Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-01-29
BLIZZARD IN MIDDLE WEST.
Floods in the Ohio Valley and Tidal
Wave on the Atlantic Coast.

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Milwaukee. Jan. 24.-The most severe
blizzard which has visited this city in
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 a 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, toe.
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 We're torn from their moorines
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 consd-
erable 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
jammed in the floating ice.
At Muskegon, Polesl>y 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 foul
hours late.
Stationmaster 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 l2G miles to trav
el TO Cincinnati. At all West Virginia
points rising floods are reported.
The same story comes from tributarie
in PENNSYLVANIA and Ohio This make
it sure that the maximum here will ne
| be less than 53 feet and at the same tim,
gives ground for apprehension of a grea
flood Of 55, with possibility of SO feet
/ Either of the latter two stages would rem
der the Grand Central depot Inaccessible
for trains. and would prevent all larg
boats from passing under the bridges. TIL
streams below Cincinnati are all pourin!
| in their floods, which will hold the rive
at the present stage until the rise from
Portsmouth reaches here and swclls it t,
50 feet
The Commercial storm dis
patches report as follows:
Wooster, O-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: man,
oil derricks blown down in Hume, Rock
land and Spencervlle DISTRICTS rivers ar
raging torrents.
| Hartford City. Ind.-Scarcely a 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 @
snow in Maine and New Hampshire, thun
der and lightning in the extreme north
east and practically a tidal wave on tn
coast from Cape Cod to Portland.
While the heavy snow in Maine cause
numerous washouts, the storm seemed t
some delay in transportation and the sc
we're rain in the south was responsible TO
have caused the enormous tide which in
undated the coast and caused heav
loss to towners of property along tn
water front.
At Gloucester the storm was the wors
since the memorable storm of 1851. Othe
localities along the shore also report lcsse
from the tidal wave of more or less es