The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-05
and
GALE EXACT
HEAVY TOLL
wires Impaired, Crops
Damaged and Flood
Danger Increased.
fRy United Pressi

chicago, April 5.-The middle
vs.t was showed in today under
..veral feet of snow with tele-
graphic and telephone communi-
cation badly crippled. crops dam
sred and floods threatening, as a
result Of a freak blizzard which
svept mid-western states yester-
day.
Chicago was wrapped in a 40
mile blizzard from early yesterday
TO late last night. Every raildroad
reported trains several hours late.
Because of the switchmen's strike
here, many trains running west
ward we're more than twelve hours
behind schedule.
Easter was featured in this Sec
Aticn OF the country Yesterday with
Neliardy winds. The millions ex-
pended on Easter finery were kept
indoors.
Huge snowdrifts piled in the
| steets and on elevated roads. and
DELAYED street car service. Today
lodging houses were secured and
every idle man put to work clean
ig streets. Normal traffic was ex-
pected to be resumed during the
day,
|. c. Hardest Hit.
The storm lit the Irlinoic Cen
tral railroad hardest. Five thou
sand suburbanites were marooned
at The station here early today be-
cause Of inability to get.-a train.
The storm caused many short
circuits, and several parts of the
city and many hundred homes
were using candle light.
Chicago suffered less than other
sections Of the middle west, ac-
cordhg to reports.
Dispatches from Kansas, Mis-
souri, Nebraska, Northern Okla
homa and Ohio stated heavy snow
Tails and near zero temperatures,
Kansas City and st. Louis report
ed danger Of floods in valleys and
bottom lands, due to the expected
fupd rise in streams and rivers
zen the temperature rises.
yThe blizzard originated in Texas
and, spreading out over the CEN
tral states, wrought havoc with all
communication.
Four.foot Fall in Gary.
Gary, Ind, was buried under
iuor feet of snow today. Many
trains bound for Chicago were
forced to halt several miles from
stations and discharge their pas.
sengers.
Fall OF snow was reported al
springfield, Ill. More snow fell
here yesterday than in winter
0mnths.
While damage to crops in Kan.
sas and other states is reported. il
was believed not extensive. Michi.
saa iruit growers say their apples
ana a peach trees were untouched
Inc storm continued northeast ant
was expected to reach the Atlantic
coast today.
Fruit Crops Damaged.
Kansas City, Mo-, April 5.-Tht
.i,nour blizzard, ending Sunday
.oasy had extended to fruit crop.
N okiahoma, Kansas, Missouri ant
Neolsska. The storm left wire.
paiaiyzed and ain and street ca,
ssrslee demoralized. Kansas per
cp Ssps Was the hardest hit, Junction
y reporting a two-foot snowfall
y salina with Is inches.
.v.or cars were stalled through
Wv -. missouri, Oklahoma and Kan
~: ~. There was one accident. ]. F
.user' ...u' Salina motor car dealer
,. .,eo on the Missouri Pacifi,
Nv hs.as in Saint. and was strucl
al passenger train which ventur
;n;.. ,olsa IN the storm. Olinger wa,
iSis ,SS,afed. es The train was indiscern
i'ls 80 feet away.
an sNons biting wind, breakin,
san, '.oords for Easter weather
Cl,.t .ne mercury down in northern
r,ss.' raaoma' all of Kansas and tn,
orsska. VI -''Ssour' ana ne
cuis. vas :. predicted tod-.y that
4. ss thaw will cause a food il
ri,e, ',uvSy a Hill and Republican
t valleys in Kansas.