308 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 
In St. Francis county the storm was not as severe as in 
Phelps county. Nevertheless the accumulation of ice on the 
branches and needles of the pine trees was so great that trees 
six inches and more in diameter were uprooted while others 
four inches in diameter were broken off like pipe stems as a 
result simply of the weight of the coating of ice. The uproot¬ 
ing of the trees was so universal in the pinery that teamsters 
going out with loads were obliged to carry axes to cut their way 
through the forest roads. Figures 1 and 2 show some of the 
uprooted pine trees. 
It was noticeable that in this vicinity the chief damage was 
to the pine .trees, the others escaping with here and there a 
broken limb. The deeper, more firmly rooted trees withstood 
the weight of the coat of ice better than the shallow rooted 
pines. 
In the vicinity of Holla the storm did the greatest damage. 
This appeared to he near the middle of the sleet covered belt 
which is known to have extended from Dixon to St. Clair sta¬ 
tions along the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad. Over 
this area everything was covered with a thick coating of ice. 
The storm which began on the 19th lasted into the night of 
the 20th. In the evening the weight of the ice became so 
great that limbs began to crack and break falling to the ground. 
All night long the stillness was broken by the continual snap 
of limbs followed by crashes as they fell to the ground. Tele¬ 
phone and telegraph poles were broken and wires crossed the 
streets in tangled masses. 
The morning of the 20th found the ground covered with a 
wreckage of branches, limbs, trees, poles and wires, such as had 
never been witnessed before in this region. The branches and 
ice fell during the day and people moving back and forth to 
town kept the open highways. Finally the weather moderated 
and the ice fell from the overhanging branches, leaving behind 
a most wonderful exhibition of the damage that may be accom¬ 
plished by a simple sleet storm of a day and a half duration. 
There were two other sleet storms during the winter, follow¬ 
ing the one here described and illustrated. One of them was 
not of sufficient duration to do any damage, but the other, which 
