The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-04
DAMAGED BY STORM
ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGO SUFFER FROM WIND, SNOW AND
 SLEET.
REPORTS OF LOSS FROM MANY POINTS
Business Stagnated and Transporta- tion interrupted All Over the West "A Few Deaths Reported-Police Stations In Cities Give Shelter to Many Homeless.

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 Stations In Cities Give Shelter to | Many Homeless.
 St Louis, Jan 31.--Death or injury
 to many persons, considerable prop
 erty damage, delayed trains, inter rupted wire communication and stag
 nation of all outside business com
 which swept St. Louis and its vicinity
 Friday and Friday night.
 l Driven by wind which varied from
 70 miles an hour In western Missouri
 to 45 miles or more in southern Illi-
 nois, snow and sleet rendered traffic
 almost impossible on steam or cleo.
 tric lines and bewildered pedestrians l so that in some instances they were
 unable to escape fatal dangers. In St. Louis, Robert Mccormack | the oldest member of the local police | force, was blown from a porch at SPA Nebraska avenue, falling Is feet. He | suffered injuries from which he is not expected to recover. At Madison, H.,
 Erwin Mikesell. blinded by the snow,
 failed to notice an approaching train | and was ground to death beneath the
 wheels. In the same town Charles
 Jackowich was swept from his feet by
 the gale and fell so heavily that his neck was broken. Near Venice, H., | two children and their mother, Mrs Frank Carroll, were mortally injured when tree was blown upon a tent under which they were sleeping. The greatest effect of the storm
 was felt to the west and north of this city. Quincy. H., experienced the worst blizzard in 20 years with rail
 road traffic and street cars at stand still.
 l Moberly, Mo, reported a drop of 50 | degrees in temperature and eight l inches of snow with wind strong enough to unroof buildings and uproot l trees Bunceton, Mo. experienced a storm almost equal to cyclone and reported that several buildings were l wrecked at Pisgah several miles dis
 tant. Similar conditions prevailed at Sedalia, Clarksburg, Slater, EIlsberry. Tipton. Kirksville, Bismarck. Louisi- ana. Frankford, Marshall and Jener- son City. At the latter place brief sessions of the legislature were held but many of the older members were unable to make their way against the storm and remained in their hotels. Chicago. Jan. 31.-The storm of sleet. snow and rain which swirled along by a high wind during the last | 24 hours has prostrated telegraph and wrecked buildings and isolated com
 munities, struck Chicago Friday night and was reported general in the v- cinity of Detroit.
 The first bite of the storm was felt in Chicago at noon and 1t continued to
 increase in fury until the wind blew l 40 miles an hour and the thermometer
 registered drop of over 20 degrees | to 10 above.
 Snow covered the streets and orders
 were sent to every police station in
 the city to turn no shelterless person l away.
 Tulsa. Ok, Jan. S1.--Oil fields in northern and eastern Oklahoma have suffered heavily in the blizzard which
 was still raging here Friday night Derricks and tanks have been blown
 down and the loss in the Glenn pool district is roughly estimated at $50,- | 900. Hundreds of tent dwellers in | this vicinity have been working for | 36 hours to save their homes and a
 number of buildings here have been
 wholly or partly wrecked. Many per.
 sons have been slightly injured by | flying debris.
 Bartlesville, Ok, reports 300 oil der
 ricks demolished in that vicinity en-
 tailing a loss of over s50,000.
 Omaha, Neb, Jan. 31.--Although the
 wind which swept Nebraska and ad- | joining states was partially abated
 Friday night, the mercury had fallen below zero which emphasized the af- ter effects of the disastrous blizzard anu WdS Itlic ltSS ticCtiNc tutu lnc
 storm itself in its results.
 Reports began coming in Friday
 plight from outside cities and towns
 which gives the storm precedence as
 D record breaker, and while generally prepared for the emergency, the visi-
 tation was not without it's disasters.
 Nearly every portion of the state heard from reports disastrous results and in
 many places buildings were unroofed.
 At Plattsmonth fine new theater lost
 its roof; at Grand Island two business blocks were seriously damaged; at Beatrice several buildings were prae. I tically destroyed and at Lincoln the
 damage was great in proportion to the
 size of the city.
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