The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-03
The Terrific Zephyr That Swept
Through Chicago From the
~ Lake Last Night.
sleet Did Great Damage to the
Wires-Train Dispatchers
-, e. Are Bothered.
Snow in the Northwest and II
Below Temperature at
IJa Winnipeg. -

= Chicago. Dec 3.-Telegraph wires down
throughout northern Illinois,, Iowa ana
southwestern Wisconsin. a. gale blowing
off the lake, a rapidly falling temperature
and snow marked the real advent OF win
ter in this part Of the country last night.
Trains were late and only the most daring
OF lake mariners ;braved the elements by
putting out from port. Forecaster Cox
says the worst is yet to come.
The northeast wind yesterday reached
velocity of fifty-two miles an hour. This
Is the greatest velocity of the wind from
that direction this year and has not been
exceeded since the Galveston storm.
The first storm warning was sent out
from the weather bureau at $3.50 o'clock
yesterday morning. At 3 o'clock in the
afternoon another warning was sent out
and all vessel owners .Wer ordered to re-
main in port until the gale had passed.
The warning was needed in almost every
case. At $50 p. m. the storm broke.
The storm region extends from central
Indiana Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin into
the northwest, wher it is cold and snow
ing. T. - = --,'
. The wind reached its highest velocity at
I O. clock in the evening. Miles of tele-
graph lines on the Chicago Great Western,
the Rock Island and the Chicago & North
western roads were blown down and the
train dispatchers' offices were unable to
fill schedules. With the wires down they
kept track Of the trains with difficulty, and
even the flyers" and expresses were be-
hind time.
Added to this the road officials feared
that the falling temperature would cause
the rain to freeze on the rails and thus
prevent the locomotive engineers from
making up lost time.
At midnight last night the Evanston life
saving station reported that only one
steamer going north had passed since 6
o'clock in the morning. In the afternoon
the Conestoga, a freight steamer from
Mackinaw, came into port after the rough
est kind of a trip. At p. m. the Graham
and Morton line steamer c. w. Moore at
tempted to put out on Its regular Holland
run. 1t returned to dock within an hour,
the captain declaring he would not risk
his boat in the face Of such a gale.
The Goodrich line steamer Indiana, for
Manitowoc, tried to clear at Z p. m. but
soon gave it up. Many other boats started
out but were driven back.
All the Elgin. Joliet and Aurora electric
trains were delayed in the afternoon and
evening The run from Aurora; that usu-
ally takes about an hour and fifteen min-
&utes required nearly three hours for
most Of the trains. A.
Cheerless as Professor Cox's forecast Is
for to-day 1t is still more SO for Thursday.
Possible snow f1lrires. with winds high
enough to be called blizzard and temper
ature falling below Is degrees above Zero
is the prediction for Thursday. These
troubles" said the weather prophet, reas-
suringly, "are almost too far off yet to be
certainties and there Is no use crossing a
bridge until you coma to it. But to-day
has been bad enough and tomorrow will
probably be worse, that much ought to
"a tisfy any mans craving for bad news
The wind about the gerat lakes this
morning blew at a rate of 50 miles an
hour at Chicago. SO miles at Milwaukee
and 80 miles at Green Bay, Wis. At In
dianapolis the wind was blowing 80 miles
an hour. -, .. III
The storm is conferred about the lake
region and the Mississippi valley In
most Of the places, rain and snow fell.
Snow fell during the night in Iowa, the
Dakotas, Nebraska, Wyoming Wisconsin
and Minnesota. In the British northwest
several slight SHOWS were noted and Their
mometer was below the zero mark, II be-
low at Winnipeg