The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-13
His Procrastination Is that
Snow Will Fall This Even
ing and Will Continue Cold
During Tuesday.
EVEN FLORIDA NOT
ENJOYING ANY HEAT
Many Deaths, Intense Suf-
fering and Loss of Millions
Reported from Saturday
Nights Storm.
National News Association)

WASHINGTON. Nov 13.-General
fair weather with continued cold will
prevail over the Atlantic seaboard and
the central states for the next "a
hours according to the Y. S. Weather
bureau. With the exception Of snow
tonight for Indiana, Illinois, the upper
Mississippi and the upper lake regions
from the Mississippi valley eastward,
skies will be clear and the cold wealth
er will continue throughout the night
in the Eastern and Southern states.
Freezing temperature will prevail as
far south as northern and central Flor
ida. A rise of temperature will be
experienced in the Middle West.
CHICAGO, Nov. 13.-While the en-
tire Middle West continues to shiver
from one of the worst early season
storms and cold spells, noted in wealth
er bureau history, reports of deaths,
injury, intense suffering and property
amounting up into the millions are
pouring in from all sections.
The death toll of the storm is now
twenty-four.
At least. 100 people have been in
jured. some fatally, either by the tor
nado, which preceded the blizzard, or
from the severe cold, which rode into
the Middle West on the wings OF the
storm. One of the injured in Chica-
go was 4 heat prostration, suffered
by pedestrian Saturday during the
extremely warm spell, which preced-
ed the cold wave
The suffering among the poor in
Chicago and other large cities of the
West in intense.
Chicago experienced fall in tenn
perature Of 81 degrees in Z hours. It
is degrees above zero here this
morning. Many cities further west
and north have temperatures far be-
low the zero mark.
A wind storm on Lake Michigan has
endangered many lives. The John T.
Williams, 4O0-foot collier. grounded
in Chicago harbor and the crew was
rescued by life-savers.
At least two railroad wrecks and a
panic on an elevated train in Chicago.
endangering many lives, resulted from
the storm.
The tornado. preceding the cold
wave. killed eight and fatally injured
at least eight others in Roch County,
Wisconsin,, and cut swath twenty
miles long and quarter Of mile
wide through Wisconsin,, causing nine
deaths and loss of $1.OOO,OOO.
Two persons were killed and seven
injured at Easton, ILL.,, another died,
and two were hurt at Peoria, ILL.,,
when the tornado sweeping southwark
from Wisconsin touched points in Cen
trail Illinois.
From every point east of the Rocky
Mountains and as far north as Winni
peg, Manitoba. came reports of heavy
losses. Millions of dollars in wheat
have been destroyed in Canada by
the storm. leaving thousands of farm
ers, most of them immigrants from
the u. s., penniless and facing starva
ton. Damage to stone Quarries and
other Industries at Bedford, Ind, will
reach $5OO.OOOO. and crop damage in
other portions Of Indiana will run the
total loss for that state above the mil
lion dollar mark. The loss in Illinois
Michigan and Wisconsin, will react
more than 81 100000. The cold wealth
er has gripped four cotton raising
states. and the loss in cotton and Other
large crops in these states will be very
hogh.