![]() ![]() On a lighter note, the snow gave some who had harbored snowshoes or skis at home the opportunity to put them to use.Īnd in Winnetka, William V. When horses weren’t available, he walked three miles to Andersen’s home. He tried to get a taxi, but one couldn’t get near his home. Kelly couldn’t retrieve his car from his garage, though, since it was blocked by snow. Suffering from bronchial pneumonia, she desperately needed oxygen. Six-year-old Joan Andersen of Homewood was not as fortunate. The nearby, newly completed Shedd Aquarium opened its doors for the first time during the storm.Īn unlucky coyote, which wandered into the city seeking shelter from the storm, met its demise when a policeman responding to a woman’s call of “a mad dog” running in the street shot it. Roughly the same number of men were forced to spend the storm inside the Adler Planetarium when high waves made the causeway between it and the mainland impassable. Thirty-five students from Warren Township High School in Gurnee bound for their homes in Fox Lake and Lake Villa were hungry and scared, awaiting rescue in a farmhouse near Sand Lake when their bus became “snowbound in a gulley nearby,” according to the Tribune. Travelers on the roads were forced to seek refuge in farmhouses and barns on the outskirts of the city when their vehicles became marooned in ditches and drifts of snow. An estimated 5,000 men worked to clear ice and snow from the surface lines, which were hampered by hundreds of derailments - and caused some to suggest an underground system of rails would not suffer from the same delays due to weather. ![]()
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