The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-01-07
r,rur GREAT STORM.

The New L ear "sAS
oost tremendous storm Of wind and snow
.,oomnanied with the most intense cold
Known for years. The storm extended all
o,,ar the Northwest to the Rocky Mountains
and to the Gulf Of Mexico.
Below, we give telegraphic Dispatches from
the Chicago Tribune, showing the effects oil
the storm and the intensity Of the cold at va
rions points in Wisconsin, Minnesota Iowa.
Missouri. Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky.
MANSON. Wis, Jan. 2, 1864
,..--,tro e+or,n of wind and snow set III
here Wednesday night, lasting all day lhuIs
5av-completely bIockading the railroads -
Inv nyaces on the Milwaukee & Prairie
dn Cbien Railroad the drifts were from - to
"a feet deep, and packed III 80 hard that 1t re
oujred to be shoveled out before trains could
mass. The passenger train which lett here
Thursday afternoon for Prairie du Chen got
buried in a drift at Aveua, and was not got
out until this evening. Two engines belong
ing to the train were badly damaged Trains
on the east end were also bockaded, none get
ting through since Wednesday. Consequent
" we are without our usual mails since
Wednesday The thermometer staudlng'yes
terday morning at Z o'clock, at "a degrees
below zero. This morning 1t IS reported at
80 degrees, and at the Harvey Hospital the
mercury CONCEALED. The oldest settlers say
it is the coolest weather they ever experience
ed in this State There was a great deal OF
suffering at camp Randall and Harvey Hospl-
tai Yesterday, and last night their supply OF
wood was exhausted and large number OF
soldiers were badly frozen 1t IS reported
that one soldier, who was put IN irons for some
misdemeauor was frozen to death. | can trace
the rulnor to no reliable source, however, and
think it is unfounded
The State officers are to be sworn in by
Chief Justice Dixon. The Assembly cham
Der, in the evening" will be thrown open, and
Governor Lewis and his brother officers will
be present to receive their friends.
MILWAUKEE,, jan, g. 1854.
The weather for the past forty-eight hours
has been perfectly diabolical, and business is
in consequence almost suspen died. The ther-
mometer has ranged from thirty to thirty-hVe
degrees below zero. with driving wind most
terrible to encounter. Frozen ears, noses and
feet are innumerable, and many persons were
yesterday picked up inSenslble on the streets.
Ears and feet were frozen while going but a
few blocks Many employees Of the railroads
were badly frozen and crippled for life. No
trains have arrived or departed yet in any di-
rection. In fact, we are completely frozen i'll
and must wait patiently for deliyerance,
though there is but little abatement as yet.
GREEN BAY, Wis. Jan. 3, 1864-7 p. III.
Arrangements have been made to put an
other large party at work early tomorrow
morning, to finish the Job Of opening the road
to Appleton which will probably be complet-
ed and trains running before night-possibly
by noon The thermometer has ranged dur
ing the day at about twelve degrees below
zero.
OsKOsH, Wis, Jan. 3.
We have had three days of the most Sc
we're weather that ever swept over the North
west Tie storm opened on Thursday with
a cold, driving snow. Friday morning the
mercury had fallen to the almost iacreIjbLe
degree If Hstrty-ejgbt bs!010 zero, Ftbrenbeit.-
On Saturday morning it was thirty-six below
zero At this time Sunday p. M it is eight
below zero. No trains have arrived at this
station on the Chicago & North western Rail
way since Thursday noon but will probably
get through tonight.
The only casualties we hear Of is that Of a
woman being frozen to death while driving a
team between Berlin and Rosendale, Winnie
bago county. There are many cases OF fro
zen hands and feet and smaller members On
Friday night the dwelling house of VIM. Fow
Ter, in this city. took fire and was entirely de
stroyed. One child was badly frozen. Mr..
Fowler and his wife were absent.
ST. PAUL, Jan. 3. 1864.
The last three days have been the coolest
known for years. The highest range Of the
mercury during that time has been 10 degrees
below zero, and most Of the time it was be-
tween twenty and thirty below. 1t was 30
degrees below zero at 8 o'clock this morning,
and SO during the night. The army register
Thermometer at Fort Smelling, which is on a
high bleak bluff, marked 80 1ei9g zero yester-
day. A register which has been kept since
that fort was established in 1921, shows that
this degree Of cold has been reached but twice
during that time.
Several fatal cases of freezing have occur
red, and any quantity of nips.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, Jan. ), 1864,
No trains have come to or departed from
this city i'll any direction since Wednesday
evening. On Wednesday night the wind blew
gale, and piled the snow on the tracks Of
the DubuQe u Sioux City Railroad, Dubuque
& Northwestern Railroad, and the Illinois
Central Railroad. On Thursday it continued
to blow with the thermometer at 10 degrees
below zero.
All the regular trains started, but were
obliged to come back, and here and at Dun
leith they have remained. On Friday the Their
mometcr stood at 80 degrees below zero at 7
o'clock A. NJ, and was between Is and "a de
grees below all day. At p VI. it stood at
rs degrees below zero.
To-day the weather has been less cold
the Thermometer averaging 10 degrees below
zero. All business is stagnated. As yet we
have heard of no loss of life, though a few
cases Of extreme suffering occurred. West of
here the cold is said to have been more III
tense and it will be miraculous if some per
SONS have not died on the Praires.
RocKFoRD, ILL.,, Jan. 3, 1864.
The most severe storm since 1886 has been
raging here since Wednesday, commencing
with heavy tall Of snow about midnight. Ii
was quickly followed 10y terrible wind the
thermometer falling before morning to thirty
three degrees below zero. The snow and
wind continued till after dark the snow drift
ing badly, the thermometer varying but little
from 80 degrees below zero.
On Friday the wind blew a perfect gale all
day. 1t was intensely cold, and it ~ as i'm
possible for man or beast to stop out but a
Lt" minutes 1T d lliilt' II - reported Llat
one man was frozen to death, and several so
badly frost bitten in the extremetes that
they will have to have feet and hands ampu-
tated. The first train since Thursday morn
ing passed here at 7 P. III. last night. The
main line Of the Galeua road is now open
from freeport to Giiberts Station, and will
probably be through to-day.
One lady passenger, while storm bound al
Belvidere, was attacked wich dptheria, anc
died last night few minutes after her arriv
val here.
Business has been nearly suspended on &C
count Of the roads being impossible and tn,
intense cold.
GALENA. jan >, 1864.
The weather IS excessively cold, the mer
curry ranging from twenty-five to thirty three
degrees below zero The gale subsidized OIL