Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-11
SNOW MOUNTAINS HIGH
COUNTLESS TRAINS STUCK FAST
IN THE WEST,

AIDED Passengers-A Night of Horror on
an Island in Lake NIichigan-The
Thermometer Way Down Below the
Zero Point.
! CHICAGO. Feb. 10,-The mercury fell
rapidly after midnight, and reports from
all Western points indicate clear and cold
weather. In this city, at O'Clock this
morning, the Signal service reported the
| temperature at IA degrees below zero,
Omaha II degrees below, Kansas City IA
degrees below, st. Paul 80 degrees below,
| Dubuque 26 degrees below, and Fargo 30
| degrees below.
LIVE STOCK SUFFERING.
Owing to the storm trains laden with
live stock are delayed on nearly all the
roads. aud there is more or less confusion
! in the yards. At the Western avenue en-
! trance to the yards on the st. Paul Road
SO cars loaded with hogs, sheep and cattle
were blocked up from Sunday night until
| last night, though a force of 100 men
and Is locomotives were working and tug
! glng all day yesterday to extrioe8e a tram.
On the Burlington Road 25 cars of stock
were reported showed in about 40 miles
| from the city, but at the station the ac-
| commOdatiOns for animals were ample,
and no suffering among them is antici-
pated.
At ChenOa junction, on the Burlington
Road, passenger and freight cars were
! delayed, and nine engines worked trying
| TO dislOdge seven cars of stock buried in
| a huge snow drift.
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
road delivered 100 cars of live stock at the
| yards yesterday. A train of twenty-seven
cars were brought in by thirteen lOcomO-
! tives. On the Rock Island Road 1O3 cars
! were hlOPKad a uar do
hours, as were also few belonging to
! the Illinois Central.
! The Wabash people had little trouble
with stock trains. Roads leaving their
| yards refused to take stock. The pens
were not crowded, and the animals, after
they were unlOaded, were easily made
comfortable.
SEVERAL ACCIDENTS.
Many minor accidents are reported in
this vicinity last night. The O'Clock
| Milwaukee express on the Northwestern
Railway, pulled by two engines, ran into
a kenOsha train at Indiana street. Both
engines were badly wrecked, but nobody
was injured. The road was blocked for
| some time.
The Northwestern train, which left
| Chicago at 1870 O'Clock this morning
| pulled by two engines, ran into the rear
end of a Lake Forest train at Highland
Park.
A Waukesha train, which was dUe IN
| Chicago at 4:30 O'Clock yesterday Ger
noon, stuck fast at Evanston, and after
an hours work was helped out by a Mil
waukee train. The two came on to Chi
cagO together pulled by three engines. At
Eastern avenue it ran into an engine
standing on the track. The four engines
were somewhat damaged, and the trains
stuck fast under the viaduct. The car
| loads of passengers remained, and at a
late hour had little prospect of getting
out.
A passenger train over the Chicago and
Alton Railway, which left here at IL 30
O'Clock last night, having on board
number of members of the Illinois Legis-
lature is snOw-bOund at Braceville with
uncertainty as to the time when the train
can get cleared again.
CHICAGO THE CENTRE.
Chicago seems to have been the centre
OF the snow area, and for distance of
about sixty miles in every direction it has
fallen to great depths and is drifting
badly. Most of it was very moist when
it fell, which makes it very heavy and as
hard to handle almost as sand haV-
ing since fallen been frozen hard and
ground almost to powder by drifting. 1t
IS next to impossible for men to work,
and about as difficult to keep steam up in
the engines. From every direction re-
ports come of engines dead" and side
tracked.
The Chicago and Alton Road sent out
no trains to-day, nor did any come in.
The track is blocked at Braceville by a
tram in the snow which left here yester-
day.
The Baltimore and Ohio Road has run
no trains since sunday. 1t has three
trains blockaded near South Chicago.
The Nickel Plate Road sent out one
train to-day.
The Louisville, New Albany and Chi
cago Road is completely blOckaded.
The kankakee line is blockaded be-
tween kankakee and st. Anne.
The Panhandle had no trains either iE
or out to-day.
The Northwestern Road sent out no
through trains, and its consolidated sub
urban train is blockaded at the city
limits.
NOT WHEEL TURNED.
The Danville route has not turned a
wheel today.
Three trains arrived from two to eight
hours late on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The Chicago division of the Rock Island
Road is in fair working order.
The Baltimore and Ohio Road is blocked
by train at Haskell, Ind, and it's track
is invisible most of the way to Valparaiso.
The Wabash Road has been out of busi-
ness since yesterday.
The Michigan Central Railroad had one
train IN late to-day, and sent its usual
trains out this afternoon and evening.
way train on the Burlington Railroad
left at noon, and when heard from to-
night was progressing slowly. No trains |
arrived over this route.
The Chicago and Atlantic Railroad is
blocked.
The Lake Shore Railroad seems to have |
c1 ffprn6 loco ho fIoO ;&c
are moving nearly on time.
Suburban trains in every direction are
moving slowly, but many persons fear to |
FISK night in the cars and remain in the |
city.
The cattle at the stock yards are suffer- |
ing intensely from cold. Many stock |
trains are showed in on various roads.
At 3 O'Clock this afternoon the ther- I
mometer here was IA degrees below zero. |
This was the highest point of the day. At |
O'Clock tonight it was 10 degrees below |
zero, and at 10:30 O'Clock tonight it was |
"a degrees below zero.
The weather began to moderate at II |
O'Clock tonight, and at midnight had |
risen two degrees to two below zero.
GALENA's HISTORY ECLIPsED.
Specials furnish the following storm |
news: At Galena the blockade is the |
worst known for several wears. On the |
Road passenger train is off the track, |
and in drifts near Lake Wells several |
freight trains are showed in.
A Eau CLAIRE, Wis, dispatch saws that |
the thermometer indicated 30 degrees be- |
low zero this morning, and at La Sale, |
ILL.,, at the same time it was % below. |
Within 10 miles of StreatOr, ILL.,, there are |
dozen dead engines. Not a single train |
has arrived on any of the five roads run |
ming through that place.
ESCAPED THE STORM.
SIOUX CITY, IA, Feb. 10.-Southern |
Dakota and Northern Nebraska lines |
were not affected by the storm, and trains |
are running as usual.
81 BELOW ZERO.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, Feb. 10.-This morn |
ing the thermometer indicated % degrees |
below zero in the lower city, and on the |
bluffs it was 81 degrees below. Most of |
the trains on the roads running into the |
city are abandoned, and those which are |
not are way behind. On the Illinois Gen. |
trail Road train got through.
From Waterloo to Sioux City trains were |
all abandoned. 1t will take three davs /
to open it. Trains left for Chicago and |
Cairo this morning. On the Chicago, Mil |
waukee and st. Paul (river division the |
trains are running behind time. West |
of McGregor trains are abandoned. The /
cold has continued all day, and q bitter
north wind has made it severe.
THE COLD AT PITTsBURG.
PITTsBURG, PA, Feb. 1O.-The cold |
wave struck Pittsburg early this morning |
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