Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-01
TRAINS NARROWED
BY RISING WATERS;
MANY WIRES DOWN
Ohio Valley Faces Flood
Danger Missouri and Hi
nois Hard Hit = Tornado
Sweeps Through Dakotas

CHICAGO, March 80. = March
prepared to ride out of the middle
west like the proverbial lion follow
ing general storms of Friday night
and Saturday extending from the
Ohio to the Mississippi valleys,
which cost upwards of a score of
lives, injuries to more than 100, and
| property damage estimated at hun
dreds of thousands of dollats, while
the upper Ohio valley faced the
danger of a flood.
Dead in the storm included eight
killed Friday night in a tronado at
Shawnee, Okla, four known dead
in southeastern Missouri as the re-
suit of windstorm and reports that
four others had persisted, a boy
killed by lightning in Kansas, two
flood casualties at Pittsburg, three
men reported killed when railroad
bridge at Cumberland, Md, col
| lapsed after being inundated by
flood water and four trainmen re-
ported killed when a freight train
went through bridge weakened by
high water near Newark, Ohio
Damage Is Widespread
The storm in various sections as,
sumed the proportions of a lorna
do and elsewhere manifested itself
by driving snow and hail. High
winds with falling temperatures
marked its progress.
Damage was widespread wherever
the storm struck. In southeastern
Missouri livestock valued at thou
sands of dollars was killed while
three little towns in Kentucky were
reported totally destroyed by a.
wind storm.
Alton, ILL.,. estimated wind and
rain had damaged the city $150,00o
while reports of heavy property loss
came from many cities in Arkan
sas. Damage to crops was feared in
| some sections of South Dakota and
Minnesota because of the low tenn
peratures. With the flood stage ex-
pected throughout the upper Ohio
valley, indications were that proper
ty damage there might be heavy
before another "a hours.
| The storm played havoc with wire
| communication facilities, some sec
tons of the northwest being virtu-
ally cut off for time with the OUT
side world as the result of terrific
sleet storm there. The Associated
Press again resorted to radio to
maintain for a time with Minneapo-
lis, st. Paul and other northwest
cities. st. Paul reported itself al
most showed under tonight as the
result of blizzard driven by a sixty
mile gale which piled the snow in
huge drifts.
In the northwest, billiards., sleet
and snow with sub-freezing tempera-
lures contrasted with the thunder-
storms and the flood conditions fur
Their south. Train service to the
northwest was delayed by the snow
and many trains arriving in Chicago
from the west were late
In Chicago lightning struck sky
scraper in the downtown business
district during the violent rain and
hail storm today. knocking a flag
staff to the street, while pedestrians
ran Tor cover The hail storm was
driven by 45-mile an hour wind.
DakOtas Tornado Swept
! Southeastern South Dakota. iso-
lated by storm which crippled com
munication in the whole eastern half
of state Saturday, was brought into
touch with the outside world again
shortly after noon when the Asso-
ciated Press, broadcasting news from
stations WAAW md WOAW al
Omaha and the broadcasting station
of the Norfolk, Neb, Daily News
gave to it's member papers at Yank-
ton and Sioux Falls, S. D., enough
news to enable them to publish their
regular editions.
The sleet and wind storm which
swept the eastern half of South Da-
kota Friday night did damage esti-
mated al several hundred thousand
| dollars. One thousand telephone
| poles were down in the vicinity OF
Sioux Falls and railroad officials
said it might be a week before wire
facilities were resotred. Train serv-
ice was less interrupted
Reports today from Aberdeen
said northern South Dakota was
being swept by a high northwest
wind and Pierre reported inches OF
snow. Mitchell, Huron and Yankton
reported the storm was continuing
and the temperature falling.
continued to rise tonight with no
sign Of abating. More than half the
city was inundated and hundreds Of
persons, unable to reach their homes
before the waters flooded the office
buildings in which they worked,
were marooned in these structures
in the downtown section. Power
lines were down and the city was
in darkness.
The first report Of casualties came
from persons marooned in a. river
front building. They reported that
when the Western Maryland bridge
collapsed three men went down with
it. A number of casualties were re
ported from the town of McCoole.
ten miles up the Potomac.
Potomac ClOgged
The rise of the waters here was
so rapid that automobiles were
abandoned in the streets and resi-
dents fled from their homes with no
thought Of furniture and personal
belongings. Observers reported the
Potomac clogged with debris and
merchandise, and number of
houses swept away.
When it became evident that the
flood would reach record heights. =
number of business concerns dis
missed employees. Many others re-
NAMED at work and during the aft
ernoon when they attempted TO
leave they found the streets flooded
and water creeping into the first
floors
A few men ventured out in skiffs
but their efforts to remove some of
those marooned were of no avail
The current caught their boats and