Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-01-11

ooIes and wires and stoppage oil telegra-
ohio communication, Inc temperature
throughout Dakota Is stated to be from
20 to 40 degrees below zero, with q
blowing. A telegram from 3
says the Thermometer registered U
degrees below at noon. Yesterday 3
described as the toughest experience
that city had yet had III the way VI
weather. Bismarck reported
y nigh wind with the thermometer %
degrees below zero. A high wind is pre-
yaliiug at Sioux City and the tempera-
ture is 20 degrees below zero. Omaha
reports 20 degrees below.
Telegraph communications with Orna-
ha has been cut OFT nearly all day. Gall
tornla kilograms were bong sent by wa
of St.Paul and the Northern Pacific, with
only one wire working.
A telegram from Des Moines says the
cold wave continues with q high wind
and drifting snow. All through trains
west of shere are blocked and branch
roads are showed under. Chicago n
Burlington trains are stuck fast IN drifts
about fifteen miles south of Des MONIES
The Wabash road south from that city
is badly drifted. The Fort Dodge and
narrow gauge roads have been abandon
| ed. The snow prevailed throughout
| Illinois ali day, but the weather has moi
been very severe SO far, but has been
growing colder tonight. ALI the roads
| 10 OMAHA are reported practically block
ed in central Iowa.
At midnight the snow has nearly
ceased to fall, and there being not sum
cient wind to cause much drifting rail-
road travel is not materially impeded.
The temperature is still nine degrees
below zero.
st. Panl, Jan. S-Signal officer Lyons
says: "The cold wave with high vino
aud snow extends with unusual severity
from northern Montana as far south AS
st. Louis, which is the most southern
station from which | receive direct al
wees. The thermometer registers SIX
teen degrees above at st. Louis, with q
slight snow. The crest of the wave
seems to have been transferred from
Montana to northern Minnesota, st.
Vincent being the coolest point with the
mercury down to forry-eight degrees
below, with a northwest wind blowing
5 twenty miles an hour. Now there is
j slight moderation reported from Helena
and surrounding country, showing that
the force of the wave has been broker
3 in that section.
IlepUIIS lTOW VIC Ioil ISih" i IA
5 show from % to 80 below in Dakota anG
Montana. The storm has abated OF
this line and trains are running falrl.
+ we'll. The mercury at Glendiye is 3
below, at Fargo 80, in Minnedosa Is tt
$ %, while in western Montana. it is II
4 above. Manitoba reports the mercury
: at Portland, Dakota, 35, Crookston b
Hallock so, Morris %, and st. Cloud Il
G On the St, Paul Northwestern q regula
blizzard is IN progress.
Omaha Jan. S-No winter storm ha
been so general throughout Nebraska a
that now prevailing. The 1thermomete
lat 7 O'Clock this morning was % beloN
}in the business portion OF the city. Will
On the plateau the mercury descended t
80. This, with the bitter wind, made tn
d temperature as cold as any recollected b
- the Oldest citizen. No trains have u i
: the state since early yesterday, and y
il efforts have been made to clear tn
o tracks owing to the impossibiiity {
d nen standing in extreme cold, and be
sides the drifting snow would fill up IT,
= cuts made. Two trains started out O
!" the Union Pacific main line west yestel
D. day, but had to be pulled back afte
NJ reaching the suburbs of the city. 4
1.-THE Union Pacific branches have bee
~ahandond and the extra condition of til
main line cannot be aseertained, as th
N telegraph wires are all down. The Bul
ae iington and Missouri, Chicago, st. Pau
: Minneapolis and Omaha, Fremont, Ell
!" horn and Missouri V~alley-in fact ever
re line or track in the state Is abandoned
bit No trains have left for the east to-da,
and there has been no traffic whatevs
on the Missouri river bridge. BusineI
10 n lntIaoll, OF n ctnnlcftlf an noaI
ks sional farmer appearing in the city.
number OF travellers east and west al
detained here, among them Viz
President Potter and a part
of railroad officials, wi
were on a trip of inspection. One yes
ago to-day the thermometer was fort
III above, the highest point reached durir
that year. No mails have arrived t
day, not even from Council Bluffs, {
m account OF no cars crossing the bridg
So Des Moines, Jan. S-A blizzard b
ragged here all day, with the mercu,
twelve to eighteen degrees below. r
10 ports from all parts of the state indica
Isl that the storm is very general. A larl
nv. number Of members of the legislatu
are blocaded and unable to reach hel
g Not a third are in town at preser
a though the legislature is to convene
es. Monday. The railroads are havir
ne much difficulty to keep ope
DC All the narrow guage lines in
this city are closed. The Fort Dodl
'rk road has been shut up for three day
at The Diagonal road is closed and has
ba train stuck at Valera. The Chicag
Burlington and Quincy had one ira
z ~inssto-day on the branch, though ii
m. main line west of Alba is report,
lily close. The Rock Island and Northwet
he ern are both closed west, but the Ro,
he island is moving cars east on the ma
,e- line. The Winterset branch is abando
les ed. The Milwaukee is also closed 81
dis the B~urlington,C Cedar Rapids and Mort
JUS ern is reported closed north of We
ed Liberty. The Wabash is open to Il
ms south.
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