Word: cloudburst
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...booming of guns and the tolling of the historic Capitol bell announced to the assembled multitude that the King had started from the Palace. The passage of the Ruler and his Queen, accompanied by various members of the Royal Family surrounded by dazzling brilliance, was marked by cloudburst after cloudburst of healthy Italian "vivas" which completely drowned the strains of royal music and the clankings of salutes...
ARKANSAS: A cloudburst in the Ozarks caused a flood which swept ten feet deep through the streets of Hot Springs, causing damage estimated...
...town of Beaumont reports a new record rainfall for the United States. Over 13.5 inches of rain fell inside three hours. All but half an inch of this amount fell inside two hours. Fifty thousand dollars damage was done to property and one serious accident caused by the cloudburst, when an oil storage tank was struck by lightning and a man burned in a pool of burning oil. Two flat-roofed frame buildings collapsed from the weight of water in the gutters. Telephone girls went to work in bathing suits...