The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-28
FIRST BLIZZARD.
Furious Wind and Snow Storm
Visits Wisconsin.
Waters Of Lake Superior Are
Lashed to Fury.
WORST SINCE 1872.
Many Reports of Lake Vessels
in Distress.
Lines of Transportation and
Communication Hampered.

Superior. Wis. Nov. 2S.-A furious
wind and snow storm, starting last
night, is battering this city today.
There is no sign of abatement. The
steamer Crescent City is ashore near
Duluth and there are rumors of other
steamers in similar predicaments. A
sixty-mile gale. continuing for hours,
has lashed Lake Superior into a fury
and grave fears are felt for Iake-going
craft and their crews. A damp snow
accompanies the gale and drifts from
four to six feet high. The street car
lines are stalled, all but the sturdiest
are confined within doors, and busi-
ness is at a standstiu. Railroad
trains are far behind their schedules,
and snow plows have been sent out
from division points.
The blizzard is said to be the worst
SINCE 1872, although the temperature
is only slightly below the freezing
point. A sharp drop, however, is pre-
dicted for tonight.
The power house switchboards have
burned out. the telephone system has
cased to operate, making it impossible
at present to secure news of the lake
disasters from the tug and shipping
office. A report from Two Harbors
is to the effect that a steamer in dis
tress has been blowing signals since
O'Clock this morning. Owing to snow
furries on the lake it is impossible to
ascertain what craft it IS.
Big Steamer Ashore.
Milwaukee, Wis, Nov. 2S.-A spe-
c1al from Port Washington. Wis saws
a big steamer is ashore about four
miles off this port. a neavy sea is
running and the vessel appears to be
in danger. The life saving crew from
Milwaukee and a tug have gone to
assist the stranded vessel
The steamer Appomattox, which
went ashore north of this city several
weeks ago, was broken into three
pieces by last nights storm on Lake
Superior.
The waves are reported by local
marine men to have been the highest
in many years. The lighthouse at the
END OF the government reakWater
was dismantled by the heavy seas, and
the keeper nearly lost his life, being
rescued only after two hours hard
work by the life saving crew.
Crescent City a Total Wreck.
Superior, Wis, Nov. 28.-The steel
fre1ghter Crescent City of the Pittsbure
Steamship company fleet, is stranded on
the north shore of Lake Superior,
total wreck. She was driven on the
rocks within the limits Of the city of
Duluth at o'clock this morning. All
the members Of the crew and captain
are safe.
The Crescent City was coming up the
lake light, driven by a 20 miles an hour
gale from the northeast. At Lakewood,
near the entrance to the Duluth Super
iOr harbor, it was seen that the engines
were pOwerless to keep the gale from
driving her on the rocks. Anchors were
thrown, but they were of no available
use and the ship went bow-on at a
rocky point of the shore. The wind
quickly drove the stern around so that
the ship lay brOadside to shore and the
stern was so close that Captain Frank
Rice and his crew threw a ladder to
the beach and walked off in safety,
abandoning tie ship to her fate. She
will be a total loss, wreckage now being
strewn all along the shore between the
point where she went on and the Bay
of Superior.
She is 40 feet long and Of 5,475 gross
tonnage.
Accidents to Shipping.
Detroit, Nov. 2S.-A Journal special
from Alpena, Mich, says that 48
mile an hour gale is sweeping over the
upper end of Lake Huron and reports
several accidents to shipping.
The barge Harvey Bissen, which
broken to pieces by the storm. The
barge Vineland, coal laden, broke
away from her tow barge last night
and is aground off Alpena.
The Thompson line steamer City of
Holland, while trying to make port
at Rogers City, early today went on
the rocks where she is pounding and
lea king badly. The crew is in no dan
ger The gale Is accompanied by
heavy snow.
Big Steamer Ashore.
Superior, Wis. Nov 28.-Another
big steamer has gone ashore with her
whistle screaming near Superior.
Driven on the Beach.
Port Huron, Mich, Nov 2s@The
small schooner Spaulding was driven
on the beach nearNssort Gratiot by the
storm today. The crew reached shore
safely
1t Hits Dakota.
Sioux City. Ia, Nov S.-Dispatches
from South Dakota report a heavy
snow storm raging in that state today
Trains Tied Up.
Marmo, N. D.. Nov. 28.=A severe
blizzard prevails here. Freight trains
can not move and passenger trains are
arriving far behind schedule time.
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