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A Storm On The Coast Of Chill

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Day
18
Month
November
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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In the sonthern part of the desert of Atacama a storm occurs only at intervals of many years. One of these rare Wiirms was experienced by only one person, Mr. Joel Phillips, now of Cornwall. bat then a mulé owner and copper ore carrier, who lived in a rancho looated on an insulated rock fifteen feet above the level of the bottom of a ravine iu whicli it w;is situated and distant froni the port of Pan de Azúcar about twenty miles. He had jnst arrived at his home an honr before smnset when a hoavy cloud appeared ovi'rhead, eausing sudden darkness. But he was soon aroused froin snperflnons reflection by a ehower of hailstones of dangerous dimensions and followed by a copious downpour of water, whicli contintted for about eight hours, accompanied by loud peals of thunder. His terror was f urther aroused by the roar of flowing torrents of water around his lonely island home, as the ravino, ono-half mile in vidth, was now filled to a depth of twelve feet and rolling down continuously thousands of huge bowlders with a pulverizing, rumblmg noise alongitsbed down to the sea on each side of him. Bewildercd by the misunderstood occurrence and unearthly din created as the white foaming circle of water insidionsly approached within two feet of his dwelling, and with faint hopes that it would rise no higher, he ceased reflecting, and after enduring houra of indeacribable uiental agony, he feil i eü mto a stupor, clreammg of a second deluge. From rías he was benignantly aroused by his famished saddle horse devonring the vegetable materials his hut was constructed with, the animal having escapea from the stable in the ravine to the heights above and thence to his master's home for his usual breahf ast. The storm was over, and the sun was shining brightly, as if nothing special had happened; the ravine was f ree of water and cleared out for another such deluge, which probably would not again happen for a centnry or two.- London Ene-ineer.

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