Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-24
THE STORM BELT.
The Northwest Visited by Heavy
Snow and Wind StOrns-Se-
Verest Of the Season.
Railroad Movements Seriously Re-
tarded-The Storm Continues
with Unabated Fury.
Residents Of the Suburbs Of Chi.
cagO Unable to Reach Their
HOmes-Business Para
lived.
From Toledo.

From Toledo.
TOLEDO, OHIO, January 23.-The most
violent snOWstorm of the season set in
from the northeast this morning, and at
dark continues unabated.
From Cincinnati.
| CINCINNATI, January 23.-Snow fell
and then it commenced raining this
evening, and continued at intervals
during the evening. The snow is dis
appearing rapidly.
FROM indianapolis.
INDIANAPOLIS, January pa severe
snowstorm has prevailed here since last
night at midnight, and is showing quite
briskly to-day at eleven o'clock. 1t is
now fully twelve inches deep. Trains
roads.
From So. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, January 23.-The snow
storm which began here last night still
continues, and is the severest of the sea-
son. There is about six inches of snow
on the ground. A high wind prevails,
and if the snow was dry it would drift
badly. Mercury 380.
From Milwaukee.
MILWAUKEE, January "a terrible
snow and wind storm commenced here
about four O'Clock this afternoon, with a
prospect of continuing all night. Re
ports from st. Paul and Minneapolis in
dicate another cold snap, but no snow.
AT Unicon a storm is brewing and the
weather is cold. At MeGregor it
is cloudy, showing and blowing,
and blocking up the road beyond.
MILWAUKEE, January 23.-The storm
is still raging here and west to the Mis-
sissippi river, but does not extend into
Minnesota yet. No trains will leave
here for the West tonight, and trains
on all the roads are considerably de-
layed.
From Chicago.
CHICAGO, January 23.-The terrible
snow-storm which commenced here ear
ly this morning, continued all day and
till ten o'clock tonight, with unabated
violence. Snow fell to depth of prob
ably ten inches on level, but a furious
northeast wind has drifted it so that it
is difficult to tell the exact depth at this
hour, half past ten o'clock this even
ing. The snow has about ceased, and
the wind is abating in violence. No
trains left the city on any of the rail-
roads tonight, and hundreds of busi-
ness men living in suburban villages,
are snOw-bound in the city. The street
railroads have run a limited number of
cars all day with four horses TO each.
Reports from the South and South
west, East and West, show that the
storm has been even more severe in
those sections than here, and appears to
have extended itself to comparatively
short distance in the North and North
west.
On the Chicago and Northwestern
railroad snow is reported not to be
heavy between here and Oshkosh; and,
though no trains left here to-
night on that railroad, the trains
running between Oshkosh and Fort
Howard. The Milwaukee and st. Paul
railroad reports no snow on the road for
one hundred miles west of Milwaukee.
Burlington and Keokuk reports it snow
ing heavily all day and drifting badly;
trains ON all the railroads have been
abandoned. Omaha reports very cold
and windy, but clear. There is no
snow on the Illinois Central railroad.
The storm extends from Chicago to Cai-
70. There are ten or twelve inches of
snow, and it is drifting badly. On the
Michigan Southern railroad trains are
reported moving, but the snow is deep
and drifting badly. Along the line
of the Michigan Central railroad the
storm extended beyond Jackson, at
which point the snow is reported foot
deep on a level. Throughout central
Illinois the storm has ragged for the past
thirty hours and all the reads are block
AIDED. No trains have arrived at or left
Springfield since this morning on
any road and snow lies fifteen inches
deep. Jacksonville, Illinois, is reported
in similar condition of affairs. A train
on the Southeastern railroad is snow
bound and completely buried some miles
from Jacksonville. At Peoria a storm
ragged with terrible fury. Trains on all
the railroads are abandoned. Sew
eral trains on the Toledo, Peoria and
Wabash railroad are snOw-bound at
Fairburg, but fortunately the
cold has not been at all severe. The
thermometer here stood at twenty-one
degrees above zero all day. The amount
of suffering from the storm is not likely
to be great.