Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-02-08

registered deg below. and ii Is growing
colder. severe wind Is blowlng and
| train service on all but two roads is se-
rlously blocked. Freight trains have been
| abandoned.
card. with wind forty-nve miles an hour,
i set In at O'Clock this morning Their
mometers above zero, aud falling deg.
81. Joseph, Mo, Feb. THE blizzard
which struck this section yesterday in
! creased during the night, and at 3 this
! below zero tho coolest of the winter. street
| c2r traffic was much impeded. and on some
| Of ne railroads west Of here freight serv-
trains Were. operated with dlmcuity.
Ca, GaenS S;,..l Kas., FEB 7.lspegial1 The
in se history hs Of soaRerh n Si
| !. now being experienced at this place;
/ OF rain. and since that time has steadily
/ grown worse. This, with SO much other
! months, has caused most of the mines here
| to SHUT down. throwing hundreds Of men
9nmtt of employment who depend upon their
| lilies.
ottawa, Kas, Feb. 7,-Cspeclal) The
ty-six hours is the worst known for many
years. \ perfect whirlwind of binding
morning the thermometer registered u
Railroad tranlc was completely blocked
TIN ! o'clock this afternoon. when the
santa Fe got a train in from Kansas city,
/ Many trans are not IN yet, while others
are running from three to fourteen hours
iHie., The high school and many OF the
ward schools were. dismissed on account
OF the weather. Two children had their
feet badly frozen this morning coming
from the country.
: O'clock thtS mornns the tSefrtmTGometSerr Sr
registered II deg. below zero, and at no
! 5 below All trains running into the city
were three to five hours late on account
ing storm iG coming from -
which bids fair to continue during the
Marshall, Mo, Feb. .7-Cspeciall A reg
wind attaining a velocity of nfty or sixty
ana could hardly crawl with two engines
TO each. The weather has been extremely
thought tonight viii be the coldest of
the season.
Last night was the coldest night for meny
years. The thermometer registered IL deg.
from tie northwest, The Missouri Pa
ctic train, due here last evening, which
Ee Wa nn wa IN S f,e s 6sner ad nq
rived rived here sni this afierncon Al trains Are
yet arrived ANA the evening train has
probably been abandoned,
Last night at Fort Riley the signal service
INSTRUMENT registered 4 and the mercury
temperature has not risen above zero to-
day. The snow that fell yesterday piled
need of moisture, are not only bare, but the
heavy wind carried much of the soil away
from the roots.
Emporia. Kas., Feb. 7.-tspecial) The
for years, Trains are ali delayed, cuts be-
to remove Local freight trains were abail-
d9ne9 smGaiio o-d2y A. in s, AZ dreGsons r. witt
zard that swept over Central Missouri last
night was the most severe since 1883, The
deg. below zero, but the wind blew gale
from the north making the weather an;
hours late. The Lexington branch train
night. aid not arrive until ii O'Clock this
m9orninlg' t9l THIS train was stalled several
during, the night the passengers. including
several women and children, were forced
Steam Rad been cut o nd fO 20 "hSa nd the
smoker where a stove furnished enough en-
ra heat m to keep the trayfler5 from fregzng
were from one to nine hours late. Lex
ingt9n branch trains from Kansas City,
til p. m, being delayed by snow drifts
near Concordia. The temperature in Sc
fall; at 8 o'clock tonight it is I deg below
Guthrie, o, T. Feb 7-(specal) The
blizzard which ragged all day yesterday
the territory thermometers ranging from
15 to is below zero. Most of the trains
are. abandoned, and business at n stand
still, The suffering among the poorer set
tiers I'm the country is very great. and it
is #, feared IRE, IL there will , be many fat2ties
night was the coolest night in this city for
4. number of years the thermomster reg
only been one mail train into Eldorado in
Abilene, Kos., Feb. 7.--Cspecial) The
| mercury fell to il deg. below zero by gov
eminent signal service record last night,
the coolest IN years here a high wind
blew all night, To-day il has been clear
and warmer No cases of severe suffering
Mexico, Mo, Feb 7-CsrecialO This sec
four hours, has cxperiencsd one Of the
worst bliz2arls known within its history.
erod Af q aESoye g s he r rsg 9
10 g below. The wind blew n terrific gale
from the north; and the snow drifted until
Is suffering, but the winter wheat is farIng
Windeld Kas Feb. 7.-Cspocial1 The
a snow bank in the flint hills twenty miles
| east Il here, The southern Kansas is in
the Missouri Pacific is ten hours late. The
temperature Is rising, and the violent
winds have ahated but traffic is still at
DanviiIe, Va Feb. 7.-Tho mercury ,s AT
zero and the snow is eight TO ten inches
Rassh n Gii,zdrG Tse , In Point oe
weather record here is broken tonight,
| The thermometer is standing at deg.
above zero.
Petersburg, Va, Feb. THE whole of
the south side section of Virginia Is covered
with snow 10 the depth of six or eight inch
es, The he, thgrm93meter stands at above
Snow IS still falling slightly at midnight.
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