The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-30
SUNDAYS WEATHER.
The Heat, Humidity and Rain Were All
Awful.

| Kenosha has not in years passed such
day as she did Sunday. What more
was left to be desired by the most fas-
tidious We had a cool forenoon, a
all records known to be in existence
here The day started out innocently
enough it was meek and loWly as a
lamb. Some rain had descended, but
the clouds overhead seemed to promise
that the day would soon be clear and
beautiful. The clarity came on nicely,
but gee Whiz 1t was what followed !!
The sun seemed 70 remember that he
had a duty to perform, and feeling that
he may have been more or less derelict
in it heretofore he proposed to make up
for lost time. His fires were kindled
until he made frying pans of our pave
humanity could do nothing but hop
and sputter along on it's way to and
fro. There were just two consultations
in it, viz: 1t was not as hot as it has
hot as it may be. The thermometer
reached its highest point just before the.
big rain commenced at about O'clock.
At that time the thermometer at the
Corner drug store registered "A good
plump go. That is really the highest
point yet reached in KenOsha, it is be-
lieved, for this year. 1t was go above
zero about three weeks ago, but it has
been 96 and SO in other years, and the
people did dearly hug the possibilities
to their bosom that some day it may 60
as high as that again.
The awful part of the day came at
exactly 5:15 o'clock in the afternoon.
Dark, heavy, rain-laden clouds then
began to accumulate rapidly. They
were accompanied by low rumblings
and ominous forebodings. They grew
ugly and threatening and then all # a
sudden let down a volume of water.
And such volume 1t looked like a
cloud burst or as though the bottom
had fallen out of the rain tank. The
water came down in sheets and masses.
In the space of ten minutes it had
transformed the streets into rivers.
Accompanied by a heavy wind from
the west limbs of trees were beaten off.
Leaves were stripped from the trees
and swept off the streets by the flood.
Cellars were flooded in several parts of
the city; and the reports are almost
numberIess where the rain beat in
under the shingles Of houses and ruined
wall paper and plastering. At the
Corner drug store both Drs. Pugh and
Cleary had left their office windows
open when they left. The doors were
locked and the rain poured in in a per-
feet flood and ruined the interior APP
pearance of the drug store.
People who were unfortunate enough
to be out on the streets got dreadful
drenching. Those who were on Main
street lodged into every available spot.
Doorways, stairways and every other
point of escape was crowded with hu-
manity. Notwithstanding their shelter
they got wet
Damages reported are mostly from
the grain crops of the country con-
tiguous to Kenosha. The unharvested
grain was literally beaten into the
ground. Corn is all laid low and in
many instances entirely ruined. Whole
fields of it were swept down to level
as if it had been moved.
1t is estimated by those who had
tubs out in open spaces that between
o'clock ands midnight the water fall
was between four and five inches,
probably the heaviest rain fall known
here for so short period Of time.
Between Saturday night and Monday
it was exactly SIX inches.