The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-11-10
SNOWSTORM RACES
OVER LAKE REGIONS
Traffic Blocked. Wires Down
and Buildings Wrecked in
Eastern states.
'NERClRY DROPS TO ZERO
Terrific Wind Causes Havoc in
Chicago. Cleveland. Mil.
waukep and Pittsburg.

CHICAGO. Nov. e.-Fierce storms ragged
To-day and tonight over all the great
lake. region. extending east and south
90 ri,,shurg and Philadelphia and sending
m, temperature down in the Ohio Valley
below the freezing point.
TN. worst Of the storm seems TO he In
uoithern Indiana and northern Ohio.
rnnts in those States are absolutely cut
pr from COMMUNICATION with Chicago. No
wires are working to Philadelphia. More
than a mile of telegraph poles were swept
down IN the vicinity of Cleveland. carry
,rg down hundreds of wires and cutting
pff communication between Chicago and
, ,h. East. Detroit reports the worst
storm in history The gale is so terrific
that people cannot walk the streets.
Lake Michisan In q Fury.
Lake Michigan was whipped into
Jury. II battered the breakwater at Mil
paukee doing 100000 damage. The
storm almost wrecked the Carter Harri-
son. Lakeycw and Four Mile cribs.
smashing in the heavy steel gates,
shattcrng the thick plate glass windows.
S. tnat the men inside had the lake itself
10 fight with James Readen, for twenty
wears keeper of the Carter Harrison crib.
said /. was the worst storm he had ever
experienced.
The terrific gale tore through Chicago
raching it's height abou, 80 in the af-
,ernoon. doing much damage ashore and
c,lne up fourteen foot waves on the
lais which tore out great sections Of
he nj .yith loss
, estimated from sI50.0OO to- several hun
i-ed Thousand dollars. Telegraph poles
we're torn down through section on
the north side a mile across, street cars
hlocaded and the streets filled with ths
deadly eputterinE Of live wires.
Electric signs and trees were throw {
u the street. From the Illinois Stee
m.lls Of South Chicago to the northcrnmos
edge of the city the lake pounded ano
srswed at the shore for twelve hours
and the work of years on driveways ant
other Improvements vas torn out.
iTrrsRURG. Pa, Nov. "a blizzard
vncn struck here early this morning hal
tied up railroad trains, impaired street
"a traffic and crippled telephone systems
For the nrst time in the history OF the
..ty the county seats in western Fennsy|-
vaa.a. outside Of Allegheny county. could
40, ne reached by telephone. The tele-
pnone companies say more damage has
,.en done by the present storm than any
p,ner they ever had to contend with.
400 Telephone Poles Down.
, More than 200 telephone and telegraph
eoles in the vicinity of Pittsburg have
poen blown down and wires strewn ovel
Sc streets endangerng pedestrians ano
Eoppnr traffic.
The snow began falling shortly afte'
clock this morning and continued
throughout the day. In the outlying o's
Gic,s the snow Is six to eight inches dee'
and residents in the suburbs nave srea
fficulty in reaching the city.
Awnings which had been let down dur
in- the heavy rain yesterday were tor'
from their fastenings by the snow ana II
m. instance a fire escape was torn IRON
the side Of a building by the weish'
> ths SNOW An Italian was found over
ncns bv the cold and was taken to th'
Braddock lookup.
The entire Monongahela Valley IL is'
lated from Pittsburg because OF trafn'
beirg tied up and telephone commun
cation being cut of through wires belni
torn down by the storm. NO fata'te
have AS yet been reported
EEIsrol. Tenn. Nov. 9-The snow
blizzard grew fierce here tonight. IN
lalley regions are now under manti'
,f snow, with the temperature droppine
RAPIDLY. The situation looks serious 10
hundreds OF families in the Appalachian
region, who were wholly unprepared 10
the unexpected storm.