Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-12-27
BOREAS RAMPANT.
SNOW Storms Play Havoc With Wires
and Delay Trains.
AN OLD SOLDIER FOUND FROZEN.
Deep SuoW-ticnulne M zzards-Tele.
graphic Communication Inter
rupted In Many Places.

PITTsBURG, Dec. a. - The snow
storm whioh started last evening proved
tho heaviest known here for several
yesrt. Up to 10 O'Clock this morning
twolve inches Of snow had fallen anu
II is still showing. Stree, car travel In
the city 10 seriously intofieted with
aud In some parts VI the city tho telc.
phone and telegraph wires are down.
The blizzard was general over this
section and especially severe In tho
Allegheny mountains where the snow
driited and impedsd travel.
The through trains from the East
are from four to seven hours late, snd
from the west they were nearly us
much behind time.
TWENTY iNCHEs Oh aSOw
DUBOIS, Pa, Dec. 27.-rhs storm
which began at dusk last evening con.
tinues without abatement. The ground
IL covered to depth Of twenty Inches.
ruill1 ON the Pennsylvania Valley
ROAD 10 practically al stands.ill.
Telegraph anu telephone wires are
Frustrated.
COVERED WITH SNOW.
Sr. LOUIS, Dec. gT.-All the ino5m.
ing trains NJ this point bear evidence
OF toe storm In the Mississippi vAlley,
those from the south being especially
covered with snow. The conductors
report fourteen inches " snow about
Psduchn. Western tralnmen do not
report az heavy fall.
low TEMPERATURE.
TORONTO, Ont., Dec. g7.-A blizzard
struck this city early this morning,
demonliEiug tue street railway traffic
for three n0urs. Tho velocity Of tue
vino decreased towards noon, but the
snuw IL still falling. la the eastern
part Of the province there 10 "a heavy
snOwstorm with the thermometer how.
eTing around the bulb.
SWEPT nY 4 blizzard.
SARATOGA, n. ". Dec. g7.-Tho
Adirondack region IL being swept by
blizzard, A foot Of glUw has ialioD
since midnight. II 10 being drittod by
northern gale.
IELEuRApHuC COMMUNICATION Is.
1EREUpIED,
NEW YURlS, Dec. g5.-ThcTo 10 no
| direct toltgraphic communication be-
/ twoon this city ana Sandy hvOk, ow-
ing 10 the slorm; all messages ute re.
oeived by way OF Long Branch. AT
SANDY Hook tue wind IL blowing a
mCdsrAts gale from hssHst northeast,
Anu tho rain csntiEuss. The water
along Staten Island shore IL unusually
high and In many places has mace =
clean breach al tbs docks. Al Qlarans
tine tho waves are breaking over TIE
stone wall built 70 protect the shore.
Reports from the interior indicate more
or less serious interruption to railway
ItAtilc, central Now York showing the
meet general disturbances.
FROZEN 10 DEATH
MARTINS FERRY, Ohio, Dec. a.
| John M0rland was tOuuu frozen this
morning ut Gioignis, Run, near his
home. lie was nn old soldier aud
worked Ia tue Ellison glass factory.
lie started to walk home from hero labi
night and was caught In the storm,
HORSES AND MULES KILLED.
| PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 27.-ThS
1 NANNN NNNA IA ANANN " AAh AN"h LIS 80 y ANaA W
snow Wrought great damage 10 the
telegraph anu telephone circuits, with
In a radius Of huy miles Of this city,
The Western union aud Postal Tele'
graph companies are badly crippled on
every circuit. The snow 10 from foul
to eighteen Inches deep over Pennsyl
vania today. Six horses and tive
mules were killed TO-DAY by coming IN
contact with the deadly electric lighl
wires blown down by tue storm.
A vERITABLE BLIZzARD.
CHICAGO, Ills, Dec. ~. The mer
curry foil with the snow here today ant
the storm developed into veritabl'
blizzard. The railway trains wer,
generally ON time, but the stree
blookades were humorous.
CAUSE OF THE STORM.
I .s,rV.rnsVstsr THa OF From IN.