The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-28
Both Telegraph and Telephone
Wires Laid Low, and Rail-
road Travel Impeded.
Trees and Shrubbery Broken
Down Throughout the En-
tire Country.
What Damage Has Been Done
Along the Various Lines OF
Railroad.
Items of Interest Picked Up on the
FLY by the Bazoo's Nimble
News Gatherers.


For several days past we have been re-
eeiving warnings that wave from that
region known by the poetic name of Mani
toba-which to the Typographical mind
suggests some locality in sweltering Africa,
but which is in reality the high sounding
appellation of a commonwealth beyond the
S.. Lawrence and on the outskirts OF the
frozen zone-was about to visit our land OF
apparent perpetual summer. 1t was ex-
pected that a respectable, old-fashiOned
cold snap would be doled out to us, and
not that the
ARCTIC REGION WOULD BE TRANSFERRED
bodily intb our Central Missouri valleys,
and that, too, without any real cold snap
to speak OF.
When our citizens rose from their peace
full slumbers this morning, sight such as
occurs not mere than once In Lifetime
met their gaze. The city was transformed
into labyrinth of ice made OF the drOOp-
ing limbs of trees and PROSTATE telegraph
and telephone wires and poles, which were
covered with ice an inch thick. The pave
ments were literally blockaded with the
broken and fallen trees, and the streets in
many places were impossible on account
of the fallen wires. The staid citizen
made his way down town as
best he could, like some latter
dav Thesus, but without any
Ariadne's thread with which to guide him.
self. When old Hic ct Unique, in the
shape of the ever present BAzOO emissary,
started out on his rounds this morning,
THE SCENE WAS INDEED WONDERFUL.
The sidewalks were glacial grottoes, form
ed by the supine limbs and tendrils of
what had once been the tops of young,
hourishing and beautiful trees. Some of
them. seduced into the belief that winter
was over and that spring would surely
happen along, come another moon, had be-
gun to put forth their blossoms with con-
fdence. Those tender Ornamements, the
jewelrv of nature, were covered an inch
thick in balls of ice clear as the air, thus
presenting to any chance sympathizer their
last contributions to the universal beauty
of the world i'm the shape of frozen button
holers and bouquets embalmed in the icy
havoc of the storm. All over the city
everything was ice-like frozen ocean,
the dismantled
TREES RISING LIKE ICEBERGS,
and the smaller bushes strongly reminding
one of the ice-fOes of Arctic exploration
and pictures in pathetic stories of be-
nighted wanderings in the frigid zone.
Now and then crash attested the fact that
the sacrifice of the breathing trees was not
vet over, or that the rebounding telegraph
or telephone wires and poles were not yet
done falling.
THE WEST SIDE.
The writer passed up the avenues on the
west side of Ohio street to Broadway and
thence to Ohio street. Up and down Ohio
the telegraph and telephone poles were
generally Frustrated, having broken of
like whip stocks under IKE tremendous
weight of ice. At the Porter block the
large telegraph pole broke off like pipe
stem, about four feet from the ground. At
Marean's corner the pole broke off at the
ground, the one further down towards
the railroad parted some eight or nine feet
from the ground and the one across the
railroad track went by the board, breaking
off at terra hrma.
UP AND DOWN THE RAILROAD
the havoc among the electric apparatus
was fearful. The poles and ice covered
wires lay PROSTATE on the side OF the Track,
like better deserving giants who had met
their fate with resignation after years of
faithful service, as far as the yards, and
beyond. At the depot the engine jay
Could" No. 3O3, Bob Lester, engineer, and
Charley Kelk, fireman, was keeping weary
vigil, waiting for the delayed west bound
passenger train, which came not, nor of
xyh:ob oo,,lJ orr<b:nxr ha baorJ
THE WEIGHT OF THE ICE
on the wires must have been something
tremendous. At the corner of Second and
Kentucky streets Young man was trying
TO drive his team off the market house
square, but found himself hedged in by
the wires on every side. The reporter at
tempted to raise about fifty or sixty feet of
ice laden wire, so as to afford passage for
the horses. 1t required all his strength to
push the wire upat arms length, and then
did not succeed, on account of his sawed
off proportions, in raising it high enough
to enable the frightened horses to pass
under. The BAZOO man made up his mind
that almost anything would break down
under the weight of fifteen or twenty of
these wires, and that it was no wonder the
telegraph poles were swapping off like
sticks of maccaroni. AT the corner of
Kentucky and Third there was one
SOLITARY STREET CAR
which had reached the limit of its Journey
eastward on account of the wires stretched
across the street but a few feet from the
ground. A telephone pole had fallen into
the yard of the house on the southeast
corner of Third and Kentucky, narrowly
missing the window. At the residence ON