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Show PHENOMENAL SLEET STORM. It Extends from th. All.ghaalss t. th. Missouri Rlv.r. Chicago, Feb. 20. A phenomenal sleet storm plastered a great area t' country with ice last night from the Alleghanles to the Missouri river, north of the Mason and Dixon line. It began be-gan about 6 p. ni., ami in half an hour the telegraph lines began to show signs of demoralization. By 0 the life had been temporarily choked off a largo portion of wires through a wide section of the middle states by the constantly thickening coat of ice. Thousands of words belated newspaper dispatches were piled up unsent in oiliees on tho edge of the affected district. Inquiry elicited the fact that in the various railroad rail-road telegraph offices in Chicago tho dispatchers were completely in the dark as to the running of trains. At a late hour last night a rain was succeeding the sleet ami the telegraph people were beginning to recover some of the wires. PlTl'slU KU. Feb. 20. The flooded portions of the city have been turned over to tho health bureau, and the poorer classes will be takeu care of business is being slowly n sumed. Whekli.no, W. Va., Feb. 20 Word has been received that the whole town of Riverside, a suburb of Puikersburg, was entirely swept away by the flood yesterday. It consisted of about a thousand inhabitants. No loss of lite. |