St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-05
A sToRM-SWEPT COUNTRY.
Snow Takes Possession Of the Orange
and African Country.
Travel Seriously Intsrfered With In
Several States.
Canada and the Border States Report
Chilly Weather.
I'm the Track of the Storm.

IN the track of the Storm
AT WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-The travel on
railroads south has suffered greater infer
ruption from yesterdays snow storm than
that on the roads north. No trains waro
sent out from Richmond nOrthward vestar.
day afternoon and last night. The troll,
which left Richmond Yesterday morping a.
O'clock had such hard work in facjn7 -.
way through cuts into which the snow had
drifted that it arrived here over sight hours
late, at 7:1S last night. The Midland
train. due here at ESQ p. m. YESTERDAY did
not get in till this morning. The Wash
ington 81 Ohio train got in this forenoon.
The last that left south of Alexandria
yesterday was the Richmond. due there at
o'clock last night. but it had not az
rived this morning. The heaviest trains
nortnward to-day were double-headerS,
running engines In pairs.
AT BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Feb 4.-The snow
wnlcn began 70 fall at o'clock yesterday
morning continued up to IL O'Clock to-day.
Inc tau was ABOUT seventeen inches, the
heaviest since 1856. Trains from every di-
rection are delayed and the navigation ON
chesapeake bay and its tributaries was en-
tlrely suspended. The wind has changed
70 the northwest and the snow is drifting
badly IN exposed situations.
AT WILMINGTON.
WILMINGTON, Del. Feb. 4.-About rour-
Teen inches OF snow has fallen here. and il
IS now drifting badly. Advices from down
Tue peninsula report a generally heavy
Storih- Inc temperature was 4 above
zero at O'Clock this morning. The coun-
Try ROADS are almost impossible.
AT NEW YORK.
NEW DIRK, Feb. 4.-The snow storm
which swept down on the city Yesterday in
true Western style continued with littIe
abatement ali night. 1t is regular West
ern blizzard, and is undoubtedly the worst
STORM New York has experienced since
1852, the winter of the Park row lire. sThe
streets are being rapidly hlled with snow.
ana the street cars are pulled along the
buried rails with great difficulty by the
double teaming of horses. What adds to
the ulrncuitleS OF the situation is a strike
upon the Broadway & Seventh Avenue
railroad, the Broadway Surface railroad.
the Sixth Avenue railroad and the Fourth
Avenue. No cars have left the stables of
the several companies since an early hour
this morning. AS result the cars
elevated railroads have been crowded to
dangerous extent all the morning. MANY
business meP have been compelled to walk
down town 10 their offices. All the mails
are delayed, especially those from tbs
south and west The Boston mails were
only an hour behind time. Some of the
malls have not yet been heard from. The
thermometer shows temperature of {
below.
AT LYNCHBURG.
LYNCHBURG, Va, Feb. 4.-Snow has
fallen since Wednesday noon and is twelve
inches deep. Ali railroad communication
Is interrupted. Reports from the south
west portion OF the state indicate I'M
paralieled snow storms and it is now from
two to three feet deep.
Storm Notes.
The snow is fifteen inches deep at Winches-
| ter, Va, and the weather is very cold A
high Northwestern wind is prevailing, and thu
snow is drifting badly. Travel is impeded in
all directions.
Three inches more OF snow has fallen a:
Harrisburg, Va, and there is great suffering
among stock. The mercury fell 20 degrees
after noon yesterday, and is still going down.
IN CANADA.
TORONTO, Feb 4.-Fair cold weather
continues throughout Canada, The tenn
perature varies in Ontario from TO $50
below zero, and in Quebec from IL to 25o
below. In New Brunswick it is from
g. above to 50 below, and in Nova Scotia
from to 19o above The weather is mod.
Grating in the extreme northwest provinces,
and is % : above in Albert, but continues
very cold in Manitoba
AT DETROIT.
DETROIT, Feb. 4.-The cold weather has
continued to-day with slightly increased
intensity. Last night it reached 15o below
in the suburbs and SO below zero was re.
corded near the river, while the signal ser.
vice minimum temperature was IL . below,
There has been only light wind and the
air is dry. Greater suffering from the
weather Is comparatively unknown. Ou
in the state the mercury has nowhere ven.
tured to show itself above zero, the tigurel
recorded being from few degrees below
near here to a. below at ChebOygan. To
night at 8 o'clock the signal service offict
reports 80 above, with indications for
cooler time than was enjoyed last night.