The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-11-10
SOME LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED
Ohio and Pennsylvania and Ports
on Great Lakes Hard Hit
SNOW FALL IS UNPRECEDENTED

Chicago, Nov, lO.-Telegraph serv-
! ice in certain sections of the country
is demoralized today as the result of
| yesterdays storm The DAMAGE to
property Of telegraph companies is es-
! timated at several hundred thousand
! dollars. The most serious condition
| is reported in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
which were swept by severe wind
and sleet storm which carried down
many hundred miles OF wire.
Cleveland and YoungstoWns. Ohio,
have been cut off from telegraph
communication since Sunday after
noon. Nearly all the wires running
out of Pittsburgh are down. Com
mupica,iOns with New York and other
eastern cities has to be obtained by
detours of thousands of miles on
southern circuits. and this is frequent
iy Interrupted Wire service with
southern Canada is seriously inter
icrred with.
Damage Is Extensive,
n tremendous surf along the lake
shore. driven by a ffty-mile gale did
hundreds Of thousands of dollars
worth of damage on the water front
during the past twenty-four hours, it
was ascertalned today. Two hundred
thousand dollars worth Of breakwaters
made land. comprising the new Lin
coin park yacht barber. was under
mined and reduced to the condition of
an inundated flat.
Piers, sea walls and piling we're
washed away along the lake front.
During the day the surf subsidized some
what. but tremendous sea continued
out in the lake and few vessels left the
Chicago harbor At Milwaukee a thir-
ty thousand dollar breakwater, part of
the new harbor project, was destroyed (
and more than that amount of damage
was done to shipping.
Two men were blown into the Chi
caGo river at different points and |
drowned. The schooner, G. j. Buys, |
laden with lumber. which was in dis |
tress yesterday, rode out the gale and |
was safely towed into the harbor by |
tugs.
1t is stated at the local weather bu-
reau that considerable damage wgs
done by the storm along the north At
lantic coast, where wires were pros
trated and observation stations of the
bureau damaged. The center of the
storm moved from Lake Huron to Lake
Erie today, although Alpena, Michigan.
shared the siXtymle gale with Buffa-
10 and other lake ports. The storm is
temporarily over as far as the middle
west is concerned. according To fore
cast, but another one. not quite so
vigorous, from the same quarter in
British Columbia. is due next Wednes-
day.
Extraordinary Fall Of Snow
Pittsburgh. Pa. Nov, lO.--A snow
sleet and wind storm swept West Vir-
gina and q large portion of Ohio
ana western and northern Pennsyl-
iania yesterday. crippling all trans
Dortation and seriously retardirg wire
communication. The storm was un-
ibated this morning. The storm Is
l'bu'h Vilil NpNtIu lasiht tlIlts mere !
S extraordinary snowfall i'm Ohio
West Virginia and western Peunsyl-
'ania. Snow already is at depth OF
ell to sixteen inches and continues.
Thousands of miles of wires we're
poles broken and trees
'lown down. Train service was han
Iicapped and trolley lines over a wide
rea were almost out of commission.
only one fatality was recorded. Twice i.
IS much snow fell yesterday as ever
vas recorded by the local weather
ureau for the entire month. The rec
rds held for 80 years were broken.
he temperature dropped from IS TO 20 ! /.
egrees I'm less than fifteen hours
Wind Velocity Is Decreasing.
Detroit, Nov. 10.-The storm which q
wept Michigan and the great lakes all
esterday and last night subsidized to-
ay. and the weather forecasters said q
further decrease i'm the velocity of :
he wind would come before night. No
erious accidents to vessels are report
d. but the damage on the shore is
iany thousands.
Much Snow In Ohio,
Columbus O.. Nov. l0.--This state is
nder a blanket of snow. ranging in
epth from twenty inches along Lake
rie to eight inches in Ohio River sec :
ons. Cleveland continued cut off 81
'om wire and transportation facili- d
es. 4
Foot OF Snow In Pittsburgh. q
Pittsburgh. Pa, Nov. 1O.--This city v
under a fnnt Of snaur rho..na 8. IL. "a L 4.