Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-23
STORMS AND FLOODS.
Freshets and Billiards Playing Sad Havoc
Beyond the Rockies.

treshets and Billiards Playing Sad Havoc
Beyond the Rockies.
MILWAUKEE, March 22d.-Reports from
the interior of the State indicate that last
nights blizzard was very severe. The
thermometer ranged between ten and
twelve degrees below zero. Not wheel is
moving on the upper Michigan Peninsula
roads, except those propelling snowplows,
which are nearly helpless. 1t is the most
complete blockade of the winter in that
section.
The storm came so suddenly and fiercely
that trains were unable to reach the next
station. The hurricane was intensely cold.
THE MONTANA FLOODS.
POPLAR, March 22d.-The great flood on
the upper Missouri continues and the river
is still rising. Six feet of water covers the
valley at WooH Point, and the bridges are
all washed out. Milk river is Commencing
to break up and the country is covered for
forty miles around.
Cattlemen and Indians will lose large
quantities of hay and wood. There will be
some loss of stock, and if the river gorges
at this point the loss will be immense.
TWENTY DEGREES BELOW ZERO.
CHICAGO March 22d.-Dispatches from
various points in the Northwest report a
drop IN the temperature yesterday from
thirty to forty degrees, accompanied nearly
everywhere by high winds and light snow.
Fears are expressed that the winter
wheat will be seriously injured
In this city the mercury has dropped
thlrty-elght degrees since yesterday morn
ing touching zero at daylight to-day.
In Minnesota and Dakota the thermom-
eter registered from six to twenty degrees
below zero.
HIGH WATER IN NEW. YORK.
NEW YORK, March 22d.-Several bridges
on the West Shore Railway were carried
away by floods, and traffic on the road is
being sent by the New York Central. New
ork and New England suffered severely
from the washouts
ONE OF THE WORST OF BILLIARDS..
MARQUETTE (Mich.), March 22d.-One of
the worst blizzards of the winter set in last
night at an early hour and lasted until
morning. Considerable SLOW fell, and the
railroads are greatly hampered in their op-
eralons. The temperature ranged between
seven and ten degrees below zero during
the night at different points on the penin-
sula.
HIGH WATER IN RHODE ISLAND.
PROVIDENCE fR. I), March 22d.-The
NotCl III tuC river TeaCDou ltS
highest point at noon to-day. Nearly all
the mills below Woonsocket are shut
down. and considerable damage has been
done them and the railroads throughout
this section.
RISING RIVERS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
EAsToN (Pa), March 22d.-The Della
ware river is sixteen feet above low. water
mark, and the Lehigh river twelve feet.
The flood has stopped all the mills in the
southeastern part of the State.
THE MINNESOTA BLIZZARD.
ST.. PAUL, March 22d-The storm which
ragged on Tuesday night and until this
morning through portions of Dakota, Min
nesota and northern Wisconsin,, was one of
the severest that has been experienced in
the Northwest this winter. II consisted of
a cold wave of unusual severity, accom-
panied by heavy and cutting wind. In
many places it was rendered worse by
binding snow-storms. In Minnesota, north
of Crookston, and in northeastern Dakota,
most of the roads were badly blockaded.
Wherever there was any snow it was badly
drifted, and the railroad tracks in numer-
GUS instances were covered TO a depth of
nine feet