The Saint Paul globe., 1904-12-28

and losing time constantly. In Des
Moines, street car traffic was entirely
suspended early in the day.
Bad In the Northwest
In the Northwest the storm was
even more violent than throughout
Missouri and Iowa. The storm reach
ed westward from st. Paul until it
covered the almost entire Northwest,
and from the Dakotas, Eastern Mon
tana, Wyoming, Northern Michigan
and Wisconsin the story was the same
from all points. The wires were down
in all directions, the snow was falling
in dense volume and driven by a high
northwest gale, was filing the streets
and railway cuts so tightly that street
cars were for the most part compelled
to stop running, and all trains We're
far behind time.
In the South conditions were some
what better, the snow in many places
being changed to a heavy rainfall,
which was preceded by thunder and
lightning and followed by high winds.
Nashville, Louisville, New Orleans,
Montgomery and Memphis all report
ed exceedingly heavy rains, rapidly
cdlO SOA4
winds.
In the Ohio river valley the first
heavy rain in five months commenced
falling early in the night and contin-
ued into the night The storm was
appreciated by the boatmen along the
Ohio river and its tributaries, for the
stage of water in these streams has
of late been very low and navigation
was difficult in many places.
chicaeoans Are Blown Over
The storm struck Chicago shortly
after noon and increased with great
rapidity until it had assumed hurricane
violence at $50 o'clock, when the
wind tore through the downtown
streets at the rate of seventytwo miles.
an hour. 1t fell away after that and
by o'clock had dropped to fifty miles
an hour, where it remained throughout
the night, with occasional gusts that
would howl through the streets with
the force of a cyclone, tearing down
signs, smashing in plate glass windows
and in many sections of the downtown
district hurting pedestrians from their
feet and overturning light delivery
wagons.
Early in the afternoon the police de-
partment found it necessary to station
extra officers at State and Randolph
streets, where the Masonic Temple,
twenty stories in height, always creates
terrific increase in the natural rapid
ity of the wind, and at Monroe and
Dearborn streets, where the new build
ing of the First National bank acts in
a similar manner.s Conditions at the
latter place were the worse of the two
in the late afternoon and from o'clock
until after the evening rush was over
there was not five minutes that the
officers were not compelled to carry
some woman who had been thrown
| from her feet and was unable to cross
the street.
Auto Against Gable Car
At Washington and La Sale streets,
a large automobile that was coming
south on La Sale street was caught by
a terrific gust of wind and blown
squarely into the front of Madison
street cable car despite all the chauf-
feur could do to control his machine.
He managed to gain control of it in
few minutes and traffic was resumed.
While Justice Underwood was hear
| ing the evidence in case in his office
on. West Madison street early in the
afternoon board came tearing
through the window, carrying all the
glass with it.
@This court is adjourned" remarked
! The justice after a glance at the win
dow and the Office was promptly aban-
| dor s.
Frank Phillips, while walking. on
Washington street this morning, lost
his hat and while pursuing it, was him
self caught by the wind and thrown to
the pavement. A cab ran over him,
breaking his right arm at the wrist.
In all parts of the city trees We're
blown down, chimneys toppled over
and several frame shacks were leveled
with the ground, but nobody was seri-
ously hurt
| There Were numerous instances of
people being bruised by being blown
from their feet while, passing some
high buildings in the down town dis
tricts, and in some places officers We're