The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-03-05

CHICAGO. March 3 Another heavy snow
storm i reported 10 hc prevailing through
ont the Northwest, extending from this CITY
10 Dakota. and moving eastward. 1t reached
here about midnight. and the very high
wind was accompanied by driving sIeOi.
If there is any meaning in the phrase the
"worSt storm al the season. used 80 re-
peatedly this winter, il applies truthiully 10
the present one. Ii i, impossible TO get al
how much snow has really fallen, - II has
rested in 10 TWO places alike. In Wi,c0n-
,in. Iowa. ard Illinois, where the railroads
have not recovered from the storm Of sat
urday aud SUNDAY, il is feared the present
snow will prevent travel for week. There
is most hopeless blockade OF the Traffic in
this city, and the incoming trains his
morning were DELAYED seven 10 eight
hours. Two triiEs on the Illinois Cen
ilal road are showed in between here
ana KcuSin@tOD, Illinois, and the Chi
cago. Milwaukee and =. Paul railroad has
been Obliged to abandon all it, trains be-
tween Chicago and Milwaukee until the
cessation of the Storm. Of which At present
there is Bot the slightest indicllion. Trains
on tie Chicago. Burlington aud Quincy
road, in addition TO the snow, are delayed
by the burning OF The station al Gal, Sbur@,
which involves n loss Of $4,000. Nothing
Ike The present storm has been seen IN Cai-
cagO this winter. The snow is falling and
drifting 30 fast that all efforts TO keep the
sidewalks paS>able TO pedestrians has been
abandoned, and they plunge along through
drifts with difficulty. tpto noon no trains
arrived this morning from the West, and
only TWO from the EaS'.
Milwaukee reports: The railroad block
ade Throughout Wisconsin i more complete
than at any time during the winter, and
railrOad.meu say that the track. will be
much harder 10 clear this time than before.
The Chicago. Milwaukee and -. Paul rail-
road has suspended all is trains" Elk
horn. Wi>.. SAYS: "NeVcr before has the
work of SnoW-piOW> seemed more futile,
aS the tracks are covered ia some places
for hundreds OF yards with water and
snow. 50 that shoycls are the only means
available to bail ont the sluSh." Dubuque,
Iowa, reports: a furious storm is raging,
iusuring another railroad blockade, during
which no trains can be eXpccrt d, as those
west and east were all abandoned las night"
4 dispatch from Sioux City says: "The
present storm j. particularly dl>cOura9ing.
Snow has been blown by the wind 80 that II
has filed all the tracks leading to the city.
An the roads within 200 miles east, north,
and west OF Sioux City are bockaded, some
II them since NeW-Iear'> day"
At nightial there was no apparent abate-
mcnt Of the storm, and the streets were
almost de,crtcd. except by snoW-pIows,
which are kept moving in order 10 keep the
tracks clear for Tomorrow. Dispatches
from Western Iowa note The cessation OF
the storm there. but in Wisconsin and III.
= Ia oh ssf.
ency. \ special from Elgln, H., sum
marizc> the situation thus: NO trains; no
mails: 10 Chicago papers; no business \
special from Madison. Wis. speaking OF the
Siorm, SAYS: Nothing Ike it has eyer been
known in hi, section. About three feet Of
snow has fallen, and the drifts are from six
teen To- eighteen feet high"
Al 10 o'clock tonight the force Of the
storm n this city was about spent, although
ligbt SnOW continued to fail. No mail have
been received from or sent to the North
west from the pO>t.oficc to-day, all trains
going in that direction or coming being
crippled or abandoned. The latter is the
state oi the trains on The Chicago. MilWau-
kte and -. Paul, the Chicago and North
western, and the Chicago, Burlington, and
Quincy road. Nearly all The trains on the
eastern roads are badly delayed, and those
on the Michigan Central have been aban-
doned, and none has been sent out since
morning. The loss by the storm TO this city
i'm the slOppage OF trains and detention Of
business il estimated at S2j0,000. The
State street branch of the North Division
Street car system was abandoned during The
day, and only few cGlS were run ON the
other lines, the horses being concentrated
nj the SnOW-plOWs. The most nOrtherly
point from Which report Of the snow
comes j. La Crosse, Wi>.. where it began
last night and continued the greater part Of
to-day.
A special to the Inter. Ocean from st.
Paul, MIMI, says "The Fort Dodge train
on The Minneapolis and 81. Louis road to-
day was suspended. This division OF the
road is buried beneath the snow from. Forest
City to Fort Dodge" a dispatch TO the
same paper from Watertown, Wis, says
bushes. il entirely suspended there on ac'
count OF the storm, and II il continues all
night reople will not be able 10 leave their
houses in the mOrbiag. The main streets
are lined with drifts from II TO 20 feet deep.
At McattoOn, H., the storm i reported 10
be increasing in force. At s =. NJ. the
storm at Fou du Lac, Wis, showed no signs
Of abating, and had then continued for
neSry thirty hours.
MILWAUKEE,, WIS, March 3.-Tbere was
another heavy snow storm last night. The
blizzard Is general throughout the southern
bali OF Wisconsin. North of Stevens
PoinL, .n the centre Of the State, the snow
'ali has been less heavy. All the railroad
raius are suspended and side etracked where
hey happen 10 reach way. stations. The
Chicago mai is stuck at Racine. No effort
sill be tuadc to get trains OUT Of Milwaukee
o.day. Some lines in his State will be
llockaded week. Ii is the worst storm OF
he season. The telegsaph'wlres are ak
igbt.
The storm. which began last night at |
'cl0ck, was general all over Wisconsin,. Ii
as ragged without a @Oments cessation, !
nd Is the heaviest snowfail ever known in |
WISCONSIN and the Northwest Reports |
rom all the talegtaphc points 10 Wisconsin |
how that the sDOM is from ahrce 10 six feet |
L The Ieyei, and drifts are reported cover
X houses, tele9rapb.p0cS, trains, dc. A
u patch 10 the Daity Bepubtieqa states that
ieFe IN great Inconvenience in aI places in
btainiDg food aud fuel, 9nd in soRe places
,tual suffering. Not u single railroad train
running in the entire State, eyeiS line
sing lffeetpally bl0ckaded and all bgisi-
sss suspended. No attempt TO clear the
acks vii. b9 made until after the ssofr1