The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-01-20
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| Dubuque Special to The Chicago Tribune.l
Il The IoHn diyisiDH Of the Illinois Central
railroad was opened lust night ti,ro1eh To
Sioux City, and a train on the DUBUQUE and
Southwestern railroad to-day effeeted an
opening to Cedar Rapids. The Cedar Falls
and Minnesota branch of the Illinois Central
Is still badly blocked, with no prospect of
| being open for long time. Between Water
| loo and Wayerly, d distance Of eighteen miles,
gang Of men have been working day and
| night for the last three days, and have not
yet reached Waverly, encountering drifts 500
to 900 feet in length by from five to fifteen
| feet 10 depth. 1t is expected it will take two
days to open the line this distance. A gang
OF forty men began work shoveling from
Moua south three days ago, and have not
yet reached st. Ansgar, seven miles distant.
The Des Moines Valley train from the
south arrived this evening ut Fort Dodge,
the first since Monday. The road is now
announced to be open through to Des
Moines. II
Two small boys were found frozen to
death near Spring Valley, Iowa. @fset
| The Central railroad Of iowa is blocked
with snow between AckIey and Northwood,
and will not be open for several days. 1t Is
open part Of the way from Ackley to Mar
shall. A train started south this evening to
try to reach Marshaltown. ------.-.-.
South Of this point the road is all block
AIDED, and there is no saying when it will be
open. '@
In Minnesota the snow Is from five to six
feet In the cuts from Manknto to st. Paul.
The Sioux City and st. Paul Railroad Com
pany think Aey will have the road open in
ten days. One passenger train is now at
Sibey, another at St. James, and two freight
trains at Sheldon. 1t is expected to have
the road from Sibley to Lemars open to-
morrow.
Near Washington, Mimi, two teams were
found frozen, with one Of the drivers so
badly frozen that he cannot live. The other
cannot be found. The body of an unknown
man was also found frozen to death at
Nicolet.
A. .. Jenkins, foreman of the Ohio Bridge
Company's yard. was frozen to death while
riding in hack from Sibley to Rock Rapids.
The other inmates escaped with slight in
juries.
Fuel supplies are running short on the
line Of the Illinois Central west of Dubuque.
1t is stated there is not weeks supply of
wood in Manchester, and there is no coal to
speak of. The public school has been obliged
to suspend for want of fuel. As the roads
are drifted badly it is feared there will be
much suffering before wood can be brought
in.
A St. Paul dispatch says the great storm
of the past week resulted in good many
fatal casualties in that State. 1t was entirely
unprecedented in its severity, and was so
binding that persons persisted within few
rods Of succor, If they had known In what
direction to go. Three brothers, Charles,
Michael Holden, each with two-horse teams,
started for Whitman with wheat OIL Tuesday
They were found on Friday about ten miles
out, two of the O'Neils and one of the Hol-
dens frozen to death in the sleighs. The
others were alive, but will scarcely survive.
Five OK teams in the same vicinity were
found frozen to death, and the drivers are
supposed to have abandoned them and Pc
rishcd. .....
\ man was frozen to death by losing his
| way while going from the depot to the tank.
| house at Herman station, on the st. Paul and
Pacific railroad
4 schoolboy near New Ulm undertook t.
20 home, but lost his way, and his body was
found eight miles distant.
a man was found yesterday near St. Pc
| tiers, frozen stiff.
| y good many other cases will undoubtedly
| be heard of. The wind blew the snow so il
| was impossible to see foot in advance, and
| the storm came so sudden that il caught
persons out, and they persisted because they
| were unable to find their way home.