Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-02-01
III is A BLIZZARD
Minnesota Has a Forty Mile
Wind and Snow.
TRAFFIC At A sTANDSTlLL
The Cold 10 Intense. and ~ 10 Feared
That Many Persons Have
Already Perlshed.

MrSsEAFoIfs. Minn., Jan. 3l.-Tbe
storm tbs, struck this city early today
only lacked weather TO be . genuine
blizzard. Although the snow fall here
was light and the weather mild. there
Was severe weather and heavy falls Of
snow IN North Dakota. South Dakota.
Montana. Washington. wisconsn and
lows. For five days snow has been
falling in the territory contiguous TO
Seattle. wash-, and there IL over
seventeen inches OF snow on the
ground.
At Mount Vernon. wash.. one above
zero IL reported. the coldest ever
known there. In Iowa the trains are
greatly delayed. and IN some instances
are unable TO run with any regularity.
Stockers reported suffering at the cold
est points IN the Northwest. The mail
trains from Chicago TO Minneapolis
were delayed some hours this morn
ing, as were trains from the West.
All reports from along the Canad ian
Pacific lines are missing on account OF
= furious storm In that part of the
country. Al Helena the mercury reg
listers forty-seven below, with a wind
velocity OF forty-one miles per hour.
At Bismarck the mercury fell to six
teen below, with the wind blowing
thirty-six miles per hour. The c0mbi-
nation makes severe weather.
AT Glendale. n. D., the wind is blow
ing at the rat Of sixty miles an hour.
Serious alarm Is felt for the safety OF
human lives and of stock on the prsi-
rles. The storm in Minnesota and the
Dakotas 10 the worst experienced IN
five years. Snow averages about three
feel deep on a .evel, and In come
places II has drlfted TO . height Of
fifteen feet.
ALEXANDRIA. Minn.. Jan. 3l.-The
first blizzard Of the winter has been
raging here since daylight this morn
ing. The wind at times blew forty
miles an hour and there was 80 much
snow in the Air that il was impossible
10 see acroes the street. Traffic on
wagon roads is completely suspended.
as nobody could long face storm Of
such severity. Trains on the railways
are moving several hours behind time.
GRANITE FALLS, Minn., Jan. 81
Snow has been falling here in sheets
for nearly thirteen hours. and the wind
is blowing with euch velocity that
pedestrians cannot face IT. Drifts have
| formed to the depth of several feet and
traffic 10 either wholly abandoned or
greatly retarded.
MARSHALL. Mimi, Jan. 3l.-With
too feet of snow already on the ground,
il began showing and blowing this
morning at q furious rate. Fuel Is
running low and farmers have only q
scant supply of feed for their stock.
| Ii is feared there will be much suffer
ing unless this cold snap 10 followed by
| . long spell of thawipg weather.
RorHsAy, Minp., Jan. 3l.--The most
terrific storm that has visited this sec
ton since the January blizzard of lsss
has been raging here since O'Clock
this morning. so much snow Is kept
| in the air by q forty-mile wind that i,
10 impossible for travellers TO sec more
than ten to twenty feet ahead OF them.
IL is getting cold very rapidly, and 1t Is
| feared that some unfortunate will be
caught IN the blizzard and frozen u
death.
! CENTER CITY. Minu., Jan. 3l.-A
storm OF such proportions has been on
here since early this morning that the
whole population has been driven IN
doors. business 10 at a standstill In the
logging camps, 40 the workmen dare
not venture away from their camps fol
fear of being lost aud frozen 10 death
There is more snow IN the woods than
for the past fifteen years. IL is from
two 10 three feet on the level and ~
exposed places the drifts are from five
TO fifteen feet deep.
OMAHA. Neb.. Jan. 3l.-The coldesi
wave of the winter 10 sweeping oyeI
the west. AT Chadron and Long Pine
Net., the thermometer 10 20 degreei
below, at kearney II 10 2l below, a.
| Herrloss. :. D.. II 10 SO below. and NJ
Dead wood 80 below. Al III o'clock to-
night the temperature in Omaha WAS
below and growing colder rapidly.
wIxNErEg, Man.. Jan. Sl.-The tenn
perature Swift Current. Northwest Ter
ritory 600 miles west OF winnipeg, Il
fifty degrees below zero, The cold wav'
ID travelling east and Is expected q
reach here tomorrow. The worst snow
storm OF the season ragged here today
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