Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-12-29
WAS SEVEREST a
0E THE SEASON
Storm Seems TO Have Extended Over
a Wide Area.
IN FRIGID CONDITION.
Heavy Winds Also Prevailed, BOW
ing Down In Indiana Hundreds
Of Derricks, and Traffic Is
Badly Delayed. Ia

throughout the territory lying between
the Rocky mountains and he greai
lakes early Tuesday morning and "a
caused much trouble to street car
companies and railroads and telegraph
companies. The latter were the great
est sufferers. for the blizzard which
swept through the west and northwest
was preceded by a heavy fog and driz-
cling rain. which made the wires almost
unavoidable. The intense cold and ter
rife gale that followed the fog covered
the wires with ice later in the day,
threw poles to the ground. cropping
the companies bldly. Railroad trains
were badly delayed all through the
west some OF them being twenty four
hours late. Street car traffic in al the
cities Of the west and northwest was
practically at a standstill at some time
during the day.
In Its extent the storm was the most
widespread OF any during the lest
fifteen years. Counting the fog as a
component part OF the tsorm. II
stretched clear from the Rocky noun
tains TO New York and from Winnipeg
to New Orleans. The fatalities report
ed as due to the storm were three men
killed. They were:
Alexander St sinerof Chicago. a team
ster; killed while unloading coal. A
coal chute was blown from its listen
i Ing, and striking him on the dead
killed him instantly.
Thomas Walsh OF Chicago.a laborer:
struck by heavy board while enter
ing new building.
Frank Kavanaugh. killed at Muncie
Ind. by derrick falling on him..
At 10 o'clock Tuesday night the
storm was reported as subsidihg at
Kansas City and at other points on a
north and south line from thai CITY.
but IL will be several days befors nor
NAL conditions are restored througaout
the entire section.
At Chicago and east Of here the storm
was still raging with great violence.
and was expected to continue through
out Tuesday night, the center OF the
storm being apparently between Chit
cago and Cleveland.
Reports from Kansas city Early
Tuesday were that the storm extend
ed from the middle of Misscuix6 -. Ear
south as the Indian Territor1u -
accompanied through its entire Atefy
by high winds and snow which On the
level would have been one foot In
depth. II was drifted so badly BY the
gale. however. that in nearly ali the
cities of Nebraska. Kansas and WEST
ern Missouri street car traffic was at
a standstill by noon. The telegraph
wires were down in all directions. and
1t was with extreme difficulty that
communication with the west ana
northwest was kept up. All trains
through that part Of the country were
hopelessly behind their schedules. The
storm had reached eastern Missouri
by noon. and the temperature in st.
Louis went down twenty degrees in
two hours. while the wind, blowing
at forty miles an hour. piled the snow
up In the streets in great drifts At
Omaha and Des Moines conditions sim
ilarto those In Kansas City were re-
ported All throughout western Iowa
the fury Of the storm ragged. ALI trains
In this section were reported from one
to six hours late.
In the northwest the storm was even
more violent than throughout Missouri
and Iowa. In st. Paul the snow began
TO fall early Tuesday night. and grew
heavier all night. while the wind in
creased until at was blowing fifty
miles an hour. The heavy snow and
the gale worked havoc with the rail-
roads. and some of the passenger
trains from the Pacific coast were re-
ported about twenty-four hours over
due. The storm reached westward
from st. Paul until IL covered almost
the entire northwest and from the
Dakotas. eastern Montana. 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 a tense volume
and driven by high northwest gale
was filling the streets and railroad cuts.
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 leans.
Montgomery and Memphis all reported
exceedingly heavy rains. rapidly fall
ing thermometerand terrific winds. In
the Ohio river valley the first heavy
rain in 1vemonths began falling early
in the day and continued throughou,
the night. The storm was Appreciates
u.
and its tributaries. forthe stage Il
water In those streams has OF late been
very low.