The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-08
RAIN WAS GENERAL.
Telephone and Telegraph Companies
Chief Sufferers.

A storm accompanied By vivid light
ming, heavy claps of thunder. and a
stiff wind, broke over Topeka at SIP
o'clock Monday night. Considering the
electrical display and the noise pro-
duced the rainfall was gentle.
The storm subsided at 11:35 o'clock,
but began again at 7:55 this morning.
By 10 o'clock this morning the total
precipitation was 10 of an inch.
The conditions were such as to pro-
duce a general precipitation. The Rock
Island reports rain over their entire
system in Kansas. The Santa Fe re-
ports rain in their eastern and Pan
Handle divisions and cloudy weather
in the middle division. However, the
reports were slow in coming in this
morning.
The storm caused large amount of
wire trouble. The Postal Telegraph
company this morning reported that it's
line between Topeka and Redding was
out of commission.
One hundred telephones in Topeka
were put out of service through cable
difficulty. A large force of men is out
attending to the -apair work today and
it is expected that the service will be
normal within twenty-four hours
The Bell Telephone company has suf-
fered through the heavy electrical and
hail storms in the last twenty days to
a large extent. The wind has been a
source of trouble A half mile of poles
were blown down in one storm east of
the Reform school and eight poles at
another time.
The barometer cut all the capers it
would have gone through had tornado
been near at hand while the storm IN
progress Monday night The record on
the sheet in the government station was
like the contour of the Grand Canon.
II. I1e forecast -,e calls for rain tonight and
Monday was 81 degrees; at o'clock this
morning the reading was 43 degrees-a de-
cided drop.
The big cottonwood tree just west of
the ST. Francis hospital was struck by
lightning during the storm and badly
shattered.
Good Day for Ducks.
This is good weather for ducks,
The day has been moist and dreary.
The total precipitation up to o'clock
this afternoon was 1.09 inches. The
wind is blowing at the rate of ~
miles an hour from the northeast.
This has held the temperatures down
to two degrees below normal for this
date.
According to Sunny Flora, there
is little chance for sunshine in the
next "a hours; in fact, the chances
for rain were never better. The rain
is expected to include the western
portion of the state, which was not
touched by the storm Monday night.
This morning snow fell in Colo
RADIO and Nebraska. There is little
sunshine today in the United States.
The report issued this morning from
the office of the local weather bureau
showed that up to eight O'Clock this
morning moderately heavy rains had
fallen in the eastern half of Kansas,
in northern Oklahoma, and western
Missouri, but that there had been no
precipitation at Dodge City and other
western stations although the weather
was cloudy.
Rain was reported at the following
stations: Concordia, .3S of an inch;
Emporia, .54; Ft Scott, 78; Hanover,
80; Hays, trace; Horton, "a; lola, .72;
Mcpherson, .O2; Manhattan, .08; wich-
ita, LA; Enid, "A; Oklahoma City, 80;
Marville, So; ST. Joseph, .32.
The hourly readings.