The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-05-04
HUNDREDS MEET DEATH
(. IN THREE DAYS STORM
Atlantic Coast, Central and
Southern States Swept.
CROPS RUINED BY FROST
Heavy Wind and Hail in Many States
Followed by Tempest Left a
Trail of Death and Destruction
Unprecedented in This Country.

Chicago, IlI.-On top of the ter
rife storm which has swept the Cen
trail and Southern States for three
days, leaving trail of death and de-
struction, came new disaster of
tempest, raising the death list to
total of nearly $780, Property worth
millions has been totally destroyed
all over the storm racked area,
traffic is demoralized and lines of
communication cut off on all sides.
The Atlantic coast was heavy
sufferer. In passing out to sea the
storm seemed to gain in fury, and a
gale passed up the seaboaTd from,
Charleston, S. c., to Philadelphia,
working great havoc at many points.
The great lakes were dashed by an
other arm of the tempest, many yes
sells are missing and the total of per-
sons lost on the water will not be
known for many days.
In the Northwestern States the
storm took the form of a blizzard,
with snowfall great enough to block
roads and hold up trains. This con-
dition gave way to freezing tempera-
ture, causing suffering among ami
mails and ruin to crops. Throughout
the Mississippi Valley the destruction
is enormous. Snow, rain, hail and
wind have made the devastation of
crops complete, buildings have been
blown down and in many cases whole
towns wiped out.
In Illinois, Tennessee, Alabama,
Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Mis-
souri, and Pennsylvania wild billiards
have prevailed, with almost zero
weather in many places. AT Supe-
rior, Wis, there was enough snow for
sleighing. Many cattle are dead from
cold and exposure in Southern Can
ada and ruined orchards add to the
desolation in fruit growing regions.
Three vessels wrecked, seven lives
lost and many ships and crews miss
ing is the news of the big gale on the
great lakes. The storm has ragged
there necessarily for four days
with sleet, rain, hail and snow. The
cold is reported intense and the dam
age to shipping is estimated at hun
dreds of thousands of dollars.
The storm in the Mississippi Val
ley passed to the northwest and was
reported in Wisconsin, Minnesota and
the Rocky Mountain foothills.
NGUTdShd, hduSdS, HloSOuIl dA0
Colorado reported heavy frosts. Great
fear is felt for the winter wheat in
these States. Six inches of snow fell
In parts of Wisconsin.
A forty-mile gale, accompanied by
snow, struck Chicago. Estimates of
that city's loss in the four days
storm are put at 100000. The
Canadian Northwest is frozen up and
showed under From Des Moines it
is wired that the ground was frozen
two inches about there. The grip of
lingering winter extends to Oklaho-
ma, New Mexico and Arkansas.
The greatest loss of life at any
one point is reported from Bee
Springs, Tenn, where the death list
numbers twenty. Tennessee, in fact,
bore largely the brunt of the storm
and the death toll in the State is
large.
Arkansas sustained the next heav-
lest loss of life.
Southern Missouri, likewise, suf-
fered heavily, evidently from the
same storm that swept Arkansas.
Temperature in Southern Missouri,
following the storm, dropped almost
to freezing point, causing great dam
age to the fruit crop. Mississippi
perhaps came next with it's heavy list
of dead At Horn Lake frightful de-
vastation was wrought.