Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-01-29
BLIZZARD IN MIDDLE WEST.
Floods in the Ohio Valley and Tidal
Wave on the Atlantic Coast.

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80 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 60
ing all night. All the incoming trains
on all the roads were from one to four
hours late.
Stationmastcr Clithers of the Union Pa
cifc 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 flood has about 100 miles to trav-
ell 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 I
be less than SO feet, and at the same time +
gives ground for apprehension of great
flood of So, with possibility of 80 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 to /
30 feet
The Commercial Tribunes storm dis |
patches report as follows:
Wooster, O.-County Jail and three fac /.
tories unroofed; B. & 0 railway tracks |
washed out in two places.
Bradford Junction, O.-The Christian
church was unroofed; barns and trees
We're blown down.
Lima, O-Rainfall yesterday unprece
dented; school buildings unroofed; many
oil derricks blown down in Hume, Rock |
land and Spencerville districts; rivers are
raging torrents.
Hartford City, Scarcely a derrick
left standing in the oil fields.
Tidal Wave on the Atlantic.
Boston, Jan. PA severe storm, at
tended by unusual phenomena, has passed
over New England, causing heavy rains
in the southern portion, 10 to IL inches of
snow in Maine and New Hampshire, thun-
der and lightning in the extreme north
east and practically tidal wave on the
coast from Cape Cod to Portland.
While the heavy snow in Maine caused
numerous washouts, the storm seemed to
some delay in transportation and the Sc
we're rain in the south was responsible for
have caused the enormous tide which in
undated the coast and caused Il heavy
loss to towners of property along the