The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-16
Here and There
Echoes of the
1913 BIizGard

Rensselaer, reports 81 degrees below
zero last Saturday by the government
thermometer al 81. Joseph's college.
one child was burned to death at
SchorervflIe on Saturday because OF an
overheated stove in the absence of TIA
mother.
Jacob Schloer. the veteran Hammond
shoe dealer. says that the last storm to
compare with the one Just over was III
1854 when his store was destroyed by
fire
The Mississippi river at Paducah. Ky,
is frozen over for the first time in its.
history and the poor are sleeping in the
city buildings
Chicago is anxiously awaiting a train
OF anthracite coal which has been snow
bound near Hammond since last Friday.
Reports by phone from Dyer and 81
Johns today TO THE TINES show that
the blizzard has tied UP the farmers
and that the oldest or them has never
seen its equal.
In Lafayette Yesterday municipal
wagons in charge Of police officers Wis
tied homes and removed coal for the
use of the people suffering from want
OF fuel. The first homo visited was
that of a county court Judge. The homes
OF wealthy residents were visited.
Theatres. saloons. poolrooms and un-
necessary places where light and heat
are used have been closed up at lndl-
annapolis until further notice.
Coal movements, stimulated TO meet
past shortages. have prevented railroads
from returning empty cars to the mines,
as a result of future shipments, eveU in
favorable weather. will be seriously re
stficted
Victoria Holash. 4566 Walsh avenue,
East Chicago. walked from Indiana Har-
Dor to East Chicago last Saturday and
was found in an unconscious condition
by Editor J. J. Freeman and saved from
death by being taken into his home
East Chicaso's parochiaI schools have
been given an indefinite vacation. Only
IS children out of the 500 enrolled show
cd UP on Monday.
The experiences had By Dr. and MFs.
T. 5. sauer and sons Of Indiana Harbor
in returning by auto from Pontiac.
Mich, 10 ne 1Iarbor by way of Ham
mond on Monday we're frightru'
Mail from the cast IS beginning 10
come in to the Hammond postofice. but
southern mail is sull tied up.
The 0Ionon Is experiencing terrible
work in getting through the cuts near
ST John and Dyer where the drifts are
from Il % i feet deep.
Movement of coal III and around Chi
cago is rapidly approaching normal But
storm conditions have demoralized
movements from the mines in the
southern and central parts Of the state.
John. Ross and Chester Grice, three
Mulberry. Ind. brothers. called to dy
ing brothers bedside at Lafayette. have
not been heard from since they started
OH horseback. 1t is believed they are
lost in huge snow drift.
In and around Chicago there are 150,-
eco men out of work and the situation
a. far as fuel at the factories is con
cerned is about as serious as can be
imagined.
Even big newspapers have their trou-
bles. Eleven car loads of news print
are stalled somewhere in Lake county
for the Chicago Tribune. which is burn
ing up wire in an effort to locate the
stock.
Pennsy wanna tram, NhlSA tell CHl-
cago on Friday night. got out Of Porter
county yesterday and 500 passengers
were kept BY tie company at hotels and
boarding houses in Valparaiso.
Live stock in all parts OF the county
suffered from the cold and many val
uablc cows. and horses as well as num-
bers Of hogs and sheep were reported
a. having frozen to death The weather
has been fierce for horses and some
terrible cases Of brutality has been re-
ported to THE TIMES and are being
investigated.
in order TO save cattle that were
peristinE in the yards so Michigan City
penitentiary prisoners worked Like
heroes TO save them and made no at
tempt TO escape.