Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-05
THE eL,zzARD's REIGN.

The Northwest Swept by Another Wave
from the Arctic Regions Many Trains
Stuck in the Snow-Drifts-Nuch Suffering
Feared Disastrous Flood at Los An
geles, Cal.
CHICAGO, Jan. 23.-Last night was the
coolest one OF the present winter. At five
Gated 23h degrees below zero. At four
o'clock yesterday afternoon the weather
was more severe to the pedestrian han
later in the day, for the wind at that
hour had a velocity of twenty.seven
miles per hour and the mercury was down
to Z degrees below zero. At the same hour
throughout the Northwest the thermom-
eter registered from 4 to 30 degrees below
zero. At Dodge City, Ia, it WAS 4 below;
throughout Nebraska, IA below; at La
Crosse, Wis, Is below; at St. Paul, 10 be-
low; at Moorhead, 2G below, and at Fort
Garry, Manitoba, 80 below.
The blizzard OF yesterday extended nearly
throughout the Northwest, md many
points in Iowa, Dakota, Minnesota and
Wisconsin report intense cold and rail
road blockndes. A passenger train on the
Illinois Central, which left Sioux City last
Thursday evening, is stuck near Remsen
in % drift three thousand feet long
and twenty feet deep. No provisions are
obtainable; the thermometer is 90 to &c
degrees below and it will take three to four
days to open the road. On the Chicago,
Milwaukee g. St. Paul Road the st. Paul
train is stuck near Winona, with three
freights. West of McGregor, Ia, no trains
are moving.
All through trains west from Kansas
City over the Santa Fe, Kansas Pacific,
Burlington e. Missouri River Roads have
been abandoned. The Missouri Pacific is
reported to be blockaded above Atchison.
The Santa Fe Road has been cleared five
times during the month and as often
b~locladed.
Trains nave been abandoned on the
Southern Minnesota division OF the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Road, and
trains going into st. Paul over the Iowa &
Minnesota Road are all late. A heavy
freight is stuck in a drift near Lake City,
MINI. The second division of the St. Louis
Road, south OF Albert Lea, is abandoned.
Several passenger trains are fast in drifts
at various points along the lines entering
Milwaukee. No effort is being made to run
freight trains, those out having been side
tracked and all Others abandoned. The
thermometer ranged from Is to 80 degrees
below zere throughout Wisconsin last
night.
Reports from different parts of Michigan
indicate that yesterdays storm was gen.
eral in that State.
DEVASTATED BY FLOOD.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23.-The rains of
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday were rein
forced at Los Angeles on Tuesday by a
loud-burst, which swelled the Los Angeles
River to a raging torrent. The town
and two thousand acres of or
chards and vineyards were flooded. Over
fifty houses were washed away or complete
ly wrecked. Every bridge across the Los
Angeles River was swept away and also
hundreds OF feet of the tracks OF the South
ern Pacific and local railroads. For three
days Los Angeles was cut off from tele-
graphic and railroad communication with
the world. Mrs. Kate Lyttle and Theresa
Whitney, daughter of Thomas Whitney,
a carpenter, were drowned while being res.
cued from their houses. A number of other
lives are believed to have been lost. A
large quantity of stock persisted. The
damage to property in the city and county
OF Los Angeles is estimated at $500, 900.