Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-11-19
CLEVELAND UNABLE
To BURY DEAD
coovdrifts Block Streets-Fam-
inc Threatens.
200 ARE STALLED ON TRAIN
r,ur I7terurban Cars Blocked Near
City and Aid Is oiven-Typhoid
Epidemic Feared Owing to
Condition of Water.

Cleveland, o., Nov 13.-This city
5orss for a speedy cessation of the diff
emlffog that have beset it since the
.rors+ snowstorm in it's history struck
rbs city sunday night, when an aver
age of "A inches of snow fell. Fair and
warmer weather was predicted Tues
day.
A assumption of the blizzard would
eBr OFT the arrival of food to relieve
the scarcity the city now faces. Rain
would produce flood conditions.
Asa result of the disturbed state of
Lake Erie the drinking water has
turned 10 the color of coffee and warn
ings we're issued by the health depart
meut to prevent a typhoid epidemic
by boiling the water.
The total number of dead was in
creased to five, when John Richmond,
aged ifty-eight, was crushed to death
when the roof of his house collapsed
beneath the weight Of SHOW, and Will
liam Gombert died in a snowdrift.
The work of cleaning the city was
aided by a period of snOwless wealth
pr. Fifteen hundred workmen sue
ceeded in clearing the tracks of IA
CITY street car line. In the meantime
telegraph and telephone companies
cleared away a large part of the
wreckage resulting from the destruc-
ton of telephone poles, and estab-
llshed a few connections with neigh
boring cities The work of rehabilita-
ton so far has revealed that the vor-
tex of the blizzard was limited to an
area of some fifty miles around Cleve-
land
The hospitals are greatly handi-
capped. Some have experienced a
lack of proper food and others have
had to do with candle light, as cleo
uic lighting was cut off by the biz
zard Three hundred passengers are
reported marooned in four interurban
cars at Gates Mills, near here. Re-
lief parties are on the way to them,
but are encountering huge drifts and
are greatly delayed.
Not until the snow clears away will
the police be able to solve the mys-
terry of numerous disappearance re-
ported to them.
A Nickel Plate train consisting OF
30 carloads Of hogs and chickens is
stalled in West Cleveland. The stock
is freezing.
The schools were closed. Business
men and factory owners estimated the
loss il business to wholesale and re
tail companies at many millions Of
dollars A great part of the citizens
are unable to leave their homes, ant
few venture downtown.
The streets are impossible for wag
ons, and undertakers are unable to re
move the bodies of persons who have
died since the breaking of the storm
The bodies of seven persons who have
died at City hospital since Sunday
night have not yet been removed t.
moTgues, several more are being helC
at the city's correction farm, and ever
private funerals cannot be held as thu
bodies cannot be taken to the GENE
ferries.
Many bakeries closed because o
lack Of power, and unless coal trains
can reach the city the supply of brea'
may soon become exhausted.
No Improvement in the milk situa
ton has been effected and an actua
milk famine has been caused because
the companies are unable to make de
Everics of the milk on hand or to Oh
tain ANY more from dairies in the sur
rounding territory.
An average of "a inches of snow fel
during he storm and snowdrifts have
piled as high as 20 feet.