Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-14
Great Suffering Reported From all
Points of That Part OF the
Country.
Railway Traffic on all Roads Entirely Sus.
pended, and all Business More Oh
Less Interfered With.
Several People Found Frozen to Death
Almost at Their Own DoorS-Many
Persons Missing, Supposed to
Have PeriShed.

MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi, Jan. 13.-At III
o'clock this morning temperatures were as
follows, all below zero: Grand Forks,
Oak, 80, rise of II degrees: Grafton, 80:
Fargo, 90: Jamestown, %; Larimer. rs;
Devils Lake, 80; Minot, &c; Fergas Falls,
Mimi. 2S: Brainerd, %; Duluth II. At
a. M. it was from Is to 20 degrees colder
than above Manitoba is all frozen up.
BISMARCK, Oak, Jan. 13.-The stage
left Washburn yesterday morning for this
city place fifty miles northwest of here
and should have arrived here last night,
but nothing has as yet been heard of it,
1t is supposed it is lost in the blizzard
The stage left for Winona this morning
Great fears are entertained for its safe
arrival. The great blizzard evidently has
spent its fury here. The wind last night
was about forty miles per hour and the
mercury twenty-five below. This morn
ing it is thirty below and the wind in
tensely cold 1t is thought the storm
wrecked the most vengence in this section.
The farmers in town dare not venture
out The section gangs are working at
the snow drifts on the Northern Pacific.
The snow is very hard packed and the
snow plows will not go through. Trains
will not reach here till next week. The
CITY schools are closed for several days
MADISON, Wis. Jan. 13-Specials from
the interior of the state show that many
cities are completely shut off from rail
way communication with the outside
world. At Superior no mails have been
received for thirty-siX hours. 1t is twenty
seven degrees below zero this morning and
all trains on the Northern Pacific are
either snow bound or abandoned. No
trains have reached Madison since yester-
day noon The Palmyra accident is the
only result of the storm that has been re
ported thus far
MINNEAPoLIs, Jan. 13.-Reports from all
over the northwest indicate that the pre-
vailing blizzard is the worst and most ey-
tended of the season. Its area of opera
tions is from the Rockies to Lake Michi-
gan, but Minnesota and Dakota are the
worst sufferers. In Dakota the air was
full of sand and snow, which makes it
dangerous to venture out of doors. The
sky is clear this morning, but strong
westerly wind is blowing. increasing the
discomforts of the low temperature.
At Fargo the storm was the worst in
eight years, with mercury forty-tive de-
grees below zero and hurricane blowing
At Pierce. Oak, the wind blew sixty
miles per hour and the roads blocked terri
bly,.
At Neche. Oak, fifty-three degrees below
zero was reached. The Northern Pacific
has some rotary Snow-plOws which will
clear the track quickly as soon as the wind
subsidies, but all of the trans continental
trains got stuck yesterday. The local
weather officers say the storm extends from
Calarg, n w. r. to Little Rock. At mid
night, the storm center had reached
Dubuque. Ia, and this morning the biz
yards force is mostly spent.
ST. PAUL, Jan 13-Gesterday'S storm
was without exception, and considering its
extent. the worst that has ever been eX-
perienced in the northwest Snow to 4
depth of two feet on the level and from
five to Fifteen feet in cuts, was sufficient to
almost suspend the running of trains, but
added to this the severe wind which blew
in some parts and the blizzard which ragged
in others, it has suspended railroad bust
ness entirely. Freight trains were hung
up early yesterday, not a wheel moving
after MONDAY Passenger trains. one by
one, followed suit, and by s o'clock last
night there was no attempt at run
ming trains at any point west
of ST. Paul. Eastern lines. however,
worked hard to keep their tracks open
but without success. At 6 o'clock this
morning reports We're discouraging
Branch line trains We're all abandoned at
functional points last night and it is I'M
certain when they will be opened. 1t is
thought that some of them will be closed
on almost all lines today and cuts are be
ing filled in as fast as they are pumped
out. The storm of yesterday is now rag
ing in Iowa. Besides that another storm,
or continuation of the present one. is
expected to strike Minnesota on Sunday,
in which case there is no telling what the
result will be- 1t is raging in Idaho to-
day. with the thermometer, at various
points along the Northern Pacific as low
as ten degrees below zero
Manitoba reports from the northwest in
dictate cold wave with high wind coming
from that direction. In fact, things
look so dubious today that railway
men will not venture an opinion when
traffic will again be resumed. Each line
is putting forth every effort to keep their
Chicago line open, but even that is almost
impossible. At noon today not a train had
come in, the Omaha limited being re
ported nearer than any other one All
trains over the western divisions have
been abandoned and no effort will be made
to clear the tracks until the storm ceases
and the win Is fall. The limited from Chi
cago was at Knapp at IL o'clock today
with the snow pillow stuck in hill. The
Rock Island abandoned all trains last
night, and up to noon today no effort was
being made to move wheel except on
short line trains. Outgoing trains were
all abandoned The last overland train
afternoon and officials will not offer an
opinion as to when the next one will reach
here. The storm was severe all through
Montana. Dakota and Minnesota.
A Crookston, Mimi, special says: NO
trains for two days. 1t began blowing YES.
teen feet high. 1t is bitter cold
OMAHA, Neb, Jan. 13.-The effects of
the present storm in Omaha have been dis
aStrous. Fred Eller, a cigar maker. was
found early this morning frozen to death
within block of his boarding house Two
school children, WeXell Beck and George
Allen, started for their homes about 3
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, and have not
been seen since. \ large number OF people
went over TO Council Bluffs yesterday and
last night, and ii was reported this morn
ing that number have been lost All
have been accounted for. however. except
one young lady, who has not been found
1t is feared she has persisted. The Their
mometer is twenty-six below tonight and
rapidly falling.
SIOUX CITY. Jan. l3.-The storm Of YES
tsrday was the fiercest on record Trains
are all abandoned except on the Sioux City
x Pacific, and the Chicago, st. Paul. Min
neapolis x Omaha. south
ST. PAUL, Jan. 13-The following spe
Gals to the Pioneer Press tonight show
something Of the extent and effects of the
great storm:
JAMESTOWN, OAK, Jan. 13.-The storm
still continues. although much abated !
The thermometer at noon marked twenty
seven below Yesterdays west bound
limited, showed up AT Wheatlsnd ali day, !
arrived this evening about forty hour.
late The Northern Pacific nail line and
branches ARE all blocked and al trains arr
delayed from twelve 10 thirty-siN hours.
FERGUS FALLS. Mimi. jan l3-rhe !
blizzard has suipsided. and is succeeded by /
intense cold. The roads are drfted fun I
and business rs at a standstill. There has
haen no trains from either. ii racs ;np m, b.,