The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-04
Can Not Communicate With
Illinois Metropolis.
nigh Wind at Louisville Plays
Havoc With Wires.
AS FAR AS TENNESSEE.
Damage Is Reported as Far
South as Knoxville.
Telegraph Companies in TrOu-
BILE Everywhere.

Chicago. Feb. 4-Chicago was the
scene today and last night of the worst
blizzard i'm years. Wires are down in
every direction and all telegraphic lines
except those of the Chicago. Milwaukee
roads were unworkable as were the long
distance telephone wires. except one line
TO Omaha. Chicago for hours this MORN
ing was cut off from news from the
outside world. NO quotations have been
received from New York UP to I1.30.
Nearly a foot of snow fell yesterday and
last night a rain and sleet storm ac-
companied by q gale of wind completed
the havoc
Street car trafic is depleted and all
incoming trains are reported late The
storm continues today. hampering the
work of the repair crews sent out in
every direction by the telegraph COM
panies. Two lives were lost and num-
erous accidents have been reported.
CLEVELAND CUT OFF.
Cleveland o. Feb. 4-For the first
time i'm many years this city was today
entirely cut off from telegraph and tele-
phone communication with Chicago, as
the result OF very heavy sleet storm
i'm the vicinity of the latter city during
last night The telegraph companies re-
ported that Chicago was completely iso-
lated, through heavy sleet having bro
ken down the wires at hundreds of
points
Every available lineman is being hur-
ried to the scene of the trouble and the
work OF repairing the breaks viii be
pushed forward rapidly. The weather
here today was clear ana mild. The
mercury registering So above.
TROUBLE, AT LOUISVILLE
which set in over Louisville last even
ing continued intermitungly during the
night accompanied by wind which at
one time reached a velocity of 46 miles
an hour The electric current of the
Louisville Railway company, the Cid-
zens General Electric company and the
Postal Telegraph company became
crossed during the night, burning out
the dynamo plant of the telegraph COM
pany and working damage at the power
plants Falling trolley wires caused
temporary suspension of street railway
traffic on two lines.
The weather bureau is advised that
high winds and heavy rains prevailed
during the night and early morning at
indianapolis and Springfield, ILL.,, and
that a particularly low barometer is re-
ported at Detroit. the storm being cen-
trial this morning over the last named
cities
The telegraph companies are without
communication with Chicago and their
facilities to other points are seriously
impaired. The storm is central over
the lake region and is accompanied by
destructive winds The temperature
has fallen rapidly in the Mississippi
valley and the west is falling rapidly
in the Ohio valley and Tennessee. Mod
erateiy heavy rainfall has occurred in
the Ohio and Mississippi valleys and
was accompanied by high winds Snow
btzzards are reported throughout west
and northwest and it is showing today
IN northern Indiana and Illinois. The
isolation of Chicago from the world
geographically which has not happen
ed in many years. is the direct result
OF heavy sleet storm which extends
northward from M0non. Ind. TO the
lakes Squads of linemen have been
dispatched by the various railroad
telegraph and telephone companies To
repair the damage
HIGH WIND AT KNOXVILLE.
Knoxville Tenn, Feb "A heavy
ram and wind storm prevailed here last
night AT O'Clock the velocity of the
wind was so miles am hour the highast
recorded since the local weather
bureau was established. Extensive
damage was done to electric wires and
Tor several hours this city was cut off
entirely from telegraph and telephone
communication with the outside world
Many local light, power and telephone
lines were affected The Tennessee
river is rising rapidly. ReDOrts from
flood stations on streams above here
indicate an average rainfall of one inch
through the upper Tennessee yester-
day and last night.
NO STROM AT ST. PAUL.
St Paul. Mimi. Feb 4-Althougb If
Is clear and cold today with no sign of
q storm all trains from the south and
east have been delayed by the blizzard
which swept over Iowa southern Mime
sofa and western Wisconsin,
STOCK SUFFER IN IOWA
WVostef City Ia. Feb. A fearful