The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-15
VILLAGE ST0RM-SWEPT
DESTRUCTION TO LIFE AND PROP
ERTY AT MAXBURG.

Big List of Disasters in Northern New
York-A Blizzard Prevailing in the
Northwess-Horses and Cattle Per-
ishing With Cold in Wyoming-Rail-
way Travel Retarded.
OLNEY. ILL.,, Jan. 14-At the village of
Maxburg Sunday night, the cyclone over
turned dwelling houses, barns and cut
buildings. and wrought great damage. The
family OF Philip Nicholson were seated
around the fire when the storm came up.
The house was completely destroyed, and
Mrs. Nicholson instantly killed,
and her daughter, Miss Anna,
seriously injured. Aaron McWill-
Jams and his family of seven were
all caught under the rubbish of their
houses, and two children sustained serious
injury. The Methodist Episcopal church
and parsonage were destroyed. Quails
and other fowls were found dead, stripped
Of their feathers, and many large trees
uprooted lying along the path of the storm,
which was about fifty rods wide.
THROUGHOUT THE NORTHWEST.
ST.. PAUL, Jan. 14.-A genuine blizzard, the
first of the season, ragged over the northwest
the whole of Sunday and part of yesterday,
knocking out telegraph wires, delaying all
trains, and retarding the operations of log
gers in the pineries. Dispatches from prin-
cipal points in the Dakatas, Montana, and
as far west as Spokane Falls, Washington,
are to the effect that, on an average, snow
fell about 10 inches on level, and drifted
badly, owing to the strong winds, approach
ing hurricane. which prevailed.
RAILROAD MOVEMENTS IMPEDED.
Among the railroads vast difference in
the effects of the storm is found. The
Manhattan, Northern Pacific and Northern
Wisconsin division of the Omaha all report
little drifting. The Sioux City or southern
division of the Omaha, is suffering from
the usual drifts. The river division of the
Milwaukee was not affected, but the Iowa
and Minnesota, and Hastings and Dakota
divisions are badly drifted. The Minneap-
oils and ST. Louis, and Kansas City, too,
are somewhat covered up, the former
rather worse than the latter. The worst
drifts, however, appear to be on those lines
running through Northern Iowa and South
west Minnesota.
DRIFTS PILED TWENTY FEET.
Severe weather is reported generally
throughout the northwest. The blizzard is
raging at Beardsley, Mimi, drifts being
piled twenty feet high. A piercing north
wagon traffic is at standstill The first
great storm Of the season has struck Grand
Rapids, extending all over the upper Mis-
sissippi region. At New Salem the very air
was darkened by falling snow, and pedes-
trians could not see their hands before
them. At Wabasha thirteen inches
of snow has fallen. The highways are
seriously blockaded and trains are behind
time. From Neche, N. D., comes an ac-
cOunt of a varitah hla bli1zard 1uhiob rooad
for thirty-seven hours, rendering all travel
impossible through the heavy drifts.
LIVE STOCK PERIsHING FROM COLD.
CHEYENNE, WYo., Jan. 14.-Twelve to
eighteen inches of snow tas fallen in the
western end of the territory The snow
has crusted, and with the freezing of the
water, cattle, sheep and horses are perish
ing all over the range. An owner yester-
day received word from his ranch in that
section that scarcely an animal that could
not be fed would survive. Horses
have worn their hoofs to pieces trying to
beat through the crusted snow. Cattle and
sheep are helpless, game has been driven
from the mountains, and antelope have
been killed within the city limits of Evans
ton, while the stock has drifted to the rail
ways. Saturday and Sunday " ere intensely
cold, and two men were frozen to death.
DESTRUCTION IN NORTHERN NEW YORK
WATERFOWL, N. Y, Jan. 14.-Reports
are coming in to the Times from points in
Northern New York of damage done by
the wind storm yesterday. Every village
and all the country in jefferson. Lewis ana
st. Lawrence counties felt the force of the
storm, and bear marks of its violence.
Church steeples have fallen, plate-glass
fronts have been smashed, houses and barns
unroofed by hundreds, trees torn up and
ChimneVS demolished