Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 26 January 1895 — Page 4
BUSTSOFA BLIZZARD
Severe Storm Raging All Over the United States.
Heavy Fall of Snow and a Rapid Drop in Temperature—Velocity of tlie ind Readies as High is SJ*ty-Five Iiles an
Hour—Telegraph communication Grcatly Interrupted. CHICAOO, jail. 26. -Chicago is nearer being snowbound than at any time during the last eight years. The storm began at about 2 o'clock yesterday, and at Ill'st promised to amount- to little, but one hour after it began to fall the snow was coming down in sheets, which was blowing 65 miles tin hour. Between 2 and 10 o'clock eight and one-half inches of snow on the level had fallen, and the streets were nearly impassable.
The streetcar companies put more men at work than had ever been employed by them before, and managed to keep the cars moving fairly well. The cable lines on the North Side broke down at 4 o'clock, and although the trouble was speedily rectified, no attempt. wa.s made to move cars with regularity after that time. In all other parts oi the city the cable lines made good time, but traffic on the horse cars were exceedingly difficult, and some of the lines in the outer portion of the city were abandoned. Hie gale had materially decreased at 10 o'clock, but was still blowing hard. The average speed of the wind during the storm was 52 miles an hour.
Reports from all over the northwest showed the storm to be widespread and severe. Des Moines reported the worst storm of the year with snow 12 inches cu the level. Streetcar and railroad traffic at that- point were both badly impaired.
Business was at a standstill in Davenport at 6 in the evening. All trains wore late and travel through the streets was very difficult.
At Dubuque the snow was drifted four and live feet deep in the principal streets, and was being piled deeper by the heavy gale. All passenger trains were late and several freight trains had been abandoned. Similar news came from other portions of Iowa.
In Illinois, Galesburg and Quincy reported heavy snowfalls and drifts several feet deep, which had piled up by a heavy northeast wind. Street traffic in both places was badly impaired. The worst storm of the year was reported from Rockford. Six inches of snow had fallen early in the evening, and was drifted so badly that the streets were impassable. Trains were generally on time, however.
At Bloomington, the snow fell from early morning until late at night. Five inches had fallen by 8 in the evening, but no serious interference with the running of trains was reported. The same information came from many other places in the state, all of them showing a heavy snowfall, terrific northeast winds and a general stoppage of streetcar traffic.
The storm had a most disastrous effect on telegraph and telephone service in this section of the country, the telegraph service, particularly west and south of this city, was badly crippled all afternoon and evening.
AT ST. LOUIS.
Twelve Inohcs of Snow and Badly Drifting. 3 ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2(5.—The sleetstorm that prevailed yesterday during the early hours later turned into snow, which fell for several hours, and this was followed by a strong southwest wind, and a fall of 15 degrees or more in temperature, which played havoc with electric wires of all descriptions throughout the city and suburbs. Wires and poles heavily laden with a thick coating of ice and snow snapped off and fell to the ground. Within a radius of 50 miles from St. Louis, the Western Union Telegraph company lost 125 wires.
The wires of the Postal company are in equally bad shape, and very little business is being done.
Telephone poles all over the city are down and many wires are useless in consequence, This state of affairs is especially true in the southwestern section of the city, which has no telegraphic communication whatever. On Eastern avenue 15 poles fell within a few blocks, cutting off all telephonic communication with that part of the city and blocking the Franklin avenue electric car line. Many persons escaped injury by narrow chance from falling wires.
A heavy snowstorm, the worst since 1890, has been raging over central Missouri during the past 12 hours. The ground is covered to a depth of 1? inches with snow on the level and is drifting badly. All trains are late and railroads are sending out snowplows in advance of passenger trains and employing extra gangs to shovel drifts out of deep cuts.
IN THE SOUTHWEST.
Extreme Cold Weather Prevails and Much Suffering Must Ensue. KANSAS CITY, Jan. 20.—A severe blizzard, which started in early yesterday morning, still prevails all over the southwest with no sign „of abatement. An average of three feot of snow has fallen and a strong northerly wind is ^drifting it, badly blocking all kinds of traffic and causing great hardships to farmers. It is very cold and with the thermometer still on the drop, much ^suffering must ensuo.
The storm is the severest through central and westorn Kansas, and the territories. From the territories resports of many cattle freezing to death shave already been received, and as the settlers are none too well provided with .food and shelter probably many fatalities will be recorded when the transportation and telegraphic facilities are again opened up. On the other hand, tlio snow will prove in many respects benolit to wheat.
The blizzard came from Arkansas and Louisiana, and in many places was proceeded by rain and sleet, making the conditions more disagreeable. At -Perry, O. T., the thermometer registered 5 below, and a like temperature prevailed elsewhere in the territories.
The Blast Strikes Cleveland. CLEVELAND, Jan. 26.—A blast of •wind from the south tore across Cleveland at 9 o'clock last night, descending upon the streets with terrific force at
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CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE. I burg railroad at Payne avenue was coycred with poles anii wires and all trams itopped for the night.
