The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-10
WEATHER TURMOIL.
week Of Billiards. Snow Storms, Sieat.
Hail. Rain, Thawing and
Uari Freezing,

II Away up in Montana, Northern Dakota
7 Winnipeg, &c, the weather WAS clear and
very cold. But in Southern Dakota and
Minnesota and IN Wyoming, Western Ne
braska aud Kansas about Thursday the
"ball opened" with the heaviest snow storm
of the season, which west Of the Missouri
lasted until Sunday. The snowfall in Wy
omlng and part OF Dacotah was three feet
) and in the western half of Nebraska and
Kansas about foot. Up to this point II
was accompanied with little or no wind
but IN Eastern Minnesota, Nebraska and
Kansas, and Western Iowa and Wisconsin
though the SNOWFALL nowhere exceeded &
inches, 1t came rs u regular blizzard, DRIFT
ing the snow so ~ to block the railroads,
and then following with intense cold, so
az In Kansas and Nebraska to freeze many
,smnller streams to the bottom, making the
question serious one to obtain water for
cattle
In Eastern Iowa and IN Wisconsin and
i Illinois down to the Chicago line there
was, on Friday aud Saturday also, heavy
snowfall, with a high wind, drifting badly
and blocking railroads. South OF the Chi.
cGgo line rs far rs Livingston county the
| precipitation took the form of fine hail,
covering the ground with about inches
OF material MS heavy and gritty az coarse
sand. South of the Livingston line The
hail soon turned into rain, and then grow.
ing colder the ram iroze as it fell, covering
everything with such body OF ice that
telegraph and telephone wires, as well as
fruit trees aud shade trees, broke under the
weight like glass. A dispatch on Sunday
from Springfield, ILL.,, says:
Last night, rs 1t became colder, the trees
began 10 give way under the heavy pres
sure OF ice that accumulated on every sprig
and branch Daring the night people
were kept awake by the iucessant crash OF
falling limbs, and to-day the city presents
the appearance of having been visited by
Il cyclone. The streets were almost i'm
passable for hours this morning, being
strewn with fallen trees, telegraph poles
and wires. Pedestrians sought the middle
OF the street for safety, carefully avoiding
passing under the trees lining the streets
which drocped almost to the ground under
the weight of the ice, and from which
large and small branches were liable to
fall at any moment.
The same description Will hold good
with regard to telegraph and telephone
wires, trees, &c. anywhere In Southern
Iowa, Illinois aud part OF Indiana as far
south as the st. LOUIS line.
East of Indiana, including OHIO, part OF
Michigan, Western Pennsylvania, and AZ
far as Buffalo, the storm of sleet rapidly
changed into rain, ''the heaviest In years"
and as the ground was go frozen that the
water could not sink, IT soon filled the
streams TO destructive floods. The north
east part of Canton, o., WAS 80 flooded tha.
so families were driven out of their houses
Several bridges on the Pittsburg, F. Wayne
d. Chicago Railroad were swept away. All
the factories on the Little Cayshoga were
submerged. The new dam at Akron was
washed away. Ard so on. A column
could be filled with food disasters IN Cen
trail and Northern OHIO.
In Western Pennsylvania the flood was
equally sudden and destructive. Tho
weather had been mild for several days,
softening the snow, 80 that when the rain
came everything was -, afoat. Titus
vile WAS submerged by back water from
Oil Creek so that the town was under
water a. far ur as Spring street. The
Franklin street bridge, n heavy iron s!ruc-
ture, was swept away, taking down three
young men with II, who we're drowned.
AT Bradford, Pa, about five hundred
houses along Pearl, Globe, Boylston, Flor
ence, Pine, Main and other streets were
inundated. The lower part of the city was
submerged, In some cases 70 the depth oil
ten feet. The food WAS caused by the
rains and the melting Of the snow in the
mountains. Five bridges were swept away
ant several houses along the banks of the
creek were badly damaged or totally de-
stroyed. Eighty.fve families on the flats
between Bradford and Tarpor,, living in
one story houses, hud to flee for heir lives
when the fee gorge broke, leaving all their
effects, and many OF the houses were swept
away. 1t IS impossible to estimate the loss
at this time. The waters are now suNsid. |
ing, and all fears OF further damage are
over.
A list column long Of like disasters IN
Western Pennsylvania could also be easily
made up.
On Monday further destruction by the
floods in Ohio, &c, was arrested by tho
weather suddenly turning very cold and
placing the unruly waters in the tight grip
OF King Frost.
CRIME,
LySCHKD.-i Young Cobb, who shot and
wounded Sheriff Sheuneman
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