The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-01-09
THE WORST WEATHER
EVER RxPERIESoED EFHH WEST
tn. Slitl.rd'' Breath BiSF'' and the Their
mOmstsr sinks in Hdnlll1y At the Woe
that Is wrought Trains Delayed, and
telegraph CIhmuplcA.iOn Out on.

OHc1oO, Jan, s.-The blizzard raging
at present throughout Illinois, Iowa, Kan.
Sas, NebraSkS, Dakota and Minnesota ID
declared to be OF wider extent and more
fierce in character than has been known
before in years, All the Western trains
are behind timei many have been showed
in and abandoned and very little can be
learned concerning them or the effects
Of the storm, owing to the blowing down
Of telegraph poles and wires aud the stop.
page Of telsgraphic communication,
The temperature throughout Dakota ia
stated to be from 20 to 40 degrees below,
with q wild blizzard blowing. A tele-
gram from Fargo says the Thermometer
regiAtered 81 degrees below at noon yeater-
day, and was described as the roughest
experience that city had yet had in the
way OF boisterous weather. Bismarck re.
ported high wind with the thermometer
S5 degrees below zere. A high wind is
prevailing at Sioux City and tie tempera. 4.
ture Is 20 degrees below. Omaha regis.
tered 20 degrees below. Telegraph COM
munlCatlon with Omaha has been cut of
nearly all day,
California kilograms were being sent by
way Of st, Paul and the Northern Pacific,
with only one wire working, A telegram
from Des Moines, Ia, says the cold wave
continues there with q high wind aud
drifting snow, All the through trains
West OF there are blocked and the branch
roads arc showed under, The Chicago 4
Burlington trains are stuck fast In the
drifts about fifteen milea south OF Dea
Moines, The Wabash road south from
that city 10 badly drifted. The snow storm
prevailed throughout Illinois all day, but
the weather has not been very severe 90
lar, but has been growing colder tonight.
All the roads to Omaha are reported prac.
tlcally bloCkaded in Central lows,
THE BLIzzARD's BREATH.
sT. LOUIS, Jan, S.-The coal wave pre-.
dlcted by the signal service to sweep over
this section ot the country and extend
to tho Gulf Of Mexico made It's first ap.
pearanCe last night in the shape OF snow
storm. The temperature was mild, snow
damp and heavy, but before morn.
ing high winds rose and the tomperA.
ture fell rapidly and the snow
ceased TO fall and to-day the storm turned
into 4 northern blizzard. Snow which
fell last night was swept into drifts, but
none Of them were OF q serious character.
The mercury continued to sink, and all
outdoor nature put on the. Rarb and ap-
pearanCe, and was In reality dread
winter. The thermometer this morning
was 10 above; tonight at reads zero to 8
below. The wind sweeps through the
streets at velocity from IS TO 80 miles per
hour. Reportsirom numeroustowns in Mis-.
souri,, Central and Southern Illinois, areof
uniform character and note high winds,
low temperature, but not much snow.
Railroad travel has been obBtruCted In all
directions, but SO far as known at
this writing thero has been no serious
detention in this State or east or
or south Of here. The Omaha division oil
the Wabash Is blocked and some branches
Of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas in South.
ern Kansas are seriously obBtruc!cd, but
the main line Is in operation.