The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13
BLIZZARD KILLS d
At CLEVELAND, 0.
City Cut eff From World
Famine Threatens.
STREETS BLOCKED BY RUINS
Many Perish on Vessels Wrecked by
Gale on the Great Lakes-Twenty-
Three Persons Saved
From the Waldo.

the world from Sunday until last
night, Cleveland is still struggling
with little success to recover from
the effects of the most disastrous bliz.
card in its history.
Ten are known to be dead, while
scores are injured and dozens missing.
Bodies have been left In the streets,
which are covered with II inches of
snow, as 1t is impossible to hold fu.
nerals.
Wires and poles have fallen in an
impenetrable mass all over the city,
half of which has been left in dark.
ness.
Trains, which could not operate at
all before, are moving >only slightly.
Few street car lines are open. Inter
urban lines are paralyzed Electric
light plants are shut down and the gas
pressure is failing.
.. Famine Threatens City.
Food is at a premium and famine
threatens the city unless streets can
be opened for deliveries, which are
impossible now. There is no milk to
be had at any price.
The property loss will run into mil
lions. Water pressure has failed and
the danger of fire is imminent. One
fire alone did $1,00O,00O in damage.
Many power plants have been shut
down to prevent confiagrations and
electrocutions from live wires which
are dangling everywhere.
Three hundred persons were impris-
oned in four interurban cars southeast
OF Cleveland towards Chardon, with
out food or drink or heat since Sunday
afternoon. The snow there is eight
feet deep. Scores of transients are
marooned in the city. s.....
Business at standstiIl.
All the city schools have been
closed. Many grocery stores were not
open. having exhausted their supplies.
Office buildings are dark and deserted
and business has come to an almost
complete standstill.
The snowfall, which had been con-
tinuous and heavy for 4S hours, let up
at three o'clock in the afternoon, and
the terrific gale has somewhat abated
Five Bodies Recovered.
London, Ontario, Nov. 12.-Five bod
les were found near ST. Josephs on
Lake Huron. Four had on life belts
marked Wexford" and one London"
1t supposed that the freighter that
sank in the blizzard was the Wexford.
Lightship Reported Wrecked.
Buffalo, N. Y, Nov. 12.-Lightship
No. 80, carrying crew of six persons,
and stationed in Lake Erie, off Point
Abino, fifteen miles west of this city.
is reported lost by incoming vessel
men, and Is believed to have foun-
dered during the recent storm.
Wreckage of the lightship foated
into Buffalo harbor and was picked up
on the beach at the foot of Michigan
street.
The ships crew consisted of the fol-
lowing: Hugh M. Williams, captain.
Manistee, Mich; Charles Butler. en-.
mate, Elyria, Ohio; William Jensen,
seaman, Muskegon. Mich; Peter
Mackey, cook, Buffalo
Steamer Upset; Forty Believed Lost
Port Huron, Mich, Nov. 12.-When
the tug Sarnia City returned after an
all-night watch over the big steel
freighter which lies upside down in
Lake Huron, it brought no additional
information as to the identity of the
unfortunate vessel, on which a crew
of about forty is supposed to have
persisted.
Many Ships Distress.
Detroit, Mich, Nov. 12s-There
seems little doubt that many sailors
have persisted in the storm on the
great lakes. A dozen or more stanch
freighters have been driven ashore,
one steamer capsized in the tremen-
dous seas and scores of other craft
have been driven to shelter in widely
scattered harbors.
Twenty-Three Saved From Ship.
Capt. j. w. Duddleson, his crew Of
II men and two women, were rescued
from the wrecked steamer l.. c. Waldo
on Gull Rock, Manitou island, and
brought into Houghton by the tug
Hebard, which had assisted the Port
age Lake and Eagle Harbor life saw
ing crews in the rescue.
None of the crew was injured. The
Waldo went on a reef at Gull Rock
and broke In two, after all Of her up
per works had been washed away and
the crew had been driven by the force
of the waves to take shelter forward
In the windlass room. where they hud-
died for three days and three nights
until rescued.
Fourteen Believed Drowned.
Port Huron, Mich, Nov. 12.-Four-
teen lives are reported to have been
lost when the steamer Northern
Queen went ashore on Kettle Point,
near Port Huron. Seven bodies have
been washed ashore. and seven more
are to be seen on the watery decks