Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-01-04

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 Tvesda: m
ing and has caused much tro .4e to
street car companies, railroads and tel
egraphic companies.
In its extent the storm was the most
widespread of any during the last fif-
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 Stein :, 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 a heavy board while Quartering a
new building, The board cut his head
nearly of.
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 st other points on a
north and South line from that>city. In
Chicago and east Of here the storm was
still raging with great viloclty 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 es
fal. south as Indian Territory and was
accompanied throughout it's 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
SLOW and the gale worked havoc with
the wires, and some passenger trains
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as twcnty-four hours over due. The
storm reached westward from st. Paul
until it covered almost tie entire
Northwest
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lightning and followed .bys taaI5wi.atsss Isl
Nashville, Louisville. New Orleans
Montgomery and Memphis all reported
exceedingly heavy rains, rapidly
falling thermometer and terrific winds.
In the Chic river valley the first
heavy rain in five months commenced
falling early in the da!t and continued
throughout the night. The s,crm was
appreciated by the hoatrien alons the
Ohio and its tributaries, for TIC stage
OF water in these streams has OF late
been very low.
The storm struck Chicago shortly al
ter noon and increased with great
rapidity until it had assumed hurrl-
cane violence at $50 o'clock, when the
wind tore through tire downtown
streets at the rate OF II miles an hour.
1t fell ava! after that and by
o'clock had dropped to 80 miles an
hour where it remained throughout
the night. In the evening the mercury
dropped from 81 to II. The late renarts
from Wisconsin are that the storm was
the most severe experienced in that
section OF the country. Damage in the
city of Madison is estimated at $780,
0O0 In Indiana the damage done by the
storm was especially heavy in the OIL
fields, where fully five hundred derrlcks
were blown down and all operations
suspended. Loss on derricks none IN
the neighborhood of Muncie, is placed
at 100000, and at $4,000 around Port
land.