Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1903 — STORM BRINGS DEATH [ARTICLE]

STORM BRINGS DEATH

’A TERRIFIC HURRICANE SWEEPS THROUGH THE SOUTH. Many Persons Reported Killed in Florida Property Loss in Tampa Alone Estimated at $1,000,000 Northwejt in Gravp of a 1 Blizzard. At leltst' seven persons were killed and property damage aggregating a million dollars was done by the hurricane which swept Florida Saturday and Sunday. The exact loss will not be known for several days, ns the country is in a deplorable condition and telegraph service is almost paralyzed. Great damage has been done to orange groves and gardens and it is feared that many of the beautiful winter homes of Northern people have been damaged. Monday the storm swept across Alabama and Louisiana. All wires vovtt&x of Montgomery, Ala., are down, and Flomaton, Ala., and Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile and New Orleans report high winds. On the east coast many vessels jikve been wrecked. Above Miami it is reported that seven or eight boats are ashore. The property loss in tlhe dty of Tampa alone is about $1,000,000. West Tampa was flooded by the rain. No loee of life is reported in Tampa, although several persons were hurt by falling trees.

Blizzard in the Northwest. One of the earliayt autumnal storms in the Northwest for years swept over Manitoba Saturday and early Sunday morning. The only fatality reported occurred at Gretna, where an old man fell from a buggy and perished in the storm. At Harlwey twelve horses died in the Canadian Pacific yards, and other live stock is reported to have perished. A telephone message from Minnedosa reported that the storm was the worst experienced theire in five years. It started to blow about 10 o’clock in the morning, and a heavy rain followed. At noon this developed into a snowstorm, and by dark the snow was ten inches deep on the prairie. This storm was a regular bliz--zard, and neither man nor beast could stand against it. Grain which was stall standing is almost ruined. The steamer Park Bluff was capaized in a fierce storm on the Mississippi Sunday night, between Prescott, Wis., and Stillwater, and Engineer James Ferguson was drowned. The others of the crew were rescued by the crew of the steamer Glenmoirt. Show and rain have damaged crops in the Xnrthiyest during the last week to the extent of millions of dollars. Nearly all the grain in shock,' estimated at 50 per cent, and all the standing grain, much -e£-4t-flax. is—under water. The rainfall has l>een eight inches in forty-eight houroT Rain, sleet and snow are reported all over the Northwest. liailroad tracks are washed out and trains are abandoned. Trains from the Pacific coast have been pit shift gHbro ugh deep snow for two days and are from ten to twenty hours late.