Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-03-28
WIND, RAIN AND SNOW.

A Heavy Storm in the West-Thou.
sands of Dollars Worth of Property
MISREPRESENTATION Traffic Aban-
doned-Telegraph and Telephone
Wires Laid Iowa Cyclone in Mon
ticellO and Bloomington.
OMAHA, March 27.-About 6 o'clock
yesterday morning the rain which had
been falling all night turned into snow.
Toward noon the temperature dropped
several degrees and the wind drove the
snow in singing horizontal lines which
soon cleared the streets of all except those
who were compelled to be out. All street
car traffic was early blockaded. The cable
line parted Its rope when the storm
was at its height. At 2 o'clock a
cold drizzling rain was falling and
the streets were almost impossible.
Floods of water and slush covered
the crossings. Half the telephone poles
with their weight of hundreds of snow
laden wires were twisted and broken and
in some instances leaned up against build-
ings. Broken wires hung in loops to the
sidewalk or lay in tangled mess across
the street, while those overhead were in
almost inextricable confusion. Eighty
wires leading to the Western Union Office
were useless. Last night the city was in
darkness, owing to the electric light cur
rents being turned off. The
Western Union did not have a
wire working out of Omaha. All service
to Omaha was conducted by special mes.
senger. Both the B. & NJ. and the Union
Pacific abandoned freight trains in order
that passenger traffic might not be inter.
| fered with. The really serious trouble was
on the Iowa shore, as the wires were oil
| most completely Frustrated from the rive,
| to the transfer. Linemen were set at work
| to repair the damage. The storm appear.
| to have been local, as no trouble was ex
| perienced twenty-f five miles away. Tht
damage is not yet fully known.
| AT OTHER PLACES.
| MONTICELLO, ILL.,, March ga tornado
swept over Piatt county yesterday, level
ling buildings and destroying thousand
of dollars worth of property. 1t was &C
companied by severe hail storm. TIL
cyclone was 200 feet wide and swept ev
erything in its path. Barns and house
were carried from their foundations ant
demolished. Buildings were seen high IL
the air, being carried along by the cyclone
No loss of life has yet been reported
There were many narrow escapes.
| SPRINGFIELD, KY, March 27.-This sec
ton was visited by wind storm which de
molished several farmhouses. Windo1
glass was badly broken by hail.
KANSAS CRY, No., March 7.-Dispatch
es from Kansas state a severe wind an
rain storm ragged throughout the state yes
terday.
DENVER, March 29.-A special fror
Durango says: A heavy wind storm whic
prevailed here yesterday blow down
building in course of erection, upon whic
FIVE carpenters were working. Jane
Cummings was probably fatally injured
} while J. A. Strom, J. B. Finley and job
| Chisholm were severely hurt.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, March GA cont
shaped cyclone skirted along the NORTH
: west edge of the city yesterday, unroofn
> a number of houses and that of a factory
A number of girls working in the latte
structure were deluged with rain and wei
badly frightened. but escaped with HIT,
injury. An old lady named Martz W,
badly hurt when her homo was blow
down.
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