The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-21
SNOW AND RAIN.
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Cleveland with nearby towns found it al
most impossible TO operate cars. Some
lines were completely tied up.
AT GAINESVILLE all street-car traffic and
business generally was suspended. Tele-
graph and telephone lines were crippled.
AID there was practically no comn'umca-
ten with outside points. Snow fell for
thl-ty-siy hours continually, and all the
streets are blocked.
Reports received from the northern part
Of Muskingum valley indicate that very
high water is imminent. 1t is probable
that tnc big flood of several years ago will
b duplicated.
Columbus reports that the storm has
cut oft communication 'by rail with all
Eastern points. Pennsylvania trains from
Nav York. due here at Z a. m, had not
arrived at noon. Special trains were ma MADE
up at Columbus to make connections with
st. Louis, Cincinnati and Indianapolis.
The Pennsylvania Company was the only
railroad having a wire working east OF
Columbus, and that only reached Trim
way, o. At Dennison, o., eleven inches or
snow is reported. Large gangs OF linemen
We're kept busy all day repairing damage
done by the high wind
At a. m. Canton was snowbound and
cut off from the rest of the world. Over
three hundred local telephones failed to
work and out-of-town lines are almost
useless. Neither telegraph company has a
line working out OF the city. Snow is from
twelve TO eighteen inches deep on the level,
and drifted over six feet at some places;
dealers cannot make deliveries. Street-car
traffic IS suspended.
The storm gauge at the Akron weather
bureau tonight shows that almost two feet
of snow has fallen i'm the last thirty-six
hours. Traffic on all the electric and steam
roads has been greatly impeded. and the
telegraph and telephone companies have
had their service badly crippled by falling
wires. The B. q o. west-bound express
due here last midnight did not arrive until
nearly noon, having been stalled near Ra-
has
damage in Akron, but reports from the
country are that the heavy weight of snow
has crushed many of the lighter farm build
ings.
Portsmouth reports that rain and snow
have been steadily falling there for two
days and still continues. The Ohio river
is rising eight inches an hour, and seri-
Gus flood is feared
At Marietta the Ohio river rose ten feet
during last night floating the house boat
of William Lafavre away, drowning MN,
his wife and children while sleeping. None
escaped. Part of the business part OF MARI
ettta is under water tonight and many
are moving.
Snow has fallen at Wooster necessarily
for almost forty-eight hours, and all rec
ords for heavy snowfalls have been brok-
en-. Travel on the country roads Is I'M
possible. Telephone reports say that In
places the snow lays two TO four feet on
the level and that drifts in the roads stand
from eight to ten feet deep.
AdViceS from Athens say the heaviest
April snowstorm in forty-nine years has
been raging there for twenty-four hours,
and tonight shows no sign or Abatement
Traffic on all railroads has been impeded.
heavy landslide occurred on the Hooking
Valley road one mile north Of there, MAX
ing Ii necessary TO transfer passengers.
The Hooking river is rising rapidly and is
already flooding the valleys Bridges In the
Sunday-creek valley are weighted down
with freight cars TO prevent them wash
ing away Fruit growers fear peaches are
killed in Athens county. The crop amounts
TO about $500. 600 annually.
Lewiston reservoir in Logan county
threatens to break through It's south bank
tonight and pour its 1000 acres or water
on the country below. The heavy wind has
caused much alarm and officers have gone
out TO notify the people and towns below
of their danger.
Gaiiipolis the highest town on the Ohio
rain and rising river. The river mas
reached a forty-foot stage and is now rls-
ing at the rate OF ten inches an hour. All
trains have been delayed by washouts
throughout the county.
The snOWstOrm has caused mucn damage
east of Lima and west-bound trains have
been annulled. A large gang of section
men was sent out tonight TO clear the
tracks of snow. There have been no west
bound trains since this morning. During
the storm tonight Mrs j.. d. Baker and
Mrs Henry Ebling, wives of farmers re-
siding a few miles south of Lima. were
killed by train while driving across the
Ohio Southern Railroad tracks in buggy.
At Conneaut heavy snOwstorm has been
on for two days. There is six or eight
inches of snow on the ground and no let-up
in sight. The telephone wires all over the
county are down. Telegraphic communica-
ton in all directions is cut off.
Newark reports the worst snow and sleet
storm in fifty years. Wooster, Millersburg,
and Ashland report heavy snow falls, de-
lay of trains and general damage.