Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1915 — Rain Knocks Down Wheat Badly. [ARTICLE]

Rain Knocks Down Wheat Badly.

We got quite a smart shower of rain about 11 o’clock Thursday and what it dohe to the fields of wheat is a caution. Oats were weighted down in many places, but the wheat was practically all broke down and is in such bad shape that many thousands of dollars damage was done, as it will be impossible in many fields to gather up more than threefourths of the grain at most. There was no wind with the rain, but it was simply weighted down by the water falling. Some of this will raise up again, as it dries out, but considerable cif it, as it looked Thursday evening, never will do so. At Lafayette the rain <ras almost a cloifdburst. Sewers overflowed, the basement of St. Elizabeth’s hospital and the lobby of the Lahr hotel and other buildings were flooded. The deluge lasted for two hours.