River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-02-12
THE BILLIARDS. WRATH.
IL Falls Heavily ON Unfortunates In the
West->everal Lives Lost I'm the Late
Storm-Mork of a Cyclone in Alabama

west-several Lives Lost I'm the Late
storm-work of a Cyclone i'm Alabama.
OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 1O.-Reports
throughout the State show much loss of
life during the storm of Sunday. The
young wife of Milton Cummings, near
Nashville, froze to death within 100
yards of the house. The body was
found in a snow-drift after being
twenty-four hours missing. At
kearney Eddie Chichester and
Steve St. Peter, l4-year-old boys,
were overcome by the cold
while hunting, and their bodies were
found at noon in a ravinc. At Chadron
Nj. l.. Lissent, a pioneer, lost his life
while caring for his stock Many
| others who were out in the storm are
missing and are thought to be dead
hundreds of cattle persisted. Railroads
are still blocked Relief expeditions
have been sent to the destitute counties.
RAPID CITY, =. d., Feb. lO-The
names of the young man and woman
who persisted on Box Elder divide in
Saturdays blizzard were Grant Bay, a
young ranchman, and Meta Gray, a
school teacher living at Sturgis, Mead
County Bay and Miss Gray left 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
sparsely settled. and losing their way
in Saturdays storm meant death. DR.
Jones and wife, of Hill City, reported
lost, arrived Monday afternoon.
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 10 - Reports
from the north and western parts of the
State indicate that the storm of Satur-
day and sunday was much more severe
than at first supposed. Stock has suf-
fered severely. the loss of cattle and
horses in transit being unusually severe.
All the railroad lines have been seri-
ously hampered the burlington being
probably the most fortunate. Trains
on the Union Pacific & Elkhorn are all
the way from four to twenty-four hours
late General Manager Holdrege of
the Burlington. who is snow bound at
Alliance. telcgraphs that i'm that section
the snow-storm was the most severe in
history. compared to which the memor-
able blizzard of January, 1885, is only a
baby.
HURON, :. d., Feb. l0.-Reports from
various parts of the State concerning
Sundays wind and snow-storm indicate
that the heaviest portion of the storm
was i'm the Jim River valley, Huron be
ing nearly the center. Little snow fell
at Aberdeen and points in the northern
part of the State and only tenth of
an inch at Sully. The fan of snow was
nearly as heavy east and south as
here averaging ten inches. The wind
attained a velocity of fifty miles per
hour and the thermometer Monday
morning was IA degrees below zero.
The snow is badly drifted and railroad
cuts are packed full
SAN ANTONIO. Tex. Feb. 10.-The
coolest blizzard in two years reached
here Sunday night and before midnight
the mercury had fallen forty-four de-
grccs, with the wind blowing at the
rate of thirty miles an hour. Monday
it was colder still and the velocity of
the wind has not diminished West of
here i'm the Del Rio and DEVILS River
country the zero point was reached
and the high wind scattered floclIs and
herds
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Feb 1o.-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 & 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 approximations
of flood. The rain is still falling.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Feb. 10.-A 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 a
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
fiat on the platform and lcveled the
store of Thomas Davidson. G. Il. and
James Davidson were in the store and
both were hurt about the head and p.
ID. Lee was bruised about the body. The
cyclone then lifted and passing over
a threc-story building struck the Helena
rolling mill, about 200 yards from the
station, taking the roof off both the
mill and stOcker ease. The cloud passed
on in southeasterly direction and a
report has reached here that it struck
Talladega in its circuit