Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-14

Senger train got in Yesterday at noon ana
got to Wapheton, but stuck on the return
Journey No reports of suffering have been
received No trains are expected for at
lerst twenty-four hours. ~
MINOL. Oak. Jan. 13-No trains are
moving yet. 1t was thirty-eight below
zero this morning There. is fourteen
inches of snow on level. badly drifted.
James Smith and two sons, aged Is and IL,
started for a load7of hay,fsiX miles from
town on the 18th, and have not since been
heard from. Several other persons are
missing, but are supposed to shave taken
refuge in claim shanties.
FAuLKToN, Oak, Jan. 13.-The most
terrific storm ever witnessed in this lati-
tude has been upon us for the last forty
eight hours 1t reached its worst yester-
day, and from 10 o'clock until dark there
was not ten minutes that build
ings on the opposite side of the street
could be seen. The teachers and most of
the scholars of the two lower departments
of our schools were compelled to remain in
one of the school rooms all night, provis-
ions being carried to them. Ropes were
stretched from the corner of Main street
to the school house to enable those carry
ing food to go and come safely. 1t was
impossible to reach the railroad station
after O'Clock and the agent and several
others were compelled to remain over night
without dinner o. supper No definite re-
ports of loss OF life have been received
though it is believed some must have
persisted.
RAYMOND. Dak.-Damage to live stock
will be great, while reports of suffering
and death are constantly coming in. Two
sons of VIM. Order were frozen to death
within a few feet of their barn. Charles
Heath is missing and J. H. Clapp has
been discovered badly frozen. he having
been out all night wandering upon the
prairies.
ADRIAN, Minn.--Several families living
twelve to fifteen miles north of here start
ed home from here about O'Clock yester
day, and have not yet been heard from.
John Doring Campera, farmer living a
mile north of here, was at neighborS
house, quarter of a mile away, started
home and was lost.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. BIT is twenty de-
grees below zero tonight, and advices
from other parts of the state are to the
effect that il is even colder in some sec
tionS. Nearly every train from the west
and northwest was several hours late and
on the Prairie Du Chen division of the
st. Paul road, passenger as well as freight
trains were suspended on account of the
big drifts in cuts Engines that crawled
in from the north resemble huge cakes of
ice. Snow plows have been at work all
day and it is not expected that passenger
trains will be stalled on any of the Wis
consin divisions.
ST. PAUL, Jan. 13.-The storm cleared
up here early this morning, but up to this
evening the only trains arriving or depart
ing were suburban. with the sole exception
of the Wisconsin Central from Chicago,
which came in shortly after noon behind
four engines. 7 . light the Burlington and
Wisconsin Central started their Chicago
trains on time, and the Northwestern,
little later. Neither the Milwaukee nor
Minnesota and Northwestern started their
Chicago train tonight. The last
train on the Minnesota and Northwestern
left here night before last. The Milwaukee
EXPRESS from Chicago, due here at 9 this
nothing, has not yet arrived at 9 tonight
The Hastings and Dakota, Iowa and Min
nesota and Southern Minnesota divisions
of the Milwaukee abanoned all trains today
The Milwaukee system has been badly OBJ
structed by the SHOW of January T. but the
Manitoba e. Northern Pacific have suffer
ed most. On the entire Manitoba system
the only trains moving today were those
between this city and Minneapolis,
and those over level strip of
prairie to Evansville, Mimi. north
to Netche, OAK The North
ern Pacific has made manful struggle to
keep its main track open and its through
trains are advancing slowly, though some
of them are two days late, but on the
whole road clear to the mountains only
one freight was moving today. Neither
the Manitoba nor the Northern Pacific
started trains from here today The storm
has cleared up all over the northwest, for
the time being at least, and tomorrow the
effort to open the main tracks will begin.
At 10 p. m. the thermometer here stands
twenty below.
ALBUQUERQUE, n. NJ, Jan. 13 The
heavy snow storm between Flagstaff and
Williams, Arizona, on the Atlantic q Pa
cfic railroad, has suspended business on
this road. No trains have left Albu-
querque over this line for the past twenty
four hours. Arrangements have been
made with the Southern Pacific whereby
regular Atlantic a. Pacific passenger
trains will pass over that line until the
blockade is opened.
ST. PAUL Jan. 13-A Pioneer Press
special from Canton, Oak, says two chill
dren of Mr.. Fitzgerald, at Inwood, Ia,
We're cauget in the blizzard while going
home from school and persisted.