The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-26
THE STORM WEST.

It Seems to Have Been the Very
Worst Chicago Has Seen For Years.
CHICAGO. Nov. 26.-This disp atch is
sent by the Postal Telegraph cable COM
pany, which had the only wire working
out of this city at o'clock. The storm
which ragged here last night and early
this morning, was one of the worst that
ever struck this city. The wind blew a
gale and the snow fell in great clouds.
Street and railroad traffic are greatly de-
layed and the street car companies
had to absndon some of their minor
lines, devoting their energies to keeping
the main lines open. Dispatches re-
ceived here show the same state of
affairs throughout Illinois.
On Lake Michigan the gale was very
severe and the sea is running very high.
! Comparatively fcw-~vessefs are Cut az
this time of year, and it is not expected
that there will be much loss of life, if
any No vessel left the harbor last
night.
In many places the storm blew down
the telephone and trolley wires in Chi
cago and from the latter serious acci-
dents were narrowly averted, as it was
three horses were killed from coming in
contact with the trolley wires. Several
fires appeared during the night and
made great trouble for the department
as its own electric system was so badly
deranged that delays were occasioned in
the transmission of alarms
CHICAGO, Nov. 26.-The storm has ap-
parently been the worst for many years,
the worst since the New York blizzard
to wdich indirectly the death of Roscoe
CoDkling was attributed
The snow fall since Sunday evening
has been 1873 inches. This is the heavi-
est snow fall reported in Chicago in No
vember in the last twelve years.
Suburban trains on steam railways are
greatly delayed while some of the troll
ley lines had to be abandoned entirely
On Elton avenue electric line cars were
standing on the track at 9 o'clock this
morning aud where they were caught
by last nights storm. The Sixty-seventh
street trolley line at a late hour has not
attempted to run single car. Other
lines were similarly crippled and
so it was that thousands upon
thousands of people were greatly
delayed or were prevented from
reaching their places of business.
At 10 o'clock this morning the West
ern Union Gold s. Stock Telephone Co.
says: There was never a completer
telegraph blockade than exists today.
Up to o'clock there was no wire out of
this city further than to the stock
yards. This will of course much upset
the speculative markets. The block
ade is complete in every direction.
CHICAGO. Nov. 26.-The lives of at
least % men are in imminent peril on
board vessels which have been blown
around on Lake Michigan off Glencoe
The vessels are steamer J. Emery Owen,
Capt. Marion Penny, with a crew of
eight men. The schooner Michigan
with captain and six men; schooner
Nicholson with captain and crew of
seven men. These vessels went aground
between midnight and daybreak. On
board the schooners, the crews have
lashed themselves to masts, and from the
fact that they cannot be seen through
powerful glasses to move, it is believed
that many of them have been frozen to
death.
ST. LOUIS, Nov 26.-The blizzard sub
sided this morning. after leaving six to
eigh: inches of snow on the ground,
badly crippling street railroads and great
ly impeding all kinds of traffic. Tele-
phone wires are down in numerous places
and telegraph lines are down in
all directions. The storm ragged
throughout Missouri, Arkansas
and Texas, and was more severe than
any preceding one for many years In
Texas it swept over the ranches, cover
ing them with snow several inches deep,
severely exposing all kinds of live stock
to its fury. If the temperature falls
much lower in that section there will be
great loss of cattle and sheep.
CINCINNATI, o., Nov. 26-The storm of
wind and sleet and in some places snow
mixed with rain, cut off the west includ-
ing St. Louis and Chicago. All CON-
munication was lost but one telegraph
wire to Louisville. The telegraphic tests
indicate grounding of wires at no great
distance west of here. There are many
| broken windows and Frustrated signs
here. The steamers Rob Roy and Nc
Connell were blown from their moorin gs
The steamer John E. Speed at River.
side was blown from her moorings aud