The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-14
WIND and SNOW
Storms aud Slizirds Cause Wide spread
Disaster Over Country
SOME FROZEN TO DEATH

Deaths Nearly a Score, While Loss
to Property is Estimated at Mil
lions-Due to Sudden and Violent
Temperature Changes in Central
and Southern Portions of Country.
Nearly a score OF deaths, several
million dollars property loss and
much suffering and inconvenience
resulted from the violent change OF
temperature, the preceding storms
and the succeeding cold and snow,
that beset the central and southern
portions of the country Saturday and
Sunday.
A cold wave almost Immediately
rolled over the wreckage OF the
storms and extended in few hours
to the Gulf coast and the Atlantic
seaboard. Rain turned to sleet, snap
ping telegraph and telephone wires,
and snow followed. The temperature
dropped in several places more than
sixty degrees in eighteen hours.
Several persons were frozen to
death by the suden cold, shipping on
the Great Lakes was damaged, and
several boats were cast adrift. In
some places, gas almost failed. The
poor in large cities and the homeless
in storm,swept regions suffered Sc
verely.
Reports received at Chicago Sun'
day night by the Associated Press in
dicate that cyclonic storms, coming
between the abnormally warm period
and the following cold wave, have
caused death and widespread destruc-
ton in Southern Wisconsin, Eastern
Iowa and Illinois Saturday.
Fourteen dead, several dying and
scores of injured are reported to be
lying in the wake Of the storms and
suffering because of their terror.
Southern Wisconsin was hardest
hit, according TO early, reports. Near
Cxfordville, Rock County, five per-
SOUS are known to be dead and 1t Is
reported the list may reach twelve.
In the village of Virginia, ILL.,, sew
eral were found seriously, perhaps,
fatally, and fifty others slightly in
j,.1ed. In Iowa, 50-degree drop in
temperature, accompanied by driv-
ing storm of sleet, tied up traffic
many hours. -.-f's
Property loss mounted up rapidly
in the path of the cyclonic blizzard.
Nearly every public building in Vir-
g!nia, ILL.,, was demolished, farmers
homes were wiped out in Wisconsin
and the damage was increased by the
heavy downpour Of rain, sleet and
snow.
Severe weather conditions are re-
ported all the way from the Rocky
Mountains. In Chicago the wind
blew A miles an hour. and in yell
lcwstone Park and at Helena, Mont,
thermometers registered degrees
below zero.
At least seven lives were lost and
scores of persons injured, some ia
tally, in a tornado which swept Rock
County, Wis, at dusk Saturday night.
Hundreds of thousands Of dollars
damage was done: Saturday night
dozens of families found themselves
without a roof and because the food
ed roads made travel impossible, were
forced to pass the night In the open
fields. A cold wave followed the
storm and snow and sleet added to
the misery.
At OrfordvilIe Mrs. John Clowder,
~ years old, was killed, as were also
a father and two daughters OF fam
lily whose surname is Smith, and a
Mrs. Breed. At Milton one person,
as yet unidentified, is reported dead.
Amy Korban, eight years Of age,
was killed when her home, just north
of GAINESVILLE, was demolished. Foot
vile, Magnolia, Pewaukee and other
villages also are reported to have suf-
fered severely.
Cotton Belt Hit Hard.
A New Orleans dispatch says the
southwestern cotton belt Is in the
grip Of the coldest weather expert
enced at this season in many years.
The cold nor wester, which was fore
casted Saturday. ploughed its way
across Oklahoma. Arkansas, Texas
and Louisiana last night, boiling tenn
peratures in record breaking fashion
and giving an unmistakable touch Of
the real blizzard. Meagre reports
show that the wind blew at the rate
of 40 to 70 miles an hour and
brought sudden drops OF from 20 to
GO degrees in temperature.
Pensacola and West Florida were
visited by a cold nor wester between
I and o'clock Saturday morning and
it is believed there has been consid-
cradle property damage on the islands
and along the lower coast. Tie wind
blew at the rate of approximately 70
miles an hour and a drop Of 20 de-
grees in temperature was recorded
within a few minutes. Frost is pre-
dicted throughout the section.
Severe winter weather, with a tenn
perature Of 20 degrees lower, pre-
vailed throughout Kentucky Sunday
night, following the heavy storm Of