The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-02-08
ILLINOIS ALL TIED Up.

CHICAGO, Feb. 8, 1S95.-It is fortunate
for the people of this town that they
have been gradually hardened to the
| severe cold weather. for, according to
| the local weather bureau, their troubles
are only beginning. Yesterdays high
wind and low temperature foreshadowed
what was to come today, and when ther-
! moneters showed from 10 to 20 degrees
below zero this morning with a high
northwest wind, residents of the suburbs
merely took an extra hitch in the belts
of their ulsters. pulled their caps closer
over their ears and went out into the
storm as matter of course. 1t is the
wind that causes the greatest suffering.
1t is laden with fine particles of ice and
cuts the exposed cuticle like a knife. t
picks ice ana snow from the tops of the
sizyscrspers ai4a drives them in InassGs
into the faces Of the sfivering pedes-
TRANS. The. discomfort is greatly aug
mented by the partial sToppage of the
CABLE CAR MISHAPs
The cable lines have not at any time
broken cables, wed&ed grips and innu1ner-
able minor accidents, progress has been
show and unsatisfactory. The horse cars
have run without any attention TO schel-
ule. They get through as they can and
while half an hour frequently elapses
between the appearance OF cars. it is not
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dozen following in close order behind a
sweeper. The street car officials have
taken hand in the process Of accus TOM
ing the population to the cold and have,
as a general thing, allowed the fnfinitesI-
NAL fires in the cars to die out altogether.
STEAM RAILROADS
On the steam railroads the situation is
almost as bad. The Illinois Central,
which does the largest suburban traffic
eral times yesterday and dumped its
patrons into the. sncwdrifts at various
points along the lake front to pick their
way down town as best they could. The
Northwestern, which docs the next
largest business, got along better, and toe
Rock Island. which comes third, ran its
suburban trains practically on time. The
Lake Shore had two locomotives on each
train and suffered no delay. The ele-
waited roads as a rule were not affected
by the weather except at terminal sta
tions where trouble was caused by ice
in the switches The patrons of the
steam roads have the advantage of com
fortably heated cars and do not suffer SO
much as the unfortunate passengers on
street car linees.
reported in local railroad traffic, but the
old story OF huge snow drifts, disabled
Of through lines Ali trains from the
West and Northwest were from one to
twenty-four late or were abandoned alto
gether. The situation on the Eeastern
railroads was not much better and tele-
graphich reports Indicated that the stu
alton was becoming worse instead of
'-''A'' WATER FAMINE IMMINENT.
To add to the troubles of Chicegoans
a water famine is imminent. The un-
cold weather began has taxed the pumps
beyond their normal capacity, and reports
from the pumping stations say that they
This outlook, with the prospect that the
intakes at the cllbs win fl with ice
If the cold wave continues, causes great
anXiety; There. is even much difficulty
in keeping the intakes open, and men az
the cribs are exhausted by continuous
stop the waste of water wherever tiossi-
bic. About the only consolation left to
the shivering inhabitants Of Chicago las
worse eff. A tena-e5atUre Of frc;a tsE
to forty degrees below zero is reported
the he|t Upper peninsula Of Michigan the tenn
perature is so low that ordinary instru-
ments cannot record it.
oHIMcY NC ,sse Feb a,s., + 1sna 7sS5Ths Byrns
bound near Clayton, and in consequence
missed their engagement here last night.
Word has been received that a st. Louis
Keokuk and Northwestern train, going.
South, was abandoned near Burlington,
Iowa, yesterday. The report says that
the train is J., stuck 4 fast in big snow
There was quite a number of passengers
aboard, but these. were sent to Burling-
tga tpan out today s train r. ns Is n
another snow drift near Clayton. There
are many people aboard. The Quincy,
Omaha and Kansas City train which
should have been here Wednesday night,
was stuck in drift near K.rkev.lle yes
terday.. freight train stuck in the
snow, has tied up the Carthage branch
of the c. B. & @.
ROCKFORD Feb. 8, 1ss5.-Petriek Nc
Laughlin crawled into an ice wagon and
went to sleep esterday. He was found
wit his feet and hands frozen. His feet
will have to be anputated and he VIII
probably die, as he IS sixty years of
age.
PEORIA, Feb. s, 1sa5.-Chaeles De
wester was frozen to death in the bliz-.
zard of Wednesday evening. His body
was last seen in an intoxicated condi-
tion