The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-11-17
THE SUDDEN CHANGE OF TEN
PERATURE
Many Killed in Sunday Blizzard, end
Great Damage Done TO Property.
Narrowing Experiences of Victims.

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Mondays Tampa Tribune says that
nearly score of deaths, several mil
lion dollars property loss and much
suffering and inconvenience resulted
from the violent change of tempera-
ture, the preceding storms and the
succeeding cold and snow that beset
the central and south portions of the
country Saturday and Sunday.
! After an unusually warm November
day Saturday, tornado storms did
much damage in Wisconsin and Hill
nois and killed a dozen persons, be-
sides injuring more than a score.
A cold wave almost Immediately
rolled over the wreckage of the lorna
does and extended in a few hours to
the gulf coast and the Atlantic sea-
board. Rain turned to sleet, swapping
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 sudden 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.
The official weather forecast Sun
day night was for quick relief from
the severe cold in the middle west,
the low temperature moving rapidly
eastward and southwark. From a
point near zero the mercury began to
rise yesterday with a probability of
further rise tomorrow in the CEN
trail states.
Eight Persons Killed
GAINESVILLE, Wis, Nov. 12.-Splinter-
ed timbers, broken furniture, crum-
bled rock and plaster, scattered farm
produce and dead farm animals litter
ing the ground of an area a quarter of
mile in width and twenty miles in
length indicate the tremendous force
with which southern Wisconsin's
worst cyclone swept path through
Rock county, killing eight persons, in
juring many more, and doing damage
to the extent of nearly million dol
lars
Three members of family named
Schmidt were killed and a fourth will
die.
Wire service was demoralized last
night and it was not until today that
details of the catastrophe were Do
tanned.
Saturday night the mercury drop
ped nearly to zero and it was fear
full night for grief-stricken survivors,
many left without a roof. The cy-
clone lasted only a few minutes, and
although it occurred about the middle
of the afternoon the sky was dark cs
night.
The binding downpour made he
search for the dead and dying a terri
BILE task.
Gotham Suffers
New York, Nov. 12-The storm and
cold wave from the west advanced
eastward rapidly today on the wings
of a gale that reached the maximum
velocity of seventy-two miles an hour
in this city. The eastern edge of the
advancing cold wave had reached Yer
mont tonight, local weather bureau
advices stated, and was moving rapid
ly northeastward. Both telegraph
companies lost many wires for con-
siderable periods during the blow
During the height of the gale seven
teen aeroplanes were badly damaged
when the shed of the Aeronautic So
ciety of America on the Mineola avia-
ton field was blown down.
Have Terrible Experience
Mobile, Ala, Nov. 12.-Sixteen men,
clinging to beacons in Mobile bay,
after being forced to desert the frail
boats in which they were hunting CT
fishing, were rescued by a tug after
hours of exposure in the storm today.
Several others were seen in perilous
situations, but were too distant, in
shallow water, to make assistance
possible They may be dead by now.
One apparently disabled launch, with
several women on board, drifted past
one of the beacons where several
men were marooned, and no report
has been made of it since. Several
boating parties, caught in the sud-
den gale, managed to get to the bea-
cons marking the ship channel, their
boats either swapping or going adrift.
Others tried to make the shore, out
with what success it will be impos-
sible to determine until reports come
in from along the shores of the bay.
The official maximum wind velocity
at TAO a. M, was forty-four miles per