Show A i COLD mm F the he mississippi basin up and down I 1 east and ard west rit great damage pone done to t Fro peril 1 sonie some loss of or life and detention and distress in its track ST louis jan 12 at thia this afternoon a cyclone woe the southwestern section of tho the city and swept on through the northern limits int mik k ing a pathway newly nearly a quarter of I 1 a mile mite wide and I 1 leaving death and destruction in I 1 its t a tract the tile Is iaea es on property are roughly estimated at but they are likely to 0 o prove more the he cyclone seemed to t have entered the city in ite its full fall force at twenty third street and chateau avenue parsing passing northwest until it reached reached seventeenth and olive streets when it acain again turned to the northeast leaving the city and striking ig the river just north of oyier street the only announcement of 0 ite its approach and progress was a eullen sullen roar which was quickly followed by a torrent of rain this in turn was succeeded by sleet and before tho the victim victims couk realize what had happened the storm had swept on leabig leaving wreckage and mangled humanity man ty in its path the storm in st clair count county illinois was unus unusually ally severe at book brooklyn village about five hundred people seem se em to have suffered red most of 0 I 1 the damage at east st louie louis and venice it ie is largely confined to railroad property and small telegraph and telephone poles at belleville illinois several public building buildings were unroofed but no one is reported Ip injured jared the he late wabash train tain arrived at eart st louie louis about 8 15 p pm m the engineer and conductor report that during the storm they feared their train would be thrown from the track so terrific terr itic was the force of the wind in kansas city the storm began on Satur saturday dav night with a dr drizzling rain rain early this morning the weather turned colder and rain freezing ae as il it fell covered exposed brij ati with a coating of ice the telegraph tee grAph ph telephone and electric wires were borne down almost to tile round ground and communication muni cation wai interrupted at noon the rain turned into enow snow the wind swerved to the north and a blizzard set in at midnight mid it continued ith some severity during the forenoon fore noon oon it b beane bc came ane dark and lowering lower lne the t in grature was of spring mildness and aud almost debilitating in its languor towards the tile afternoon a heavy and indrea ing ingrain rain began that was ac accompanied oto partied by fitful but seve severe r e guste of wind suga suggestive estive 0 aclo e stormy t io rt n y march day about fur 0 c the ski skies day kone d perceptibly shortly after that hour one solitary flash of 0 lightning illuminated the tile ferine rLee tle and a severe storm fol I 1 we wea hardly had the died away when the cyclone burst noon upon the e city ity and a brief reign of terror and desolation succeeded when that passed and the people dard dar d venture out of their dismantled looses houses the tile storm still continued in a form and a leevera wind prevailed throughout the rema rem remander ader of thee the evening en and night with the tile temperature steadily failing swaying anil anti ethreal ening walls markel every corner along the track of the cyclone and the streets looked as it if an earthquake had struck the tile city debris of roa chimneys aid and church spires f 11 into int the broad thoroughfare until ai an aspect of general roin ruin prevailed following the sleet storm etues ot day night the eff ct of t to i d dayi c clone upon the telegraph abnot and tars tele p phone pervice service wan was dicag roas rous and a network of tangled and swayzine wires festoon every street the tile effect tf cf the storm was at every foot of ite its progress anil and indicate indi cace ewes bo bow it wreaked wrecked ita fullest force ol 01 fury in the northwestern pr portion tion of st louie lonia as it approached the river river any estimate of the financial loss lops caused by the cyclone is rendered impossible imi at the present moment bu but there is no doubt that the total will come into a magnitude that will cao calls e the tile day to be a memorable one A it telephone message from benle venic illino s opposite the northern part of lie the city sava the storm was very disastrous there and several lives were ft ere lost b t no details are given KANSAS CITY jan 12 A 4 severe blizzard rages tonight to night in kansal missouri and nebraska dispatches from points in kansas to the journal mi ats sly t the storm tor in is by far ve worst of the season and arid some points report that it is the tile most severe everea ever experienced perien ced the tile far western points in kansas report that the storm lias has ceased and that the weather cleared about 11 hiawatha kan reports re porta snow hae has drifted in places as high as one etory story houses com alele ly blocking the highways bi and railroads at wichita kansas kans M snow I 1 ia reported fifteen inches deep and in idly drifted ail all trains on the several ral railroads in ln the neigh neighborhood boyhood of wichita willita have been aban boned emporia Km poria kausas reports the worst blizzard ird ever known there the enow snow has badly drifted throughout the city and country fad railroad traffic is entirely an suspended at abilene kansas the storm raped raged for thirty six hours th the 8 r railroad ril road is blocked with snow at topeka six inches ot of snow have fallen and and much interruption to railway traffic has resulted MEMI jan 12 A heavy win wind d srm I 1 arm accompanied by rain struck memphis about 5 this afternoon but beyond a gereral I 1 lion ion of the wires no damage was done in this immediate vicinity from sardis miss sixty miles south of here come reports of heavy storms of wind rain and bail hall the episcopal and presbyterian churches and some livery stables were blown down jan 13 tho the rainstorm of yesterday afternoon gave place to a gale which raged with greit force form all last night and which has only dimin with the ad advent beut of cold weather while daring during a IV part of yesterday the tile barometer was between 60 50 and 60 above zero it begun began falling failing ra rapidly idly into late last night ight end at an earl early y W hour bour this morning marked only y 18 above the b bignal gnal service bureau reports I 1 ho lie 84 general and the he t telegraph sory bervice ice from the west northwest and southwest south rat fully corroborates the tile report the tile wind lias bas placed havoc with th lie ilia electric wires all oserthe over the west the service baill baing 9 demoralized this mornin morning g a 8 blight ig ht fill of arow grow covered cov erid the ground reports from the dakotas Daku tad ma minnesota in 0 wisconsin I 1 iowa nebraska an and kanai indicate about the same beaher ft efta her in those states the only variation being that the blizzard is more intense and the snow much d deeper e aper in the north bince since yesterdays Ys cyclone st louin louit has hu been practically cut off from the rest of f the world so complete wa the he demoralization of the telegraph the tile wires in eve every r y direction were ta down and it was in 0 t until 10 this morning that the associated press finally established 6 1 k I 1 I 1 I 1 r 1 I I 1 I 1 ltd its connection with i thet the to torm mitri ek c city ity 11 1 on l |