Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — An Unusual Phenomenon. [ARTICLE]

An Unusual Phenomenon.

A very unusual meteorological phenomenon occurred here about--10 o'clock Wednesday night. It was nothing less than a shower of rainIt lasted for several seconds and the marks in the dust next morningshowed that the amount- of the rainfall was drops to the square inch, on the average. Several such rains would “wet a person to the skin,” if they had nothing else on.