Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-01-25
Blizzard at Burlington.

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Blizzard at Burlington.
Burlington, Jan. %. - The cold
wave Of Sunday was followed Monday
by fierce blizzard of snow, which
kept up all night. Trains are badly de-
layed on all roads. and telegraph serv-
Ice is demoralized by the gale and
sleet Of last night.
Worst Storm In Years.
Muscatine, Jan. %. --Muscatine was
wrapped in q blizzard all day Monday.
Street car service Is crippled. All
trains on steam roads ore delayed. Tel.
ephone and telegraph service Is
crippled. It Is the worst storm in many
years. The river Us still open, but will
close in few, days.
cold Wave In Chicago.
Chicago, Jan. 23.-After almost tive
1if1honths-8f immunity Chicago has en-
countered one Of the most disastrous
and costly storms in the history Of the
city. Traffic was paralyzed yesterday
telegraphic communication with the
outside world absolutely severed for
hours and incoming trains on all the
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schedule time.
To add to the discomfort which
Chicagoans suffered the weather de.
partment last night gave out ominous
reports of an impending blizzard, with
great drop in temperature. The on.
coming storm has invested the city
on all sides and is being kept at bay
only by the east winds FROM the lake
Professor Cox said last night the best
the city could hope for is maxi
mum of 10 degrees above zero, today.
Police and fire alarm wires were
put almost entirely out Of service. The
damage was especially severe in
South Chicago.
Fear General Tieup.
The miles Of slusn and melting
snow which rendered the pavements
Of the city extremely perilous last
night will today be converted into a
shfmmering sheath Of ice which will
tax the ingenuity Of the traction
companies to the utmost IL service is
to be maintained.
The storm which struck Chicago
with such disastrous force early Sun
day morning is general in character
and of such freakish formation that
the weather officials admitted last
night it is difficult to predict its de-
velopment or forecast Its endurance.
With q temperature ranging as high
as 33 degrees, Chicago was the center
Of a relatively warm zone extending
for radius Of about thirty miles in
land.
Illinois Lines ParaIyzed.
Bloomington, ILL.,, Jan. 90. - Careful
estimates of the loss to the various
telegraph, telephone and electric com.
panies by the sleet storm Of Saturday
night in central Illinois show that the
amount will not be far from 100000
The damage is the most extensive In
twenty years or more.
The poles of the long-distance tele
phone lines are down almost continu
ously, only one or two in stretches Of
five and ten miles being left stand
ing. The telephone systems in this
and neighboring cities are almos,
completely paralyzed.
The telegraph companies will be
the heaviest losers, thousands of wires
and poles being broken. One circuit
of thirty-six wires lof the Western
Union Telegraph company, ranging
east and west is destroyed, while the
north and south wires are down in
hundreds of places along the Chicago
& Alton.
All trains Of the various railroads
are being moved by time card alone
The Chicago & Alton has sent Out
three special trains carrying linemer
and these men will work steadily te
restore communication. 1t may BIZ
weeks before the usual complete serv
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