St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-10
JUST A BIT OF A BLOW
The Gentle Zephyrs Playful
to the Very Verge Of
Violence.
Steam and Elec tric Railways
Have a Day to Be Re-
membered.
The Storm Tends to Force
People to Forget Their
Christianity.
One Man Gets His Collar Bone
Broken by the Big
Breeze.

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space, but when storm tangles up
whole city as Minneapolis was tangled
yesterday, such action on the part of the
weather might properly be considered
by even the board of trade or the minis
terial union. And that storm did get in
its work with paralyZing effect. 1t was
such surprise that it knocked the wind
out of almost every ones sails, meta
phorically speaking; but it filled them
with too much wind, when it comes to
talking in plain, unadorned English.
The day and night before had been so
bland, ending with gentle spring rain,
that no one was prepared for the out
burst on the part of the forces of the air.
The average man, as he arose and
looked out of his window yesterday and
saw light snow being whrled hither
and thither by the wind, merely ejacu
lated:
well! Had little snow last even
ing, and some wind after it!'
Then he went out on the street, with
his medium-weight overcoat on. That
''some wind" was sufficient, he found,
to wrap him in its carreSSing embrace
whether he willed it or not, dandle him
all over the street, and finally ''lamm"
him up against telegraph pole. After
getting his breath, and modifying his
opinion about the wind sufficiently to
allow him to admit that it did blow
pretty hard, he would look for street
car. When lie had stood on the corner
long enough TO lay the foundations of a
full set or latest improved. modern
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little snow" had fallen in sufficient
quantity to effectually blockade every
street car line in the city-by the as
Sistance of the aforesaid wind. that is.
The oldest inhabitant will say, and
probably with truth. that Minneapolis
has gone through many worse storm
than that of yesterday. The man who
has not lived in the Northwest for
above dozen years is inclined to think
that the city has never experienced
more diSagreeable and generally par
alyZing storm than swept over the city
all day long, from the rising of the sun
to the going down thereof. The fall OF
snow was not so very great, but 1t came
attended by such a wind that it made a
disagreeable mess of the weather. The
street car system is always. OF course,
the first to suffer from storm like this
one. 1t suffered yesterday. Street rail-
way traffic was-well, there wasn't
any worth mentioning. Ii one
stood out Washington avenue all
dav he might see occasionally three or
four cars all together behind snow
pillow or a "salter," but that was all.
Everybody that wanted to move about
the city walked or took q cab. Along
in the afternoon some of the lines be-
gan to run spasmOdically, but 1t can
truthfully be said that the street rail-
way system was tied up all day. A few
cars were running on the interurban
line, but they were so few that no one
depended upon them, and the Mil
waukee road ran few special trains to
st. Paul to accommodate the people who
had to go from one city to the other.
1t is not often that mere storm can
paralyZe business as it was paralyZed
yesterday. The big stores of the city
Seldom close their doors because the
elements are on spree. But they did 1t
yesterday. The Glass Block store closed
at noon. Donaldson's example was fol-
lowed by Segelbaum, the Minneapolis
Dry Goods company, Hale, Thomas IL
Co. and others. Even 1erxa's grocery
closed up, and grocery stores do MOI
close often, for people must eat.
The wind was vicious early in the
morning. 1t injured one man quite Sc
verely. Daniel Felver, cigar maker,
was coming down town to work. He
had walked all the way from his home.
Ga North Bryant avenue. AT the
corner Of Fifth street and Hennepin, a
locality famed as the windiest spot in
side the patrol limits, he was caught by
a whirlWind, lifted into the air, whirled
around several times, reversed as many
more, and flung against the sidewalk.
The bridge of his nose was broken and
his left shoulder dislocated. Plate
glass was broken in all parts of the
city by the wind. Signs were blown
down and wagons overturned by the
score. The telephone company was
badly crippled. The police and fire
alarm wires were also in bad condition
from the storm. One of the police
wires broke and fell against a heavy
trolley wire. The heavy current burnedf'
out the switchboard, receiver and trans
mitter at police headquarters. All the
trains from the west were late in get
ting into the city. Although the
weather Office predicted that the storm
would abate after the sun went down
last night, the creaking of swinging
signs told that the gale was still travel
ing at a lively rate at late hour. To-
day is expected to be clearer and colder.
A cold wave is coming Oh the heels of
the storm that is expected to crowd the
storm ont of the WaV