The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-02-18
DEATH IN WAKE
OF FIERCE STORM
|cHicAGO AND ALL ILLINOIS SUE
FERs From sLEET.
4 LARGE AREA IS COVERED
Wisconsin Has Heavy Snow, While
Kansas City Reports Zero
Mississippi in Path Of
Fatal Wind. "a

Chicago Feb. 15.-Chicago was Q
glare Of ice yesterday.
Sleet. which started to fall about
midnight kept up until late in the
morning and in addition to tying uE
the citys surface car lines, caused
much annoyance to thousands OF
church goers.
The icy sidewalks caused many &C.
cidents and scores of broken bones
were the result, while several persons
may not recover from injuries re.
eeived.
From reports received the sleet
storm struck other portions of the
state, delaying trains and playing
havoc with telegraph and telephone
lines.
Peoria Was Isolated.
Peoria, H., Feb. 15.-With the com.
ing of cold rain and sleet storm
throughout central Illinois early yeste-
day morning, lasting until noon, Pc
oria was practically isolated from the
world for eight hours. Late last night
telegraphic communications were re.
stored to Chicago, but towards east,
west and south, telephone and tele-
graphic communications were entirely
shut off. Fruit trees have suffered
greatly.
Kankakee, Ill, Feb. 15.--Consider,
able damage was done here by sleet.
storm starting at midnight and con,
tinuing the greater part of yesterday
The streets were filled with broken
tree limbs and mile after mile of tele.
phone wire and poles were down.
Bloomington, H., Feb. 15.--One OF
the worst sleetstorms in years pre-.
vailed here yesterday. Interurban and
street car traffic was put out of bust
ness, and wire communication was
practically paralyzed. Scores of tele.
phone poles. carrying hundreds OF
long-distance telephone wires, were
down and but few telegraph wires
were working. '.
Wisconsin Has Heavy Snow. =,
Milwaukee, Feb. 15.--Snow to a
depth of about foot fell in Milwau.
kee and within a radius of so miles OF
this city in the state, late Saturday
night and yesterday. The street rail
way company in this city used snow
plows all day to keep traffic open. In
terurban train service while not TIED
up was irregular The storm con
tinued last evening with the snow
drifting badly. Trains on the steam
roads were running considerably be
hind schedule time.
Zero at Kansas City.
Kansas City, Mo-, Feb. 15.-Zero
weather and the worst sleet and snow
storm of the winter prevailed in the
southwest last night All over Kansas
the fall of sleet has been heavy, caus,
ing delayed traffic and bad wire com.
munication. In Oklahoma the storm
began Saturday night with rain fol,
lowed by sudden drop Of 4S degrees
in temperature. Railroad traffic was
almost at a standstill in many local.
tiles and wire service was seriously in
terrupted Stock will suffer from the
extreme cold.
Fatalities in Mississippi.
Vicksburg, Miss, Feb. 15.-The most
severe storm of wind and rain expert.
enced here in years. prevailed for half
an hour yesterday afternoon, causing
property loss estimated at $4,000.
The Office of the Vicksburg Herald
was unroofed and a number of bust
ness houses sustained minor damage
while in the suburban sections of
Vicksburg property was completely
wrecked.
storm struck Learned, Miss, from
the northwest with terrific force, blow
ing down a negro church, killing Dick
Harris wife and one child of Maggie
Bennett, and iniuring eight or ten
persons. About seyenty-five persons
were in the building at the time. If
it had not been for the arched ceiling
all Drobably would have been killad D