Daily globe., 1881-02-02

MILWAUKEE, Feb. 1.-The snowfall Of
the past two days has bssn general and
heAvy throughout Wisconsin, and has
greatly impeded railroad business. In
fact, it has blockaded and more or less
delayed all trains on all the roads. Snow
plows are now running on ths Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul, the Wisconsin
Central, the Lake Shore & Western and
on all the lines generally. There Is less
trouble on the Chicago & Northwestern,
in the interior of tho State, and more on
the Lake Shore & Western, as compared
with other roads. Trains south Of Mil
waukee are Just getting on schedule
time, and north and west Of Milwaukee
everything will probably be clear by to.
morrow evening. The Chicago, Mnwau.
kee g. st. Paul lines in Minnesota are
badly blockaded. On the Hastings 8
Dakota division $50 men are at work
clearing the track, and on the Southern
Minnesota division 200 men are similarly
employed. The weather here is still
threatening. Freight trains on the
northern division OF the Wisconsin Cen
trail have been stopped entirely until the
track can be cleared. The freight aoou-
mutations on the Minnesota and Iowa di-
visions Of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul are very large.
TOLEDO, o., Feb. IA driving snow
storm, beginning yesterday and raging
uninterruptedly to-day, was almost un-
paralleled for its severity. The high.
keen wind drifted The snow badly and
made street travel exceedingly difficult
and trying, and railway trains were
greatly retarded.
CHICAGO, Feb. 1--All roads entering
the city brought in trains from two to
four hours late, and, in some cases, no
trains at all arrived. The mails are
greatly delayed, and freight trains are far
behind time Even suburban trains did
not arrive promptly. The delay is chiefly
the Lake Shore and Michigan Central
trains, and the cause is heavy driving
snow, which was carried on the tracks By
a lively wind. The street cars go only
with great difficulty.
SAN Francisco, Feb. lit began rain
ing in the central and northern parts of
the State again to-day. Floods in the
rivers abating very slowly. AtShasta up
to this afternoon there has fallen this
season the enormous quantity of eighty
one and forty -hundreths inches of rain,
and the damage in that section of the
State can't be approximated. In Klawath
del Norte, Trinity, and Siskyon counties,
the rainfall Is very heavy. All streams
in those counties are over their banks,
flooding the valleys, destroying farms,
carrying away every bridge across them,
and many sawmills and houses and much
grain and stock is lost. The property de-
stroyed is estimated up into the millions.
In Calusa county the rainfall was light,
but even in that county half a million
would not pay for the property destroyed.
The late storm is by far the most exten-
sive and destructive ever on the coast
since the whites. settled here. A large
part of the country flooded IS wheat
ground, and unless the water runs off
quickly there will be much smaller crop
in California the coming season than here
tofore counted on.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-The most severe
storm of the season prevails tonight. A
fine snow fell most of the day and still
continues, accompanied with high winds
The mercury has fallen rapidly the last
few hours, and at II o'clock marks four
above zero.
PETERSBURG, Va, Feb. 1.-The wealth
er to-day was intensely cold. followed by
heavy sleet. The streets and sidewalks
are thickly covered with ice, making
walking dangerous, while many trees in
the forest are broken and weighed down
by the sleet.
PouaHKEEPs1E, N. T., Feb. Heavy
north wind and cold increasing. The mer-
curry has dropped 10 degrees in three
hours and tonight is at zero and still
falling. All trains are behind time.
Laborers on the ice harvest have been
compelled to stop work, about thirty be-
Ing frostbitten.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 1.-The snow storm
which began here last night has oontin-
ued without stopping for twenty-four
hours and snow IS still falling The
thermometer at Q P. NJ marked 10 degrees
above zero.
DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 1.--There has
been heavy fall of snow throughout
the State Trains are delayed In every
direction.
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