The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-18
A BLIZZARD.
Winds Work in the Eastern
States.
THE RAILROADS BLOCKADED.
To Establish stock Yards-wrscks on
the Lske-yeterau League-On
the Turf-Other Notes.
A Blizzard.

ST. PAUL, November 17.-Snow began
falling early yesterday morning and
continued all day, though the fall was
light. After midnight last night, how
ever, genuine blizzard set in, and this
morning the people found the streets
and sidewalks badly blocked, so that
travel was next to impossible. Reports
indicate that the blizzard began in the
western part of the State. and swept
east and south through Wisconsin and
Iowa Railroad travel is greatly i'm
peded, and the street cars find IL almost
impossible TO run. The wind Is blowing
hard and drifting the snow. No such
storm has occurred so early in the sea-
son for years.
OMAHA, November I6.-The snow
storm which began yesterday morning
continued all day and night and Is still
in progress This afternoon about one
foot Of snow has fallen. 1t has been
blowing a blizzard since the early morn
ing and every railroad is more or less
blockaded. The only trains that ar
rived to-day were the Chicago 81 Rock
Island and Kansas City trains. No
other trains were in or out. travel is en-
! tirely suspended. The storm Is general
throughout Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado
DRsTER, Col. November 1.-THE
light snow which fell in Colorado Mon
day and Tuesday proves 10 be much
heavier in Western Kansas. Nebraska.
The west-bound Kansas Pacific Mail
| is snow-bound at Brookville since Mon
day. The east-bound is delayed al
/ Hugo, bat expects 10 get through to-
morrow No Burlington train has ar
rived since yesterday morning, but e1-
poets 70 get through Tonight. SAINTS
I Fe trains have been out since yesterday,
1t is impossible to- say when they will
get through. All Colorado roads are
open and running on time. The
I thermometer here is below. Other
portions of the State vary from this q
! 20 below.
SIoUz CITY, Ia. November IA
special 70 the Journal from Canton
/ OAK, says a train with 100 passengers
on board issn0wed in eleven miles west
\ of there, the passengers being fed from
I the small station near by. The same
/ special also saws the Milwaukee Railway
/ is lined with engines in the drifts.
ST. Paul, November 1.-THE snow
storm which begun here Sunday nigh
has now, 8 PM, been raging for nearly
/ forty-eight hours, and shows nc
signs OF abatement. The stree
cars have not been running il
either ct. Paul or Minneapoli:
to-day: trains on all roads are three tC
thirty-six hours late. While the storm
seems to be general throughout the
northwest il is most iolent in Southern
Dakota. A Sioux Falls special says
/ More snow has already fallen thar
during the entire season last winter
The wind is blowing heavy and from
the north, and drifting snow very
/ badly. Trains on nearly all the roads
are abandoned. The temperature is al
zero and falling. There Is also stronG
electrical disturbances. Canton, Egan
and other points state that the storm
I is no less severe there. a Canton
I Dakota special says: The Milwaukee
road is lined with dead engines, and s
passenger train with 100 persons OF
board is showed in near Worthington
Its occupants are being fed from tina
village