Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-11
CLEVELAND IN GRIP
OF TERRIFIC STORM
Streets Filled With Tangled
Wire and Property Loss
Is Heavy.
DEATH ON LAND AND SEA.
AS RESULT OF BLIZZARD
Thousands Suffering for Food,
Steel Freighter Wrecked, Forty
Sailors Drown.

CLEVELAND. Ohio, November II. =
Cleveland is buried under twenty -on'
inches of snow. It's streets are filled witt
a tangled mass of broken and twisted
wires and thousands upon thousands OF
Its inhabitants are in imminent danger
OF suffering for lack of food. Three per-
sons have been killed, ten are missing
and are believed to have been frozen tc
death and great steamship is stranded
on the beach, its captain and twenty-five
sailors waiting for the death that may
come al any moment because OF thu
mountainous seas rolling in from Lake
Erie.
II is still showing. and unless the storm
which has continued since last sunday
soon abates no one can tell what the
ultimate toll in dollars and lives may pc
The loss is already estimated at s.,
Oco.0G,. half of which will fall upon the
telephone and telegraph companies No.
mai conditions cannot be restored within
a week. and if thaw should come, fol-
lowed by the inevitable flood, the whole
lake country will suffer severely.
Conditions Grow Worse.
Conditions have been growing worse
since Monday night, when half o. the
city was plunged into darkness; the
lighting plant being blown down by the
gale. This morning at least one-half OF
the street car service was out OF com
mission. no less than 1900 trolley. tele-
graph and telephone poles withih the
civ limits had been blown down.
So complete was the paralysis of trans
portation facilities it was deemed best to
let the dead lie in the places We're they
had died, and no funerals VIII De heio
until the storm has abateo.
There has been no delivery OF groceries,.
bread mix or coal since Saturday, and
the suffering in consequence cannot De
definitely learned. but it is widespread
There is a sufficient supply of gas. and
il is being used unsparingiy III places Mt
ted for it. at as many persons as pos
sible may be benefited.
Great Fear of Fire.
One of the greatest fears is from tire.
Already one fire mas done $loo,Ooo dam
age.
Difficulties encountered in subduing II
were such as to cause the authorities the
greatest apprehension should another nre
break out Every possible precaution Is
being taken by the exhausted iremen and
and policemen.
For davS the teiepn0Ne anu IcIcSiop ph
companies have been battling against tne
conditions that confront them and with
but little success The immense numpef
Of wires down and the loss OF so nidny
poles make the task OF compie,ing enea tes1
temporary repairs one OF the sredtess
magnitude. The phSSlcal eHort Ieduiieu
hy wcrk in the teeth o. the terrible stoI III
is another handicap. ,o,
Al 10 o'clock this morning glance
through the debris -strewn streets lea
1o the belief that days will pass be-
fore they can be cleared
Schools Are Closed.
All the schools of the city are closed.
ae danger attendant upon the pass
Of children through the streets
The unusual conditions surround
z them in the schoo.houses. many
which have been thrown open TO
. homeless, prompted the authorities
-lspend classes until the blizzard
.eS.
lie food shortage, felt Monday after.
IN. became more pronounced ahc
-eutenins this morning. There Is nc
TX to be had at any price, except IL
- obtained in the name OF suffering
uics. and other foods ,uffs are rapidly
icing to a premium where 1T IS pos
..inlc to find them Many families were
caught with little more than the fooo
supply required TO carry them over
SUNDAY, and there nave Deen 1t
shipments received since Saturday the
supply is rapidly being exhaus ed.
The hotels present scene or unGsud
activity. Many persons driven into the
city by the storm have taken shelter
where they could find it. Beds We're not
Ia be had for al OF them, and many art
sleeping on the floors without cot or Gov
cring. except such clothing as they hap
pen 10 have on them. The food supply
i'm the hotels and restaurants is also q
problem.
Helpless to Aid Sailors.
The steamer on the beach at the
mouth Of the Lorain harbor was later
learned 10 be the j. G. GARNER Capt
Burns. OF Buffalo. Life savers are
standing by, but are helpless to aid. be
cause OF the heavy seas.
Every possible effort is being made
TO bring some order out of the chaos
precipitated by the storm Help is beinp
given 10 the needy III every possibl,
instance, the authorities having the as
sistance OF such of the civic bodies as
can summon resources and of those
persons who can spare time from their
own wants 10 look after their less
fortunate neighbors.
Steel Freighter Bottom Up.
PORT HURON. Mich. November IL
When the tug Samia city returned thi
forenoon after an all-night watch over :
Dig steel freighter which lies upside dowl
In Lake Huron she brought M ipforma