The San Francisco call., 1896-11-28
Very Cold Weather Experienced
Throughout the Middle
West.
In the South Cyclones Cause lam ge
to Property - Death and
Injury.

the severest billiards that has in years
visited this section is raging to-day. 1t
has been on twenty-four hours, and there
is no prospect of abatement. Traffic in the
streets and business is suspended. Nearly
all passenger and freight trains are
showed in, but the Northern Pacific man.
aged 10 move one passenger train this
morning. No 9, northbound, on the
Great Northern, reached here an hour late
this evening. but got stalled at the depot
and had TO be dug out. 1t took four power
full engines to take four passenger coaches
across the river to Fargo. where further
trouble is feared. The trains are unpro-
vided with snow plows, which renders the
engines almost helpless. The snow in
some places is four and five feet deep.
DEVILS LAKE, n. D., Nov. PA
trainload of cattle are reported stuck in
the drift, near Churchs ferry, and frozen
to death. The wires are down, forbidding
direct Communication.
ST. PAUL, MINI. Nov. 27.-The storm
which has been raging throughout the
Northwest for the past forty-eight hours
is the severest that has visited this section
since the blizzard of January IL, 1888, in
which 107 lives were lost. No lives are
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complete blockade of traffic in Northern
Minnesota, North Dakota and portions Of
South Dakota. Trains into st. Paul from
the West are from five TO ten hours late.
1t is four degrees below zero here tonight,
with terrific north wind blowing.
FERGUS FALLS, MINI, Nov. 27.-
Trains are badly delayed. The mercury
is at zero. Business is suspended.
ARGYLE. MINI, Nov. 27.-The worst
blizzard ever known here has been raging
for the past thirty-six hours. Drifts in
the str cts are as high as the buildings
alongside. Trains are tied up. The storm
shows no signs of abatement. There may
be number OF deaths reported later.
LINCOLN, NEBR, Nov. 27.-Dispatches
from Southeast and Central Nebraska tell
of zero weather and high north winds.
To-day and to-night were the coolest for
November in the State for years. Among
small farmers stock is provided for. but fur
ther north on the range there will be loss.
Not half of the corn crop has been gath
cred, and with a heavy coating of ice,
which prevents husking, hundreds OF
thousands of bushels seem destined to lie
in the fields until spring.
OMAHA, NEBR., Nov. 27.-All the roads
running west and northwest have been
busy for the past thirty-six hours getting
up the telegraph wires and poles that went
down in the storm. The Elk Horn was
put in the worst plight of all. Four hun
dred poles were down.
The ST. Paul and Omaha lines are all in
bad shape near Sioux City and Mankato,
MINI. In stretch of eighteen miles the
one poles down and fifty-eight cross arms
broken. Since early Thursday morning
there has been no telegraphing over the
Union Pacific west of Colum bus. Six
hundred poles are down. The Burlington
did not have great deal of trouble on Its
Western lines.
MEMPHIS, TENN, Nov. ga cyclone
struck corner of Tunison, Miss, last
night. wrecking boxcar. several small
houses and killing a negro woman, be-
sides seriously iniuring half a dozen
others. 1t scattered household effects
over broad area.
WACO, Tex, Nov. 27.-A cyclone visited
section twenty miles southeast of Waco
Wednesday and demolished several farm
houses. Damage occurred near the town
of Mart, McLennan County, with which
there is no telegraphic communication.
News comes from Reisel, 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 injured,
as far as heard from. The temperature
ranged nearly at summer heat. In passing
over the prairie the cyclone took away
everything it touched, leaving the earth
bare of grass. 1t was mile wide and
eight miles long.
PADUCAH, KY, Nov. 2.-Owing to 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 here. 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 courthouse unroofed.