The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-29
WIDE AND WILD
SWEEPS THE GALE
And Snow, Hail and Rain
Are Falling.
THREE MEN KILLED
The Wings Of the Tempest Fling Their
Vast Shadows From New York to
the Rockies and From Win
nipeg to New Or.
leans.
(By the Associated Press.l

Chicago, Dec. 27.-One of the most
severe storms of recent years has
been raging through the State since
much trouble to street car companies
railroads and telegraph companies.
In its extent the storm was the
most widespread of any during the
last fifteen years. Counting the fog
as component part of the storm, it
stretched clear from the Rocky Noun
tains to New York, and from Winni-
peg to New Orleans. The fatalities
reported here as due to the storm
are three men killed. They were:
Alexander Steiner, q steamster, kill
ed while unloading.
Thomas Walsh, a laborer, struck by
a heavy board while entering a new
building. The board cut his head
nearly off.
Frank Cavanaugll was killed at
Muncie, Ind, by an oil derrick falling
on him.
At ten o'clock the storm was re-
ported as subsiding at Kansas City
and other points on north and south
line from that city. In Chicago and
east of here the storm was still rag
ing with great violence and expected
to continue throughout the night, the
center of the storm being between
Chicago and Cleveland.
High Winds Drifting Snow.
Reports from Kansas City were
that the storm extended from Mis-
souri, as far south as indian Territory.
and was accompanied throughout it's
entire length by high winds and snow
drifted badly.
In the Northwest the storm was
even more violent. In st. Paul the
snow commenced to fall early last
night and grew heavier all through
the night While the wind increased
until it was blowing fifty miles an
hour. The gales worked havoc with
the wires.
.rhe storm reached westward from
St Paul until it covered almost the
entire Northwest.
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, n rapidly
falling thermometer and terrific
winds.
In the Ohio Valley.
In the Ohio river valley the first
heavy rain in five months commenced
falling early IN the day and continued
throughout the night. The storm was
appreciated by the boatmen along the
Ohio and it's tributaries for the stage
of water in these streams has of late
been very low.
The storm struck Chicago shortly
after noon and increased with great
rapidity until it had assumed hurrl-
cane violence at $50, when the wind
tore through the downtown streets at
the rate of seventy-two miles an
hour 1t fell away after that and by
seven o'clock had dropped to fifty
miles an hour where it remained
throughout the night.
The late reports from Wisconsin
are that the storm was the most
severe ever experienced in that sec
ton of the country Damage in the
city of Madison is estimated at $780,
600. In Indiana the damage done by
the storm was especially heavy in the
oil fields where fully five hundred
derricks We're blown down and all
operations suspended. The loss on
derricks alone in the neighborhood
of Muncie is probably 100000.