Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-14
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE FURY OF THE STORM. Terrible Weather In The
 Northwest. HARDLY k TRAIN RUNNING. The Bitter Cold Claims
 Many Victims. OMlN0Us SIGNS IN EUROPE. A Midnight Scene In State
 Prison.
0MlNoUs SIGNS IN EUROPE.
THE sLIzzARDT Tr FULL BLAST.

THE BLIZZARD Tr FULL BLAST. | Railroad travel Almost at a StandstiIl | -The Mercury Way Below Zero But the Storm Generally Over-many | Persons Frozen and Some Entirely 1 Overcome by the Bitter Cold. 1 ST. PAUL, Jan. 13.-The storm cleared up here early this morning, but up to this evsn- l ing the only trains arriving or departing were | suburban with the sole exception of the Wis consin Central from Chicago, which came in shortly after noon behind four engines. To- night the Burlington and Winconsin Central | started their Chicago trains on time and the | Northwestern later. Neither the Milwaukee ! nor Minnesota and Northwestern started their Chicago trains to-night. The last train on | the Minnesota and Northwestern left night ! before last. The Milwaukee express due at 9 | this morning had not arrived at tonight. The Hastings and Dakota, Iowa and | Minnesota and Southern Minnesota di- 1 visions of the Milwaukee abandoned all trains oday. The Milwaukee system has not been so badly obstructed I since the storm of January ?, 1883. But the Manitoba and Northern Pacific have suffered | most On the entire Manitoba system the only trains moving to-day were those between this city and Minneapolis and those over level strip of prairie from Barnesville, Minn., north to Nechi, Dak. The Northern Pacific
 has made big struggle to keep it's track open and it's through trains are advancing slowly though some are days late, but on the whole road clear to the mountains only one freight was moving today. The storm has cleared up all the Northwest and tomorrow the effort to open the main lines will begin. At 10 D. m the thermometer stands at 20 be- low.
 DULUTH, Minn., Jan. 13.-All trains gent out yesterday for this city were from fifteen to thirty hours late and to-day all trains were abandoned until evening when the St. Paul and Duluth sent out the limited. The train which left St. Paul on the Duluth at eight o'clock yesterday morning did not reach here until p. m. The Northern Pacific aban- doned it's trains to day. It is about 20 below zero tonight and growing colder.
 OMAHA, Jan. 13-The effects of the pres ent storm in Omaha have been disastrous. Fred Eller, cigarmRker, was found early this morning frozen to death within a block of his boarding house. Two school children, Wexell Beck and George Allen, started for their homes about o'clock yesterday after noon and have not been heard of since.
 young lady is also missing. It is feared she has perished. The thermometer is 16 degrees below tonight and rapidly falling.
 SIOUX CTTY, Ia., Jan. 13.-The storm of
 yesterday was the fiercest on record. During the gale fire occurred in the business center
 of the city and it required hard fighting to
 subdue. Many fremen report frozen hands
 or feet. Trains are all abandoned except on
 the Sioux City and Pacific and the Chicago,
 St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Southern.
 VALUATION, Dak., Jan. 13.-The most ter
 rife storm ever witnessed in this latitude has
 been upon us for the last forty eight hours.
 It reached its worst yesterday and from 10
 o'clock until dark there was not ten minutes
 that buildings on the opposite side of the
 street could be seen. The mercury gradual
 ly dropped from about 10 above to
 16 below at dark last night. 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 provisions being carried to
 them. Ropes were stretched from the corner
 of Main street to the school house to enable
 those carrying provisions to go and come
 with safety. It was impossible to reach the
 railroad station after o'clock and the agent
 and several others were compelled to remain
 over night without dinner supper.
 RAYMOND; Dak., Jan. 13.-The damage to
 live stock will be great, while the reports of Suuer1Dg ana Q6aLl are constantly COLnluR Ill., Two sons of William Driver were frozen to death within a few feet of the barn. Charles
 Heath is missing and J. H. Clapp has been discovered badly frozen, he having been out all night wandering upon the prairie. The elevator of Archer 6 Howe has gone down with thirteen thousand bushels of grain. Other minor casualties are reported. ST. PETER, Minn., Jan. 13.-The last train reached here Wednesday night and none are expected before Sunday. There is scarcity of wood.
 M1NoT, Dak, Jan. 13.-No trains are the wind is blowing. It was 38 below zero this morning. An attempt will be made to open the cuts and move passengers. There is fourteen inches of snow on level badly drifted. James Smith and two sons aged fifteen and seventeen started for load of hay six miles from town on the 11th and have not since been heard from. Searching parties are out. Several other persons are missing.
 ADRIAN, Minn., Jan. 13.-Several farmers living twelve to fifteen miles north started home from here about 8 o'clock yesterday | and have not yet been heard from. John Doring Camper, 8 farmer living a mile north, | who was at a neighbours a quarter of @ mile l away, started home and was lost. Some | fifty villagers started to find him to-day, | but have not done so. The storm is still | raging.
 | | morning the house of Theodore Preston, | farmer, caught fire and was entirely consum- ! cd Mrs. Preston, Miss Preston and ser- \ want boy were badly frozen through being l exposed to the blizzard and were found help- | less in the stable.
 JAMESTOWN, Dak., Jan. 13.-The storm 1 still continues although much abated. The | thermometer at noon marked 27 below. Yes | terday's west bound limited, showed up at | Wheatland all day, arrived this evening about forty hours late. The Northern Pa l cific main line and branches all block l ed and all trains are delayed from twelve to
 thirty-six hours.
 LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 13. = Yesterdays storm abated at an early hour this morning | and to-day the weather has been clear and
 cold. The fall of snow was heavy and it is drifted badly. Tho Union Pacific and Missou- ri Pacific are blocked. The Burlington and
 Missouri River Road has experienced much
 difficulty in running trains, but the blockade
 is now about raised and it is thought there
 will be no more difficulty. No casualties
 have been reported.
 A Disastrous Blaze at Indianapolis.
 INDIANAPoLIs Jan. 14.-1:30 B.. m.-One
 of the most destructive fires that has ever oc-
 cured in this city broke out about Il
 lp. ID. in the cellar in the rear part
 of D. P. Erwin's dry goods house
 and spread rapidly. This building and
 I the wholesale grocery house of George w.