Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-14
THE BLIZZARD IN THE WEST.
SEVERAL LIVES LOST, AND IaANY
 PEOPLE MISSING.
Trains Abandoned and Railroads Block aded-Great Damage to Propt rty-A Stage Supposed to be Lost in the Storm. Schools Closed at Bismarck.

It IS thought that some of them may not get through for six weeks. But it is feared the worst is yet to come. The wind was blow ing hard on almost all lines yesterday, and the cuts were being filled in as fast as they could be dug out The storm is now raging in Iowa. Besides that another storm, ,.or the continuation of the present one, is expected to strike Minnesota tomorrow, in which case there is telling what the result will be.
 Manitoba reports indicate cold wave with high wind coming from that direction.
 Railway men will not venture an opinion when traffic will again be resumed. Elch line is putting forth every effort to keep their Chicago line open, but even that is al- most an impossibility.
 All the trains over the western division have been abandoned, and no effort will be made to clear the tracks until the storm ceases and the wind falls. The Omaha liraf- ted from Chicago was at Knapp yesterday, with the snow plough stuck in a hill.
 On the Northern Pacific the storm is the most severe that has ever been felt The leEt overland train which reached St. Paul carle in Wednesday afternoon, and the officials will not offer an opinion as to when the next one will reach here.
 The storm cleared up here yesterday morning, but up to last evening the only cAeeAAAS dAAAVAu5 VI OCpdI CluS were SuUuTUdH, with the sole exception of the Wisconsin Central from Chicago. which came in shortly after noon behind four engines. Neither the Milwaukee nor Minnesota and Northwestern started their Chicago trains last night Tho Milwaukee express from Chicago, due hero at yesterday morning, had not yet arrived at last night. The Hastings and Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota, and Southern Mime sota divisions of the Milwaukee have ai ;sudoned all trains The Milwaukee s3s'en has not been so badly ob- s;' ':sted since the great storm of Jan. z, 1885 But the Manitoba and Northern Pacific have tiff red most. On the entire Manitob sys- tam he only trains moving yesterday were t!lose between this city and Minneapolis and tho.e over level strip of prairie from l Barncsviile, Minn., north to Neche, Dakota. | The Northern Pacific has made manful 1 struggle to keep it's main track open, and it's through trains are advancing slowly, though some Of them are days late; but on the whole road, clear to the mountains, only one train was moving yesterday. Neither the Mani toba nor the Northern Pacific started any trains from here. The storm has cleared up all over the northwest, for the time being, | at feast, and to-day an effort is being made 1 to open the main lines.
 1 DULUTH, Jan. 14.-All trains sent out Thursday from this city were from fifteen to thirty hours late, and yesterday all trains were abandoned until evening, when the St. Paul and Duluth sent out the limited with two engines
 HURON, D. T., Jan. 14-The worst bliz- gard that ever visited this section of the country came sweeping down from the north l about Thursday. In less than fifteen mir- utes after its commencement the air was so thick with the flying snow that it was im- | i,lo f0c mn wind, which was very heavy at the first, soon increased to terrific gale, which picked up snow from the ground and mingled it with the snow that was falling, dashing 1t through the air with almost ire sistible fury, and by 1 o'clock the full force of the gale was upon the town. All business had to be suspended.
 BISMARCK, Jan. 14-A stage left Wash burn, place fifty miles northwest of here Thursday morning for this city, and should have arrived here in the evening, but noth- ing has yet been heard of it. It is supposed that it is lost in the blizzard Farmers in town dare not venture out to their homes
 The section gangs are working at snowdrifts on the Northern Pacific. The snow is very hardly packed, and the snow blows will not go through. The workmen have to cut and shovel the snow away. It is thought many tales of hardship and suffering will come in when the storm clears. The city schools are closed for several days.
 OMAHA, Jan. 14.-Fred Eller, a cigar mager, was found early yesterday morning frozen to death within block of his board ing house. Two school children, Wexell Beck and George Allen, started for their homes about o'clock and have not been heard of since.
 FERGUS FALLS, Jan. 1.-The blizzard has subsided and is succeeded by intense cold,
 The roads are drifted full and business is at a standstill. There has been no train from either direction on the Manitoba road since Wednesday night, the first time in six years that the road has not been open. No reports of suffering have been received. No trains
 are expe cted for at least twenty-four hours.
 MILWAUKEE, Jan. 14.-It was 20 degs.
 below zero last uight, and advices from other parts of the state are to the effect that it is even colder in some sections The rail roads have had a bad time of it. Nearly
 every train from the west and north was several hours late. and on the Prairie du Chien division of the St. Paul road passan. ger as we'll as freight trains were suspended on account of the big drifts in the cuts Engines that crawled in from the north re ) sembled huge cakes of ice.
 : AUBURN, Jan. 14.-All travel on thf g Auburn branch of the New York Centra road was blocked yesterday by heavy drifts between Seneca Falls anl Waterloo. NJ l trains have arrived here from the west. All trains going west were stopped at Senecs
 Falls. There were five trains stalled between
 Seneca Falls and Waterloo. Two hundred
 men were employed in shoveling them out. , TROY, NY, Jan. 14.-A dispatch received :, by Superintendent Crandall, Of the Fitch |, burg railroad, from Jonesville yesterdav n afternoon, says: .'The tender and the truck T. of engine 96 on train 143 are off the track r the baggage car on its side, ten feet from t the track, and a coach and sleeper are hal e buried in the snow, fifteen feet from th Q track. The l; ss sleeper is on the track. Tn n passengers have been transferred. Baggag n Master Beach's hand is injured" The trai,
 is known as the New England express, ant
 was ''ne at Nelth Adams at 7:l5 o'clock yes
 terday morning.
 O Died Full of Years.
 J SALEM, Ore, Jan. 14.-Frederck Gustav Y Schwatka, father of Lieut.. Schwatka. o Arctic fame, died Thursday evening, age
 9S. He was lorn in Baltimore, Md. Ii