Case and Payne avenues and Superior street. On those thoroughfares a total of several miles of telegraph poles were blown over, cutting off nearly all telephone communication in the city and blockading the Superior street and Payne avenue cable lines. A pole fell oil a gripcar, the gripman narrowly escapiug death. The Cleveland and Pitts-
Raging Over Nebraska.
OMAHA, Jan. 26.—An old fashioned snowstorm of generous proportions is raging over the state of Nebraska, the first real snowstorm of any consequence in a year. Coming as it does at a time when the state is short 16 inches of moisture since March, 1894, the storm brings joy to everybody having the interests of the commonwealth at heart. Snow has been falling lightly for 86 hours, but shows some signs of abating. All railroad trains in the state are being run as usual, and though the storm has reached the proportions of a blizzard, little damage can result.
Signs of Abatement.
KEOKUK. Ia., Jan. 26.—Since early yesterday morning snow has been falling and the storm 'shows no signs of abatement. The snow is about two feet deep on a level. A strong wind prevails and it is drifting badly now. All trains are delayed and many abaudoned. Iso attempt has been made to operate streetcars since yesterday afternoon. Business was entirely suspended early in the evening. It is the first time this winter that Keokuk has been I visited by a snowstorm.
Heavy Gales in Michigan.
DKTUOIT, Jan. 26.—Heavy gales and blinding snowstorms are reported from all parts of southern Michigan. The weather, however, is not severely cold, At Detroit, the wind fell and the snow ceased falling about midnight. Blockading of railroad and streetcar movements are reported at lake ports on both sides of the state.
Good For the Wheat.
SPRINGFIELD, Ills., Jan. 26.—Specials to The State Register report a general snow three to six inches deep throughout central Illinois. The snow is a very good thing for the wheat, which was suffering from continued dry cold weather.
Cold in Tennessee.
NASHVILLE, Jan. 26.—A cold wave arrived last night and the temperature dropped 20 degrees in three hours. Snow is falling and the effects of the western storm is being felt, increasing with high winds.
CYCLONE IN LOUISIANA.
Several Feopie Killed and Others 13adly Injured. NKWIBERIA, La., Jau. 26.—A cyclone of considerable violence passed over the east end of this city at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, blowing down the shingle factory, smokestack and dry kiln escapes, fences, some small houses and uprooting trees. No lives were lost.
At Crowley a heavy wind and rainstorm prevailed. The residence of Dupeville Miller at Port Leger was com pletely demolished. Miller was killed, and his children were badly but not fatally injured. A number of buildings were uprooted and others demolished.
It Reached Alabama.
ABBEVILLE, Ala., Jan. 26.—A cyclone struck the western portion of tnis parish yesterday, doing considerable damage, blowing down trees, fences and the Techean and Vermillion telephone wires. The house of Mr. Spien was blown to pieces, one of his little children killed, another seriously injured. The cyclone came fi™m south of west and was accompanied by a heavy mist, making it appear as a solid sheet of water.
SEVEN KILLED AND SIX INJURED.
Brewery Buildiug Wrecked by a Boiler Kxplosion. MENDOTA, Ills., Jan. 28.—At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon the main uuilding of Henning's brewery, in this city, was wrecked by a boiler explosion, the eoucussioD being so great that every building in the city was badly shaken. The building destroyed was five stories in height, and filled with machinery. Tlie force of the explosion completely demolished it, killing seven men and badly injuring six others.
The killed are: C. Seifert, foreman. David Wells, fireman. David Oheer, engineer. Lemuel D? Shaso, iceman. Henry Pert, laborer. John Kennedy, a well borer of DeKalb.
Adam Bresshead. The injured are: James Love, Chicago, arm broken and head badly cut.
A. McLeod, Chicago, head and face cut. George Parker, Chicago, head out.
F. M. Carpenter, badly hurt. William Long, badly hurt. Henry Yarmore, badly hurt. The Chic igo men and Kennedy of DeKalb had but lately come here and were engaged in sinking a well near the building.
The explosion had an upward tendency, lifting the building, and then everything fell into a huge heap in the center of the structure. All was excitement, and many were driven frantic with the thought that husband, father or son be beneath the ruins. Women, bareheaded, and wild with fear, braved the wind and cutting snow that some tidings of the injured might be learned. In the excitement a number of people received injuries in removing beams and lumber.
Never before lias this city suffered such a blow, and many are the conjectures as to the number of dead at the bottom of the great heap of brick, mortar and broken machinery. The work of removing the ruins is progressing steadily, and it will be a day or more before the list of the dead will be complete. When the explosion occurred, every building in the city was shaken, and men rushed to every eonceivable place to learn the cause of the shock. The dead are men highly respected, and several of them are prominent members of secret societies.
The loss of property amounts to over $100,000 and a large number of men are thrown out of employment.
"Iron Works Damaged by Fire CHICAGO, Jon. 26.—The plant of the
Qates iron Avorks was damaged by fire last night to the extent of $T0,QOO. The loss is covered by insurance.
