Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-02-15
A Fierce Gold Blizzard From the
Dakotas to the Gulf.
ZERO zEPHYRS IN DIMES LAND
THE MERCURY AWAY DOWN BELOW
ZERO, TRAINS BLOCKED UP-GREAT
DAMAGE TO CATTLE AND

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There is much suffering among
mortormeu aud street car con-
ductOrs.
Knoxville, Tenn, Feb IA
snOwstorm, which ragged thirty
hours without cessation, ended at
noon to-day. The snow is about
twelve inches deep on a level. At
9 o'clock tonight the thermometer
registered . degrees above zero.
1t will 90 to five below before
morning.
THE WORST SINCE 1888.
Sedalia, Mo-, Feb. T. The worst
blizzard since 1888 is sweeping
over this section. The train from
Kansas City, due at 10 80 o'clock
last night. struck sew raj drifts,
and did not reach here until ii
o'clock this forenoon. y her trains
are late Nj. X. and L. passenger
trains from Texas being niue hon!s
behind Stock has suffered severely.
TRAINS ALL BLOCKED UP.
Parry, .. T., Feb. THE bllz'
zlrd that set in here yesterday Is
the worst storm the Territory has
in twenty years. From
8 o'clock last night till > O'Clock
this morning tho thermometer
registered from 10 to ID degrees
below zero. Tue wind blew a
hurricane from the North. No
trains have arrived here since
yesterday evening.
PASSENGERS SUFFER GREATLY.
Chappell, Neb., THE UuiOn
Paci6c's Atlantic EXPRESS was
wrecked y mile from here this
morning by a spreading rail.
Four cars and the engine were
overturned. The thermometer was
80 degrees below zero, and tie
suffered greatly.
FAMILY FROZEN To DEATH.
Hastings. Neb., Feb. S.-Reports
from southeastern part of the
country say that a father had
gone to the village of Juniata for
provision and was Overtaken by
he blizzard and frozen TO death,
and his family persisted during his
absence. The weather is so bitterly
cold that an investigation has
been delayed. Their names are
unknown.
THIRTY TWO BELOW.
Julesburg. Col, Feb. S.-The
cold waye continued here until
midnight. Yesterday at one time
the thermometer was 32 below.
BAD BLIZZARD NOW.
WATERFOWL, n. Y, Feb. S-The
severe cold wave which has pre-
vailed over this section for the
past two days has been succeeded
by one of the worst bllzz 'rds this
year. Snow is heavy and packs
hard. All railroads are blOckaded.
TEN FEET OF SNOW ON TRACKS.
Sunbury, Pa, Feb. ST, D
inches of snow fell here last night
and has badly drllted. All Penn
s,lvania and Philadelphia and
Reading trains are blocked and
freight trains haye been annuIled
aud all passenger trains are very
late. The Lewis burg and Tyrone
branch between MontandOn and
BellefOnle in the mountains is
closed The tracks are covered by
ten feet OF snow and drifts aud
slides are twenty feet deep. All
trains on this branch have been
Abandoned.
PENNSYLVANIA TRAINS CAN'T
MOVE.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Feb. S.-The
drifting of snow has blocked all
the railroads ia this vicinity and
some trains have been abandoned
while others are from five
to six hours late. The New YORK
train on the Lehlgh due at ii
o'clock last night, did not reach
here until late this morning.
Traffic between here and surround
ing towns is at a standstill. The
is intensely cold aDd
have ceased in nearly
all the coal mines 10 this region.
TWELVE BELOW IN ENGLAND.
Loadon, Feb. 6.--The cold
weather increased last night all
,ver Great Britain aud was &C.
,Ompanied 10 many places by snow
storms. Trains in the Highlands
If Scotland have been abandoned.
At Market HarbOr the thermometer
registered twelve degrees below
Iud al Gravesend at midnight
he Thames was fIozen over from
hore to shore. At Leicester
nercury was ten degrees below
Turing the night,
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