The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1904-12-30
MOST SEVERE
STORM IN YEARS
SNOW AND WIND WORK AWFUL
HAVOC WITH RAILROADS
AND TELEGRAPH.
STORM COVERS A VAST AREA
FROM ROCKIES TO NEW YORK
AND FROM WINNIPEG TO
NEW ORLEANS.
DAMAGE AND LOSS OF LIFE
THREE KILLED AND HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS
DAMAGE DONE.

severe storms of recent years has
ragged throughout the territory lying
between the Rocky mountains and
the Great Lakes since early yesterday
morning, and has caused much trouble
to street car companies, railroads and
telegraph companies The latter are
the greatest sufferers.
In it's extent the storm was the most
widespread of any during the last fiji
teen years. Counting the fog as a
component part of the storm, it
stretched clear from the Rocky noun
tains to New York and from Winni-
peg to New Orleans. Three fatalities
We're reported as due to the storm,
one in Indiana and two in this city.
At 10 O'Clock last night the storm
was reported to be subsiding at Kan
sas City and at other points on a
north and south line from that city,
but it will be several days before nor
NAL conditions are restored through
out the entire section. AT Chicago
ana east OF mere the
Storm Was Still Raging
with great violence and was expected
to continue throughout the night, the
center of the storm being apparently
between Chicago and Cleveland.
Reports from Kansas City early in
the day were that the storm extended
from the middle of Missouri as far
south as Indian Territory, and was ac-
tent by high winds and snow, which
on the level would have been about
one foot in depth. 1t was drifted so
badly by the gale, however, that in
nearly all the cities OF Nebraska,
Kansas and Western Missouri street
car traffic was at a standstill by noon.
The telegraph wires were down iii al
directions, and it was with extreme
difficulty that communication with the
West and Northwest was kept up All
trains throughout that part of the
country were hopelessly behind their
schedule early in the afternoon.
Plays Havoc With Wires.
The storm had reached Eastern Mis-
souri, by noon and the temperature in
st. Louis went down 20 degrees in
two hours, while the wind, blowing at
forty miles an hour, piled the snow up
in the streets in great drifts. 1t was
found possible to keep the street cars
running, although great havoc was
made with telegraph and telephone
wires.
At Omaha and Des Moines condi-
tons similar to those in Kansas City
We're reported. and both places were
in bad condition early in the morning.
All through Western Iowa the fury of
the storm increased in violence
through the morning, and at noon was
raging with great fury.
Violent in Northwest.
In the Northwest the storm was
even more violent than throughout
Missouri and Iowa. In St. Paul the
snow commenced to fall early Monday
night and grew heavier all through the
night, while the wind increased until
1t was blowing at fifty miles an hour.
The heavy snow and the gale worked
havoc with the railroads, and some of
the passenger trains from the Pacific
coast were reported twenty-four hours
late and making slow progress. The
storm reached westward from st.
Paul until it covered almost the en-
tire Northwest and from the Dakotas,
Eastern Montana, Wyoming, North
err 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 high northwest gale,
was filling the streets and railway
cuts so tightly that street cars for the
most part were compelled to stop run.
ming and all trains
Were 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
The storm struck Chicago shortly
after noon and increased with great
rapidly until it had assumed hurri.
cane violence at $50 o'clock, when
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