The Portland daily press., 1881-03-04
BURIED IN SNOW.
A Tremendous Snow Storm in the
Northwest. De-
TRAVEL IN WISCONSIN COMPLETELY
reiio SUSPENDED.
Great Distress Threatened in Remote
Districts.

MILWAUKEE, March 3.-There was heavy
snow storm last night. Trains on all the lines
have been suspended. t,
The storm which began last night was gen.
eral all over Wisconsin. 1t is the heaviest
snow storm ever known in the Northwest
The snow is from three to six feet on level
and drifts are reported covering houses, tele-
graph poles, trains, &c. Not a single railroad
train is running in the entire state. Every line
is effectually blocked. All business is sus-
pended and no attempt to clear tracks will be
made until after the storm ceases. and tonight
it is raging as bad as ever. Railway men esti-
mate that fully a week must elapse, even with
favorable weather, before trains can be resum-
cd regularly. Mails all over the state are
stopped, Telegraph wires continue to work to
waukee and throughout the state say that
nothing even approaching the present storm
has ever been known. 10
From almost every interior town come dis
patches announcing distress among the people
and stating that unless the storm ceases so that
supplies can be got in within few days there
will be great suffering and actual danger of
starvation among the people isolated from
neighbors aud assistance. t..s
In Milwaukee there is a genuine coal fam
inc. But little coal is in the city and il is i'm
possible for dealers to deliver. All business is
suspended. -
CHICAGO, March 3.-Another heavy snow
storm is reported throughout the northwest
extending from this city to Dakota, and NOV
ing eastward. 1t reached here about mid
night, and there was very high wind, accom-
panied by driving sleet. The railroad traffic
bad not recovered from the late blockade, and
will be again suspended. alo 81
1t is impossible to get at how much snow has
fallen as it is rep ed in no two places. alike In
Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois, where the rail-
ways have not recovered from the storm of
Saturday and Sunday, it is feared that the
present snow will interdict travel for a week.
There is hopeless blockade of traffic in Chi
cago, and incoming trains this morning were
delayed seven to eight hours. No trains on the
Illinois Central have moved in between Chi
cago and Kensington, Illinois, and the Chica-
go, Milwaukee and ST. Paul railroad is obliged
to detain all trains between Chicago and Mil
waukee until the storm has ceased The
railroad blockade throughout Wisconsin is
more complete than any time during the win
ter. From Dubuque come reports of furious
storm raging, insuring another railroad block
ade, during which no train can be expected, as
those west and east were all abandoned last
night. tsn ~. ma Il.
At nightfall there was no apparent abate-
ment of the storm. The streets are almost de-
serted except by snow-plows, which kept NOV
ing trying to keep the tracks clear.
Dispatches from Western Iowa note a cessa-
ton of the storm there, but in Wisconsin and
Illinois it continues with remarkably persis-
tency. ..--.. ANN .r.- lid '-7
A special from Elgin, ILL.,, summarizes the
situation thus: No trains, no mails, no Chi
cago papers, no business.
A Madison, Wis. special, speaking of the
storm says: Nothing like it has ever been
known in this section. About three feet of
snow has fallen and drifts are 16 to 10 feet
high, rat