New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-26
HEAV w SNOW IN THE FAX WES1.
RAILROADS IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
AGAIN BLoCKADED
GALES IN KENTUCKY AND rExAs-THUNpER-
STORMS IN NEw.YoRK AND OHIO.

STORMS N NEW.YORK AND OHIO
Denver. Col, Feb. % {speciaD.- Information re
ceiyed here this evening from ogden, Utah, says
." II reports from north and west are 10 be Uusto'
tho biggest snowstorm Of the winter Is now Ids'ue
Ii has laid of every train the entire lehgth Vi '"e
Utah and Northern and of the oregon short Line IRON
Grange, on the Union Pacific, to Pocatelo' Inv
storm increased in fury all day No effort Is nia"V
even TO take an engine out Of the rOundho oeN
eral work trains stuck and the men refuse u
face the binding storm at any price. Inc storm
seems to have started in on the coast OF oregon anu
Washington, and to have swept the Northern s'a,e'
and Territories far east as Wyoming, spending 'a
force as II moved eastward. The Central Pacihc eo
train through tonight. II was closed hVc uN
last week. owing TO storms and binding sho"
This makes almost tlroc weeks tho Central Pacih'
has been closed since January. superintendent
Knapp say, the storms at Truckee and Reno nave
closed tonight and 10 further trouble is expected
Oh that road
Canistco. y Y, Feb. % Cspccian.-At an early
hour this morning a severe storm passed over tlla
region. accompanied by thunder and lightning The
rain fell in torrents amid the vivid fla hes oi HShthS
and continuous pcas OF thunder.
Hopkinsvillc, KY. Feb. 2j.-Onc Of the most &c
structvo storms ccyr known in southern Kentucky
passed over this region Yesterday morning. destroy
ing several houses and doing great injury TO property
Near Bclleview, a village south OF this city six topac
co barns with all their contents. were destroyed ana
a dozen houses were unrooicd and blown down. Inc
loss Is estimated al $4,000. The river at tms
place IS almost out OF 1t, banks.
Carson New, Feb. 25.-Thorc was storm AT Lake
Tahoe Yesterday Small Graf smashed. and the
wharvea severely shaken. The force Of the WIND va
such that trees houses and wood plies we're blown "a
pieces The snow = drifting along the road here
covering the statlud fJscs and burying logging camps
Biddeford Me, rcL. 25.-Thc Ice hurvesters Hr'
working their crews IN the rain tonight, bhuinS aud
loading for shipment II is feared that If the ram
continues the river viii open and that contracts with
Massachusetts and Ncwlorl. buyers cannot be filed
The snow has nearly disappeared.
Dayton, Ohio, Tcb. 21.-An electric storm with
heavy rains flooded the rivers here yesterday. Rip
rap, and heavy l"vccs Wcf" destroyed, and a T..
inch natural gas main was torn away. The water VI
the creek shot into the air like cey>cr. and 4
column Of gas resembling black smOhe aSccndcd
about 200 feet, terrifying the p"opIc. The injury
FOR heating and cooking purpO,es.
st. Louis, Feb. "a dispatch b The Post DIS
patch says that hurricane swept ovcr a part OF
Northern Texas early th- morning. The Masonic
Hall in C,atnes vile torn 70 piccre the court
house uuroofcd the santa Fc kallroad station
Nobody wa Killed. but several persons were morl
or less damage. The damage viii be over $4,000
Lima, Ohio. Feb. 4i.-lhcra IS heavy damage here
from fOod Many county bridges Ncro swept away
as well A. the railroad bridge Of the Cincinnati Haul
ton and Dayton Auglazc River. running through
Lima overiowed al g y. m. causing CONSERVATION
among farmers and in the small towns.