Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-01-26
NOTHING BALMY IN THIS.
KANSAS CRY VISITED ny HEAVY
SNOW STORM AND CoLD BLASTS.
Street. Biankctcd by Three inches OF ''thc
Beautiful" and the End Is Not
yet-Widc Extent of the
storm.

a erea' sfo-ni spread itself over the ma
,or por'r,0 ot the United states yesterday
and. like ia. famous heather, II "rdged'
all day and was stIll agitating the elo-
ments at an carly hour this morning
Weather Prophet Connor and his corps ot
assistants who had hecu busy for twenty
four hours previously TO the arrival oi the
blizzard sending out emergency warnings
10 railroad officials and postmasicrs, werc
Kept on the alert all day yesterday trying
10 keep track Of their latest improved
"wind mill" and other apptrtus upon the
roof OF the Rlalto building. Besides this
they had to answer the telephone aud re
reive' weather cranks who rushed to tn"
iron, to talk about the big storms that
were Just like this one forty and hfiy years
ago.
The storm, which Observer Conuor says
had been lurking behind the Northern
Rockies for some days, made It's appear
ance in the Northwest on Friday morning.
il moved eastward rapidly during the DAY
and Friday night, and by yesterday mofH-
ing was in Kansas CITY. The storm was
accompanied by high winds, which seem
TO be Increasing In violence as II progresses
eastward.
Last night the storm was central over
the territory lying between the Great
Lakes and the ohio valley South OF the
Ohio It prevailed In the form of rain at
Nashville and Chattanooga, but ut Chicago
the worst was just commencing, and while
they had as much snow on the ground i'll
the "Windy City" last night as had fallen
In Kansas city, three inches, yet the wind
was blowing there at the rate of iifty
miles an hour. and the terrific gales were
iaging over the Great Lakes. The storm
will be heavier to-day, the weather bureau
officials say. than II was yesterday, Tn"
wind was blowing at the rate Of thirty-siX
miles an hour in St. Louis at midnight, but
in Kansas city IL was comparatively calm,
although the snow was still falling slightly
at that hour. The fall of snow had cN-
tended MS far South Little Rock. 1t
rained at Little Rock in the morning but
the rain turned to snow later in the day,
and Mt midnight It looked though the
people OF that city might go sleigh riding
this morning, thing that rarely happens
In that latitude Al Springfield, Mo, a
body of snow several inches deep had aC-
cumulated by midnight and !; was stifl
showing.
The sheet of snow extended far north
ward into the Canadas, ana probably there
IS no bare ground this morning between
Kansas City and the North pole, In Kan
sas City but little over three inches of the
frost moisture has fallen. but sleighbells
were jngling about the streets during the
evening. To the northward through Iowa.
Nebraska and Minnesota, high winds We're
reported 10 be driving the snow into drifts
ana causing II DIpChiue Ol IdllTpdNS. ne
trains running into Kansas City from the
North We're most of them delayed several
hours last night. and those from other di-
rect!ons We're somewhat late in arriving,
but no complete blockade was reported
during the evening from any direction.
The street railways in Kansas City all
struggled bravely against the falling OBJ
structons and all were kept running except
the Peoples Gable railway, which quit dur
ing the afternoon, ana did not run again
last night over either Tenth street or
Brooklyn avenue.
At the weather bureau last night 1t was
given out that although the storm had
slowed up greatly. It would probably pass
off by this forenoon and that fair but cold
weather would follow to-day.