The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
SeVerest Blizzard Ever known at
This Season of the Year Has
Overwhelmed Cleveland, O.
SNOW FALL over 4 FOOT ON LEVEL
Electric Wires of All Kinds Down
and Railroads Kept Open With
Difficulty or Not at All.

, raging here for twenty-four hours and
| tonight shows no sign of abatement. The
| Hooking river is Using rapidly and is
already flooding the valley. Bridges in
| the Sunday Creek valley are weighted
| down with freight cars to prevent them
| washing away.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, April 20. The
heaviest snowfall for several years now
| covers upper East Tenne nessee 1t varies in
<depth from eighteen inches, in the valley
! to two feet in the mountains and the
! latest reports are that the snow is still
! falling, though not heavily.
STORM IS GENERAL
CHICAGO, April 20-Telegraphic COM
| munication with all points east of Cleve-
land has been cut off since early this
morning by a storm which extends from
! Canada to Tennessee and east to the At
/ lantic coast. A heavy wet snow, driven
| by gale, has played havoc with wires
| and poles and both Western Union and
| Postal companies report a complete sus-
| pension of business to the seaboard
Officials here fear that this storm will
! cripple wire equipment worse than for
| several years past
DETROIT Mich, April 20.-The De-
trolt and Cleveland line steamer City of
Cleveland, which left Cleveland last
night for Detroit, arrived today nearly
an hour late, after hard fight with
the northeast storm, which ragged on
Lake Erie during the night The giant
waves smashed many of the windows on
the starboard SIDE of the steamer and
two iron stanchions in the mess room
were cracked entirely through by the
violent pitching of the vessel 1t was
the heaviest sea of the season and there
was much NAL de mer among passen-
gers.
COLUMBUS, o., April 20-The storm
has cut off communication by rail with
all Eastern points. PENNSYLVANIA trains
from New York, due here at a. M.
had not arrived at noon. Special trains
were made up at Columbus to make
connections with st. Louis. Cincinnati
and Indianapolis. The Pennsylvania
company was the only railroad having a
line open east of Columbus and that only
reached to Trinway, O.
At Dennison, O., eleven inches of snow
is reported. Locally large gangs of line
men were kept busy all day repairing
damage done by the high wind
AKRON, o., April 2O.-Traffic is block
ed here by nearly two feet of snow The
storm is still raging and a strAag wind
mas caused the snow to drift badly.
Street cars are tied up and the railroad
trains are all several hours behind time
A west-bound Baltimore & Ohio train.
due here at 11:1O last night, is lost.
When last heard of it was at Wayland
but train dispatchers have been unable
to locate it for several hours owing TO
the destruction Of telegraph wires
| PORTSMOUTH, O., April 2o.-Rain and
! snow has been steadily falling here for
two days and still continues The Ohio
river is rising eight inches an hour and
serious flood is feared.
ZANESVILLE, o., April 20-Snow has
fallen for thirty-six hours continually and
| all the streets are blocked
Floods are feared in the Muskingum
valley. ''--
CANTON, O., April 2O-snow fell here
early today to a depth of over twelve
inches. Street car traffic is suspended
WINTRY IN OLD KENTUCKY
LOUISVILLE, Ky. April 20--Reports
rom all over Kentucky show that last
night and today the Temperatures was
lower than i'll any corresponding time in
decade Snow fell all through the
mountains section and the mercury was
below freezing at several points. The
minimum last night was two degrees he
low freezing and the maximum So de,
grees above, the latter in the extreme
western section of the state The coldest
| weather was felt in the Blue Grass sac
ton, the best fruit growing region Of
the state Serious damage, it is feared,
was caused not alone to young fruit but
to vegetable and tobacco crops.
LONDON, Ky, April 2O.-For twenty
| fonr hours snow has been falling over
IA < md
depth of II inches The mountain
streams are all full to the bank and neo-
| pie living nearby are moving out as
when the snow goes off the floods Will.
1t is feared, sweep away everything near
the waters Great suffering is being en-
dured from the cold by those moving
out. Great damage has already been
done to timber Such severe weather
has never before been known at this
season.
REACHES INTO GEORGIA
ATLANTA, Ga, April 2o-The storm
which last night caused a general dis
turbance over parts of Kentucky, Ten.
nessee, Alabama ard Georgia. has moved
10 the northeast an dis today being felt
in Eastern North Carolina. Snow fell
IN tennessee and Kentucky and rain in
Alabama, Georgia and Florida. In At.
ianta the winds have been abnormallv
hiSh LII e"eHCy-louF uoufS, maximum
Veioclty OF h1ty-six mines being reached
this morning. The temperature has
fallen nearly forty degrees and reports
received today indicate that some dam
age has been done to small gardening.
The weather bureau predicts frosts for
north Georgia tonight
The telegraph companies are seriously
handicapped by the loss of wires in everv
direction
STORM CAUSES RAILWAY Week.
BIACtISBURG, S. c., April 2O-rrhe
trestle over the Carolina & Georgia ex-
cursion railroad near here was under
mined by high water and combination
! freight and passenger train ran into a
washout today.
Fireman Hine was seriously injured.
]. II. Metcalfe, the engineer is missing.
1t is not believed any passengers were
hurt.
The water in the streams is higher