Evening star., 1909-04-30
WIND BLOWS DEATH
TO SOUTH AND WEST
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ficiaIly reported. Probably as many more
received private attention, information of
their condition, therefore, not becoming
public.
The list of fatalities due to the unroof-
ing of the Grand Crossing Tack Factory
i'll the storm last night total four. The
first death occurred instantly when the
roof collapsed. The three who died to-
day were among the nine injured last
night.
Property aggregating hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in value has been wiped
out The storm was the most destructive
in years. In the central west it has been
raging for twenty-four hours.
Definite information as to the number
of human victims and the amount of the
damages wrought will not be forthcom-
ing for days, for the reason that sections
are completely isolated from the outside
world, the terrific winds having snapped
telegraph and telephone poles like pipe
stems, but the fragmentary bits of news
filtering through give indications that the
human sacrifice has been large and the
damage great.
All Kinds of Weather.
1t would seem that the elements tried
to see how many kinds of freakish at
mospheric disturbances they could create.
Tornados. snow, sleet, hail. lightning,
food, flame and electrical phenomena are
among the remarkable features of re-
markable storm for this season of the year.
Wires arc down in all parts of the coun-
try as result of the widespread storm,
while trains are stalled and communica-
tion generally is interrupted.
In Chicago and environs the lashng of
storm was close to the cyclonc border,
and the visitation left a wide trail of
death and destruction. Twenty-Five
houses were blown down, many more un-
fod
fifty families rendered homeless.
The extreme south end OF the city was
cut off from street car service and thrown
into darkness by the destruction OF cleo
trio light wires. A deluge of rain ac-
companied the wind, and west of the city
hundreds of acres were flooded. Two
inches of rain fell.
Weather Still Freakish.
+ Storm conditions in this vicinity are
somewhat improved, although showers and
thurderstorms, turning to snow furries
and colder, with a westerly gale. are pre-
dcted for the next twenty-four hours.
The telegraph companies expect TO have
their lines repaired in that time, but the
lack of communication with many points
in the middle west leaves the exact eX-
tent of the damage in doubt. That, how
ever, destruction has been widespread. in
volying loss of scores of lives, and much
SUCK ana OtneF property. IS SnOWH Dy
such reports as at hand. Wires are
down In Iowa. Missouri and Kansas, and
transportation in central Illinois and the
northwest is partly paralyzed.
Inquiry at the general Offices of the IL
linois Central elected the information that
there were no wires for the d.spat ching
of trains early, although hope was ex-
pressed that a patchwork service might
be restored before night.
The Chicago and Alton, two of whose
f,-oi, cfo nnI laS. ,iUif fnl
today, although their wires had suf-
fered.
Snow and Freezing Weather.
At Superior. Wis. Il blizzard which
started yesterday is still raging. snow
being driven all night by a wind rang
ing from forty to fifty-fiye miles. At
La Crosse, Wis, one of the heaviest
snowstorms of the winter Is raging.
Four inches of snow have fallen before
now, and the storm seemed likely to
continue all day.
Freezing weather prevails over a large
portion of Nebraska, temperatures rang
A twenty-mile-an-hour wind from the
north, with the temperature at 40 de-
grces above zero, were the conditions
that prevailed generally in western Mis-
souri, and throughout Kansas today.
Freezing temperature in the Panhandle
of Texas is reported.
Pueblo. Col, reports snow and rain.
There was freezing temperature last
night. Farmers kept smudge fires burn
ing to save fruit blossoms and buds.
Tidal wavo and Floods