The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-12-12
Wind, Snow and Cold.

A high wind prevailed on Friday of last
week at Kansas City and Riverview, Missouri,
the direction being from west and north
Much damage was done to property, and tel
graph wires were leveled in all directions.
A workman was blown from a scaffold in
Kansas City and fatally injured, and in the
afternoon the children were dismissed from
three of the public schools because of the
violence of the gale. In Riverview, Mrs.
Peterson was struck by flying boards aud so
badly injured that she died soon after.
A dispatch from Burton, Kansas, says that
during the high wind prairie fire broke out
seven miles north of that place, which swept
over an area of about thirty miles, destroying
one thousand stacks of hay and grain and
numbers of sheep, hog and cattle sheds. The
cattle ranch of Tomlin & Webb, in Indian
Territory, was entirely destroyed, with from
four to six hundred head of cattle. Edward
Countryman was fatally burned, and Kohn
Seeper and John Berry are not expected to
live.
At Gaylord, Kansas, James Phillips was
killed and two of his sons were injured, one
mortally, while trying to secure the roof of a
barn during the wind storm.
A blizzard set in at St. Paul on the same
day, the snow being driven in binding sheets
through the streets. Four inches of snow fell
at Duluth. The storm was general throughout
Manitoba, Dakota, Minnesota, Eastern Mon
tana and Northern Wisconsin and Iowa.
The great storm of wind and snow which
prevailed throughout the Northwest on Thurs
day and Friday of last week cleared up by
Saturday morning, leaving the temperature
very low. The gale was exceptionally severe
upon the Lakes. Railroad travel at various
points was interrupted by the snow. The
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Chicago to zero at St. Paul and 14o below zero
at Winnipeg. At Omaha the velocity of the
wind was 60 miles per hour, and trains were
unable to cross the Union Pacific bridge. At
Central City, Nebraska, part of a new college
building was blown down. Snow fell through
out Canada, the depth in the Province of
Quebec being two feet on level, and in On
tario from 6 inches to feet
The temperature in Chicago fell to zero at
9 o'clock Sunday night. At Milwaukee it was
80 below zero. The severest snowstorm
known in Cleveland, Ohio, for several years,
ragged there Sunday afternoon.
A heavy storm Of wind and rain, accompa
MED by thunder and lightning, ragged at Hall
fax, Nova Scotia, during Saturday night.
Another terrible gale ragged on the Lakes
during Sunday, accompanied by furious snow
squalls. There are fears for the safety of a
number of vessels which were out on Lake
Michigan. A temperature of one degree be-
ow zero was reported at Chicago on Monday
morning. Fifteen below zero was reported at
Ottawa, Canada; 6 below at Dubuque, Iowa;
A below at Fargo, Dakota, and 20 below at
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
A heavy snow storm set in on Tuesday |
morning at Chicago, the temperature rising |
bout twenty degrees. The depth of snow
7as from six to eight inches. The storm ex-
ended west to the Rocky Mountains, and from
duluth to Omaha. At St. Paul the temper
ture was degrees above zero, and colder
ave was expected, likely to last for several |
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