Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1915 — Another Heavy Rain Sunday—Much Wind Damage. [ARTICLE]

Another Heavy Rain Sunday—Much Wind Damage.

We got another quite heavy rain here Sunday forenoon and it was accompanied by enough wind to lay the wheat flat that had escaped the rains of Thursday and Friday. Many oats fields were also hit hard, and the damage will reach a great many thousands of dollars throughout the county, as it will be impossible to gather up near all the grain with the binders. Wheat cutting just started here last week and had the rains only held off about ten days it would have meant a good deal to our farmers. Sunday’s storm was accompanied by a wind approaching a tornado up in the northern part of the state, and houses, orchards and shade trees were destroyed and wheat fields laid flat. The storm was followed by much cooler weather, the mercury here getting down to 60 _ Sunday night. Considerable damage -was done by a windstorm over in the vicinity of Mt. Ayr and Brook Sunday. Barns on the Battleday and Ulyatt farms were blown down and other buildings in that vicinity were damaged. John O’Connor of this place, who w T as riding in the big touring car of 0. M. Bordwell, of the Globe-Wernecke Co., of Chicago, with three other gentlemen, reports that they ran into the storm northeast of Lowell. The rain fell in a perfect deluge, and they stopped the car and waited until the worst of th’e storm was over. It became so dark during the storm that one could scarecely see across the road. Much w r ater fell, and they passed through places where it came up to the axles of the auto. They saw one automobile that had run off the road into the ditch, but had not turned over. Wheat and oats were considerably damaged in that section.