| Show GREAT BLIZ BLIZZARD ARD CRIPPLES f MIDDLE WEST AN AND UBI NS t DE A III 10 Feb 1 jI i. storm of elect snow V that broke over Clif- Clif I cao cago lie lio Middle CH at Rt midnight on crippled all nil means of at local Mate late and tc nil till but paralyzed the Ibo telegraph and nd A ti man wu was Injury to person peron property properly f-e f I-c- I vice C fuRl rc resulted In killed at Hammond Ind Inti by 11 n a train on the the- Motion railroad while he ne m iras blindly the lie tracks racks th through i the lie dorm and Ii in Chicago o a number of persons person were Injured All AlJ trains coming cominS' Into Chicago were more or less late some of ot them being being- 1 reported report d six hours overdue and other snowbound at points In tho West The wire service on some of or the roads particularly particularly par par- the Chicago Great Grent Western the tho Baltimore Ohio and the Pore Pero Marquette failed entirely and the lo loCal local local lo- lo cal officials of ot these roads had no means of or knowing where their train were ere located The railroad companies and the tha tolo- tolo graph companies appeared to suffer most b by the tho breaking o of wires Ires For Fora a time it seemed that Chicago o would be ba completely shut or off from the world so far as telegraphic communication was wart concerned and the telegraph companies an and wire crews o of the railroads had to work heroically to maintain Rn any sort of ot service Up to a late te hour to tonight tonight to- to night many of or the wires were sundown sun still down and telegrams were accepted subJect subject subject sub sub- to delay In Chicago the storm was waa as marked by bv a high wind a sixty-mile sixty gale pre prevailing pro pre during a portion of ot the time Ume and there was a furious Curious drive of ot sleet aloot that coated coate everything e with Ice Lake Transportation n na ng rG m. Steamship transportation on the lakes was rendered extremely dangerous danger danKer ous by the high wind and heavy henvy and all steamers that pa passed paned ed out early Saturday evening hurried hurriedly headed for tor forthe forthe the nearest ports wh when n the storm began began be began be- be gan to rage The Goodrich Ich steamer Ge Georgia put Into Kenosh Wis at 1 oclo o'clock k this morning he her crew ext ex- ex t Rusted austed and her badly frightened The re came onto on onto onto to Chicago b by train Other vessels of ot the Goodrich line lino including the Racine Ra Rn- arni sImilar cine Indiana and ana Iowa had experiences but all reached port with with- out Injury UThe The steamer Kansas of the Barr Barry line made Chicago at 6 o'clock this morning after arter a voyage of ot eleven hours from Crom Milwaukee She had had a hard bard struggle with the storm Official reports report received ed at the Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- ca cago o wrather weather bureau showed that th the entire West from Regina In Canad Continued D o P Page e Eight El EI ht I GREAT BLIZZARD CRIPPLES I MIDDLE WEST AND BRINGS DEATH AND DAMAGE WITH IT Continued Continual from l Ono Ouo to Amarillo in the tile Panhandle of or Texas nn and Oklahoma CIt City was In the grass gruBI of or a cold collI wave wa that was being hurried eastward by the sale gale al whose advance guard reached Chicago toda today Rain Ruin was wan reported from rom Cairo Ill and elsewhere along the tho Ohio alloy alley and all over the E East Cast st st. Snow fell tell throughout Wisconsin Michigan Iowa Iown Kansas Nebraska western Missouri and Oklahoma Farther to the Northwest North w west vest st In the Rocky Mountain re region re- re gion glen and In Cheyenne the weather was cold an and clear Reports of heavy damage e to fruit trees from Peoria KankAkee and Bloomington Ill aud and the the storm at nt thc those points is sal said 1 to have hae been heen the worst ii In years jears Peoria Porla was In partial par par- darkness tonight from a a. failure I of 01 thi th electric lighting Us wires vires and her telegraph service str was represented by byone ono one wire to Chicago and a lon long dis- dis distance distance dis dis- tance tel telephone phone wire west vest to Burling ton Iowa a |
