The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-02-26
FLOODS, THEN ICE fields.
Great Distress. Suffered by People in
the Low Lands About Vim
cennes, Ind.
CONDITIONS PREVENT SENDING RELIEF.
Farmers and Their Families Face
Starvation and CoId-some Fam
lilies Living in Tents - Unknown
Man Frozen to Death Near Joliet
Weather M~Oderatine In West.


Weather Moderatine In west.
Vincennes, Ind, Feb. 2O.-High wa
ter, which has turned to ice, and the
bitter cold have brought intense desti-
tuition and much suffering in scores
of homes in the Emberras bottoms
south of here. Thousands of acres
of land which last week were I'M
der water are now covered with ice
and many homes are entirely sur
rounded by it.
The Wabash river continues to rise
and add to the destruction in the:
desolate district. The farmers are
fighting with hunger and cold.
Those who have not moved out of
the low lands are prepared to do so
on short notice. In some cases peo-
pie are living in tents which they
have pitched on the side of a hill
or on top of the levee.
Until Thursday the ice has not
been thick enough to bear the weight
of a person, and for the past three
days it has been impossible for many
people to leave home. Scores of
families r living in the second
stories of their homes, the lower.
floors being filled with ice. 1t is inn
possible to send relief into a portion
of the district. The ice is not heavy
enough to bear the weight of a man.
With the weather down to zero and
with country roads blocked by water
and ice it is impossible to drive into
the neighborhood where the people
are in distress. /
Man Frozen to Death.
Joliet, III, Feb. 20.-The dead body
of an unknown man was found on
Patterson road, below Joliet, Thurs
day morning. The man had frozen
to death during the night standing.
upright, leaning against a barbed-
wire fence.
Ice gorges in the drainage channel
are causing damage near Branon's
bridge, below Joliet. The ice is piled
high and the adjacent land is, over
flowed. Dynamite is being used to
move the ice. The Economy plant,
which furnishes electric power to
many Joliet industries, is having a
hard fight with the ice to prevent a
blockade at the power plant. A
shut-downwould cripple many estab-
lishments and would stop the opera
ton b 4 j on the Joliet and Chi.
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FenrSn Flood sSs
Louisville, KY, Feb. 2o.-4The Ohio
to rise steadily. River men
are not alarmed, but are watching
the weather closely. A sudden thaw,
accompanied by rain, with the pres
ent high stage of water, would pre-
cipitate q flood. .
Intensely Cold in Ohio.
Cleveland, O., Feb. 2O.-The official
thermometer at the local weather
bureau here registered five below
zero early Thursday, while instru-
ments down on the street level in
many cases indicated from six to
eight below. A 52-mile-an-hour gale
Wednesday night combined with the
extremely low temperature caused
much suffering. The railroads con-
tinue to be hampered by the wealth
er conditions, nearly all through
trains being late. The w~est-bound
Chicago and Boston special on the
Lake Shore was reported five hours
late Thursday.
Colder Mt New York. ~.
New York. Feb. 2o.-The>cold wave
which followed the snowstorm Of the
first part of this week brought the
coolest weather New York city has
experienced in four years. At eight
o'clock the weather bureau reported
that its thermometer registered a
temperature of two degrees abose
zero, the lowest recorded since Feb
ruary, 1899.
Weather Moderating in the West.
Kansas City, Mo-. Feb. 2o.-The
weather in the southwest is moder-
In Kansas City Thursday
morning the weather bureau record
ed five degrees above zero, which was
IL degrees warmer than Wednesday.
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 20.-It was ten
above here Thursday morning, a rise
of "a degrees in as many hours.
Des Moipes, Ia, Feb. ,20.--Iowa
weather is m~oderating rapidly, the
temperature Thursday be-
ing two degrees above zero, or a rise
of Is degrees in the past "a hours.
A light snow fell Thursday morning.
Y. NJ. G. A. workers Meet.
Cedar Rapids, Ia, Feb. 20.-Nearly