FURIOUS BLIZZARD IN AMERICA.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1905, 13 November 1913, Page 7

FURIOUS BLIZZARD IN AMERICA.

SHIPPING DISASTERS ON THE • GREAT LAKES.

A RECORD HURRICANE.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Now York, November 11. Tile heavy storms that swept over several of tho States did a great amount of damage. Cleveland (Ohio) Is buried beneath several feet of snow, and the streets are filled with broken •,vires, which threaten deatli by eloctrjcution to passers-by. The loss of property is estimated at £80Q,000. Tho food shortage is keen, tho railways being unablo to transport supplies owing to being blocked b? snow.

Tho steamer Garmer has been stranded, and the captain and twenty sailors are in danger of drowning.

WRECKED ON LAKE SUPERIOR. Ottawa, November 11. A steel freighter capsized in Lake Superior during a gale. It is believed that the crew were drowned. Forty are reported to ,have been on lioard the steamer.

(Rec. November 12, 10.55 p.m.) Ottawa, Novembor 12. Five bodies, with life-belts marked ''Wexford," have been found on the' beach nea'r Saint Joseph's, Ontario. They havo evidently belonged to the capsized freighter.. A number of other wrecks have been reported on the Great Lakes, and the storm, which constitutes a record for violence, still "continues. The steamer Waldo was wrecked, and twenty-five porsons, including two women, were rescued after great hardships. The crew of another wrecked vessel, the Turret Cliff, reached tho shore half clothed, and spent twenty-four hours in the bitter cold before they obtained relief!

On the lightship South, six men were drowned. •