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Show HEAVY STORM OF Water Falls in Torrents for an Hour in and Around Modena. f FALL QNE AND TWENTY-ONE HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH Hailstones as Large as Walnuts Wal-nuts Also Fall; Lightning Was Terrific. Special to Tho Tribune. MODENA, Utah, Aug, 9. An unusually heavy rain, hail and thunderstorm visited Modena and vicinity about 3 o'clock this afternoon, lasting about fifty minutes. Tho rain at times fell In torrents, one Inch and twenty-onc-hundredths being recorded. re-corded. Hail and Lightning. A hailstorm eot In about tho samo time and continued for fifteen minutes, somo of tho stones being as largo as walnuts. The lightning was unusually terrific and tho peals of thundred fearful. Several Washouts Reported. About five miles north there were several sev-eral washouts reported, which will cause hours of delay to all trains. Temperature Takes Sudden Drop. At one tlmo during tho storm tho rain was falling at the rato of threo Inches an hour. Tho tempcraturo fell 37 degrees In about thirty minutes. |