The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-01-29
BLIZZARD IN MIDDLE WEST.
Floods in the Ohio Valley and Tidal
Wave on the Atlantic Coast.

years continued its fury until yesterday.
Snow to the depth of Is inches has fallen,
and with the wind blowing at the rate of
so miles an hour, great drifts were form
ed in all parts of the city, making travel
almost an impossibility. On several lines
of street railway traffic was at stand
still early in the night, and only the most
important thoroughfares were kept open
with the aid of powerful sweepers until
an hour before midnight, when there, too,
were stalled, so rapidly did the snow
drift. Railroad trains came in irregu-
larly, and only passenger trains, each with
the aid of several locomotives, attempted
to get through, those carrying freight be-
ing abandoned. Every telegraph wire in
the state was abandoned.
Damage at Racine.
Racine, Wis, Jan. 24.-The storm was
the worst experienced in this country in
recent years. Service on street railway
lines was completely paralyzed. Three
steamers were torn from their moorings
and were considerably damaged.
In All Parts of Michigan.
Detroit, Jan. 24.-The heavy gale was
accompanied by fine snow Saginaw
street cars were completely tied up. Trains
were stalled on the Mackinaw division of
the Michigan Central, and on the Flint &
Pere Marquette road. The gale was
equally fierce on the east and west sides
of the state. At Benton Harbor consid-
cradle damage was done by blowing down
smoke stacks, store front, etc, and nearly
the entire sheet-iron roofing of the court
house was blown off
The steamer Frank Woods broke from
her moorings and several smaller boats
drifted into Lake Michigan and were
damned in the floating ice.
AT Muskegon, Polesky and all northern
points the storm was violent, but none of
the winter steamers are known to have
been on Lake Michigan during the storm
Chicago Suffered Damage.
Chicago, Jan. 24.-The snowstorm was
the worst in this city for years. The
greatest damage was caused by the break
ing down of telegraph and telephone wires
The police telephone systems were badly
crippled, and there was much trouble with
the city fire alarm system.
Snow plows and sweepers were kept go
ing all night. All the incoming trains
on all the roads were from one to four
hours late
Stationmaster Clithers of the Union Pa
cific said Saturday night was one of the
worst railroading nights he had ever
known. On account of the breaking
down of the telegraph wires they were to-
tally at sea as to the whereabouts of the
| trains.
Floods in Ohio.
/ Cincinnati, Jan. 24.-News from Ports.
mouth Ohio, is that the river is still ris.
ing. The food has about 100 miles to tray
el to Cincinnati. At all West Virginia
points rising foods are reported.
The same story comes from tributaries
in Pennsylvania and Ohio. This makes
it sure that the maximum here will not
be less than 80 feet, and at the same time
gives ground for apprehension of a great
flood of 50, with possibility of 50 feet
Either of the latter two stages would rem
der the Grand Central depot inaccessible
for trains, and would prevent all large
boats from passing under the bridges. The
streams below Cincinnati are all pouring
in their floods, which will hold the river
at the present stage until the rise from
Portsmouth reaches here and swells it tc
90 feet
The Commercial ribunes storm dis
patches report as follows:
Wooster, County Jail and three fac
tories unroofed; B. & o railway track:
washed out in two places.
Bradford Junction, O-The Christian
church was unroofed barns and tree.
were blown down.
Lima, O.-Rainfall yesterday unprece
dented; school buildings unroofed; many
oil derricks blown down in Hume, Rock
land and Spenceville districts; rivers ar,
raging torrents.
Hartford City, Ind-Scarcely derricl
left standing in the oil fields.
Tidal Wave on the Atlantic.
Boston, Jan. PA severe storm. at
, tended by unusual phenomena, has passe,
over New England, causing heavy rain
in the southern portion, 10 to II inches O
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