The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-25
OUR FIRST BIG SNOW.
1t Is Falling Today All Over
Kansas.
Four or Five Inches On the
Ground Already.
STORM WIDESPREAD.
Trains Not Yet Reported as
Blockaded.
News From Various Points in
Kansas and Elsewhere.

The fellow that makes his yearly round
| and holds your office door open for the
admission of great chunks of the frigid
zone while he is singing his diabolical
! song about the "snow, the beautiful
snow has been having an unusually
good time today
1t has been showing steadily ever
| since four o'clock this morning. It
/ isn't drifting snow and the wind hasn't
done a great deal of serious blowing, but
all the same it has been uncomfortable
from the fact that it was light enough to
| blow into your eyes, causing you TO run
| against people as you hid behind the
! visor of your cap
! 1t was only seventeen degrees above
| ero this morning and there was no seri-
Gus freezing up of water pipes and water
pitchers to add to the misery of having
| to sweep the back porch to avoid slip
| ping down on it.
! There is little trouble in it for the
railroads, however. It hasn't drifted
enough for that and the trains on none
of the roads are late because of it. No
snow piows are out on the Rock Island
! or Union Pacific in this immediate vi
cinity and the same rule that estimates
the weather for Topeka today will ap-
DIV ali over Kansas ana INTO sOE10 Oh EIl0
adjoining states
Four Inches of Snow.
Not more than four inches of snow
has fallen altogether today. but if it
keeps on few hours longer as it has all
day, it will be serious yet.
The street railway is having just
little trouble with sliding wheels and
clogging snow, and two motor cars push
! ing a fiat car with d snow plow attach
| Ha0 <h -
the trolley road all day. Some of the
outlying streets were not reached for
while today at all, but these instances
are rare.
During the recent fine weather the
business of the Associated Charities had
fallen off a great deal but today it has
shot up again to an increase of applicants
for clothing that will keep the warm in.
The little folks are en- joying it and
there is good deal of speculation among
them over their studies today in regard
to the coasting and shedding tomorrow
and this afternoon. The mammas are
looking for extra wraps for their boys
and girls.
The young man and his girl will be
out sleighing tonight and tomorrow and
Sunday probably and there will be roses
on her cheek that will bring him to the
verge at least
The skating is spoiled except where
the snow is purposely swept off.
Extent of the Storm.
There is something doing in the wealth
er line in almost every state between the
Mississippi river and the Rocky Noun
tans today.
In Arkansas and Missouri it was rain
ing today, but the snow storm extends
over Kansas, Nebraska, the Indian Terri
tory, Colorado. Iowa and South Dakota.
Excepting west of us the temperature
has generally risen since yesterday.
The mercury has fallen two degrees
here since morning, and is now at fifteen
above. Mr.. Jennings says it will be colder
and fair tonight and tomorrow.
The Santa Fe line is open and the
trains were running on time at noon.
Snow-plows have been taken out and are
run before each train.
The snow-storm extends from Chicago
into New Mexico. All over the line in
Kansas the storm is much like it is here.
In Colorado and northern New Mexico
: there is less snow. The snow is driftin z
more or less all along the liue, but the
drifts have not become dangerous.
The Storm Elsewhere.
Snow began falling at Kansas City
, shortly after midnight and at noon there
, was no abatament The temperature is
! not very low and the snow is melting al
! most as fast as it reaches the ground
) At Perry, Okla, the snow has drifted
over two feet in some places with the
| thermometer below zero.
, Mexico, Mo, reports five inches and
. the precipitation still continues
! At ST. Louis the worst sleet storm ir
, years prevailed this morning, but beyonC
the breaking of few telegraph and
+ telephone wires, with their load of ice
! little damage was done. All electric
: street car lines were delayed in handling
traffic by slippery rails and a few burned
out motors Incoming steam railway
| trains were somewhat late but not ser
a iously so.
At Ft. Scott terrific snow storm il
, prevailing. Up to noon four inches hat
already fallen and there was no sign O
abatement The snow is accompanied
r. by a north wind and is drifting. Tn,
+ street railway has been forced to sus
pend
T In Southeastern Kansas.
}. At Pittsburg the worst snow storm O
f the season commenced at o'clock thi
f morning, and there is now between sever
o | and eight inches of snow, with the storm
3 still raging. Indications are good for
n blizzard The heavy fall of snow is con
d | sidered great benefit to the wheat croI
# | however, as it was beginning to suffer Of
L account of the recent freezing.
r At Abilene severe blizzard set in a
@ midnight and has continued all day.
v At Carthage, Mo-, snow began falling
; this morning at I o'clock and is now ST
IS inches in depth and the snow is still
falling. A cold rain and sleet precede