Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-11-14
GALE CAUSES Loss
FIFTY-MILE WIND SWEEPS EAST.
ERIN AND CENTRAL PART
OF UNITED STATES.
TRAIN HITS TREE; 8 SLAIN
Chicago Suffers Damage of Thousands
of Dollars and Other Places Report
Losses-New Blizzard Forming
Boats Seek Shelter.

Chicago, Nov f1.--Low tempera.
lures, riding on bitter gales of wind,
settled down over the central and
eastern parts of the United States on
Sunday, reaching as far south as
Florida.
Behind the first onrush of the thirty
and fifty-mile blasts of wind lay wreck
age of property on land and water. ir-
GLIDING telegraph lines. docks and
shipping, houses and parks.
Lake men declared it the most Sc
we're and disastrous sea they had seen
running on Lake Michigan in many
years.
Three of the train crew were killed
when locomotive pulling a work
train on the Raquette Lake railroad
ran into a tree which had blown across
the tracks near Utica, n. Y.
Milwaukee's $4,000 municipal
breakwater, a part OF the extensive
new harbor project, was washed away
in the storm. and more than that
amount of damage was done to ship
ping in Milwaukee harbors. The en-
tire equipment of the construction
company building the breakwater was
destroyed.
Detroit was practically without com
munication for hours. Telegraph COM
panies were crippled east and south
and electric lines were tied up by trees
across tracks and trolley wires.
All up and down Michigan the storm
wrought havoc, Calumet, Houghton,
Hancock, Marquette, Ironwood and
Lake Lindon suffered in a gale of a
mile minute, while snow fell heav-
lily Lake traffic was closed. Boats
tried to get away but were forced to
scud back into harbors for safety.
Uprooted trees and signs Uttered
streets in jackson, Battle Creek, Kala-
mazoo, Albion. Alpena, Grand Rapids
and Bay City. Several persons were
injured by broken glass in Detroit
Through Ohio, Indiana, western
Pennsylvania and southern Michigan
snow and high winds that co-operated
as fierce billiards made travel nearly
impossible, delayed rail traffic and
tore down miles of telegraph wires.
Even in Georgia and Florida the Their
mometer was at the freezing point
West and northwest OF Chicago there
was less suffering, save in the Cana
dian Northwest, where a new storm
and cold wave, much more severe than
the one engulfing the United States,
was forming, ready to drop southeast
into this country at the end of the
week
More than $150000 damage was
done In Chicago to docks and f1lled-in
land. Hundreds of thousands Of per-
sons lined the lake shore and chat
tered in the cold all day watching the
great waves that washed over the
Lake Shore drive, made the outer
driveway In Lincoln park unsafe, left
the German building in Jackson park
and the Convent OF La Rabida sur
rounded by newly formed lakes, swept
over 12-foot pier in Jackson park,
smashed pleasure boats and imperiled
even the rock-ballasted Illinois Cen.
trail tracks,
In Lincoln park and near Fiftieth
street, where millions of dollars
worth of newly made land had been
formed, the huge waves washed In
Shore and carried thousands of cubic
yards of soil away. William Nielsen.
superintendent of Lincoln park. said
100000 damage done near Fullertoa
avenue would set the work of park
extension there back six months.
The schooner The Boy. with Capt
w Schiosser and crew OF seven
men aboard, struggled through the
rolling waves from Marinette. but
could not make the harbor. Fearing
wreck the skipper heaved out an an.
Choir. which held all afternoon, though
the deck load OF lumber was washed
overheard
Fourteen feet OF snow banked M
In the Cumberland mountains and
stopped trains for hours. West Vir
ginia east and west was In the grin
of a blizzard with a foot of snow or
the ground