GEMS IN VERSE.
Intuitions.
If every message that a fair face brings To him whose heart keeps counsel with hia eyes Were wrought in song, there's not a bird that flings
Its carol forth to twilight's listening skies But would be still to hear the sweeter strain, As when the inockbird.from the topmost limb
That crowns the grove, chants till the hills grow dim And shamos (-ach warbler with his own song buck again.
If every hint that field and wood and stream Give to the poet spirit were shaped in thought, If every waking soul could tell its dream,
Gleams of world crowded space its vision caught, Mankind would march to statelier music then,
And life that catches step at intervals With broken cadence of far rallying calls Would sweep on liko the stars that mark high paths for men. —William Mcintosh.
Marguerite.
She made on the upland a picture that never an artist could paint, Sandled with sheen of a sunset, crowned with the calm of a saint.
Her face from the face of her lover turned, touched with a breath from tlio sea. Her heart hold the words of her lover, "The
CUJJ is most bitter for me I"
'Tlio cup is most bitter?' she echoed. "I know it, O tenderest friend, And the way stretches darkly before you, but you will go straight to the end."
'To tlie end?' and what then?"—all tlio doubt of his sou* surging into his tone— 'Missing you, though I journey with angels, I journey forever alone."
"You'll not miss me," she said, Bmiling softly, her eyes on tlie opal afar, Their light burning steadily, clearly, as once burned the Bethlehem star.
And all her poor, pitiful pallor, that told its own story of strife, .Flushing wurir.ly, as if for an instant some seraph had kissed it to life.
"Dear friend, you'll not miss me, since fetters were fashioned for only the clay, Since love is immortal as God is, since wo two are wedded l'or aye.
"You go where the night is, and with you a sorrow more deatliful than death, But you follow the white feet of Duty, your hand in the white hand of Faith.
"And you will bear bravely the tempest of agonies sharper than hail, Nor shrink from the sands of the desert, nor falter where others would fail.
"For you are my hero, beloved, my king, among cowards of men, And the time is not long to the sunrise. Wait, work and be brave until then."
"You walk with the angels, my darling you echo their music," lie said, A smile on his lips, such as lingers sometimes on the lips of the dead.
And so, on the upland, they parted. Dim shadows stole into the skies. Only the chill of her fingers answered the prayer in his eyes. —Hester A. Benedict.
Futuritj.
Last nirrht upon the darkened sliy a star Gleamed like a scintillating aifcetliyst, Then of a sudden vanished. 'Twas so far
From human ken its glimmering ne'er was missed.
Last night the angels sought a little child Who but the day before had danced adown The hills and 'neath the maples sung and smiled—
Last night death robed her in his sablo gown.
And yet the morning smiles as charmingly, Nor any trace of sadness seems to show For night's lost ray or song that cannot be.
Unconscious seems she of life's ebb and flow.
Methinks that nature in her wisdom knows That o'er some faroff land, amidst a throng Of glittering peers, that star still shines and glows, And in that land is heard a child's sweet song. —Walter C. Nichols.
Prepared.
Tommie—Aunt Sarah, why do they always picture Cupid, the god of love,naked? Aunt Sarah—Bokaso ho most alius needs a spankinl—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Artistic Beauty.
She's pretty as a picture, But her rivals meanly say That she gets her roseate beauty
In precisely the same way. —Harlem Life.
Dernier Resort.
First Flea—I don't know how I am going to make a living. Second Floa—Have you tried it on a dog?—Detroit Tribune.
Soluble.
The tempest howled the fragile girl Clung frantic to the wreck, Wave swept the color fled lier cheek,
And ran adown her neck. —Detroit Free Press.
A Genuine Welcome.
"I'm awfully glad you've come, grandma," said Willie. "I wouldn't havomissed seeing you for four meals 1"—Chicago Tribune.
True In His Case.
This fat man in his chair wooes sleep, Or he'll never close an eye. Whatever's true of figures
In general, his won't lie. isifei —Detroit Free Press.
Mother Shot by Her Soil]''
SOMERSET, Ky., Jau. 20.—Mrs. M. J. Holmes was accidentally and fatally wounded yesterday by the discharge of a 32-caliber rifle in the hands of her oldest boy, a lad of 15 years. The ball passed through her right breast aud pierced her lung. No hopes of recovery.
Maps of All Country Roads.
^WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—The maps issued by the United States geological survey showing all country roads, have been adopted by tlio postoffice department.
Forger Sentenced.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2G.—Edwin O. Quigley, the municipal bond forger, was, Friday, sentenced to 10 years and six months' imprisonment by Recorder Golf.
Jumped tlie Track.
CUMBERLAND, O., Jan. 26.—When the westbound freight on t.he Bellairo, Zanesville & Cincinnati railway was parsing over a trestle one and a halt miles east of here the caboose jumped the track anti. rolled off the trestle, completely demolishing it. Conductor Bates of Caldwell sustainod serious, but Rot fatal, injuries.
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