Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — REPORT FREAKISH WEATHER [ARTICLE]

REPORT FREAKISH WEATHER

Snow and Lightning Visit Southern Indiana Counties. Dispatches from southern Indiana tell \of a heavy snowstorm along the Ohio river. The snow is so deep and sticking that it is interfering with electric line and steam road schedules. ' Jeffersonville reports trains delayed from one tor two hours. ■the anew in some places was preceded by a light rain. At Eransville and elsewhere in the "pocket’' thunder accompanied the snow and flashes of lightning could be seen through the beautifii|l. An electrical Bno <vstorm is reported by the Evansville weather observer as -a rare phenomenon. The snow began falling at Jeffersonville at 9 o’clock Tuesday night and at daybreak nine inches of soft, sticky snow covered the ground. New Albany and other points along the river report like conditions.