| Show THE OSWEGO STORM A FEW days ago the dispatches made brief allusion to a severe storm that occurred at oswego new york exchanges furnish some particulars it broke out at 3 in the afternoon the people were just gathering at a mass meeting in aid of the johnstown sufferers when the sky suddenly became black and two immense clouds seemed to rise up out of the lake and bear down upon the city the people abandoned the meeting and rushed for their homes As the clouds approached the city they were frightful in appearance they pawed passed over the city three minutes apart and the sun shone brightly between them the thermometer fell from 66 63 ta to 56 the hall hail came with terrible force the stones being of all shapes and sizes the weather observer picked up one at the signal office that measured I 1 11 I 1 inches long and I 1 of an inch thick great damage was done to strawberries and the tobacco crops and in many fields they were utterly ruined the second cloud sent down sheets of rain cain the streets were filled from gutter to gutter and many cellars were flooded the rainfall in twenty minutes was 1 4 10 inches the heaviest in that time ever recorded there the air was filled filed with electricity and the thunder was incessant and deafening |
