The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-01-19

and this morning the billiards. forcei
mostly spent.
st. PAUL, Jan. Yesterday Z
storm was without exception, and
considering the extent the worst
that has ever been experienced IN the
north west. Snow to q depth OF two
feet on the level, and from five to IF
teen feet in cuts, was sufficient to al
most suspend the running of trains.
But added TO this severe wind. which
blew in some parts, and the blizzard
which ragged in others, it has suspend
ed railroad business entirely. Freight
trains were hung up early yesterday.
not wheel moving after MONDAY.
Passenger trains one by one followed
suit and by o'clock last
west of St. Paul. Eastern lines
however, worked hard to keep their
tracks open, but without success. at
O'Clock this morning the reports were
discouraging. Branch line trains were
all abandoned at junction points last
night and it is uncertain when they will
be opened. 1t is thought that some of
them will be closed for six weeks. The
wind is blowing hard on almost all
lines to-day and the cuts are being fill
ed in as fast as they ale pumped out.
The storm of yesterday is now raging
in Iowa. Besides that another storm
or a continuation of the recent one, is
expected to strike Minnesota Sunday,
in which case there is no telling what
the result will be. 1t is raging in Idaho
to-day, with the thermometer at var
ious points along the Northern Pacific
as low as 10 degrees below zero. Mani
toba reports from the northwest indicate
a cold wave with a high wind coming
from that direction. In fact things
look so dubious to-day that railway
men will not venture an opinion as to
when traffic will again be resumed.
Each line is putting forth every effort
to keep their Chicago line open, but
even that is almost an impoSsibility.
At noon to-day not a train had come
in, the Omaha limited being reported
nearer than any other one. All trains
over the western division have been
abandoned, and no effort will be made
to clear the tracks until the storm
ceases and the wind falls. The limited
from Chicago was at Kreapp at II
o'clock to-day with snow-plOw stuck
in ahead. The Rock Island abandoned
all trains last night, and up TO noon to
day no effort was being made to move
a wheel. Except on short line trains.
outgoing trains were abandoned. The
last overland train which reached st.
Paul came in Wednesday afternoon.
and the officials will not offer an
opinion as to when the next one will
reach here. The storm was severe all
through Montana, Dakota and Mime
sofa. A CroOkstOn. Mimi, special
says: No trains for two days. 1t be-
gan Glowing yesterday and piled snow
in heaps eighteen feet high. 1t is Bit
ter cold.
FEARS ENTERTAINED FOR IT'S SAFETY.
BISMARCK, OAK, Jan. 13.-The
stage left Washburn yesterday morn
ing for this city, a place fifty miles
rived 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 ar
rival. The great blizzard has evident
" spent its fury. Here the wind last
night was about forty miles an hour,
and the mercury was 25 below. This
morning it was 80 below and the wind
intensely cold. 1t is thought the
storm Wreaked it's worst vengeance in
this section. Farmers in town dare
not venture out. Section gangs are
working at snow drifts on the North
ern Pacific. The snow is very hardly
packed, and snow plOWS will not go
through. Trains will not reach here
till next week. The city schools are
closed for several days.
SEVERAL TOWNS SHUT OFF.
MADISON, Wis, Jan. 12.-Specials
from the interior of the state show that
many cit es are completely shut off
from railway communication with the
outside world. At Superior no mails
have been received for thirty-siX hours
The thermometer registered q degrees
below zero this morning. and all trains
on the Northern Pacific are either
or abandoned. No trains
have reached Madison since yesterday
The Palmpra accident is
the only railway mishap in consequence
OF the storm that has been reported
thus far.
SEVERAL MISSING.
OMAHA, Jan. 13.-Tne effects of the
present storm in Omaha have been
disastrous. Fred Eller, a cigar man
was found early this morning frozen
to death within a block of his board
ing house. Two school children,
Wexel Beck and Geogre Allen,
started from their homes about 8
heard of since. A large number of
people went over to Council Bluffs yes
telday and last night, and it was re-
ported this morning that some of them
were lost. The thermometer is Is de-
greeS below zero.
BR-R-R-R-R! PASS THE ICICLES.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. Jan. 13.-At
10 clock this morning the tempera-
lures were as follows, all below zero:
Grand Forks, OAK. 80, a rise of II de-
grees; Grafton. 80; Neche, 30; Fargo,
Y; jamestown, %; LarimOre, %; Dew
IFS Lake, 80; Minot, SO; Fergus Falls,
Mimi, %; Brainerd, %; Duluth, II.
At a. m. it was from Is to 20 degrees
colder than the above. Manitoba IS all
frozen up.
THE FIERCEsT ON RECORD.
SIOUX CITY, Ia, Jan. 13.-The storm
of yesterday was the tierCest on record.
Trains are all abandoned except on the
Sioux City & Pacific and the Chicago,
St Paul, Minneapolis s. Omaha Rail-
roads south.
HORRIBLE TO CONTEMPLATE.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. l3.-The fol-
lowing specials to the Pioneer Press TO-
night show someI hing OF the extent
and effects of the great storm.
AT JIMTOWN.
JAMESTOWN, OAK, Jan. 13.-The
storm still continues, although much
abated. The thermometer at noon was
~ OOAO"' . WON 4A14-
tied was showed in up at Wheatland
ali day, arrived this evening about
forty hours late. On the Northern Pa
cite, main line and branches, all trains
are delayed.
AT FERGUS FALLS.
FERGUS FALLS, Mimi, Jan. 49,
The blizzard has subsidized. and is sue
eeeded by intense cold. The roads are
drifted full, and business Is at a stand
still. There have been no trains from
either direction on the Manitoba
roads since Wednesday night,
the first tina in six years
that the road has not been open.
The Northern Pacific passenger train
got in yesterday at noon, and got
through to Wanpton, but got stuck on
the returning journey. No reports of
suffering have been received. No
trains are expected for at least twenty
four hours.
AT MINOL.
MINoL, Oak, Jan. 13.-No trains
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