, 1881-03-20

storm as having been one Of the most violent
| Of the winter. but. it had not been near as
he hat passed through, from the fact that
| there had not been as much ice. At the
| time he spoke, about 0 o'clock. the velocity
OF the wind was about twenty-five, miles an
what, but he said he felt perfectly safe, and
tertaincd no fears Of any difficulty with the
water-supp1y.
| THE RAILROADS. ,
To tell of the result of the storm, so far rs
the railroads were concerned, Is to repeat
| story that tho many bluckades OF this
Mllter have made almost ttresome.
| The storm was very general with
| the railroads, in the Northwest than
anywhere else, of course,-but the telegraph
| wires worked so very badly that it was ex-
| trelnely difficult to learn anything from dis
tant points On the various lines. Indeed, as
| a rule, the wires did not work at all. Many
| of them were down and the wet snow cling
| ing to the Wires acted like so much water,
making the transmission of u message almost
i,npossibl& The Illinois Central. for i'll
stl1icct hud not received single dispatch
about the @storm in the West at O'Clock yes
The Chicago Il Northwestern trains from
st. Paul and from the West were from one
| to three hours late yesterday morning. md,
t the storm growing much worse, no through
trains were sent out on the road list night;
even the St. Paul train had to lie down..
| The short trains were running on Irregular
time. The 5 O'Clock for Milwaukee left here
rs usual, and one was started from that city
to Chicago; Very little freiEhswas moving.
! only an short liauls.
| The through Rock Island train, due here
! at 3:45 yesterday afternoon, was held back
| several hours by the blockade Of a freight.
train at Mineral. H., about l5o miles west Of
| port fifty minutes late. The train due here
| from Omaha yesterday morning was only an
| hour and a half late. All tra4is were started
| out from Chicago rs usual, except that the
i'i!h'.Is Tho Iake sSoTeSS SsT " sliehisan Southern
complained more of the wires than Of the
snow. Tile morning train from New York,
however, was several hours late. meeting the
Chicago, and being delayed partly by. 4
wreck. Passenger-trains left here rs usnal.I
The morning train of the GhtcagDS Alton
from St. Louis was only about an hour late.
the same extent. Passcnger-trains left here
as on other days.
The Chicago and Milwaukee people said
yesterday afternoon that they had started
out their through traits a little behind tine
and with snow-plows ahead Of them. Ihe
| wires not working, their fate had not been
learned. Possibly they might be abandoned.
The incoming trains were not very late. and
the short trains would certainly continue to
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy train
that left here yesterday morning at 10 o'clock
got off the track at Lawlluale and had to be
abandoned. The passengers were brought
into town again and sent out on the train
which should have gone Mt II O'Clock, but
which, did not 20 until l. The incoming
trains were from one to two hours late.
The Illinois Central train from the South,
due ut 7::.o, was blocked at Tlirty-tirst street,
+he1p 1lJ1f1
cot,nodation trnin came along about 10
o'cIock and brought them to town OIL q
freight track which chanced to be clear. The
through train for Dubuque was abandoned,
and also the a:15 Hyde Park accommodation.
Otherwise, the passenger trains started out as
they lid the day before.
The Michigan Central trains coming into
Chicago were from one to three hours. late,
The $3.50 and 5:l5 trains for New York we're
"bunclled as one anu sent out at the latter
hour
haitian, about forty miles down, and the out
going noon train was tied up at Fortysl,inth
Street. The Incoming : o'clock morning
train was one hour late. and the incoming
.: 80 D. III. train had to tie up at Manhattan.
The Fort Wayne and the Baltimore l. Ohio
passenger trains were not delayed to any
considerable extent. But tho freights were
all out Of time.
BOB-sLEIGHs AND SNo1y-BALLS.
The owner of bob-slegh and a pair of
plugs was placed in the way of coming money
last night, though the pleasure and profit
were not unaloyed by pain. There was one
virtue in yesterdays SNOW; it made capital
snow.balls. There is no telling. why
it should have been thus, but the
tact reulains that the youthful pedestrian
seemed to conceive 4 violent antipathy to the
man who unable to ride home in his usual
s:reet-car, accepted the alternative Of a drive
in one Of the heavy bob-sleighs which
patrolled the main arteries of the city. At
every point those sleigh loads of passengers
We're made the targets of bands of snow
ballers, and as the average snow-ball Of yes
tertlay WIS of about the weight and con-
sistence OF Il baseball, the gauntlet they ran
was Of q decidedly unpleasant nature. 1t
was at the street-corners that the boys
gathered in greatest numbers, and the show
ers Of snow;balls WHICH fell at each OF the
crossroads Upon each sleigh load Of passen-
gers were wonderful. OF course the driver
was selected as the bulls-eye OF t'le targee,
but the passengers received their full share,
ami the hard knocks which some Of them
received showed that the joke, which was Of
such wide extent as to he above police SUPER
vision, was carried a trlfte too far.
"CLEAS YOUR SIDEWALKS"
superintendent MctarlHTleS lSSueu tue lO1-
lowing order to the Captains yesterday:
"Ilayc your men notify householters to
clean the sidewalks in front Of their PREM
ises."
This order came in good season, as the
slusl,y and slippery condition of THE side
walks which was so trying yesterday to foot
passengers bids fart last, unless the house
holders use unwonted energy, for several
days yet There is no other moisture SO
penetrating rs that which oozes forth from
the gathered mass Of such snow as fell yes
terday, and there is 10 road 50 hard to travel
as that which is overiadcn with all inch or
two of the sticky stuff. 1t will not be I'LL
easy iub to remove it, but perseverance, mus
Gle, and MI iron-bOund sIl0w-shoyel will
be found to work wonders. and it should be
remembered, Of course, that, i'll all emergcn-
cy like the present, where nearly the whole
cityis obliged to 60 afoot, a half hours ex-
erctse in opeil-air work, if it result clear
sidewalk, must bn considered by the best
regulated church organization us Il work OF
necessity, il not one Ut beneicence.
STREET DAMAGE.
THE storm does not appear to have been so