The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-01-14
EFFECTS OF THE STORM AT DULUTH
WHAT THE DULUTH P1PERS SAY OFT

In relation to the little northeaster of Wednesday
night, the Morning Cal of yesterday says:
THE BREAKwATER-At about ten o'clock on We'd
nesday night during of the ferocous North
casters that has been known on the Lake for many
years one Of the cribs of the Breakwater-the ad
iacent the Elevator Dock-was knocked to pieces
by the ice and mostly carried away.
If Bayfield,, OntonagOn, keweenaw Point and other
places, down the Lake, had kept their ice at home,
this thing would not have happened.
But seriously the storm has done good deal of mis-
chief. 1t has made big hole in the Breakwater,
which it will probably require So 600 81 600
pair and has done damage the railroad track
andped up some ice on the r. R. Dock, to the height
OF feet and did several other things which it ought
not to have done. The amount of damage done we
have taken the trouble to ascertain, but sufficient
has been done we presume to convince the Railroad
Company that Lake Superior is mot TO be fooled
WITH especially when she is angry, and that strong
scientifically constructed Notifications are needed to
withstand her fury
BAD-Yes, it's bad; but not so hopeessly bad as
would at first suppose Our little Breahwater has
been proved insufficient to staad the mighty blows
which Lake Superior, when enraged, can give. But
we think it much better to know that were
placing dependence something too fra for the
place. than find il out by such practical test as
the one of Wednesday night-at time when it would
have caused immense damage to commercial inter
ests Now, there Is time to repair the break before
navigation opens and builders can have the ben
e1t or one failure ana can correct the OF their
predecessors.
GooD.-We in our infancy, and damages that
now des'-~l iflOpazs,ie "ui Ill s1ie rso. ,0'~Led
upon 5 nothing. This morning, write, men
going up and down the streets with elongated faces
because - Duluth is ruined The JIG is up, and
done for"
Nonsense It's the best thing that could have hap
pened for the future prosperity of Duluth We do not
exut because money Is to be expended here, but be-
cause things are now seen as they really exist We
leaning a broken staff. We had " little
Breakwater for a cent" Now we shall have that
can stand.
Two or three hundred feet of the r. R. track was
washed away by the Wednesday night
Seventy five feet of the L. S. & NJ R R. Dock
was broken down by the ice on Wednesday night.
1T is an i'll wind that blows nobody any good. A
large number of aborers will find employment repair
ing the damage done by the late storm.
Pony Engine missing from the Dock.
During the last storm, chunks of ice thrown
from the Lake nearly to the skating Rink How is
that for throw?
THE Tribune of Thursday says that the spray caus-
ed by the dashng of the blows against the breakwa-
ter otentimes reached the top of the elevator
glne house chimney which is 1o4 feet in height" and
that the chimney is 'encased in ice from the bottom
to the top" that the "incessant battering of huge
cakes of ice away a of the breakwater,
some 40 so feet in length, the foundation Of
the elevator; the ice piled upon the railroad dock
and tracks from to five six feet in height
of the great wide doors of the freight house crush
ed in and four five tons of ice showed in aud depos-
tied on the floor &C., &c. The Tribune thinks the
damages may reach Slo,On0 or more