Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-25
NUMBER 345.
BOREAL BLASTS.

The Ice King of the North on a Rampage
in the East and South-A Wall of Frost
Bitten Noses, Delayed Railroad Trains,
Etc.
AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-The extremely cold
weather of the past few days has made an nm
usually quiet Christmas season on the streets.
Trains have been delayed as much as twelve
hours on some of the roads, and freights have
III some cases been laid up entirely. Instead
OF being rem owed by time the embargo on
railroad travel seems to be more rigid. the
severity of the colo and the constant drifting
OF the snow proving more serious obstacles
than before.
AT CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 24.-The polar wave is
decided success here this morning. The Their
mometer stands at zero and there are several
inches of snow the ground
AT BUFFALO.
BUFFALO, Dec. 24.-It is still showing and
drifting badly and all trains are DELAYED.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 24.-The storm of snow
and wind continues. Railroad travel is seri-
ousiy interrupted in all directions. There are
now at this point 100 cars of cattle, 100 cars of
hogs, and thirty cars of sheep. Intense cold
prevented local dealers from removing pur-
chases made Monday.
AT ST. LOUIS.
ST.. LOUIS, Dec. 24.-The ice gorge at Csron-
dolet last evening held fast and at II o'clock
this morning came to standstill in the har-
Dor. The river is now practically closed from
st. Paul to Cairo. To-day is the coolest of the
season, the mercury marking eight degrees be-
low zero at o'clock this morning.
ATLIrrLE ROCK, ARK.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Dec. 24.-To-day has
been the coolest of the At 6 O'Clock
this morning the thermometer stood at thirty.
AT MILWAUKEE.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Dec. 24.-The tempera-
ture the past two days ranged from to
degrees below zero. very high wind
prevailed the most of the time, maximum
velocity forty-fve miles per hour. Nearly all
the railroads entering here report trouble from
snow drifts. Officials of the st. Paul road say
tonight their road is again clear and trains
running about on time. The Milwaukee diyi-
sion of the Northwestern road probably suffered
more from drifts than the other roads. The
passenger train from Chicago. due here at noon,
did not arrive until P. NJ. The road is now
clear of drifts, however, and by tomorrow
trains will probably be running on time.
AT DETROIT.
DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 24.-The weather in
this section has for the last few days been ex-
tremely cold, tine thermometer falling as low as
below zero. Snow has also fallen in large
quantities Trains on nearly all the roads cen
tering in this city delayed last night. The
Michigan Central road was blockaded west of
Kalamazoo. There were no trains over the To-
ledo Ann Arbor railway on account of heavy
drifts between Ann Arbor and Dundee.
AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-Reports from points in
the Northwest show the cold is widespread, the
thermometer ranging from zero to 80 below.
The coolest weather was west of Sioux City. In
the city the range has been from to 10 below
for two days.
AT LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 24.-The weather seems to
be getting colder. At daybreak the thermom-
eter was below At noon it was 10 degrees
above; at IL Tonight it is only above.
Al KANSAS CITY.
ST. Louis, Dec. pa Kansas City dispatch
says the weather for the past week has been
the severest known in that region for twenty
while the mercury has been several degrees be-
low zero. The Missouri river has been closed
for weeks, and ice a foot thick. The entire
transportation overland is now transacted by
sleighs.
To-DAY's WEATHER.
WASHINGTON, Dec. %, / A. M.-Indications for
upper Mississippi and lower Mississippi val
leys, northwest winds, falling barometer,
slightly warmer and clear weather. For the
lake region, westerly winds. diminishing and
backing to southwesterly, stationary or higher
temperature, partly cloudy weather, with
numerous light SHOWS.