Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-02-13
4 Heavy Snow storm

CHICAGO, Feb. 9.-RepOrts from
Western and Northwestern points
Indicate that the heaviest snow
storm Of the season is prevailing
in those localities. Trains are de.
layed in every direction, and in
some places were abandoned on ac-
count Of the severity Of the storm.
The heavy snow which began last
night in Chicago did not cease
until tonight. 1t caused great
Inconvenience to street and rail
road travel. 1t is four degrees
above zero tonight here. 1t was
showing today all along the lake
region from Chicago to Buffalo,
and raining in the Ohio valley.
The storm was very widespread.
In Iowa it was very severe, and
on the Wabash and Rock Island
railroads trains were blockaded. .
a blizzard ragged in the southern
part of Minnesota. A northwestern
train was blockaded near Dixon,
! III. At Paxton, Ill.,, the public
schools had to be closed. At
jackson, Mich, the snow was three
feet deep on the level. County
roadsin Wisconsin were impossible
and freight trains we're abandoned.
There was a blizzard at Jackson.
Vile, ILL.,, accompanied by thunder
and lightning. At jackson, Miss,
the thermometer dropped 3S de-
gees in twelve hours. A dis.
patch from Bloomington, Ills, says
the indianapolis, Lake Erie and
| the Middle Division of the Illinois
Central tonight abandoned all
trains on account of the storm.
An accident occurred on the
! Milwaukee and Northern Railroad
this afternoon four miles south of
Green Bay, Wis. a delayed
freight train was run into by a
snow pillow, smashing the cabOOse.
The accident was due to the blind.
ing snow storm. j. a. Annas, of
Depre, had a leg broken and ra-
ceived internal injuries. He will
probably die. w. j. Bates, pub
Usher of the Sunday Advance, of
Green Bay, was hurt, bat not
seriously.
AS thorough a blockade on the
railroads has not been experienced
I'm Chicago for years No trains
passenger or freight-have gone
out today or tonight on the follow
ing roads: Grand Trunk, Kankakee
Line, Chicago and Eastern Illinois,
Baltimore and Ohio, Louisville,
New Albany and Chicago, Pan
Handle, Michigan Central, Chicago
and Alton, Wabash, anG the Iowa
Division of the Illinois Central
The roads have been hiring every
idle man who cotld be found during
the day to 20 out on the lines to
shovel snow. Tho Burlington,
Alton and st. Paul Roads alone
sent out a thousand men.
Even under favorable circum-
stances managers Of railroads say
they cannot expect to get back to
schedule time before two or three
days, and if thesnow continues to
drift it will be q week Or more
! The loss to the roads in business
and the cost Of clearing their tracks
will be something enormous
! Special efforts are being made TO
bring ia stock trains. several en-
gines being used. The telegraph
wires are working heavily in every
| direction. In Manitoba and Da!
.Ikotao Sunday night'thc lhiebcury
reached from 81 TOLL degrees bs-
,owlzero.o This cold WAVE Is said
to be moving eastward ,oa ..l
At Wabash, Indiana, tho Storm
His al TIA worst tonight Trains "oii
1rhe' Northern Division" bfnltlie
Oinoinnati, Wabash and Michigan
Road are abandoned. The north
bound passenger train strgck iq .
diff at Granger, and an ongihe
\ sent to its relief Jared likewise.
Another train is in the sno$Iseyen
miles from Benton Harbor, The
temperature il, falling, through the
IL DEDAR RAPIDS, To-, Feb. y,
1 Cedar Rapids, for the tine being,
| is shut off from the outsldeworld
by the SNOW blockade. All trains
\ have been abdnlohed. '"rhe wealth
or is intensely coldg'UIdlthe wind
is blowing furiously. The mercury
was 20 above zero0at noon, Z belor
at @ o'clock, iSudatdhR, NJ liz be-
low, with aaowaWagdi teRdencNoel