The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-11-18
THE STORM HIT
THE Lower lakes
Sundays Windstorm Attained O
Velocity of Sixty Miles an
Hour at Cleveland.
havoc WITH THE WIRE SERVICE
AND ON THE RAILROAD LINES
Capt. Dell Minney Drowned By the
CapsizIng of the Tag Gregory
while Towing Scow Into
CleyeIa Vessels Badly
Battered on Lake Erie.

Oh
. Cleveland, o., Nov. 15.-After one O
the heaviest storms in the history O
the lower lake regions, the wind ha
SO far subsidized Monday morning tha
the several transportation, telegraph
and telephone companies were able t
take stock and estimate the amour
of damage.
So far as can be learned up to thu
present, but one life was lost, that d
Capt Dell Minney, of the tug Gregory
which foundered off this port.
The big steamer City of Buffalo was
badly battered by the gale, but man
aged to reach port in fair shape with
q large number of badly-frightened
passengers on board. A number of 9TH
er lake steamers had bad time OF II
during the night, but reached safe
anchorage Monday morning. Thou
sands OF telegraph and telephone wires
were lost during the night and New
York city and the east are entirely cut
off.
The wind was accompanied by wet
snow which caused slippery rails and
| delayed trains for hours.
The wind began to blow about four
o'clock Sunday afternoon and by six
had reached 60 miles an hour, which
Il Lalnlalned for hours.
Fortunately the weather bureau had
sent out storm warning early in the
day and this kept many boats from
venturing out on the storm tossed lake.
The wind soon caused a heavy sea and
the waves swept higher over the break
water ana dashed clouds of spray over
the abutments.
When darkness fell the lake was In
a fury and the marine men say that
the storm was the worst of the year.
sells that we're on the lake, many with
lows and some with passengers. The
steamer City of Erie left Buffalo be-
fore the storm was at it's height, but
the City of Buffalo, after her disastrous
experience of the night before, did not
venture out into the lake.
tug gregory went down a few
hundred feet from the end of pier,
and cost the life Of the captain, Dell
Minney, of Buffalo. The captain, by a
strange irony of fate, had taken out the
tug on her own captains day off. Min
ncy was captain of the A. L. Henry,
hut was working extra time on the |
Gregory.
She was coming in towing a scrow,
and just inside the breakwater she was |
suddenly caught in the trough of the
sea and overturned.
Killed by a Train.
Not only over the lake did the storm
blow strong, but throughout the city
the gale swept for several hours, and
the damage that resulted was consid-
cradle. A man walking across the
Erie railroad tracks with his head
down, failed to see an approaching
train and was run down by the engine.
HIS skull was fractured
The wind played havoc with an I'M
completed skyscraper being built for
JChn d. Rockefeller, blowing heavy
'caffolding from the topmost stories
Ind threatening destruction to pedes-
.rians and passengers in street cars
hat passed the building A group of
leavy planks swept from the fifteenth
tory by the terrific gale fell on the
ack platform of a passing car and
rarely missed crushing out a dozen
ives.
A car following had the front end
rushed in by two OF the planks, but
o one was injured.
From every section Of the city and
country came reports of
-ees blown down, telephone and tele-
raphic wires swept from their sup
orts and panes of glass shattered by
Re heavy gale. The wind has not
Town so fierce a gale In the city be-
ore this year, nor has storm been
. long continued.
The Entire East Is Cut on.
Chicago Nov. 15.-The lower lake
,gion Is not the only section to suf- o.
n from the storm, which has also OF
yept the middle Atlantic coast states, X
nd cut off all communication from the pr
st of the country. 81
All telephone and telegraph wires til
to New York city went down about tie
rec o'clock Sunday afternoon. Since
at time only few messages have CO
zen received with points east of Buff So
10 Or Harrisburg, Pa, and news of the d.