Bloemfontein Cloud-Burst.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 61, 16 March 1904, Page 4

Bloemfontein CloudBurst.

KYE-WiTXKSK' ACCOIWT OF TIJK IHSASTKH. An eye-witness has given to the Cape Tillies,, till; following UlTl.llllt oi' tin' origin of the Jiloemrontcln disaster of Jan. V,). He was on tliu hillside watching tin; hcavv rain whi'ii suddenly, In' says, 'Three successive heavy reports, like cannon, were heard I'i'uiii different directions. ■■Tli.'ii an iinini'iisi.' bodj of water wart seen lo full from the heinous, and, striking the ground, rushed round and round the water in a boiling cauldron. It shot out like smoke from n rifle, getting lugger and wider as it went, and followed by immense sheets of water from (lie skies that hid everything in front from view. other direction, and the two masses of water joined forces and swept furiously over the veldt towards the town, ' followed hy enormous bodies of falling water. Such was (he fury of the waler I hat it rushed uphill lowarils a house. This is the lii'st time J have ever seen water run uphill. "in live minutes nil Ihe veldt from Hrunil Ko|. towards the town looked like an inland sea in a storm. .Masses of water were coming from even direction. ••Suddenly the clouds seemed to pan, ami white, hillowing clouds were seen, while rolling uu .,. all(i around I Hem were whal looked like Mack sheets of waler." asler.