Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1895-11-30
THE STORM WAS KING
and Fierce Gales PIay
Havoc With Property.
AND VESSELS WENT ASHORE
Cities and Towns IN the Mid
die West.

| Chicago, Nov. 26.-Up to II o'cloc
this city was practically dead tele
graphically. Last nights storm o
mingled rain, sleet and snow materiall
pfostrated electrical communicat ton o
all sorts within the city limits TIL
neaVy accumula ton of sleet and snov
broke down wires of all sorts. Ever
the heavy trolley wires We're unabl
TO Withstand the strain and wer
mingled IN confusion with the telephOn
and telegraph systems, including thu
city ponce and fire alarm wires Final
| ~ the Postal secured inter1nittant com
| hunlcatlon between this city and CIeye
| land, over which the Associated Pres:
| managed to get a little news, and bOtl
that company and the western Unior
| nad eSta blished communication Will
u. Louis and We're accepting the AS
soclated Press news and general busi.
ness. Ihe Chicago and Milwaukee Tel
eSfaph Company also set up its wires
| between the board of trade and Mil
"aukee and news and business were
moving. Altogether, it was the most
| complete telegraphic isolation which
this city has suffered for many years.
Passengers on + < Calumet electric
| street railway We're snowbound in a
| desolate portion of the city and some
| OF them were compelled to remain last
| night in the cars being unable to reach
| ehelr homes in South Chicago. Car
| NO II, which runs over South CHICAGO
| avenue was stalled at Seventy-seventh
street last night and remained there
| until this morning with five passengers
| IN addition to the motorman and con-
| ductOr.
ISOLATED FOR a TINE.
The Postal telegraph had the on1v
wire working out of this city at 3
o'clock this morning. The storm which
ragged here last night and early This
morning was one of the worst that ever
struck the city. The wind blew a gale
ana the snow fell in great clouds. Street
anu railway traffic are badly DELAYED,
dispatches received here show the same
state of affairs throughout Illinois.
quincy reports howling blizzard, with
snow falling fast. Telegraph and tele-
phone wires are down in all directions
Peoria says the storm is still raging
and serious damage is feared. At Fair
bury, ILL.,, the sleet caused considerable
damage.
On Lake Michigan the gale is severe
and the sea is running very high. Com
DafauVely few vessels are out and it is
not expected that there will b much
loss OF life. No vessels left the harbor
asst night. In many places the storm
blew down telephone and trolley wires
N chicago, and from the latter serious
accidents were narrowly averted. AS it
was three horses We're killed by coming
IN contact with trolley wires. Several
fires occurred during the night ana
made great trouble for the department..
as delays We're occasioned in the trans
mission of alarms. Chief Swenie of the
fire department said: THE only thing
we dld not have to contend with was
freezing water. 1t has been one of the
WORST nights, except in this feature |
have ever seen in which to fight fire"
AL 9:3o a. m. reports received at the
weather bureau office indicate that fair
weather will prevail in this section
Wednesday. The total depth of the
snowfall since Sunday has been about
l2.9 inches. This is the heaviest snow |
fall in Chicago in November in - wears.
AS a result of the blizzard business. of
every sort is crippled in Chicago today.
At 1890 the Western Union Telesraph
Company had established communica-
6lon between this city and St. Louis and
was accepting Associated Press news |
and general business. At $50 PRACTICAL |
" not tick of a sounder was heard |
Operators said they had not known |
such state of things in 30 years. Great /
1emOraliZa ton is due to the heavy wet /
snow, which has broken the wires down. |
Few remained intact, but they were |
useless on account of being crossed and |
grounded. The situation outside of the |
city may be as bad as in Chicago
At 10 o'clock the Western Union Gold |
and Stock Telegraph Company says: |
There was never a completer tele- |
graph blockade than exists today Up |
to 8 o'clock there We're no wires out of |
this city further than to the stock |
yards. This will of course much upset |
speculative markets. The blockade is |
complete in every direction" The fol-
lowing was also sent out by the Gold |
and Stock Company:
"Chicago Nov. 26.-No telegraph
wire, private or public, is working yet.
and it is likely that news from the out
side will be scarce. Foreign is less dis
turbing. Turkey appears to be control
ling its Armenian troubles"
WRECKS ON THE LAKES.
The lives of at least % men We're in
imminent peril on board vessels blown |
aground in Lake Michigan off Glencoe. /
The vessels are the steamer Owen Can
tain Marion Penny: the barge Mlchl-
gan and the barge Nicholson The
vessels were discovered early this
morning. The Evanston life-saving
crew was dispatched to the rescue. On
board the schooners the crews dashed |
themselves to the masts. Since they
could not be seen through powerful |
glasses to move, it was believed many
had been frozen to death.
It was about this morning when the
steamer Emery Owen ran aground with |
its two consorts, the harges Michigan
and Glencoe. There were between so
and IS people on board the three yes
sells, the majority being on the steamer
Signals of distress were at once given |
but it was after daylight when they
were seen and answered. The life-boat |
from Evanston was wrecked a few min
utes after being launched. Another
boat was soon secured and at 1870 at |
least 40 of those on the shipWrecked |
boats had been landed. There We're
about as many more yet to be landed. |
The work of rescue was necessarily
slow, as the lake was running high |
and the life-boats had to proceed slow
ly on account of large cakes of ice All
three vessels are pounding badly and it |
is feared they will go to pieces before
tomorrow. 1t looks now as If every one
on board will be saved. sNone of the
sailors are dead, though all are suffer
ing terribly from cold ana exposure
The vessels We're proceeding from But
falo to Chicago laden with coal. Cap
tain Tenny of the steamer was washed
overheard when the vessels Went
aground, but, through the GOODNESS of
Frederick Westney. the cook, he was
James Dougherty was steer
ing at the time of the accident When
Captain Tenny Of the steamer and Cap
tain Smith Of one Of the schooners were
brought ashore, they refused to give