Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-25
THE BLI1ZARD AGAIN.
Another Ripper Breaks Looso fn th
 Northwest.

Northwest.
 ST. PAUL, Jan M-Another blizzard has broken loose northwest of here. Neche, Dak., special says: The mercury went down to 60 below and the wind reached velocity of forty miles an hour there last night. It is still blowing and trains are ten hours late. Brainerd reports that the storm reached there this morning. A heavy fall of snow has set in and the wind is blowing gale. The snow is drifting badly. The storm has not yet reached St. Paul, but trains from the north are badly delayed.
 HALIFAX, Jan. 24.-The heaviest snow storm of the season began late last night and has continued steadily since. Over foot of snow has fallen, which with the large quan- tity already on the ground renders the roads almost impossible. Roads over all the province are blocked and on all lines railway ! trains are showed up. Navigation is at a standstiH on the Annapolis river on account l of the ice and steamer from St. John. can-
 ! not get further, Digby passengers having to I take teams for Annapolis.
 ST. PAUL, Jan. 24.-The PioneersPress
 | learns from Browns Valley, Minn., that the fuel there is not only used up, but provisions
 are also getting low. Should another storm
 ! prevent the opening of the road within few
 | days great suffering can hardly be avoided,
 particularly among the farmers along the
 | line. The Manitoba company is making
 great fight to open the line, but the road
 \ is in such bad shape that it is not
 | possible to run blow fast enough to do eff fective snow bucking. A number of farmers
 ! went to Besrdsley for fuel and not finding any coal tore down the snow fences and hauled away several loads. The road is open to Graceville and the chances of getting train through to Browns Valley by to nor TOW night are good.
 Furious Northwest Gale. PRovINcETowN, Mass, Jan. 24.-A heavy northwest gale has prevailed here all day, the wind reaching velocity estimated at sixty five miles an hour at noon, diminishing to fifty at sunset with falling temperature. The
 sea is very rough outside. No Boston bound shipping could work in to-day. Some ice has formed along shore and Wellfeet harbor is reported frozen solid. The bark Maggie Al. has completed loading ballast and has hauled into the stream ready for sea.
 The heavy northwest gale of to-day cons tinues this evening, veering to northerly and very cold. The large quantities of drift ice running over the shoals in the strong currents put in dangerous position the fifteen large outward bound schooners which have been anchored there since Sunday night. An un- known tug has been working hard all the af ternoon trying to extricate two schooners from bad positions near Handkerchief Shoal. They went ahead a mile or two, then the ice and tide would carry them astern, but finally they got clear and proceeded slowly westward A small schooner was in the ice inside of Handkerchief shoal with colors at the foremasthead. No assistance can get to her from shore. Other vessels have been ap- parently dragging anchors westward forced by the ice and gale and there is plenty of work for tugs if any are in the vicinity. A northeast wind will take the heavy ice from Chatham Bay over the shoals and make still more dangerous the positions of those vessels