Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-14
THE TERRIBLE BLIZZARD.
Details Of fits Work Of Fury and Ruin


wards. prominent business man OF this place,
went into the mountains hunting Sunday morn
ing with q companion. A snow storm came up
and the weather turned bitterly cold. Both
men became greatly exhausted. McEdwards
companion compelled 10 leave him aud
made his way TO Rock Springs. reaching there
badly frozen Asearchiug party went out after
McEdwards, who found so badly frozen
that he died before he could be brought 10 the
city.
WIRES KvERSwRERk DOWN.
\ CHICAGO, Jan. l4-Dispatches from many
| small towns in central Illinois and Indiana re-
\ port considerable damage by the great wind
storm of Sunday night Fences. outbuiidings.
orchards. &c, IN the path of the gale were
J leveied and many farm houses were badly
! damaged The telegraph and telephone wires
were everywhere prostrated Few casualties
are reported.
KANSAS Cry. Mo-, Jan. l4-The blizzard
| which ragged all day sunday throughout kansas
and Nebraska was phenomenal ON account OF
I the suddenness of the storm and the high tenn
/ perature just preceding and at its close. Much
! suffering Is sure TO follow among live stock
| At many places the drifts from ten to twelve
feet deep At Hiawatha all travel is stopped.
! Railroads meet with much trouble. not only
from the snow. but from tracks being damaged
/ by high water. A coal famine IN the smaller
! towns is sure to occur.
| MANY DEATHS
| WICHITA KAN. Jan. l4-It was not so cold
scstcludN ana the Nlnu h4tW less
giving a chance 20 carry. IN wagons, provisions
! from Liberal west 50 and 20 miles 90 the relief
! committees. and also enabling the relief COM
mlttees m Stevens and Martin 60 send relief.
| Seven deaths have been reported 10 the CON-
mittee IA Martin and ten in stevens county.
/ STOCK DYING.
| CHEYENSE, WYo.. Jan. l4.-There are II to ls
inches OF snow in the western end of the terri
tory. This has crusted. and with the freezing
OF the water holes cattle, sheep and horses are
perishlng all over the range. Horses have
worn their hoofs TO the quick trying 20 beat
through the crusted snow and cattle and sheep
are simply helpless. Game has been driven
from the mountains and antelope have been
Killed within the city limits Of Evanston. SAT-
ur'iay and Sunday were intensely cold and two
men were frozen to death.
IN NORTHERN wIscoxsIS
| ASHLAND. Wis, Jan IA binding snow
storm prevailed from early Sunday night till
yesterday morning. Logging operations in this
district are almost impossible there being over
| three feet of snow IN the woods. The ther-
mometer registered ii below zero at 10 O'Clock
\ yesterday morning. All trains are from two 10
| eight hours late
THE DAUGHTERS ARE SAFE.
| BRAZIL, lND., Jan. l4-During SUNDAYS
storm the roof was wrestled from the two-etory
| brick residence of J. Boone, SIX miles south
west OF Brazil Two daughters of Mr.. Boone
had just retired. They had barely time TO
escape alive. The second story was almost
totally wrecked.
HORSES AND CATTLE CAUGHT IT.
IERRE HAUTE, ND. Jan. H-Reports from
south of here of serious damage by SUNDAY
nights storm. At the town of Fairbanks. in
sullivan county. several houses were unrooted
| and small buildings blown down. The storm
moved from southwest TO northeast and Ieyeled
all trees In Its path. No persons were hurt but
many cattle and horses were injured by the
falling of barns.
IN CANADA
MONTREAL. Jan. 4.-The most terrific wind
storm ever experienced in eastern Canada be-
gan yesterday noon and up TO midnight ragged
with undlmlnished fury. One of the steeples
of the magnificent st. James Street church.
Just built. toppled to the street, Injuring half a
dozen people. The ST. Jean Baptist church in
ST. Jean Baptist. was blown down. The bar
racks for the imperial troops ST. Helens
Island, In the st. Lawrence, opposite the city
was unroofed. At Lachine a roof was lifted
and dropped upon a woman in the road. killing
her. Not an orchard remains standing on the
Island Of Montreal The dominion bridge
works at Lachine were damaged. The iron
plate covering of the Victoria bridge
was sorely tried and trains were stopped
for two hours in consequence. At st.
hlLalre, on the Grand Trunk road. the Ac-
tonvale accommodation. consisting of
two passenger coaches, combination baggage
ana smoker and engine and tender was round
ing a curve running twenty-five miles an hour,
when the hurricane came and the cars were
lifted and thrown bodily down the embankment
and were completely wrecked of the nifty
people aboard not one escaped injury and a
dozen were seriously hurt The cars caught
fire and only by vigorous efforts terrible
loss of life averted. The injured we're brought
here and sent to the hospital At IroQuois, on
Boloeil mountain. the balconies of the 1roquos
hotel were torn of, the chimneys were thrown
down and scarcely whole pane of glass re-
mained In the building.
RAILROADS BLOCKED.
ST. PAUL, MINI, Jan. IA genuine bliz-
I'd tha trSs nf . sh.
northwest the whole of Sunday and part of
yesterday, knocking out telegraph wires, de-
laying all trains and retarding the operations
OF loggers IN the pinerles. Dispatches from
the principal points in the DakOtas, Montana
and as far west as Spokane Falls, Wash, say
snow fell about ten inches on the level and
| drifted badly, owing to the hurricane. The
Manitoba, Northern Pacific and the Northern
Wisconsin division of the Omaha all report lit
| tie drifting. The Sioux City or southern diyis-
ion of the Omaha is suffering from usual drifts.
| The river division of the Milwaukee was not
affected, but the Iowa and Minnesota and
| Hastings and Dakota divisions are badly
| drifted. The Minneapolis and ST. Louis and
| the Kansas City are somewhat covered up.
The worst drifts appear to be on those lines Iun-
ming through northern Iowa and southwestern
| Minnesota
BLEW FEATHERS OFF THE QUAIL.
| OLNEY. ILL.,, Jan. l4.-At the village Of
| Marchburg Sunday night the cyclone over
| turned dwelling houses barns and outbuild-
ings and wrought great damage. The family
| of Philip Nicholson were seated around the fire
| when the storm came up. The house COM
pletely destroyed, and Mrs. Nicholson was in
stantly killed. and the daughter. Miss Anna,
1 seriously injured. Aaron McWilliams aud
| family of seven were all caught under the
| rubbish of their house, and two children sus-
| taineds serious injury. The Methodist Epis-
| copal church and parsonage were destroyed.
Quails and other fowls were found dead stripped
| OF their feathers and large trees uprooted
| lying along the path of the storm, which
| about fifty rods wide.
A Blazing Train at Full Speed.
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