Wichita eagle., 1888-01-13
RAILWAY TRAFFIC IMPEDED in
THE NORTHWEST.
Extraordinary Gold Weather Re-
ported in all Parts Of Dakota
.--Business Hampered.
Several School Children Lost i'll Huron,
Dakota. All Of Whom Have Been
Found But One.
Whistles Blown and Bells Rung to Assist
Any Person Who May be Out
in the Storm.

WASHINGTON, Bee. 10, l o'clock a. m.
For MissouriACorde fair weather;
fresh TO brisk northwesterly winds,
diminishing in force with a cold wave.
For kansas-ColGer, fair weather: fresh
to brisk northerly winds, diminishing
with force with cold wave in Kansas.
ST. PAUL. Jan 12-Railroad men agree
that the storm of to-day is quite the worst
ever known in the northwest for their
business. 1t extends from the Rocky
Mountains to Lake Michigan, but its
worst effects are felt in Dakota
and Minnesota. Everywhere it was
accompanied by high winds which drift
the snow badly, and in Northern Dakota it
assumes the character of a blizzard. The
railroads have hardly finished clearing
their tracks from the previous storm, and
that of today has absolutely blocked all
the small roadsGhroughout. The through
lines are battling bravely against the ele-
ment to keep things moving. Trains on
the roads to Chicago are one to nine hours
late but all the main lines are still open,
and eastern trains left as usual tonight.
All freight on the Northern Pacific and
Manitoba lines have been abandoned and
no passenger trains were sent out on these
roads tonight The Kansas City train of
the Omaha extension was also abandoned.
A special from Huron, OAK, says the
the wind is blowing fifty miles an hour.
The air is full of snow, and one Is unable
to see fifty feet. Some unthinkiDg teach
ers dismissed the young school children,
some of whom have to go four or live
blocks across the open land. Five or six
children got lost. Whistles are blowing,
bells are ring and people turned out and
took long ropes and walked fifteen or
twenty abreast back and forth over the
ground They have just found two, the
Others not yet having been discovered.
The mercury is forty degrees below and
has fallen twenty-siX degrees since 10
O'Clock.
BY forming parties of ten each, taking
long rope and marching across the prairie
in line OF battle, the villagers today
found all the lost school children except
one, child 10 years old named johnson.
the search still continues tonight
but as the murcury Is ten be
low there is little hope of finding
the child alive. The sharp whistles
have been blown at intervals during
the afternoon as an assistant to any per-
sons out in the storm. A number of
farmers started home as soon as the storm
began and there are grave fears for their
safety Business men who attempted to
go home this afternoon lost their way at
the street crossings. Many others are not
attempting to go home tonight.
a Webster, Dakota special to the Pho
neer Press says several mail carriers are
believed to he caught in the blizzard and
have perhaps persisted. The temperature
is % degrees below zero.
Bismarck reports that children who
started for school were compelled to re-
turn by the fury of the storm
Pierre. OAK special says the wind is
blowing sixty miles an hour, and it is i'm
possible to see 100 feet.
Three trains are snow bound at Rae
Heights, and there Is reported a collision
between two freights at the same point.
Mineola. OAK, reports the storm raging
there for twenty-four hours and the TEN
perature fifteen below. All railroad travel
is suspended.
Jamestown Oak, reports no trains
moving Oh the main line of the Northern
Pacific.
Grafton. Oak, reports the wind blowing
a gale, the mercury twenty oelow. and i'm
possible to see more than two rods.
LINCOLN, Neb.. Jan. PA heavy snow
began falling at ! O'Clock this morning
and continued steadily throughout the
day At 3 p. m. the wind, which had been
from the south, changed to the northwest,
blowing blizzard. with indications of a
continuance for several hours. Trains are
somewhat delayed. All trains arriving at
this point are side-tracked, with orders not
to leave until the abatement of the storm.