The record-union., 1891-02-10
STORMY WEATHER.
A BLIZZARD RAGING THROUGH
OUT WYOMING.
Several Persons Frozen to Death in
Nebraska-TOrnado in
Alabama.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
CHEYENNE, Feb. "a terrible blizzard
has been raging throughout this vicinity
the last twenty-four hours. Stockmen
are apprehensive of severe losses of cat
tie. No West bound trains reached
Cheyenne yesterday over the Union Pa
cific or the Burlington.
A relief train with provisions has been
sent out to the fast mail and overland
fiier, which is stuck in the snow forty
miles east of here.
FATAL BLIZZARD IN NEBRASKA.
OMAHA, Feb. 9-The storm ceased last
night in Nebraska, and is succeeded
by severe cold.
Specials to the Omaha Bee show that
number of lives were lost in Nebraska
during the blizzard. The wife of Milton
Cummings, a farmer near Rushville, who
started from town for home on Saturday
was found dead in her buggy within forty
rods of a neighbours house. Eddie Child
ster and Stephen st. Peters, 14-year-old
Kearny boys, who had been out hunting,
were found frozen to death in cornfield.
M. L. Lissent, residing three miles north
OF Chadron, is supposed to be buried un-
der big Snowdrift, and searching parties
are looking for the body.
STORM sUBsIDING.
RAPID CITY IS. d., Feb. 9.-The biz
Zard wore itself out during the night, and
by the arrival of ranchers from the out
lying points the extent of its severity is
becoming known. So far no loss of stock
is reported. A young man named Grant
Bay and school teacher, Miss Gray, who
left town with a team during the blizzard,
were found by cowboys some distance
from the road. They had been overcome,
and it is feared they will die.
FOURTEEN DEGREES BELOW ZERO.
HURON On. d., Feb. 9.-Reports from
various parts of the State concerning the
snowstorm indicate that the heaviest por-
ton OF the storm was in Jim River Val
ley, Huron being nearly the center. The
wind attained velocity of fifty miles per
hour. and the thermometer this morning
reaching fourteen degrees below. The
heavy snowfall in Jim River Valley is
hailed with delight, because of the moist
ure it viii afford.
TORNADO IN ALABAMA.
BIRMINGHAM (Ala.), Feb. "a tornado
struck Helena this afternoon, unroofing
Two or three people were painfully in
jured. The storm went on in north
eaSterly direction. and it is reported to
have struck Talladega.
IT REACHES TEXAS
SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 9.-The coldest
blizzard for the past two years reached
here last night, and before midnight the
mercury had fallen "A degrees, with the
wind blowing thirty miles an hour.
West of here the zero point was reached,
and high wind scattered the fiocks and
herds.
SIGNAL SERVICE REPORTS.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.--The storm last
night over the Mississippi Valley from
Iowa southwark developed into decided
storm center near Lake Michigan. Gales
on the lakes, billiards in the Northwest
and northers on the plains, reaching
Texas, are now prevailing. Gales may
be expected ON the Atlantic Coast, and a
cold wave over the-States east of the Mis-
sisissippi River. On the Gulf Coast the
norther is likely to be very severe.
Heavy SHOWS are causing blockades in
the lake regions and Atlantic States
north of Maryland.
THE TEMPERATURES.
CHICAGO, Feb. 9.-The temperature at 8
O'Clock this morning was as follows:
Chicago, 32o; Cincinnati, 360; st. Louis,
"a above, and Winnipeg, 32' below.