Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-11-18
EASTERN WEATHER.
A Blizzard Sweeps the
Whole Country.
LIVES LOST ON. THE LAKES.
Mails and Passenger Trains De-
layed in all Parts OF
the West.

Especial to the Herald by the associated Press
DENVER, November 1.-THE light snow
which fell in Colorado on Monday and
Tuesday proves to have heen much heavier
in Western Kansas and Nebraska. The
west bound Kansas Pacific mail has been
snowbound at Brookeville since Monday.
The east bound is delayed at Hugo; but ex-
pected through tomorrow. No Burlington
train has arrived since yesterday moaning,
but one is expected te get through tonight.
The Santa Fe trains have been out since
yesterday, and it is impossible to say when
they will get through. ALL Colorado roads
are open and running on time. The ther-
mometer here is 40 below zero. Other por-
tions of the State vary from 80 to 20o below.
THE STORM AT OMAHA.
OMAHA, November 1.-THE snow storm
which began yesterday morning continued
all day and night and is still in progress.
This afternoon about foot of snow has
fallen, 1t has been blowing a blizzard
since early morning and every railroad is
more or less blockaded. The only trains
which arrived to-day were the Chicago and
Rock Island and the Kansas City train. No
other trains got in or out. Travel is entire
ly suspended. The storm is general through
Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming.
sNow-BoUND IN DAKOTA.
SIOUX CITY, Ia, November IA special
to the journal from Canton, Dakota, says:
A train with q hundred passengers ON board
is showed in eleven miles west of there
The passengers are being fed from small
station near by. The same special also says
the Milwaukee railway is lined with en-
gines blocked in the snow-drifts.
LATER FROM ST. PAUL.
ST. PAUL, November 1.-THE snow-storm
which began here Sunday night has now,
9 p. NJ, been raging for nearly forty-eight
hours and shows no signs of abatement.
Street-cars have not been running in St.
Paul or Minneapolis to-day, and trains on
all railroads are three to thirty-six hours
late. While the storm is general throughout
the Northwest 1t is most violent in Southern
Dakota. A Sioux Falls special says: More
snow has already fallen than during the en-.
tire season last winter. The wind is blow
ing hard from the north, drifting the snow
very badly. Trains on nearly all roads are
abandoned. The temperature is at zero,
and falling. There are also strong electric
al disturbances. Canton, Eagan and other
places state that the storm is no less severe
there. A Canton special says: The Milwau-
kee road is lined with dead engines, and
train with 100 persons on board is
showed in near Worthington. It's occupants
are being fed from that village.
AT TWO RIVERS.
CHICAGO. November IAN Ipter-Ocean
Wis, special says: The schoon-
er Nellie Redington is reported to be going
to pieces at Two Rivers. She had been at
anchor off the North Pier all day. She
slipped one of her anchors at 5 p. NJ. and
drifted against the north pier, and If the
sea keeps on she will go to pieces before
morning. Three of her crew have reached
the harbor pier all right, butthere are seven
men more on board whose lives are in dan
ger. The life saving crew can do nothing
to help them OH account of the sea, which
is very large.