Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-02-02
STORM KING RULES
Worst Blizzard of a Year
Grips West.
TORNADO AT MACON, MO.
Low Pressure Area, Centering at Chi
cago Friday, Moves to Atlantic
Coast = Wires Down - Suffering
Everywhere.

Everywhere.
Chicago, Jan. 30-Rain, snow, sleet
and high wind which reached max
imum of "a miles at Kansas City
created climatic chaos in the middle
west yesterday. Trains were delayed
and telegraph wires were Frustrated
in every direction, particularly west
of ST. Louis and north OF Chicago. The
barometer in the office of the local
weather bureau stood at 20, only rs
higher than the record-breaking level
OF 2S.75 at Galveston at the time Of
the disastrous hurricane which wiped
out thousands of lives. Although the
middle west was in the clutches of a
gale which wrought some property
damage in various sections, and, as in
Iowa, took on the guise of blizzard
no such disaster was reported or pre-
dicted in the present instance. The |
most serious damage reported in early |
dispatches was in Lamonte, Mo-, where
the roof of the opera house was blown |
against freight train standing q |
block away, injuring two persons.
Weather Map Queer.
The weather map was in appearance
almost without precedent. The iso-
bars, indicating points of equal air
pressure, wound like lopsided spiral
over the middle west, centering at
Chicago, where the gale broke later in
the day and where the barometer
stood at 29, and extending as far west
as Omaha, where the barometer read
ing was 8 higher. West, south and
north of Omaha the map was blank.
Wires We're down in every direction
and reports were missing. West of
Chicago it was possible for only four
states and california, Ne
vada, New Mexico and Arizona-to get
in their reports, which was accom-
plished by using unaffected wires
south along the Mexico border
Tornado In Missouri
st. Joseph, Mo-, Jan. 30-A tornado
demolished the fremont hotel and sew
eral buildings at Macon, Mo-, accord
ing to report brought here last night
by trainmen. Wires were down and
details lacking.
The fremont hotel was unroofed
and dwelling near by was over
turned. child was injured
Messages from Kansas City, Mo-,
by long-distance telephone say that
6O-mile wind blew down telegraph
poles there, shattered plate-glass win
dows and scattered debris of every de-
scription. The wind was accompanied
by snow and fall in temperature to
20 degrees above zero.
Belated weather bureau reports give
maximum wind velocity of u miles
an hour at Kansas City, 70 miles at
Springfield, Mo-, and Sc miles at Cairo,
ILL., The Kansas City wind was blow
ing at the rate of 60 miles an hour
The local gale attained 46 miles an
hour
Passenger Train Stalled.
st. Paul, Mimi, jan 30-Passenger
train No. % on the Southern Minneso-
ia division of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& ST. Paul, running between Lacrosse
and washington Springs, S. D., was
stuck in snowdrift west of Jackson,
Mimi
The train has large passenger list,
but being day train with no sleeper
or diner it has no accommodation for
caring for the passengers in the plight
In which they now find themselves.
An old-time so-called blizzard was
raging in the northwest yesterday. 1t
followed a rain which descended
Thursday, and which during the night
turned to snow and sleet with drop
in the temperature. Telegraph com
munication with the east was almost
wholly destroyed.
Hats Michigan Car Service.
Detroit, Mich, Jan. 3O-A severe
snowstorm, which was general all over
lower Michigan yesterday. caused much
trouble to telephone and telegraph
wires. The snow was heavy, however,
and not drifting, so the railroads suf-
fered little delay
In Grand Rapids all of the street
cars were entirely tied-up during the
morning by the snow, eight inches
having fallen. In other cities of the
state, also, including Detroit, there
was considerable interruption of the
car service.
Terrible Blizzard in Iowa.
Marshalltown, Ia, Jan. 3O-Central
Iowa was in the grasp of one of the
worst billiards. OF recent years, which
set in yesterday. Marshalltown was
practically cut off from communication
with the outside world by telephone
and telegraph. There was not a single
railroad wire into the city, and few
telegraph wires of any kind Trains
We're several hours late and running
without orders. There was no electric
light service. All street cars were
abandoned
Cold Snap In Wake.
Washington, Jan. 30.-In the grasp
of storm that is sweeping eastward
with increasing severity and extent, Is
almost the entire country this side of
the eastern Rocky mountain slope.
Rain, snow and sleet are falling, and
high winds and gales blowing in all
those states, and shipping on the At
lantic coast all the way from New
York to Jacksonville and along the
Mexican gulf coast has been warned
of the advancing storm, which Is pre-.
ceded by rising temperature A cold
snap is in the wake of the storm.
Eight Coal Rarges Sink.
East Liverpool, O., Jan. 30.-Eight
coal l.aypaS ware SINK and four nth.