Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-02-22
Reports from Many Points.

history Monday morning. be got
hump on himself. And the hump? 1t
broke all records for many year. The
whole country has been swept by a
blizzard. Across the entire continent
the whooping, bowling monster made
an impartial and indiscrimlnate tour,
but the storm was most severe after
the Pacific air column was re-enforced
by another column in Illinois. Starting
away out beyond the Missouri River it
laid embargo on the railway travel in
Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota
and the Northwest generally. 1t sent
the visitors in the big Hot Springs ,ho-
tells budding about the steam radi-
ators, and made the teeth of the Texas
cowboys chatter. Its course eastward
was marked by snowed-up trains
and tangled telegraph wires far
into the Middle States. It's center
passed along the Ohio Valley, and its
terrible force was felt in all the areas
within a few hundred miles of that
line. The earliest reports came from
the large cities. These were s.rug-
Cling in snowdrifts, while the smaller
towns were almost completely snow
bound.
Luckily, save for the inevitable in
convenience to the public and the suffer-
ing which every storm entails upon
the poor, it does not seem that any
very painful harm has been inflicted.
The wind did the only mischief. Both
the snowfall in the northern half of
the belt and the rainfall further south
will be beneficial rather than injurious,
unless the following cold winds from
the north destroy vegetation in the
more southern section. 1t will be
some time before the full story of de-
layed trains, snowed-in villages and
general discontinue is known, but the
Associated Press dispatches tell enough
to enable the readers imagination to
do the rest.
Wild Day In Illinois.
the air by gale of wind which blew
eighty-four miles an hour-buried Chi
cago; buried it so deeply that business
of every kind was paralyzed. The
storm broke upon the city before day
light, and until the coming of night
ragged with a fury not equaled since
the memorable blizzard which swept
down upon Chicago just nine years
ago. Street car transit during the
morning and early part of the after
noon was almost matter of luck, and
the railroads practically threw up
their hands and waited for the storm
to quit. Trains which should have
left in the afterno) N commenced
pulling out at midnight. The Illinois
Central made brave fight to keep its
suburban service going, but one by
one the tracks at 2. d street were frozen
up by the water and ice swept inland
by the gale and at night it had only
three sets of rails left, and they were
studded with snowbanks. Business
houses were des erted the day long, the
big downtown stores sending their
clerks home long before the usual
closing hour. The monetary loss to
storekeepers Is placed at $250,000. Life
was imreriled on land and water.
Many accidents occurred to pedestrians
who were not able to contend against
the wind and uncertain footing caused
by the snow and Recovered walks.
Out at the 6Sth street crib the lives of
seventy men were hanging in the bal
ance while the tempest was bowling.
QUINCY.-The public schools were
ClOooo vi dCCOuHJ VI Jllt SHOW.
BELVIDERE.-Not in ten years has
such terrible blizzard.
JOLIET.-The roads through the
county are blockaded by the worst
storm ever seen hereabouts.
CARTHAGE.-A Wabash passenger
train, from Clayton to Keokuk, was
stuck in the snow at this point.
AURORA has been prac-
tically suspended, the street cars
stopped, trains late, and the schools
closed.
DECATUR. The worst blizzard known
here in five years. The snow is eight
to ten inches on level and drifted hip
deep in places.
CHAMPAIGN.-Th section of central
Illinois has been in the tolls of biz
Yard, the equal of which has not been
experienced for decade.
CHESTER. buildings were
. damaged, lumber piles overturned and
a fleet of thirteen steamboats, in this
harbor were in a precarious condition
BLooMINGToN.-T wind was blow
ing almost tornado and the cold was
severe, the mercury being down to
zero. Great snowdrifts lie everywhere.
PEoRIA.-The storm was one of the
worst In the history OF the city. The
snow was fine and dry and was accom-
panied by heavy wind, causing it to
drift badly.
SPRINGFIELD.-The snowstorm pre-
vailed nearly all day. The ground is
covered to depth of eight or ten
inches. Street car traffic was suspend
ed and the schools closed.
Michigan Storm Swept.
GRAND RAPIDs.-It was the widest
storm of the season.
CoLDwATER.- The worst storm that
ever prevailed in this vicinity
KALAMAZOO.-The worst storm in
thirty years. Drifts on the main
streets are ten feet deep.
JACKSON. The worst blizzard expe-
rienced here in twenty years. All pas
senger trains pulled with one and even
two extra engines.
LANsING.-At noon the schools Of
the city were closed on account of the
severity of the storm. Nothing like it
has been known since the famous storm
OF March, 1886. Business almost at a
standstill.
lRoNwcoD. = Logging operations
have been temporarily suspended. as
the snow in the woods Is so deep that
1t is impossible to make any progress.
SAGINAw.-One of the most severe
billiards. ever experienced in the Sag
NAV Valley. 1t grew bitterly cold and
huge drifts, in some places four feet
high, blockaded sidewalks.
Observation-Disclosures Is storm swept.
Not since April, 1886, has SO much
SNOW fallan NOR baa tho uinI hauled