The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1894-02-16
THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW,
A White Blanket Over the Whole
Country.
The Severest Storm Known for Years
Traffic Paralyzed and Everything
Showed Under Reports from AL
Parts Of the Country.
ChicagO's Dose.

Chicago's Dose.
! CHICAGO, Feb. ia blizzard of the
most approved pattern, with snow.
sleet and energetic winds. swept down
on Chicago and ragged with constantly
increasing violence. Great snow drifts
blocked the streets, suburban trains
were delayed and snow sweepers were
kept necessarily in use to prevent stop
| page of the street car lines, traffic on
which was badly delayed. The biz
card 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 Brahany
was hurled against fire-plug at Dear
born and Van Buren, streets, and fatally
injured. Many carriages on Michigan
avenue, where the wind sweeps straight
OH the lake. were overturned, but none
OF the occupants were seriously injured.
Lake Michigan was dashed into fury,
and the waves rushed over the break
water and swept clear across the Illi-
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 observation windows 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-
layed. Several of the deliveries were
abandoned and the mail service gener-
ally demoralized. Telephone and tele-
graph wires suffered severely. Many
wires were torn from their fastenings,
poles were blown down and many
crossed currents injured the service.
Charles Cash, driver of bakery
wagon, was probably fatally injured,
the wind oyerturning his wagon on
Eighty-second street. His leg was
broken and he received internal in
juries.
Three men at the water-works crib,
four miles out in the lake, were
landing platform was smashed by the
waves, which washed over the crib
structure, drenching the imprisoned
men. The telephone line to the sta
ton was uninjur and the men tele-
phoned that the building was being
shaken frightfully by the wind and
waves. No ife-boat could live in the
storm and no effort to rescue the men
could be made.
During the afternoon the storm in
creased in violence, the wind at times
rising to a velocity of seventy-fve
miles an hour, and the snow growing
heavier. 1t was the worst storm Chi
cago has ever known, and by o'clock
business of all kinds was at stand
still.
Oklahoma Catches 1t.
GUTHRIE. Ok, Feb. 13.-The worst
snow and sleet storm ever known here
ragged for forty-eight hours All trains
We're 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
HENNEssEY, Ok, Feb 13.-The Rock
Island flyer, due here Sunday night,
and the express train. due here at 6
yesterday morning, were stuck in the
snow banks in the Cherokee strip and
have not yet arrived, 5 p. IN. And
scores of families in the strip suffered
greatly during the severe blizzard.
Michael Rudinisky, Polander, was
found frozen to death on the prairie
on the Hackbeary, and Eli Fraville,
who has a claim on Black Bear, had his
feet and hands frozen SO badly that
ar.putation will be necessary. 1t was
the coolest wave that ever struck Ok
lahoma and all the trails leading to.
ward Hennessey are impossible.
Ell RENO, Ok, Feb. Is 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 persisted
Saturday night
Frozen to Death.
LIBERTY, Mo-, Feb. 13-The snow
here is twelve inches deep on level
and drifted SO bad in places that it is
almost impossible for pedestrians and
vehicles to get about William Lewis,
a negro. was frozen to death at Bir
mingham. He c,,me up from Alabama
last summer to work in 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 on and his life went out in it
Workman in Peril.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. Is = Swirling
clouds of snow in which there has been
but one 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 wOrkmen. at
least ther. were SUNDAY night There