Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-11-10
STORM SWEEPS
THROUGH TEN
STATES
EAST AND NORTH CENTRAL Sec
TIONS SILVER and FREEZE IN A
BLIZZARD WHICH CAUSES MANY
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WORTH
OF DAMAGES.
TRAINS LATE AND
MANY Wires DOWN

MANY Wires DOWN
Pittsburgh, Pa, NOV. lO.-Still IN
the grasp of blizzard that for "a
hours has almost entirely cut Off the
outside world, Pittsburgh today is
doundering through almost a foot OF
snow and making every effort to re-
pair the thousands of dollars OF dam
age and restore lines OF communlca
tion and transportation. All suburb
an communities are cut Off from te'e
phone communication and this GRIP
pled condition extends Throughout
West Virginia, down the Ohio vale!
and into the eastern part of Ohio.
This morning there was only one
lame Western Union wire west to
Chicago and one east as far as Al
toona, The Postal Telegraph com
pany had nothing it could depend on
to remain standing, and all business
was taken subject to delay.
Throughout the city this morning
in almost every direction was vista
of fallen trees, stalled trolley cars
and picturesque enlargement ol
broken telegraph and telephone wires
covered with snow and ice.
Every available lineman of botf
telephone and telegraph companies
is pushed to his endurance to restore
normal conditions, but representatives
of the companies say it will be days
before they will recover from the ef
fects of the storm.
Hits Buffalo Today.
Buffalo. N. Y, Nov. 10.-The biz
zard that has gripped the middle wes'
for "a hours, arrived here early today
The city awoke to face seventy mile
an hour gale that drove in clouds o.
snow and sleet. Trains from the
storm center west of here came IL
covered with ice and from three tt
seven hours late,
TeIegraphic Service Suffers.
Chicago, ILL.,, Nov. 1O.-Telegrapi
service in certain sections OF the
country is demoralized as result o
Yesterdays storm. The damage tt
the property of the telegraph compa
MES is estimated at several hundred
thousand dollars. The most serious
condition was reported from Ohio ant
PENNSYLVANIA, which were swept by d
wind and sleet storm that carried
down hundreds of miles of wires.
Damage done by a tremendous sur
along the Lake Shore. driven IN by
the fifty mile gale, is estimated a.
hundreds of thousand of dollars dur
ing the past "a hours it was ascertain
ed. Two deaths were reported mere
Antonio Supsuys and an unidentified
man were blown into the Chicago riv
er at different points and drowned.
The schooner c. J. Buys, laden witt
lumber, which was in distress late
Yesterday, off the harbor, rode out the
gale in safety and was towed in today
by tugs.
Killed Two in Snow Storm.
Peru. Ind, Nov. 10.-The mangled
bodies of Harry Smith. aged 29, ant
Otto Laudrum, 22, We're found in the
snow along the Pennsylvania railroad
Just east of McGrawsville today. 1t is
presumed that while walking on the
track in a binding snowstorm. the!
were struck by train.
Trains Marooned.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Nov 10.-Fron
Wheeling, w. Va, reports of stalled
trains are coming in. A Pennsylvania
train which left Bellaire, Ohio, for this
city at $50 this morning, plunged in
to a snow drift, near Martins Ferry
Ohio. Several hundred passengers are
reported maroOned.
The entire northern part of Wes,
Virginia is under a blanket of snow
eighteen inches deep.
The southwestern part of Pennsyl
yania is almost in like condition. In
Washington county all schools have
been suspended.
Grant Southworth, telephone line
man, aged 25, was found dead at the
foot of a pole. He had been frozen
He was sent out on repair work last
night.
Through trains and the mails are
being pushed through with great eff
fort and all are running hours late.
The local weather report was fol
continued SHOWS today and tomorrow
with high winds.
Steamer In Distress.
Houghton, Mich, Nov. 10-CaptaiI
Tucker and the Eagle Harbor Life
saving crew were compelled shortly
after midnight to abandon a desperate
attempt to reach an unidentified steam
er which lies stranded on Gull Rock
Manitou Island, off Keweenaw Point il
Lake Superior.
Freiehter Ashore.
Detroit, Mich, Nov. 10.-Harbol
Beach reported the 6O0foot freightel
ID. o. Mills, of Cleveland, driven ashore
Just outside of the breakwater ant
pounding hard.
Four Reported Killed.
Detroit, Mich, Nov. 10.-It was re
ported this afternoon that four meI
had been killed today in a wreck OF