Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1881-03-17
ANOTHER GREAT STORM
In the Northwest. Trains Everywhere
Blockaded

CHICAGO, March "a light snow
has been falling throughout the day
and aided by fresh wind has served to
continue the disastrous effects Of the
great Storm of Wednesday and yester-
day, Railroads entering here, especial
" those from the north and west, are
still practically showed up and trains
if running at all, are very irregular.
Street cars move slowly with four
horses, and in the country public high
ways are INSTRUCTED by huge drifts,
rendering traffic impracticable. Re
ceipts of grain in the city during the
past "a hours were only eight cars.
There are nine trains stuck between
Hyde Park and Kensington, IT miles
south of here, and five engines togeth-
err do not suffice to break the blockade.
The cattle and hogs from five OF these
trains were unloaded last night on the
prairie and driven across to the stock
yards.
At Waukegap, Illinois, the public
schools are closed, owing to the storm.
Drifts in the streets are up to second
stories, and it is still showing.
AT Libertyville, Ills, it has been
showing sixtysix hours, and Liber-
tyville passenger train on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul railway has
been showed in since Wednesday
Snow is falling as fast as ever.
1t is reported from Freeport, Ills, that
forty cars of stock are shut up i'll snow banks
west of there, near Elroy, ON the Central
Three engines and gang of sixty shovelers
went to their relief, but were themselye
blockaded in and are unable to return.
A dispatch from Omaha says that no trains
have arrived from the east since yesterday
morning. The wind is high, and cuts are
drifting full. The Annie Pixley "Mliss'
party, booked for Omaha tonight, have not
been heard from, and are probably showed
in at Rock Island. The storm is not so Sc
we're along the Union Pacific. At Madison
Wis, where the storm was the heaviest,
there was prospect tonight Of clearing off,
but no prospect of trains running for several
days
A dispatch from Clinton Iowa, says there
is hardly wheel moving on the North
western railroad from Chicago to Council
Bluffs. The wind fills the cuts as fast as
plows and shovels can clear them.
A Dubuque. Iowa dispatch says Except
by way of Lacrosse, all railroad COM
munication is cut of, and notrains are likely
to reach the city tonight from any direction.
The only redeeming feature of the storm is
the mildness Of temperature. Were the
cold intense suffering would be severe and
life jeopardized. The supply of hard coal
is exhausted and wood has been substituted
Reports Of q like tenor come from all
parts of northern Illinois, Wisconsin and
northern Iowa, Nebraska, southern Min
nesota and northern Michigan Railroad
companies are the worst sufferers. They
hardly know where to begin the effort to
break up the blockade. Milwaukee reports
continuance of the storm in Wisconsin il a
modified form. In that city there is danger
OF a coal famine Milk sells at % cents a
quart. and 80 cents dozen goes begging
for eggs.
OMAHA March 4 No trains arrived here
from Chicago to-day, owing to the snow
blockade, except delayed train over the
Chicago, Burlington aud Quincy road, which
left Chicago On Wednesday evening. No
trains left here for Chicago to-day. The
Union Pacific is open and trains are running
on the main line. There is trouble on the
branches. The b. 4 NJ main line in
Nebraska ia open, but the branches are
abandoned. Other Nebraska railroads are
having trouble. A high wind has been
Blowing all day, and the snow has driftod
considerably.
PHILADELPHIA, March 5%-Harrisbure
reports that five regiments from the western
part of Pennsylvania on the way to the
Inauguration We're detained there all night,
and only left between and . this morning.
Snow continued round about Harrisburg
during the day.
CLAREMoUNT, N. II. March o.
This place has its severest storm Of
the season, which showssiyns of abate-
ment.
MILES CIry, Dakota, March 5.-On
the I'd inst, Tongue river broke up
and gorged two miles above this city.
The water there took south westerly
direction and flooded the city to the
depth of three feet. Families at once
began moving co place of safety on
the bluffs, where they were furnished
with tens and other nccessaries by the
commanding officer at Fora Keoch
The water fell last night. Partially
successful attempts were made to blow
up the gorges, but two vets remain and
The city is sill threatened. Much in
convenience and discomfort has already
resulted, bu' no serious damage has
been done yet
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WArcHMAkna.- III. J. Requa wishes I,
inform the pc ple of this place and vioinit,
that he is located nest door 10 Geo. Glass
boot and shoe store, on Main street and (;