q Few Weeks AGO-An Almost
Unprecedented Dry Season.

Yesterday rain fell from an carly
hour in the morning until late In tho
afternoon. Rain had threatened, and
few dashOs had come at long inter.
walls, but the summer had been dry Be-
yond precedent within tho recollection
Of the oldest Inhabitaht People had
begun TO fear that Jean Ineelow's line
'There Is no rain left In heAyon."
was no joke But yesterday the rain
came and 1t was just the kind Of rain
that was needed, gentle. but wet, soaking
into tho Garth aud molstening the
parched roots Of vegetation.
The dry summer was unprecedented
in the memory Of the oldest inhabitant
It 10 legend that away back in the
'4O's there was ne dry season. but no.
body now living can vouch for 1t. Peo'
ple living up In thocountry say streams,
springs and wells that have not been
dry before In half century have failed
this year. Wheeling creeks condition
became go bad as to cause an epidemic.
Yesterdays rain soems 10 have been
general, but go far II has not been hard
enough to mako tho creek run out but
Il may be expected to receive q good
flushing inside OF twenty.four hours.
Tho water which has caused tho rise In
tho river came from nearer headwaters.
but the rainfall here will no doubt
cause It 10 rise moro.
The present rains are no doubt the
harbiugers OF the equiuoctial season.
The sun crosses the equinox on the
2lst. The drought which is thus ended
has made itself felt TO everybody, but
some figures by way OF comparison will
aid 10 an understanding Of the relative
rainfall this year aud In an average
year, such rs 1898.
In June this year tho rainfall was Los
inches, as against 4.67 inches last year;
in July this year l.48. and last year 2.S9,
aud in August, 1904, II, was but Las
inches. as against 45l in 1903. That 10.
In tho three summer months tho entire
rainfall OF 1894 was 4.5l inches, and last
year, which was about an average, II
was ll.54 inches.
Yesterdays rain aggregated 8 OF m
inch, or nearly one-third, up 70 8 p. M,
and after that hour enough foil to make
somewhat ovor third OF IN inch. Up
to last night the rainfall this month
had reached l.25 inches. Last year
September was q dry month. tho total
rainfall being but LOS, but October
made up for 1t, tho rainfall being ex.
cossive In that month.
Tho highest point reached by the
mercury in the thermometer on Mon
day was So degrees. and tho highest yes
terday YVES 90, fall Of II degrees in O
day.
The refreshing rains will help tho
pastures somewhat, though prices Of
butter and milk will probably remain
at the present abnormal height until
next spring. The corn 10 too far ad-
vanced to DO hclped by the wet weather,
but tomatoes will be decidedly i'm
proved.
10 all the dry season tho spring at
the head Of Fourteenth street never
failed. or course tho volume Of water
which camo from II was affected, but II
still furnished puro, cold water TO
hundreds Of East Wheeling families all
the summer.
Tho effects Of the rain on tho mosquito
plague remains to DO seen. Tho pesta
have grown steadily worse every night