Morning journal and courier., 1894-02-13
NEWS BY TELEGRlPH. From All Quarters. HEAVY SNOW AND GALES Terrific Storms Raging All
 Over the Country. IN AoxoR OF 'LlNceLK's BIRTHDAY. Celebrated Last Night by
 Many Banquets. ANOTHER CAFE WRECKED BY | BOMB. Twenty Inmates Injured
 But None Killed.
ANOTHER CAFE WRECKED BYA BOMB,
IT'S A REGULAR BLIZZARD.

Since the Big Blizzard of Six Year AgO-In New York Travel is I'm peded and Mails Are Delayed-It fl the Advance Guard of a Worse On, TO.day-In Chicago People Wer, Blown From Their Feet ant Aeainst BuildiDss-The Storm fl Universal All over the Country. NEW YORK. Feb. 12.-The storm whicl began in the west last night reached thi city shortly after l o'clock this afternoon The city to night is covered with @ msntl, of snow several inches thick. Travel o sll kinds is greatly impeded and the incon veniencs to pedestrians Is so great that none, but those who are compelled, tc venture on the streets. The storm is tho most severe one of the season and is ex peeted to last until tomorrow night ol Wednesday. The thermometer is down tc twenty degrees and the wind is blowing from the northeast at the rate of thirty miles an hour. All trains are behind time and the mails from the south and west are greatly delayed. The ferry houses are blocked with belated passengers waiting for the overdue ferryboats, which are compelled to run at a considerably reduced speed.
 Sergeant Dunn of the weather office said to night that this storm was but the ad vance guard of one more severe, which would be followed bya very cold wave. Danger signals have been ordered up all along the coast. and vessels have been warned not to leave port. At the rate the snow is falling 1t will be blizzard almost.
 Dispatches from New Jersey report a similar state of sfairs. The storm along the New Jersey and Long Island coasts is particularly severe. It is probable that several wrecks will be reported tomorrow.
 FREMONT, O, Feb. 12 In blIndins snow storm which has tesn raging all morning, a west bound and an east bound train on the Wheeling and Lake Erie road collided two miles west of Bellevue about 10:30 o'clock. Both engines and several freight cars were smashed and piled up in confusion. Work was at once begun to rescue the trainmen who were still in the wreck. When the men were gotten out 1t was found that Engineer Cornell and Fire man AeNullen of engine 25, Brakeman Johnson and Engineer Sam Stowell of engine 28, were killed. The cause of the wr-ck Is 8 mystery.
 HOhI " A1NEi Auoss Y oo 1S,- n6 WOTst blizzard in years ragged here to day. All abandoned. The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago passenger train Is snowbound at Mccoy.
 NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Feb. t2.-A snow storm commenced in this city jus. before snnset and has ragged ever since. A high wind is blowing and by morning the streets will be badly blocked, as the snow at mid night has drifted badly. The storm shows no sign of abatement.
 BRocKToN, Mass, Feb. 12-It com menced to snow about p. m. and at 10:3O about eight inches had fallen with the wind northeast and increasing In velocity every hour. Electric blows are hard at work trying to keep the tracks of the Brockton street railway company clear with little success as the snow Is falling rapidly.
 SALEM, Mass, Feb 12.-The stor m which struck here this afternoon Is the most severe of the season, Increasing in intensity until at midnight the wind is blowing a gale and snow drifting rapidly until the roads are almost impsssabls. Early in the evening the street railways were obliged to give up all attempts to run on schedule time and devoted their efforts to keeping the tracks open.
 CHICAGO. Feb. 12.-The worst blizzard which ever struck this city, SO far as the weather bureau records show for twenty three years, is raging here. Street traffic Is greatly impeded and walking Ia accom- panied with great danger to life and limb. Many persons have already been IT. are ] by being blown to the ground, against walls and street posts by the wind. The velocity Is eighty miles an hour, the high. est ever recorded for this city and s.mosi double the velocity of the wind which is blowing blizzard in the western states.
 Street cara plowed through drifts, drawn by four horees. On nearly all railroads in coming trains were from half an hour to hours late. The wind made sport witt eveIythin1 that was not securely fastened The gale from the northwest piled tn, water of the lake in tremendous waves OF the shore. Along the south shore the spray was carried inland hundreds of feet and fell in deenching showers on the Illinoi Central cars. Telephone and telegraph wires suffered from the storm. Many wire | were torn from their fastenipgs, poles wer, blown down and many other wires wer, rendered useless by being shaken ant tossed so as to strike against other wires. In the central district of the city tn storm was at its worst. It seemed to b | motion on foot was almost impossible rhe stock yards there was . practical sus | pension of business ell the morning Tn driving snow made signals on railroa' tracks practically useless and caused col lision between two freight trains on tn Lake Shore tracks near Seventy. mint etreet and Stoney leland. Several ear | were wrs cked and one engine was bsdl | damaged. Fireman Webster had his righ foot crushed.
 More accidents were reported to the pc lice to-day resulting from the high win
 and the generally dissgreeable westhe
 than for any day for years. The ambu
 lsnces were kept busy large part of tn
 day. Moses Bloom, jr., member of th
 board of trade, wac carried twenty feet b
 the wind and struck agsinst a curbston,
 The cspbone of his wrist was fractured
 John Ii Wood, manager of Carson, Plsrr.
 Scott & Go was struck on the back an
 painfully wounded. Mrs. Brahsny ws
 lifted of her feet and dashed against 8 hr
 plug. Two of her ribs were broken an
 she suffered internal injuries.
 In the outlying districts business VI
 practically suspended. Drifts of sno
 from five to ten feet were piled up again
 the front doors of many stores. In nl
 merous localities the streets were impas
 able to vehicles, enormous drifts filling tt 1 thoroughfsre to height of ten feet. IT
 storm abated about 2 o'clock thls evenin
 Reports received from points throughol
 Illinois, Michigan and Indiana indica
 that the etoTm was general. The fall
 snow was heavy and in many places trah
 and travel were practically suspended.
 TOPEKA, KanF., Feb. 12.-An railros, in Kansas are blocksded with snow ar scarcely a wheel ia turning in the stat ' The storm Is the most severe experienc, in Kansas for several years. It is @ boa to wheat growers, as it furnishes tl ) ground with much needed moisture.
 SAN ANTONIO, Tex Feb. 12.-Ths feve ,, wind and hail storm of last evening VI } followed by one of the worst northers
 the season. The counties west of here l
 port cattle ss suffering severely and hu , dreds of these in 6 weak condition di from exposure.
 mrs. stebbins, Delsarte Matinee.
 In Warner hall on Saturday afterno 8 an exhibition of the Delsarte method gymnastics will be given by Mrs. Ger
 visve Stehbins of New York. Mrs. Sts g g bins exhibitions in New York city hs
 been attended by large audiences of thu y interested in the physical culture and lil !, gymnastics. Mrs. Stebbins will show 1 !. distinguishing characteristics of Delssrt