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Indian Territory, Texas, and Arkansas. It was elongated far to the 

 northeast, and_apparently controlled the weather in that direction. 



August 3d. Scarcely any wind in storms of this date. At Albia 

 and Concord a force of "3" is reported; at Davenport, "5;" at all 

 other places "2" is the highest; many are " 1." Some report "calm." 

 Most observers report less than 0.20 inch rainfall. Marion, however, 

 gives 1. 00 inch, and Clinton 0.87. Times of rain beginning are: Con- 

 cord, 9:45 A. M. ; Stacyville, 10: 15 A. M. ; Algona, n :ooa. m. ; Cresco, 

 1 1 :45 A. M. : Homestead, 12 148 p. m. ; Amana, 1 : 00 p. M. ; McGregor, 

 2:00 p. m. ; Dysart, 2 : 10 p. m. ; Marion, 2:15 p. m. ; Oskaloosa, 3:00 

 p. m. : Davenport, 4:08 p. m. ; Des Moines, 4:25 p. m. ; Monticello, 

 4:50 p. m. ; Clinton, 5:00 p. m. ; Albia, 5:45 p. m. ; Algona (second 

 storm), 8:50 p.m.; Concord (second storm), 10 : 00 p. m. Hail fell at 

 Concord, for less than a minute, at 10:00 a. m. The day was very 

 hot. Algona — "Weather very sultry; wet and dry bulbs only 3 apart: 

 temperature at noon, 93 : ; this afternoon it is very difficult to work — 

 so sultry." McGregor — "Thermometer at 92 : at noon." Dysart — 

 "Two storms were seen gathering at 12 : 00 M. ; the one in southwest, 

 the other in the northwest; they seemed to meet here, or, rather, their 

 extremities did. after main bodies of cloud had passed to the east." 

 Clinton — "Lightning fired a barn in Lyons, at 6:00 p. M. ; also one 

 a half mile south of Low Moor. 



The observer at Dysart, where a storm came from the southwest, 

 with rainfall beginning at 1:30 a. m. on the 5th, remarks: "Storms 

 that strike us in full force first appear directly in the west; rain came 

 down very gently; the retreating cloud was visible until 6:00 a. m." 



August 8th. Only four reports of rainfall, though several of distant 

 thunder and lightning. These four are from the same section — re- 

 ports coming from Algona, Concord, Bancroft, and Emmetsburg. The 

 rainfall began: Emmetsburg, 11:30 a. m. ; Algona, 6:00 p. .\i., and 

 again at 1 1 : 30 p. m. ; Concord, 8:30 p. m., and again at midnight; 

 Bancroft, 1 1 : 30 p. m. High winds are reported at Emmetsburg and 

 Bancroft; little or none at other localities. Hail is reported at Em- 

 metsburg at 6:30 p. m., and at Bancroft at 1 1 : 30 p. m. At Bancroft 

 — "Showers passing from 6:00 p. m. till midnight." Algona — "Light- 

 ning all night; thunder heavy; storm after storm, all night." Concord 

 — -"Two storms, at 8 : 30 p. m. and midnight; also a continuous storm of 

 thunder and lightning until 2 : 00 a. m. of the 9th; about midnight, the 

 German M. E. Church, in German township, was struck and badly 

 injured; steeple demolished, and floors and other portions somewhat 



