The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-30
Heavy Snow, Wind and Rain From Mississippi River
 to Coast.
Reached Blizzard Propor- tions in Middle Vest Some Deaths and Much Suffering is Reported Storm Central This Morn ing Near Nantucket New England Gets Tail End of Storm.
Especial from United Press }

Boston, Jan. 30-All New England
 is today swept by blizzard and ir
 many places wires are down and traf- fic generally delayed. All along the coast shipping has suffered but no se- rious losses of life are reported.
 The three-masted schooner Arthur M Robertson is ashore at Tarapaulin Cove in Vineyard Sound. She is not leaking. She was bound from St.
 John, N. B.. to New York with a cargo
 of lumber. The crew made no effort
 well inshore but the revenue cutter
 Acushnet was notified and is ready to
 go to her assistance. f. [ < A four-masted schooner at anchor
 off Toddy Rocks in sight of the Stony
 Beach Life Savers is dragging anchor
 and the life savers are ready to go to
 her assistance at moments warning.
 The schooner is in a bad anchorage and
 seems unable to work off-shore on &C.,
 count of the wind and the heavy sea 2 Chicago. Jan. 30.-Chicago awoke this morning.to find itself in the rear guard of the blizzard that yesterday swept
 the west and to-day is careening over
 Indiana and Ohio on its way to the
 Atlantic coast. Reports from the west
 lk, trans showed in. street cars out of
 business. From the east the story Is one of an advancing storm preceded by snowfall with very cold weather ac- comEanying it. The snow ceased fall- ing here during the night but high
 wind drifted the flakes badly.
 One fatal automobile wreck, one kill ed and several injured. is included in the results of the storm. A lake steamer staggering across Waukeegan harbor for II hours was badly crippled. The snowfall throughout the northwest has been tremendous and it will be several days before. the railroads can resume regular traffic. The weather prophets will not predict that the storm in the east will not be as severe as in the west. x
 In many localities the reports show the high wind accompanying the snow fall was so terrific that houses were overturned. The Northwestern Rail- road general offices say their tracks between here and Denver are banked with snow. The Western Union and Postal Telegraph Companies report their wires in bad condition yesterday and have made little progress toward the repairing of their north wires.
 New York Jan. 30.-A driving bliz- gard. drifting a heavy fail of snow, has settled over New York to-day and is CTfpDllnE tTdIIlC OI dll kluUs. I1dTlIsS is almost at 3 standstfil. The storm which has beer circling the swept into the city from the west early last evening ir the form of a drizzling rain. The rain soon chang ed 60 snow. however. and the winds in creased. By morning several inches of snow covered the streets.
 St. Louis, Jan. 3O-Three dead, three fatally hurt, is the record sof the storm that is sweeping over St. Louis, and the property damage today is estimat- ed at thousands. The temperature has dropped to 20 below zero and a cut ting wind is still blowing, drifting the light snow.
 John Stump brakepan, was killed on the roof of a car on which he was riding He was blown off and buried in the snow. His companion, Daniel Dwyer, was fatally hurt. Erwin Mil1o- sel was killed by a train at a railroad The storm made it impos- sible for him to see or hear.
 Charles JackoWitz was caught by the wind on an icy stretch of pavement, fell and broke his neck, dying instant v. Robert Cormack was blown from ais back yard and is suffering from a I fractured skull and cerebral hemor- .hage and will probably die. Edith Carroll was fatally hurt when tree 'el1 on the house in which her family ives. Her brother William, aged 4, md mother were seriously injured.
 New York, Jan. 30.-AbOut noon the ,r1ow ceased to fall and the wind went 1 lown The sun put in an appearance. | The river and harbor was covered by l ! mist that made navigation difficult.
 Chicago, Jan. 30.-Dispatches from l he West giving the details of the bliz- l ;ard show great damage. Throughout l Nebraska the loss was large. In Omaha it will be upwards of $50, GOO, while Lincoln, Neb., received even nore damage. In Council Bluffs; scross the river from Omaha, Manton l 50, was overcome by the cold rear his home, fell into a snow drift lnd was frozen to death. Several buildings in Nebraska were unroofed.
 Louisville, Ky, Jan. 30.-The high wind and driving snow that struck louisville today constitute the worst ,lizzard here in 26 wears.