The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-19
STORM RAGING
THROUGHOUT :
CENTRAL WEST
Snow Blown With Binding
Force Through Streets
of Chicago.
OMAHA IN THE GRASP
OF FIERCE BLIZZARD
TRAINS DELAYED AND STREET
CAR TRAFFIC DEMoRALIzED
IN CENTRAL STATES.

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@ Chicago. Feb. IS. - Several {:
% deaths, many injuries and much e
90 suffering followed today in the 9
% wake of one of the worst biz 9
g yards experienced in this section g
@ In several years. Traffic on sur g
Z. face and suburban lines is prac- 4.
9 tieally tied up tonight. and down (:
@ town hotels are filled with resi- g
, @ dents of outlying districts, who g
g found themselves unable to reach g
g their homes. The storm, which g
- broke early in the day, ragged with 6
W increasing fury until nightfall, 9
% subsiding somewhat toward mid &.
90 night 9
@ One of the most tragic occur D..
90 enees i'm connection with the e
o. storm was the wrecking in the 6
@ harbor at Waukegan of the fish (:
, g ing boat AnsDach III which two &
90 men lost their lives and six 4:
@ others had narrow escapes from g
% death. The boat left the harbor 9
= early in the day to visit nets set 6
% ten miles out in Lake Michigan .
% Caught in the storm on the return (:
% trip the vessel battled with tie 6
@ elements until it regained the &
81 harbor at o'clock. only to be (:
@ blown against a protection wall 6
g and crushed. Captain Oliver Ru- g
g bier, with five men composing the g
% crew, were thrown upon an ice (.
6" pack. Four of the men succeed 8
% ed in clinging to the ice and were e
@ rescued. Two slid into the water g
g and were drowned. .
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Chicago, Feb 1.-THE most violent
storm that has visited Chicago in many
ing, and tonight is raging with increas-
ing violence with no prospect of a lessen
ing of its violence before morning.
at o'clock in the afternoon seven
in1hes of snow had fallen, and it was
stu coming down heavily. The wind at
frequent intervals blew with a velocity
of fifty miles hour, and it hurled the
snow through the streets in such blind
ing clouds that it was impossible to see
for greater distance than a haIf-suuare.
eand often the range of vision would be
limited to few feet.
Many Accidents Reported.
great number of accidents of mi
nor character were caused by collisions
between wagons and street cars. ITp 10
clock tonight no serious accident mad
Deen reported, although a number of peo-
falls on the pavements.
81 81 o'clock. when the home-going
crowd was thickest, the wind was blow
ing so heavily and the snow was fall
Ing IN such binding sheets that it was
positively dangerous to attempt to cross
Michigan avenue and its intersections;
with either Jackson boulevard or Van
Buren, street. These crossings are used
by thousands Of people every night 10
reach their homes in the southern part
OF the city and in the suburbs BY means
or the Illinois Central railroad.
Storm Too Severe for Women.
Z was found necessary to station a
large number of city and park police at
t,AezsA eeraers to assist women. and often
IL was more than one officer could do
10 pilot a woman across without as
sistanee. An officer was stationed a half
square west of the crossing of jackson
boulevard and Michigan avenue, with or
ders to send women back or to bring
them through the StradfOrd hotel, Dy
which means the worst portion of the
crossing was evaded.
Snow Still Coming Down.
The street car companies and the ele-
waited roads Jared well throughout the
day, but the heavy increase of snow that
came in the late afternoon made des-
perate work for them. Every available
man and all the snOwDlowS were con-
&tantiy' at work in keeping the tracks
were operated with great difficulty De
cause of the constantly increasing drifts.
and locomotion became constantly more
difficult. 1t was estimated at the wealth
er bureau that the fall of snow would
amount to one foot or more b. morn
ing
Three Fatalities at Hammond.
AZ Hammond. Ind, two men blinded
~ the storm, were run down by a train
and fatally injured. In the vicinity a
woman was overcome by exposure was
found dying in the snow.
Little effort was made during he
Riaht to remove the constantly drift
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