Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-01-10
EASTERN NEWS.
Terribly Severe Weather East Of
the Rocky Mountains.
TELEGRAPH WIRES DOWN AND
RAILROADS BLOCKED.
Trains G allide aud a Passenger
Gar Burned.
4 COMMUNITY uyHcUsED By GAZING
GaoJED.
A Serious Connagration at 0berlin
College. Ohio.
AN ENTIRE FAMILY HORRIBLY
MURDERED.
AN ENTIRE FAMILY HORRIBLY
MURDERED.
ESPECIAL TO TIN sENrINEL.l

Denver, JAM. 9.-The blizzard in the
EASTERN part OF Colorado, in Kansas and
Nebraska, which subsidized on Wednesday
and allowed the snow blockade to be
raised, was renewed late Wednesday night
with great vigor. demolishing the tele-
graph wires for miles and filling cuts on
the Santa Fe. Burlington, Union aud Kan
sas Pacific with snow aud sand TO such an
extent that all travel was ompelled TO
suspend. Not a single train left Omaha
or kansas City or Denver yesterday. No
trains arrived from the East or departed
from here since Wednesday night, when
the temperature in Colorado fell IA do
grees between midnight aud 5 o'clock
Very little snow has fallen during the
storm. Immense numbers Of cattle have
been driven FROM the north by the wind
and drifting snow towards the Arkansas
river, whore ehey viii have to remain, as
the river 10 not frozen so they eau cross.
Qreas loss 10 expected, unless the GELD
weather continues two or three weeks.
Plenty Of grass uncovered keeps them
alive. TO-dsy has been waruu, with tbs
snow melting. The storm, il is thought,
Is over.
CHICAGO, Jan. 9.-The blizzard is raging
throughout Illinois. Iowa, Kansas, Ne.
braskR, Dakota aud Montana. IL il de-
clared TO DO OF the widest ex,eut and more
fierce in character than has been known
before in years. All the western trains are
behind time, and many have been showed
in and abandoned. aud very little can be
learned concerning them or of the effects
OF the storm, owing to the blowing down
OF telegraph poles aud wires and the stop
page of teiesrsphic communication. The
temperature. Throughout Dakota il stated
to be from 20 to 40 below zero, with y wild
blizzard blowing. A telegram from Fargo
says the ther mometer stood 81 degrees be-
luw zero Mt noon. Yesterday il described
as the ronghost experience that city has
yet had in the way of bolsterous weather.
From Bismark is reported a high wind,
with the thermometer at 81 degrees below
zero, A high wind is prevailing.
LATER-Tho magnitude and character
OF the present storm cannot be fully told
or understood for some days. Teiegraphic
communication with the great sections:of
the South and West have been completely
cut oil for periods Of ten to twelve hours.
No trains have been able to work through
To Omaha for three days. and railroad
traffic in low is practically abandoned.
The telegraph companies have been more
seriously hampered than before in ten
years. The storm area extends east to
Maine and south to the Cult OF Mexico.
WILMINGTON, Del, Jan. 9.-Last
nights snow storm caused q moat serious
blockade on railroad tracks here, suspend
ing travel. This morning the Wilmington
and Northern train, which leaves q: 8
O'Clock. collided with two shifting engines
that had been seut out from o station with
snow sweepers to clear the tracks. The
snow WAS 80 binding that the engines
crashed into the train at full speed. Three
men on the shifting engines were killed
outright, and to add to the horror of the
scene the passenger train took fire and
burned. The passengers escaped with few
injuries.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 80 A. M.-Astorm
OF great severity il now central on the
New Jersey Coast. The cold wave extends
kfrom tho Mississippi Valley to this South
Atlantic States. 1t will slowly advance
over the Middle and Atlantic States, and
will reduce the Temperature to zero.
Severe frosts will ocour Sunday morning
in Florida, as lar south as Tampa BAY.
SERIOUS <ayfng of Gronna.
SHENANDOAH, Pa, Jan. 9.-The excite
ment at Boston Run. where The block OF
miners houses wero swallowed by q mine
breach yesterday, was renewed this after
noon, when another large area OF surface,
upon which is located eight blocks Of
houses. began to settle. The people hed
from the houses in terror, leaving all
their effects behind. sTho ground has
settled about four feet, and the houses are
twisted out of all shape aud are expected
to go down any moment. The bridge be.
tween Boston RuD and the village, on the
| opposite side OF the valley. hss bean swept
away by the food. and it is only by a
large circuit rnute the homeless people can
convey their household goods to where
they can fnd shelter. About "a families
have been driven out Of their homes by
| the cave.
rravei isn psded rs % Dam Hurst.
ing.
TAMAoUA, Pa, Jan. 9.-The dam across
the Wabash Greek at Reevesdale burst thie
morning. The passenger train from Potts
dale was just opposite when 1t broke. The
tackwater struck the cara and ran into the
heaters under them, causing a vast volume
OF steam to arise aud envelope the entire
IRAN. The passengers we're much fright
eh"d. The engine. however, escaped the
hood and pulled the train safely through
the water. The tracks of the Shilada and
! Reading were much washed and CON-