Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1915 — Almost a Cloud Burst North and Northwest of City. [ARTICLE]

Almost a Cloud Burst North and Northwest of City.

What many say was the hardest rain of the year occurred Monday afternoon through a section of this county, extending for several miles. Many say it was a cloud burst. They report several inches of rain. Thrashing can not be* resumed for several days. The rain was quite general over the county and in fact over northwest Indiana. Bruce Hardy returned from Lafayette in the afternoon and reports that his train was on the siding at Chalmers for a few minutes while another train passed *nd that there was a hard rain and destructive hail storm there, which riddled the com.