Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-02-14

Game from New YORK ana No"
England.
ScITUATE, MASS, February 13.-All
day long the crews of the Massachu-
setts Humane Society life boats and the
United States life boats, ut Fourth
Cliff, have tried to rescue the crew OF
the wrecked schooner, Minnie Rowan, OF
Bridgeport, Conn. The vessel was
discovered of the First Cliff
early in the day. The crews
OF both life saving stations
we're summoned and they had great
difficulty Ia firing life line across the
bow of the schooner. The crew seized
1t aud made it fast to the foremast, but
It got fouled and was rendered useless.
The seas were constantly washing
across the vessel at this time. Half
dozen of the crew were in the rigging,
and the captain himself, tied up in blank
cts, was securely lashed in the>main
shrouds. About 6:3O Captain Stanley,
Of the government life boat, put OF
through the surf. After a perilous
passage, In which the boat was several
times half filled with wafer, it got un-
der the bow Of the schooner. Captain
st. John, who the crew OF the schooner
said had broken his leg, was low
cred by rope over the side.
A line from the life boat had
also been made fast to him. But
when the captain was almost in reach
of the men in the boat the vessels crew
refused to let go their end of the line
and pulled the Captain back on board
again. just then heavy sea swept the
boat away and though she struggled to
get back alongside the crew OF the
schooner made no further effort to get
into it. The life boat then returned to
the beach.
BosTON, February 13.-The blizzard
is still raging. At o'clock this morn
ing IL was at its heigth. The wind was
blowing from the northeast at the rate
of 60 miles per hour and the ther-
mometer was above zero. From that
time the wind abated somewhat. Bos-
ton mas not seen such storm for years.
Eleven inches of snow has fallen on the
level The streets are IN terrible con-
dition. 90 every line the cars are
blocked and many telephone and tele-
graph wires are down. Many of
the schoo.s are closed. General traffic
will be simply impossible to-day.
The railroads from tue South and East
are terribly blocked. Through trains
on the Boston aud Maine, both eastern
and western divisions, are from thirty
TO forty-tivs minutes late. All business
along the water front is at standstll.
Many schoonerS are out, and reports of
them are anxiOusly looked for. The OBJ
servatiOns CT the weather bureau show
that the storm is severest along the
coast, and in southern New England
and northern Vermont only three inches
of snow have fallen, while at Eastport,
Me-, only high wind has touched. Re-
ports are beginning to come in Of the
severity of the storm in other places.
CHICAGO, February ia bout fifty
workmen who were imprison ed all day
yesterday and last night in the tenn
porary crib four miles out In the lake
were rescued by a tug to-day. The
fierce storm rocked the frail structure,
the spray put out the fires and the men
suffered intensely from cold. None of
them was seriously frozen.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, February 13.-
/ The Stars Guthrie, Okla, special says:
The worst of the terrible blizzard seems
to be over here, and business is being
resumed. Besides the two families re-
ported frozen near Cross, an unknown
man was foud near Ponca Indian
Agency, frozen TO death. Two Ton
Quawa indians were found dead in a
hut, and three Indian children were
caught in the storm and pesishsd,
south of Cleveland, in the country, a
family of three perished. MANY other
fatalities are rumored, but nothing au-
thentic. Scores Of cattle and horses,
owned by settlers in the Strip. perished,
and in the Usage and Kiowa reserva-
tion the number of dead cattle will
reach thousands.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, February ID
The storm in this city and vicinity
spent its violence by last midnight and
save for a slight additional fall OF snow,
the elements were at rest and the sun
was shining this morning. Five hun
dred men responded to the call Of the
Commercial Club for 1000 men this
morning and were put to work on the
down town streets, clearing of and
banking the heavy snow, thus making
travel less lsbOrious. Trains are run
ming closer to the schedule. Colder
weather is promised tonight.
NEW York, February 15.-The storm
which ragged through the night and
morning, while being as good speci-
mea of winter weather as New York
has seen in years, was hardly blizzard.
Mr.. Dunn, forecast officer, defines il as
"a storm Of at least seventy-two hours
duration with the wind blowing at six
ty miles an hour" The storm centre
this morning is on the middle Atlantic
coast. The wind at Block Island, Z. l.,
is about forty miles an hour The max
imum height OF the wind during tie
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