Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1905-01-04
Heavy Shows and High Winds Cause
Loss CT Life and Property
HALF THE CONTINENT INVOLVED
Most Widespread Atmospheric Dis
turbance in is Years Extends From
Winnipeg, Canada, to New Orleans,
and From the Rocky Mountains to
New York-GaIe and Snow in the
Northwest, Electric Storms in the
South and Fog in the East.

Chicago. Special.-One of the most
severe storms of recent years has been
raging through the territory lying be-
tween the Rocky Mountains and the
Great Lakes since early Tuesday morn
ing and has caused much trouble to
street car companies, railroads and tel
esraphic companies.
In its extent the storm was the most
widespread of any during the last ff-
teen years. Counting the fog as a COM
ponent part Of the storm. it stretched
clear from the Rocky Mountains to
New York and from Winnipeg to New
Orleans. The fatalities reported here as
due to the storm are three men killed.
They were:
Alexander Steiner, teamster, killed
while unloading coal. A coal chute was
blown from its fastenings and struck
him on the head, killing him instantly.
Thomas Walsh, a laborer was struck
by heavy board while Quartering a
new building. The board cut his head
nearly off.
Frank Kavanaugh was killed at Mum
Gle. Ind, by an oil derrick falling on
him.
At 10 o'clock Tuesday night the
storm was reported as subSiding at
Kansas City and at other points on a
north and South line from that city. In
Chicago and east of here the storm was
still raging with great vlocity, and was
expected to continue through the night.
the center of the storm being between
Chicago and Cleveland
Reports from Kansas City were that
the storm extended from Missouri as
far south as Indian Territory and was
accompanied throughout its entire
length by high winds and snow.
In the Northwest the storm was even
more violent. In st. Paul the snow
commenced to fall early Monday night
and grew heavier all through the night.
while the wind increased until it was
blowing fifty miles an hour. The heavy
STOW and the gale worked havoc with
the wires. and some passenger trains
from the Pacific coast were reported
as twenty-four hours over due The
storm reached westward from st. Paul
until it covered almost the entire
Northwest.
In the SosIth, conditions were some
what better, the snow in many places
being changed to n heavy rainfall,
which was preceded by thunder and
h~htning and followed by high winds.
.shville. Louisville, New Orleans.
pntgomery and Memphis all reported
ceedingly heavy rains, a rapidly
ling thermometer and terrific winds.
n the Ohio river valley the first
lvy rain in five months commenced
ling early in the day and continued
'oughout the night. The storm was
Dreciated by the boatmen along the
10 and its tributaries, for the stage
water in these streams has OF late
IN very low.
The storm struck Chicago shortly af-
noon and increased with great
'idity until it had assumed hurri-
violence at $50 o'clock, when the
I'd tore through the downtown
eets at the rate of ~ miles an hour.
ell away after that and by
ock had dropped to so miles an
II. where it remained throughout
night. In the evening the mercury
pped from 81 to II. The late reports
m Wisconsin are that the storm was
most severe experienced in that
ton OF the country. Damage in the
of Madison is estimated at $780,
In Indiana the damage done by the
rm was especially heavy II the oil
Ids, where fully five hundred derricks
re blown down and all operations
spended. Loss on derricks alone In
neighborhood of Muncie, is placed
at 5000, 900, and at $4,000 around Port
land.