Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-29
THE NE VS. IN BRIEF.


ANOTHER WESTERN BLIZZARD FLOODS on THE
PACIFIC COAST
A fierce blizzard, compared to which the
storm of week before last is said to have
been moderate, swept over the Northwest in
the latter part of last week. 1t was the most
sudden and severe storm known in Dakota
and Minnesota for years. The thermOm eter
ranged from % to 40 below zero, and at va
Iious places in Manitoba it is reported to
have been from 40 to so below. The high
winds caused the snow to drift in every direc-
ton. The railroads from Minnesota to Kan.
sas were blocksded and mails at Chicago
were from 10 to 10 hours late. All through
trains west from Kansas City, Mo, were
again abandoned, and business was at a
stand.still on the Santa Fe, Kansas Pacific,
Burlington and Missouri River railroads, ex-
cept for local trains. The experience was
the worst the western roads have known in
many years. The Santa Fe road has been
cleared five times during a month, and as
often blocked again by the high winds which
fill up the cuts again.
The rains of last week in southern Califor-
MIA were supplemented by a cloud burst in
the San Fernando valley Tuesday, and the
Les Angeles river, almost without warning,
became a raging torrent and soon flooded the
southern central part of the town. The wa
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yards and rose two feet higher than the flood
of February, 1884. Over 80 houses were
washed away or completely wrecked every
bridge across the Los Angeles river was swept
away. The damage to property in the city and
county of Los Angeles is estimated at $780,
600.
The Pacific coast experienced during last
week one Of the severest storms by which it
has ever been visited. 1t extended from the
northern boundary of Washington territory
to the southern boundary of California, and
| from the Rocky mountains to the Pacific
ocean. There was an almost continuous fall
OF rain and snow, accompanied by wind,
which, from five miles an hour gradually in
creased until Wednesday noon, when it blew
| a hurricane of so miles an hour. Consdera-
| BILE damage was done throughout the city of
| San Francisco by wind and rain. Houses
were unroofed, sheds, fences, trees, awnings
! signs. church spires and numerous smoke
stacks were blown down, huge plate-glass
| windows were shattered, Easements flooded
| and sewers broken. Cars were lifted from
the tracks, and covered wagon was caught
up and carried some distance. The west wall
of the Mechanics Pavilion was blown in
Wednesday at 1870 p. NJ, and few minutes
| later about 80 feet of the roof of the build.
/ ing was blown across the street, damaging
buildings on the opposite side. The most
serious result of the storm was to cut of San
Francisco entirely, for the first time in its
history, from telegraphic communication with
the outside world. Dispatches were sent by
mail to Sacramento and thence forwarded.
Connection was resumed with San Francisco
Thursday noon, aud the storm had spent its
| fury.
The San joaquin river gradually rose
throughout last week and on Sunday part of
Stockton, CAL, comprising about one-ffth OF
its area was covered with water. The Moss
tract, comprising about 5000 acres of wheat
land, was flooded by the giving away of a
flood gate. The damage at Stockton is est
mated at $3.50, 900.
Moody and Sankey appear to be doing
great work at Chicago, where MIR. McCOr
mick, the wealthy reaper man, has given 800
600 to help along the evangelization of the
city. Having organized the campaign there,
Mr.. Moody has gone South and will visi
Knoxville. Chattanooga, Nashville, Memphis
and New Orleans. Thence he goes to Texas
appointments having been made for him a
Galveston, Houston, Fort Worth. Dallas anC
San Antonio.
During the recent blizzard at the west
family of five persons was frozen to death il
Kansas while going from Dodge City to thei
farm in a covered wagon.