The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-03-31
Snow and Flood.


A severe storm of wind and snow ragged
on Sunday throughout Northern Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Dakota. The wind blew at
the rate of 80 miles an hour, and from three
10 five inches of snow fell. The temperature
being comparatively mild, the snow was heavy
and packed. Out in the country the fall was
deeper and railroad travel was interrupted.
In St. Paul street car travel was abandoned.
A telegram from Ottawa on Tuesday says
the lumbermen in Ontario are uneasy in re-
gard to the log supply. An enormous number
of logs has been cut, but it is feared there
will not be sufficient water in the tributaries
to float them down to the Ottawa river.
great deal of the snow has disappeared, but
thus far the ice remains firm and the break
mn NAV witness the rivers with low water.
| Over 400, 600, 900 feet of logs are now cut.
There was u storm of unusual severity
throughout Nebraska on Monday. The fruit
trees and Young timber were all heavily
loaded with ice and sleet. Winter grains are
thought to be injured, and the outlook for
| fruit in the State is poor.
A severe sleet storm prevailed on Sunday
in Nothern Illinois and Iowa, covering every.
thing with ice. At Chicago the storm chang
ed on Monday morning to a heavy rain.
Great damage to the wheat and fruit crops is
feared.
A heavy rain storm prevailed in the vcni-
ty of Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Sunday
night On the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad bridge was carried away, near
Stevenson, Alabama. A trestle on the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St Louis Rail
road was washed away, and the road for a
considerable distance and under water.
A wind and hail storm swept over Bolivar
county, Mississippi, on Sunday evening.
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Trees we're uprooted and many fences des-
troyed.
The situation on the river at Sioux City,
Iowa, is unchanged. The weather again
turned cold Saturday night and three inches
of snow fell on Sunday. The Corrective miles
above and opposite the mouth of the Sioux
liver. as we'll as the one 10 miles above, OPP
posite jackson, Nebraska, still holds If the
weather turns warm disastrous floods must
ensue. e.
A despatch from Aberdeen, Dakota, re-
ceived on Tuesday night, states that it had
been showing there necessarily for SO hours.
There are two feet of snow on a level. ALL
railway travel is suspended. The storm is said
to have been general in Central Dakota. Word
has been received in St. Paul, Minnesota,
that the little town of Reville, in Grant county,
Dakota, is completely blocked in, aud that in
some cases the people are breaking up their
furniture for fuel. Northern Wisconsin and
Minnesota have been visited by another Sc
we're storm. Over foot and half of snow
fell and drifted badly The St. Paul and
Duluth is the only railroad that has managed
to get trains through on time.
The total rainfall at Montgomery, Alabama,
since Sunday night, up to Tuesday had been
III inches, the heaviest on record there for
the same period of time. The Alabama river
rose at the rate of foot per hour for 80 hours.
Trains on the Western and the Montgomery
and Eufaula railroads were abandoned, and
there was much interruption of travel on 9TH
er roads.
The town of Minnesota, kingman county,
Kansas, was destroyed by a tornado on Satur-
day last, several persons were killed and n
large number injured. A heavy fall of rain
continued until Tuesday, which added greatly
to the suffering Of the wounded.
BERLIN, March 26.-Further particulars
have been received of damage done by floods
in the Vistula river and its branches. The
dyke at Hurst. on the Nogat, has Overlooked,
and the inhabitants of the place have fled to
the town of Elbing. The suburbs of the lat
ter place, which is on the river Elbing, are
flooded. The population of Marienburg, on
the Nogat, have escaped from the town with
difficulty. The prisoners in the Jail were res.
cueu Dy Ine lire urlSduS. Ing LoHu 10 mum
dated Eight villages at the mouth Of the
Vistula are submerged. Houses are falling,
killing many, and cattle are being drowned
Thousands of persons are dying of starvation
in the inundated districts of Hungary.
The latest news from the flooded districts
in Germany, is that 10000 persons have
been made homeless and 40 towns completely
washed away. Along the Vistula river, in
Hungary, II villages and towns were submer-
ged.
Two successive explosions occurred on
Thursday afternoon in coal mine near Rich
Hill, Missouri. The mine was wrecked, and
of over 100 men who were in it at the time go
are believed to have persisted
A telegram from Birmingham, Alabama,
Thursday night says the great rain storm con;
tnues, bridges have been washed away, and
travel on railroads suspended.
A dispatch from Augusta, Georgia, says
the heavy rains continue in that section, and
the upper Carolina tributaries of the Savan-
nah river are out of their banks. The lower
part of Augusta is flooded and the river is still
rising.
The rapid rise in the Mississippi river
threatens East St. Louis with food. For
this season of the year the river is unusually
high.