| Show iWIWWfATHfR I ANO WINTfR I SNOWS AND BLIZZARDS TOTHEB SIDE OF ROCKIES At Guthrie Okla People Fled to Their Storm Cellars Railroad and Telegraph Interruption Kansas City Jan 25At El Reno O T the wind was strong enough to shake houses topple over chimneys and break many panes of glass The residence of William Phelps a farmer two miles east of Reno was demolished The family escaped with slight injuries A few miles distant a house was blown down and the debris caught fire and was consumed No one was injured At Guthrie a hailstorm prevailed and hundreds of panes of glass were broken Many people thought a tornado was upon up-on them and fled to their storm cellars cel-lars Up to 7 this morning communication with the country was good Then the I wires burdened with several times I their weight by ice and snow tightened by the cold and lashed by the wind began be-gan to snap under the unusual tension By 9 oclock nearly every circuit along the Santa Fe and Union Pacific for miles out was broken Two hours later communication with almost the entire west was cut off At noon the condition I I condi-tion had become more aggravated Out of nearly a dozen wires to St Louis I and the same number to Chicago only one was working between each of these cities I was impossible however to obtain any news from the central west the southwest or the northwest Many trains left the Union depot late after waiting in vain for orders to proceed Tonight communication west had been partially restored In Kansas City the damage was confined con-fined to broken teteuhone piles snapped telephone wires and more or less delay I to street railway traffic St Louis Jan 25At the electric power house which supplies East St I Louis with light the large smokestack smoke-stack was blown down carrying with it the main wires of the city circuits leaving the city in darkness In Belleville Ills many large smokestack smoke-stack sand chimneys were blown down and there were numerous escapes from death The damage lang the river was comparatively slight as there were but few steamers in the harbor Considerable other damage to buildings build-Ings in St Louis was reported later In East St Louis the storm of wind sleet and rain startled many of the residents into the belief that anther tornado had struck the city The wind blew the baseball park completely away Signboards boards were scattered all over the i streets and a big section of wooden sidewalk on East Broadway was blown across the commons The low places in the eastern portion of the city were filled with water Signs fences and outbuildings also suffered but no casualties river cas-ualties were reported on that side of the i I rler I The Storm Carred Death j j I Dubuque Ia Jan 25A foot of snow I driven by a fierce wind has bloikc led the railroads and demoralized 1 I rairoads demorlzd telegraph tele-graph telephone and fire alarm grph fre fys tems During the storm a frrght ned passenger train on the Mancnester branc hof the Illinois Central collided Fireman Ellis Sweet of the 7 > a = i < 5i nser train was killed Engineer Harris and Postal Clerk McDuff were probably fatally tally injured I |
