The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-02-15
OLD BOREAS.
A Snow Storm Such Has Never
Before Been Kown in
this Section.
Fully Fifteen Inches on q
Level, and Drifts in Town
from Three to Seven
Feet Deep.

All tho Trains Delayed Many
Hours, and None Sent North
or South Yesterday.
YESTERDAY wss Q good time 10 interview
he "oidest inhabitant providing You
"a end him. When 6sda!iane avoke
;, =; er,lsy mor sing and found fully twelve
u zee Of the beautiful in their door
~ =. and il still coming down RAPIDLY,
ii - wei not q little sstounded, end quite
. pumhes OF, jictsd that . snow 81 ,rm VS.
.ureiy in order. About o'clock FRIDAY
morning it first Commenced falling, and
kept il up Continually until bstwsen and |
4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. At which time
il ceased. There vss theo bsswsen Eileen
and eiehtssn inches on the level, while IN
certain places it bod driftsd to depth Of
from
THREE 10 aEvEK FEET.
The early PEDESTRIAN had not little dif-
6eulty in blowing his way sloss the side
waiks on any Of the principal thorough
fares, and females we're compelled 10 kssp
within doors entirely. Those 1ho hsd
business down town lest no time in treus-
acting il. while those Who had not remained
Quietly as home and toasted their shias By
the Gre.
Vehicles, too, were rsmarkab!y scarce.
A elsnes up and down Ohio sirsst revealed
nothing Of this character during the earl,
part Of the day, and yer. fen we're notice.
able durins the sftesnoon. On Nsia and
Ohio strests there were moantains Of snow,
and the squin- would have had as
much difficulty in making hss1wsy Q.
would the pedestrians.
Az carly % seven o'clock the clerks in
tho stores commences
sHovHLIHG THE eSOw
from in front Of thsir respective places OF
business, but il vas no ANAL tssk, and
many of them retired in disgust, a!ter hav-
Ing made pathway wide enough to permit
one individual to pass along. At noon IL
still came down, and people began to Won
der whether It would ever "lst uP." When
il did cssss there was general rejoicins, and
eli we're willing 10 admit that the author
Of beautiful Snow" VA . srasd freud.
A BAzoo reporter called on several oil
Sedslia's oldest inhabitants to ascertain il
they had ever witnessed Q siOrm OF such
magnitude in this section, and the unlver-
ssl reply was, mo, inesed." The nesrest
approach the BAzoo can call TO mind was
ia January, 1873. On that occasion
II COMMENCED SHOWING
on Tuesday, the 2lst, and continued up to
and throughout Wednesday night. II i'm
peSed travel on the NJ. X. & 7. road so
that no trains arrived from Wednesday,
the I'D, until Saturday night, the 18th,
and then they were pushed through By the
almost superhuman exertions OF all the
rosd's employee, whs worked day and
night to secure the result. But that storm
does not begin to compare with the present,
which seems to have been general through
ont the entire west, ard has almost done
away With railroad travel on some Of the
roads. OF course the lines weet Of Kaneas
City will suffer TO the greatest extent, ba:
our home roads come in for their share.
OF THE MISSOURI PACIFIC
main line ell trains have been delayed
more or less. o. Tuesday night No. 4, the
eastward bound passenger. vas one hour
and one-half late. and yesterday mornings
westward bound passenger Wa three hours
late. 1t pulled out from here and cent as
tar 20 knobnosfer. when il stuck in the
snow, but subsequently, WAS released and
reached Little Blue, where the afternoon
and evening were spent, and Kansas City
wss not reached until 9:1S p. m. No. l.
due at 40 yesterday afternoon, Gid not
arrive until lois lss, night, in charge OF
Conductor Hopkins, and after taxing sup
Ter at the Garrison bouse, proceeded on o.
far west ~ kuohnosier, where Nos. Z snd
we're lying, having encountered . hall
mile stretch Of snow Eve feet deep. Nos. ?
and 4 arrived here ct 2 .. m, having been
extricsted from the drift BY the aid Of one
Of the sompany's consolidated engines, aud
large force OF extra worknsn, who were
r. pit busy shovslipg Cor several hour.
THE LEXINGTON BRANCH.
Nerrifsld's train on the branch vent out
ON time Friday afternoon and got into
Lexington something after II O'CLOCK
q, re than an hour late. He started on
LIS return trip yesterday morning and got
a. far % H,gginsville, or oOs-hsif mile
vest, and il unable to proceed in either d.
rection. Manh's train lief, here yesterday
morning and get - far - HughesviIIe
tank. Here heavy drift was encountered
and no further progress cosld Be made.
Yesterday afternoon An engine va sent
out to relieve The train. and il, too. stock
and there are nov three dead engines IN
the branch. Another engine will b ssnt
out tbis morning, and il ie expected every
thing will b in working order some time
during the day.
KANsAs AND TEXAS DIvIGOR.
The train that should have arrived yes
tsrtlay morning came south - far % Mo-
bsrly and vas there abandoned. The ore
due st $50 yesterday afternoon made - tar
- Boonvills, bat VS. unable to proceed
farther.
The north bound train, due 1t . o'clock
yesterday morning, 10 living ct point near
0rsen Ridge, and worknen and engines are
busy clearing the track. The evening
train was abandoned.
A special will 20 south this' morning 1t
2 O'Clock, and the regular train will Isave
for the north on time.
THE g., vas.
There was no trains in or out o. this
road yesterday. A train will 90 out this
morning, though, and sndss.or TO get
through to Wanaw. The snow il reported
% very deep m some places, ano il Eill be
quite an undertaking, bat the attempt will
be made.
LATER.
At 2 o'clock this morning the two east
bound and one west-bound passenger trains
were still ut Knobnoster, and there ie no
saying when they will reach Sedalis. Ev-
cry possible effort 10 being put forth TO
clear the track, and everything will b. in
the usual running order some time during
the day.
STORM NOTES
The first snow fel, ia 81. Louis Satur.
day morning at O'Clock.
The delivery wagons snd the butcher
how vent SLOW for once. YcsterdaN.