Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-02-15
Chicago Wrestl ng with the Flakes
and a Stiff Breeze.
BUSINESS has TO Be SUSPENDED.
bad Reports Of the Storm Coming from
OklAhoma Three Indian Children
and Polander Frossn TO
Death.


were delayed and snow swe pers were
kept incessantly In use to prevent stop
pa re OF the street car lines. traffic on
which was badly delayed. The bliz.
zard was the most severe that has been
In Chicago for many years At noon
the wind was blowing at the rate of
seventy miles AN hour.
The wind rushed around the down
town corners with terrific force, carry
ing the pedestrians off their feet and
injuring many. Mrs. Jane Brdhany
was hurled against a Hre-plug at Dear
born and Van luren streets, and fatally
| injured Many carriages on Michigan
avenue, where the wind sweeps strui {ht
of the lake, were overturned, but none
of the occupants were seriously injured.
| Lake Michigan was lHshed into fury,
| and the wave, rushed over the break
water and swept clear across the llli-
nois Central railway tracks into Lake
Front park
Business at the stock yards was
practically suspended Few people
were about the yards and no buyers
, put in an appearance One OF the
large observat, on indows In the Lee
| land hotel was blown in and several
| guests narrowly escaped injury by the
falling glass All OF the mail trains
coming into Chicago were seriously de-
| layrd. Several of the deliveries were
abandoned and the mail service gener-
ally demoralized. Telephone and tcle-
graph wires suffered severely. Many
w.res were torn from their fasteniugs,
poles were blown down and many
crossed currents injured the service
Charles Cash, driver OF "A bakery
wagon, was probably fatally injured,
the wind overturnng his wagon on
Eighty-second street His leg was
broken and he received internal in
juries.
Three men at the water-worlSs crib.
four miles out in the lake, were
brought face to face with death. The
landing platform was smashed by the
waves, which washed over the CRIB
structure, drenching the imprisoned
men. I he telephone line to the sta
tion was uninjurtd and the men tele-
honed that the building was being
shaken frghtfully by the wind and
waves. No life-boat could live in the
storm and NO effort 10 rescue the men
could be made.
During the afternoon the storm in
! creased in violence, the wind at time,
rising TO n velocity of scventy-fve
miles an hour, and the snow growing
heavier II was the worst storm Chi
cago has ever known, ami by o'clock
business OF all kinds was ut stani.
still.
THE STORM IN OKLAHOMA
guthrie, Ok, Feb. 10. The worst
snow and sleet storm ever known here
ragged for forty-eight hours All trains
were delayed from fifteen to twenty
hours Reports from over the territory
indicate that there has been much suf-
fering, and considerable damage has
been done TO live stock and fruit trees
llESNEssEY, Ok, Feb l3.-rhe Rock
Island flyer, due here SUNDAY night.
and the express train, due here at q
yesterday morning, were stuck in the
snow banks In the Cherokee strip d
have not yet arrive /, . p. m, And
scores OF families in the strip suff rod
greatly during the severe blizzard
Michael Rulinislly polandcr was
found frozen To- death ON the prairie
INN wv AAhA "a bfllNs anu laIl aNAllts
who has claim on Back Bear, had his
feet and band, frozen SO badly that
amputatlon viii be necessary II was
the coldcs' wave that ever struck O,,-
lahuma and all the trails leading to-
ward llennessey are impassablc
III. RESu, Ok, Feb. 10 The storm of
Sunday was the most severe in twenty
years, There is much suffering to man
and beast everywhere in this section,
but only few fatalities are reported
In the immediate vicinity, Three In
dian school children lost their way in
the heavily falling snow and perished
Saturday night
FBozEN TO DEATH.
LIBERTY. Mo, Feb. l3-The snow
here Is twelve inches deep ON level
and drifted 30 bad in places that il Is
almost impossible for pedestrians and
vehicles to get about William Lewis,
u negro, was frozen TO death at Bir-
mingham. lie came up from Alabama
last summer to work n coal mines in
southern Kansas During the strike,
getting out of work, he and his wife
started out to make their way home
the best they could. He was taken
sick at birmingham and they took
shelter in an old shanty. The blizzard
came ou and his life went out in H.
woRKNEN IN PERIL
MILWAUKEE, Feb, IL - Swirling
clouds OF snow in which there has been
: but Que or two riffs since daylight shut
from view the house at the tunnel, one
mile from the shore of the lake. In this
building are nineteen worlSmen, at
least there were Sun lay night There
was considera ole fear expressed that
the tragedy Of last spring may have
been repeated,
LAKE STEAMER MISSING.
MILWAUKEE, Feb a. The steamer
Roanoke, of the Detroit Grand Haven
: & Milwaukee railroad, which left
here at II o'clock Suud " night, Is re.
) ported overdue nt Grand Haven, Some
? fear Is expressed for her safety, as the
. storm has been ons Of the worst OF the
: year. Besides her crew the only pas
/ sengers known to be aboard ara ten
members Of the Leouzo Brothers The
atrieal company,
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5 RAILWAY TRAFFIC ABANDONED
Heavy Fall OF snow in Nebraska, Occasion