St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-08
THE EASTERN BLIZZARD.
The Performances of tho Storm
King to the East of Us.

tne performances or tho Storm
King to the East of Us.
New YoRK, Dec. IA Northwest bliz-
zard struck the city about 1:30 this morn
ing. Ten minutes before that hour the sky
was perfectly clear and the weather. tram
quill, with the thermometer at about the
freezing point. The wind, which blew at
the rate of fifty miles per hour, was accom-
panied by binding snowfall. The ther-
mometer ran down quickly into the twen-
ties and, though the snow soon abated. the
wind continued very high. The telegraph,
which has suffered considerably. advised us
OF the nearer and nearer approach of the
hurricane. A dispatch from Boston says:
Capt. Martin, keeper of the Minet's Lodge
lighthouse, was able to leave his post yes
terday for the first time since the great
storm Oh last week. The storm was sur
passed in violence only by the great one of
1851, when the first Minet's Lodge light
house was carried away. No other light
house in the world is so exposed to the
mercy of the sea and the wind. The pin
nacle of the structure towers nearly two
hundred feet above the waves, and the tre-
mendous seas last week dashed fifty feet
above the peak.
AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Dec. 7.-The frightful gale
swept the lakes Friday night was followed
yesterday by another of almost equal vio-
lence this morning. Fears are entertained
for the safety of every vessel known to
have been caught out in the storm, and it is
generally predicted that many disasters will
be heard from. The wind was blowing
from the west yesterday until about noon,
when it gradually began to work around to
the northwest and increase in violence. By
dark terrific nOrtherly gale was blowing,
the average velocity of the wind being esti-
mated at fifty miles per hour. With the
shifting of the wind the sea began to make,
and at midnight tremendous sea had been
worked up, the waves dancing high into the
air, completely submerging the breakwaters
in the outer harbOr. The weather was Bit
ter cold, and the frigidity OF the tempera-
ture was made more aggravating by the
fierce wind. Furious snow squalls swept
up the lake in rapid succession, and at times
it was impossible to see the end of the piers
from the top of the life-saving station. The
few vessels arriving reported an unusually
severe trip. In each case the vessels were
covered with ice from stem to stern, and
their crews were worn out from exhaustion
and exposure. The schooner Morning Star
has arrived with cargo of lumber from
Manistee. During the severe gale of Satur-
day she put into Milwaukee harbor, but
found it little better than the open sea. as
the river had risen several feet and broken
vessels from their moorings and they were
swinging around to the imminent danger of
shipping and the bridges.
AT DETROIT.
DETROIT, Dec. 7.-The storm of the
past two days has been almost unparalleled
in its severity. Old lake men, who have
been on the lakes for the last quarter of a
century, say it is heavier than they have
ever known. Fears are entertained for the
safety of every vessel known to have been
out in the gale. The propeller Sanilac left
Cleveland Friday night and it had been
reported that she was wrecked north of
Cleveland. This morning J. B. Baker, her
Detroit agent, received dispatch stating
that she is safe at Black River, twenty
miles above Cleveland, where she ran in for
shelter