The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-01
THE STORM THE SEVEREST OF
THE SEASON.
A General Shtyer-The Streets of Chicago
Deserted-Ths Mercury Trying
Tn Hide Itself.

=" to sum oAAoW mig ~ ouA ~ AAAhss-
night, but the fury of the storm had
abated. All trains into st. Paul were
one to four hours late. Sioux Falls,
Oak, reports trains badly delayed. Hu-
ron. OAK, reports the sending out Of a
relief train to meet the Chicago mail,
stuck at Arlington. At Brailers, Mimi.
the snow is drifting badly. The rotary
snow machines have done capital service
ON the Northern Pacific. ShakOpee,
Mimi. says all north and south roads
are blockaded. All Northern Pacific
freight trains east Of the Missouri River
were abandoned yesterday.
THINK IT WILL STOP TONIGHT.
MINNEAPOLIS, MIMI, December 3d.
The blizzard which set in yesterday
morning is still raging, and is expected
to continue till tonight. The snow fall
though continuous is light, but has
drifted badly. Trains on all railroads
Throughout the Northwest are more or
less delayed, and on some roads trains
have been abandoned. Various points in
Minnesota and Dakota announce it as
the worse storm os the season and ac-
companied by unusually low tempera-
ture.
TEN INCHES OF SNOW.
DAVENPORT, Iowa, December 31.-A
heavy snow storm has been raging for
twelve hours. Over twelve inches Of
snow have fallen. Freight trains have
been generally abandoned, and passen-
ser trains go forth with double locomo-
tives.
THE STORM ALL OVER IOWA.
DUBUQUE, December 81. - Another
blizzard has been raging here for the
past twenty-four hours. All freight
trains are abandoned, ard passenger
trains are working along with double
engines and snow plows, making very
little progress. The situation is worse
than during the recent storm. The pres
ent one extends clear across the State,
and is more violent beyond Fort Dodge
than on this side. Southern trains are
expected to arrive without losing much
time. The mercury is above zero.
SNOW STORM CAUSES AN ACCIDENT.
CHICAGO, December 31.-The night
express for Milwaukee that left Chicago
at 1890 last night. over the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul, smashed into n
freight train at Shermerviile, ILL.,, during
a binding snow storm. The engine and
mail car of the passenger train were de-
rallied, together with several freight
cars, making a bad wreck and giving
the passengers a severe shaking up. No
lives were lost, but the engineer, Little,
was hurt seriously, and the fireman
name unknown, probably fatally.
STREETS DESERTED BY 10 O'CLOCK.
The blizzard that howlsd in this city
yesterday afternoon drove almost every
body off the streets and nearly block
AIDED traffic throughout the city. The
street cars struggled along at long inter
walls early in the evening. The mails
were nearly all from four to five hours
behind time. The streets were deserted
at 10 o'clock. About that hour the in
tensity Of the storm was almost unpre-
cedented in this locality. The wind
shifted into the east and was blowing at
the rate of thirty miles an hour. Subur-
ban trains were also greatly delayed, and
at one time were completely blocked by
drifts at Thirty-fifth street.
MOST SEVERE IN TWO YEARS.
MILWAUKEE, December 31.-The snow
and wind storm Of last night and to-day
has been the most extensive storm that
has occurred in this section in twoyea
At daylight many of the streets were
-.
Quoted with great difficulty. Trains on
all roads were from two to three hours
late. Freight trains were generally
side-tracked during the night and the
crews directed to keep the tracks open
for regular passenger trains. Six inches
of snow fell all over the southern part of
Wisconsin, and as far north as Green
Bay and Stevens Point, in the extreme
northern part of the State the fall was
somewhat heavier. The wind drifted
the snow badly during the Storm The
O'Clock ST. Paul fast mail from Chica-
go, collided with a standing train at the
New Union depot, dernolishing engine
and wrecking two sieepers somewhat.
Nobody was hurt.
SNOW STORM IN VIRGINIA.
STAUNToN, Va, December Silt has
been showing heavily all the morning,
and the indications are that it will reach
considerable depth. There is heavy
drifting.
HEAVIEST SNOW FOR YEARS.
LyNCHBURG, VA, December 81
Snow and sleet have been falling in this
vicinity all day. Reports of the heaviest
snow storm for years come from South
west Virginia
Low TEMPERATURES IN VERMONT.
MONTPELIER, VT, December 3l.--A
cold wave reached this section early last
night. This morning the following tenn
peratures are reported: At Barre, 30 be-
! low zero; Calais, % below; East Calais,
30 below; Hardwick, 81 below; Marsh
field, "a below; Montpelier, 3s below;
Moretown, 80 below; Piainfield, 30 be-
low, and West Randolph, % below.
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