Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-11-29
Winter to the East Of Us.

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:alircaI tu>inc>S. The storm was
especially severe on til, 800 miles le-
tween Cheyenne and ogden. The
wind h.cw - miles an hour with IA
binding >icct ii snow aud the mcr.
curry down to zero. In Wyoming and
Huu,h Dakota the storm. was the Sc
Horc>t for many wears.
\ continuation OF this storm fur
thcr last i reported. snow fell to
the depth OF foot or over in Chicago.
Tuesday, the heaviest fall for twelve
wears. y blizzard is reported all over
the State.
All along the Ohio river the gale is
reported to have done much damage.
In Louisville several residences were
unrOofcd, at Jacksonville barns were
destroyed. and at various other points
damage is reported.
The destruction OF property in In
diana is very large. The glass works
at Elwood were demolished over the
heads OF 400 workmen; a lamp chin
nev factory was carried from its foun-
dation. Loss estimated at 100000,
and 700 men are out Of employment.
At Franklin, a wlndow-glass factory
was unrOofed, business blocks were
demolished and the indianapolis gas
pumping stations were destroyed.
Loss $4,000. At Alexandria, the
plate glass works were wrecked, the
shops OF the Union Steel Plate plant
were demolished and the Main street
was blocked with roofs blown from
buildings. At Haggerstown, Seymour,
Richmond and Decatur, fences and
chimneys were Frustrated and trees
blown down. AT Wabash, half the
buildings OF the brick works were de-
stroyed and at many other points
damage is reported.
At Fort Recovery, in Ohio, forty
derricks in the oil fields were blown
over, and much damage was done to
other property. AT Oxford severa
houses were unroofed, and houses il
process Of construction we're blown
down.
Tie storm throughout Missouri
Arkansas and Texas was more severe
than had been experienced for years.
On the same date high gale pre-
vailed on the New England coast, &C
companied by heavy rain.
The increased flow OF the Niagar.
river, owing to the rainfall, has sub
jected the suspension bridge to a ire
mendous strain, and for a time it.
safety was imperiled.
The rainfall is matter of congrat
ulation to river men on the Ohio.
has brought the river up TO a barg
transportation state, and some of tn
largest tows ever seen on the rive
have left Pittsburgh. Thirty-si:
million bushels of coal have beer
waiting transportation, twice as mucI
) as has ever before accumulated at on
time, and with every towbost in ser
vice, only part Of the accumulation
can be marketed, before the water fall:
During the progress of the storm
over this wide district of country Tues
day, the telegraph was blockaded NOR
than has ever happened before from
that cause. On that day the line
were SO generally Frustrated over tn
central part of the continent, that dis
patches from New York passed owe
1000 miles OF wire to reach Chicago
They went by way of Montreal, Winni
peg and Vancouver 10 San Francisco
J and then The Needles, in Southern
California, Albuquerque, Kansas Cit
J and finally reached Chicago by way G
st. Louis. Railroad. telegraph an
travelling men say the late storm
, caused the most complete isolation eS
, perienced since the New York blizzar
in 1888. The storm seemed to cente
about Chicago, and extended as ia
east as Toledo and westward to til
, Rocky mountains. The worst SCENE
? to be from Denver to Buffalo, north G
ST. Louis.