Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-19
ON LAKE SUPERIOR.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.

DULUTH, Oct. 1S.-Reports are coming in
that show theseverity and extent of the storm.
The schooners Peterson and B. A. Bruce are
ly damaged. Among the vessels out that have
not been heard from since the storm are the
propeller Quebec, that left Duluth for Sarnia
on Fridayi the propeller J. r. Whitney: the tug
Favorite and the schooner Mary Ann Hurlbut.
There is no reason to believe that any of these
vessels are lost, and yet news of their safe ar
rival would be gladly received. The cargo of
the schooner J. B. Wilber, that put back here on
Saturday night. .was not damaged to any extent
but the vessel received o lively shaking up.
The propeller India arrived here at o clock
this morning. She had fearful time. The
gale struck her this aide of the Portage canal
and he stood the storm we'll until her rudder
chains parted aud her tiller was carried away.
For number of hours abe lay in the trough of
the sea and most Of those on board thought
they were going to the bottom of the lake. By
good fortune the storm lulled, the clouds lifted
and they made Bayfield,.
THE STORM IN RENvILLE COUNTY.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
BIRD ISLAND, Mimi. Oct. ia lively bliz-
zard has occurred here. lasting from Friday
night till Sunday night. Trains are blockaded
and every object on the prairie drifted under,
or nearly so. Farmers were unprepared, and
hundreds of cattle have strayed, and some
have perished. a herd of 800 sheep at Lake
Liliar broke away, and are now being picked
up through Ascrala and Brookfeld, many of
them having perished.
TELEGRAPH AND BAIL LINES.
CHICAGO, Oct. 1s.-The Western Union lines
on the east shore of Lake Michigan are all
down north of St. Joseph. Datroit has been
recovered, and something may be got soon
from points north of there of the effect of the
storm. Manager Weller, of Milwaukee, tele-
graphs that the Northwestern lines to the
Mississippi river and on the river division of
the St. Paul road are all right to the river. On
the Southern Minnesota and Iowa and Dakota
divisions trains sre showed in. and the wires
are broken down by q slcet storm.
The train that left Dubuque Friday morning
over the Illinois Central railway for the west,
is still stuck in snow drift west of Howell,
and the wind fills in the snow faster than it
expect to get the road open to Sioux City be.
fore Tuesday.
THE DEPERE AND ALPENA.
The steamer Depere is not yet heard from.
She left Grand Haven for Milwaukee Saturday
forenoon, just before the storm.
The captain of the barge s. A. Irish reports
pena, after sailing with her three hours, ten
miles of Kenosha, she was then heading shore
ward. Nothing has been heard of her since.
LATER-The Depere has put in nt Manistee
without any loss of life.
MONTAGUE. Mich. Dot. 18.-The mail car
rier from Clay Banks, who arrived at this place
at ii o'clock A. NJ, reports Just as be was leav-
ing Clay Banks with the mail Mr.. A. r.
Wheeler told him the deck of the Alpena had
been discovered on the beach at Stony Creek
The mail carrier didn't stop to get particulars.
GRAND HAVEN. Mich, Oct. 1s.-The
Apena left here at 9. F. M. Friday.
Only the names of few passengers are known
Herbert V. Squire, Jr. and A. Orossman. of
Grand Haven; Mrs. Newton Bradley and two
daughters, of Santa Fe. New Mexico; and
Ispaieth @. Muesteret Hottinger, of Grand
Rapids. These are all the names obtainable at
present.
CHICAGO Oct 1s-The crew and passengers
of the wrecked steamer Alpena are variously
stated at forty to seventy. The captain, Ma.
pier. was trusty and skillful officer. The Off
oials of the Goodrich line, to which she belongs,
refuse to give any particulars about her or her
passenger list. She was not the staunchest
vessel on the line.
PoRT HURON DOCK, Oct. Is "A light storm
passed over this place at 10 clock, from the
west, with heavy winds. There are no marire
disasters reported ut this end of Lake Huron.
There are large number of vessels eported at
anchor at False Presque. Mich, and Thunder
Bay.
SNOW AND FROST In IOWA.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia, Oct. 18-The snow
and wind storm which visited tho West yester.
day and Saturday, although not SO severe in
this portion of Iowa as at other points, was
something unusual for this season of the year.
Snow fell all Friday night, melting as fast as
it descended. 1t has been very cold since, with
a raw northwestern gale, and to day the roads
are frozen solid. and are very rough, blocking
up heavy vehicles.
At Pacific Junction, twenty miles south of
this city, a large brick round house, about COM
pleted there by the Burlington & Missouri
railroad company, was demolished by Friday
nights storm. On Saturday train on the
Maple Valley branch of the Chicago & North /.
wester railroad were blockaded by snow drifts,
reported from five to seven feet deep. At
Missouri Valley, twenty miles north of here,
the walls of new two story brick building were
twisted and warped from five to seven inches
out of line, and the building he'd to be braced
together. All along the Sioux City railroad,
from that point to Sioux City, snow fell con-
tinously Friday night and Saturday, melting
almost as fast as 1t fell. Saturday night q
sheet of ice and snow was reported three to
fve inches thick. Trains from St. Panl and
Yankton, due Saturday. have not yet arrived