Telegram-herald., 1891-02-11
DEATH In A STORM
Ssysral Lives Lest in the Late
Western Blizzard.
Other Serious Effects Of rhs Cola
wss-A Cfeioas Causes Coassa-
cradle Damage ia Alabama
FKoktx To nEArH


RAPID Clff. - Is, Feb le-The
names II the yoang man ana woman
" ho psrished on box Elder divide Ia
Young rAneaman. and Meta Gray.
school teacher living al sturgis, Mead
County Bay and Miss Gray lefl this city
in the height Of the blizzard against the
protests Of friends and il is supposed
their team got away while they were
looking for the road The country Is
spsrsely settled. aad losing their way
IN Saturdays storm meant death. DR.
Jones and wife, OF hill City. reported
lost. arrived Monday afternoon.
LINCOLN, Neh. Feb. 10. - Reports
from the north and western parts of The
State indicate that the storm OF Satar-
day and Sunday was much more severe
than al first supposed. Stock has sui
fered severely, the loss Of cattle and
horses IN transit being unusually severe.
All the railroad lines have been seri-
oasly hampered, the Burlington being
bly, the most fortunate Trains
on the Union Pacific & Elkhorn arc all
the way from four TO twenty-fo hours
late. General Manager Holdrege of
the Burlington, who Is snow bound al
Alliance, telegraphs that in tha. section
the snow-storm was the most severe in
history. compared to which the memor-
able blizzard of January, 1855, is only
baby.
coldest blizzard in two years reached
here Sunday night and before midnight
the mercury had fallen forty-four de-
grees, with the wind blowing at the
rate of thirty miles an hour. Monday
il was colder still and the velocity of
the wind has not diminished. West of
here in the Del Rio and DEVILS River
country the zero point was reached
and the high wind scattered docks and
herds.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Feb. fo.-The
rainfall Monday was the heaviest for
the same length of time ever known
here. over two inches having fallen.
The Fifth ward school-house was sur
rounded by water, the Western Il At
lantic railroad crossing covered and
outdoor work was generally suspended.
Two streams could plainly be seen
pouring over the precipice near the
point on Lookout mountain. A heavy
rise in the Tennessee river is sure to
follow, but there are no apprehensions
of flood. The rain is still falling.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. ia cy
clone struck Helena Monday afternoon
about o'clock A dull, roaring sound
was heard and the people had only time
To get to their doors when they saw
black, whirling cloud skim over the
top of the hotel in the northern part
of the village. 1t next encountered
the telegraph poles, twisting them off
like pipe-stems. Coming down the
railroad track it laid the station-house
fat on the platform and leveled the
store of Thomas Davidson. c. T. and
James Davidson were in the store and
both were hurt about the head and =.
ID. Lee was bruised about the body. The
cyclone then lifted and passing 'er
three-story building struck the Helena
rolling-mill, about 200 yards from the
station, taking the roof off both the
mill and stocker case. The cloud passed
on in a southeasterly direction and a
report has reached here that it struck
Talladega in its circuit.
SYRACUSE, n. Y, Feb. 1o.-A passen-
ger. fairly well dressed and about So
years of age, was blown by the heavy
winds from a West Shore train near
Jordan in Onondaga County Monday
afternoon. He was brought to Syra-
cuse and taken to the hospital, where
he died about midnight. On his person
was card bearing the name Louis
Weinmau"