Show SHOWER OF LITTLE FISHES great guns Is what passengers and crew said when the tha rain descended great guns 11 Is what the officers and passengers and crew said to the them m salves and to one another when it rained little fishes they viere ere on a steamer that runs between new york and galveston tex tei and they were tailing the gulf of mexico about miles indies from galveston Gal yeaton yeston when they rao ran into a region of waterspouts water spouts are not unheard of 0 things thing there hays have be beon been on boma on the tha great takes not far from chicago within the past few years but you can always be sura aai that something Is going to when you yoa see waterspout waterspouts water spouts 1 ahey hey start in whirlwinds whirl winds that pull tho the water up to tho tha thy sky it la Is not the tha best beet thing in the world tor for a steamer to run into one and so the captain of this par nicular steamer tried his hl beat to keep out of their way in holding avoiding the tha rest reat he ran his boat squarely into the path of 0 one of 0 them and it went to pieces over the deck there was a floal aa it if the gulf had been turned upside down and for several minutes th water continued to fall from the sky in a solid mass with it came fish of 0 all kinds and of various tires they bad been sucked bucked up as an moat persona have seen rubbish taken up froni from this the ground by the tiny day whirlwinds whirl winds that run across city pavements and coun try fields in summer they fell and tell fell until the deck of the steamer looked as aa it if it were a harf har where abere fishermen tie the up their boats it Is scarcely necessary to say that there was fish tor for supper that evening |