New-York tribune., 1906-10-12
RUIN In STORMS WAKE,
DAMAGE WIDESPREAD.
Worst Storm in Years Rages Up
State-Bufalo Hard Hit.


which swept over this part of the country last
night and to-day was the worst in many years
Telegraph, telephone and trolley lines were pros
trated in all directions.
The storm covered a wide area, including On
tario Western New York and Northern Penn
sylvania. The damage TO the rich fruit belts of
Chautauqua, Niagara and Orleans counties is in
calculable. Whole orchards Of peach trees and
other small fruits were crushed 10 the ground by
the wet, clinging snow, which fell steadily for
hours.
Tonight the weather is clear and cold and
the lines OF communication being slowly re-
established
Buffalo bore the brunt of the storm The dam
age in this city alone is far from quarter
of million dollars. and two deaths occurred
which We're directly due to the effect Of the
storm.
All night the telephone and electric light sys-
TENS We're paralyzed. The streets were Uttered
with broken wires. The street cars stopped run
ming at times. The shade trees. which line the
streets. ruined by the thousand.
Delaware Park considered one of the hand
| soonest street parks in the country, has suffered
damage that twenty years will not repair.
From midnight until morning, with practically
no wind stirring. the snow continued TO fall
heavily and steadily, the cracking and falling
limbs sounding like a bombardment of musketry.
Reports from all sections of Western New
York tell the same story of destruction. In
Chautauqua County, along the shore OF Lake
Erie, snow covers the ground to the depth Of
several inches. The traction lines We're blocked
for hours, the snow bending down the branches
Of overhanging trees upon the trolley and feed
wires
All telegraph and telephone lines are in an in
extricable mass. Miles of poles are down. It
will take several days TO re-establish anything
like normal conditions.
Orleans County reports great damage 10 or
chards Potato harvesting will be seriously in
terfered with Many of the fruit trees are so
badly broken TO be past hope Of saving.
In Niagara County and across the border in
Ontario fruit farms suffered great damage. a
email percentage Of the crops still unharvested
will be lost.
Communication with Canada Is still cut off.
Reports received from there by mail to-day state
that the snowstorm was accompanied by high
wind in some sections Of the province. In Go
derich il reached the proportions OF a tornado.
which cut a swath one hundred feet wide
through the town, unroofng houses and levelling
some buildings. No lives We're lost, so far
known.
Rochester. Oct 11-Reports coming to this
city give news of great damage done to fruit and
ornamental trees by the heavy snowstorm OF
last night
Some of the finest peach orchards in Monroe
County were almost levelled fat. Many apple
trees the fruit Of which had not been picked
were damaged In the same way. Similar dam
age was done in Genesee and Ontario counties.
In Holley. Medina and other villages the cleo
tric light wires were broken down. and these
places will be in darkness for several nights.
Detroit Oct 1l-Reports from Lake Erie and
Lake Huron to-day show that the storm. which
is still raging in many places. was so severe that
il practically put embargo on navigation
after last midnight. Only one boat passed up
from Lake Erie during the morning. and the
snow was so thick and the wind so high at
Port Huron that vessels ventured out between
a m and a. m. Harbor Beach, Harbor OF
Refuge is filed with boats to-day.
Heavy snow is reported from Western Mich
igan. from Marquette I'm the upper peninsula,
and along the Lake Huron shore from Alpena
down to Port Huron. where 1t is five inches
deep.
A heavy frost last night, which formed ice Il
quarter of an inch thick on standing water od
untold damage I'm the Michigan fruit belt. Snow
Yesterday and last night fell 10 the depth OF
eight inches protecting the potatoes and Vege-
tables still in the ground. Thousands of bushels
of cranes were frozen on the vines, and large
Quantities Of apples werc made unfit for market
Cleveland, oct. 1.-THE storm continued un-
sbated to-day. heavy snow falling steadily. The
wind reached a velocity Of forty-five miles an
hour from the northwest. ripping limbs from
trees and temporarily crippling telegraph, tele-
uboDe and traction service. John Reese was
found frozen death in his home to-day
veeseIs entering the harbOr were put to great
Inconvenience by the driving snow and seet.
Tbe messenger boats came IN n little late
norting heavy and difficult seas. Boats that
rode the night trip were covered with ice and
frozen snow, and their crews suffered intensely
cold