The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-03
A DESTRUCTIVE STORM.
Telegraph and Electric Light
Wires, Poles, and Trees Go
Down Under the Weight of
Ice.

The rain that fell Tuesday and
Wednesday froze as it struck the
earth and objects that were above it,
compktely enveloping everything
that was exposed with ice, so that
there was a coating of ice about one
inch thick around every object. This
amount Of ice encircling everything,
created a great weight which the
branches and limbs OF the trees and
the wires were unable to support and
sooner or later succomed to the effects
of the storm. Wednesday evening the
trees began to fall and continued an
lncessant crashing throughout the
night and 7 thursday. About the. same
time the electric light wires began to
break in the morning there was
| only two circuits working, which soon
gave way. The wires broke in num-
erous places all over the village, some
ofthem between every pole.
One or two poles near the power
house, which are known as the juno
tion poles, and support all the wires,
went down under the heavy weight,
entirely crippling the light service,
| which will take quite a number of
| days to get even in temporary work
| ing order.
The greatest loss will probably
be to shade trees, which is inestima
table, as every tree is stripped of all
| the smaller limbs, and after the Ice is
melted off will appear unsightly un.
til they can be trimmed up. Many
of them will doubtless die.
The sidewalks Thursday morning
were covered with peices of ice and
broken limbs, the streets were covered
with ice so that Professionalism was
difficult for both man and beast.
Worthington has always taken
great pride in her beautiful shade
trees which adorn it's streets, school
house and court house grounds that
are now in very bad condition.
The telegraph and telephone wires
suffered equally as bad as the electric
light wires. The telephone wires,
where effected by the storm, are said
to be in very bad condition. The
telegraph lines commenced to go
down Wednesday evening and Thurs
day evening and Thursday morning
all communication by wire was en-
tirely shut off, continuing so until
Saturday evening about five p. m.
when the first wire commenced work
ing east. The movement OF trains
was retarded. but not seriously.
The storm was extensive but its Sc
verify in this section only extended
from Sioux Falls and Sibley on the
west and St. James on the east. The
storm places some of the farmers in
dead predicament, as there are large
number of them that have not thrash
ed and the chances are they will not
be able to until spring.
The oldest settlers in this section
are unable to<ecall any such severe
storms. Up to the present time no
accidents have been heard OF except
to Miss Francis Clarke, a daughter Of
Dr. Clarke. She was watching her
father clear away the fallen limbs
when suddenly one fell, striking her
on the. back of the head, knocking
her down, striking her face on the
large chunks of ice, cutting a cash
over her eye which her father was
obliged to take stitches in. Her face
was otherwise bruised.
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