The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-26
CLOUDS HUNG LOW OVER BIRMINGHAM Rain and Electrical Storm Yes- terday Morning Early WATER FELL IN TORRENTS Over Three Inches of Water Has Fallen In the Past Twenty-four Hours,
 and There Is No
 Deficiency.
WATER FELL IN TORRENTS

Birmingham was visited yesterday by the worst experienced here in several years. according to the records of the weather bureau.
 The clouds were blaelxer and hung lower than in many years and even as late as S:30 o'clock 1t was so dark that the lights had to be used in all the stores and office buildings. The street cars had to turn on their lights to avoid a collision and 1t was impossible to see across the street.
 The lightning display was brilliant at all times during the storm and frequently the flashes followed one another in rapid succession. Although the lightning struck in several places. no one was injured and ported.
 The storm broke over the city about TAO | in the morning and for nearly four hours | Jupiter Pluvius reigned supreme. The storm seems to have passed over tho city, in so far as electrical effects were concerned, but East Lake and Avondale did not escape so lightly. In West End there was also some havoc created by | the storm
 The electrical display at East Lake was never equalled before. even in the memory of the oldest inhabitant.
 People Shocked. | A bolt of lightning which struck near the West Grocery company shocked sev- cral persons but none were injured to any | Ir15 shocked. but all of them soon recovered. l The narrcwest escape from the light ming bolts was that of MT. Kinney of the firm of Buford & Kinney, grocers, at Avondale. MT. Kinney left the store in a buggy for the purpose of delivering some goods While driving through Wood lawn the storm came up and MT. Kinney sheltered himself in the house of a friend on Fifth avenue, near Forty-eighth street. When the first shower let up MT. Kinney ran for his buggy. A friend called to him and he paused to reply. While he was talking to his friend lightning struck his horse dead in it's tracks Had Mir. Kinney not paused he would probably have been in the buggy and would have met 9 sim liar fate. As it was he experienced con- siderable shock.
 Heavy Rainfall. | Chief Lehman of the local weather bu- reau stated yesterday that the precipita- tion of rain up to noon, from the time the rainfall began, had been 2.7O inches He also said that from noon Thursday to noon yesterday the rainfall had been more than three inches, the heaviest for any twenty-four hours In the month of August for the past ten years. aIt has been the heaviest rainfall In any twenty-four hours since September, 1903.' said MT. Lehman yesterday, and the precipitation in the twenty-four hours ending at noon today was greater than for the entire month of August last year. No Deficiency Now. 1 MT. Lehman also stated yesterday that the rainfall in the last twenty-four hours 1 had made up for the deficiency which had been recorder in Birmingham for the year. There had been deficiency here since January 1, MT. Lehman said, but the precipitation from noon Thursday to noon yesterday had about brought the rain fall up to the normal point at this time of the year.
 The records in the weather bureau show that the heaviest rainfall In any twenty four hours in each month this year have been as follows:
 January, IFS; February. 2.2i; March, l 1 .57; April 1 .00; May, 1.51; June, 1.63; July 1.2s. and August. 3.t0