The record-union., 1896-11-28
Zero Weather and High North Winds
Prevailing in Nebraska.
Cyclones in Texas and Mississippi,
Doing Great Damage to Property
and Resulting in the Death OF Two
PeopIe and the Injury OF Many
Others-Kentucky Also Visited by
a Severe WindstOrm.

MOORHEAD CMinn), Nov. 27.-One
of the severest blizzards that mas In
years visited this section Is raging To-
day. It has been on twenty-four hours,
and there is no prospect OF abatement.
Traffic in the streets and business is SuS-
pended. Nearly all passenger and
freight trains are showed In, but the
Northern Pacific managed to move one
passenger train this morning. Number
8. northbound, on the Great Northern
reached here an hour late this morning,
but got stalled at the depot, and had
to be dug out 1t took four powerful
engines to take four passenger coaches
across the river to Fargo, where further
trouble is feared. The trains are un-
provided with snow plows, which rem
ders the engines almost helpless. The
snow in some places is four and five
feet deep.
MERCURY AT ZERO.
FERGUS FALLS (Minn), Nov. 81
Trains are badly delayed. The mercury
is at zero Business is suspended.
WORST BLIZZARD EVER KNOWN.
ARGYLE (Minn.), Nov. 21--The worst
blizzard ever known here has been rag
ing for the past thirty-six hours.
Drifts in the streets are as high as the
buildings alongside. Mail and freight
trains are all tied up. The snowstorm
shows no signs of abatement. There
may be a number of deaths reported
later.
TRAFFIC BLOCKADED.
ST. PAUL (Minn), Nov. 2I.-The
storm which has been raging through
out the Northwest for the past forty
eight hours is the severest that has ever
visited this section since the blizzard
of January II. 1888. in which 107 lives
were lost. No lives are reported lost
in this storm, but there is complete
blockade of traffic in Northern Mime
sofa, North Dakota and portions of
South Dakota Trains into ST. Paul
from the West are from FIVE tc 1er
hours late, or abandoned altogether. 1t
is degrees below zero here tonight.
with a terrific northwest wind blowing
COLD HIGH NORTH WINDS.
LINCOLN (Neb), Nov. 27.-Dis-
patches from Southeast and Central
north winds. To-day and tonight were
the coolest for November in the State
for years. Among small farmers stock
is well provided for, but further north
on the range there will be loss. Not
half of the corn crop has been gathered,
and with a heavy coating of ice, which
prevents husking, hundreds of thou
sands of bushels seem destined to re-
main in the fields until spring.
REPAIRING THE DAMAGE
OMAHA, Nov. 27.-All the roads run
ming west and northwest have been busy
for the last thirty-six hours getting up
the telegraph wires and poles that went
down in the storm. The Elkhorn was
put in the worst plight of all. Four
hundred poles were down.
The ST Paul and Omaha wires are all
In bad shape near Sioux City and Man
kato. Minn. In a stretch of eighteen
miles the wires We're broken in fifty
places, forty-one poles down and fifty
eight cross arms broken.
Since early Thursday morning there
has been no telegraphing over the Union
Pacific west of Columbus. Six hundred
The Burlington does not have a great
deal of trouble on its Western lines.
CYCLONE IN TEXAS.
WACO (Tex). Nov PA cyclone
visited a section twenty miles south
east Of Waco on Wednesday and de-
moushed several farmhouses. Damage
occurred near the town of Mart, Nc
Lehman County. with which there Is 10
telegraphic communication. News
comes from Re1sel. six miles from Mart
that the residence of r. A. Douglass
was totally destroyed. his wife severely
hurt and one of his children was killed
outright
Five persons were more or less in
iured as far as heard from. The tenn
perature ranged at nearly summer
heat In passing over the prairie the
cyclone took away everything 1t touch
ed. leaving the earth bare of grass. 1t
was mile wide and eight miles long.
STORM IN KENTUCKY.
PADUCAH (Ky). Nov. 21.-Owing
IN the wires being down only meager
details of the storm which swept West
Paducah last night have reached here.
One house was destroyed at Fulton and
considerable other damage done there.
A man and child are missing from
Kuttawa, KY. 1t Is believed they
were blown into the Cumberland River
and drowned.
The depot was wrecked at Eddyfeld,
a factory blown down and the court
house unroofed.
CYCLONE IN MISSISSIPPI.
MEMPHIS CTenn). Nov. "a cy-
clone struck a corner OF Tunison. Miss,
last night, wrecking a boxcar and sew
eral small houses, and killing negro
woman, besides seriously fnjuring half
a dozen others. 1t scattered household
effects over a broad area of the city.
and the only reason why fatalities Were
not appallingly numerous Is due to the
sparse settlement of the territory.
CATTLE FROZEN TO DEATH.
DEVILS LAKE N. d., Nov. "a
trainload of cattle are reported stuck
In a drift near Churches Ferry and
frozen to death. The wires are down.
forbidding direct communication.
Death of a Famous Astronomer.
CAMBRIDGE (Mass.). Nov. 21.-As
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