The herald., 1897-01-05
WOEFULLY WILD WEATHER
To the East of the Great
Divide
ALL BUSINESS SUSPENDED
In Many States Ia the Track Of
the Storm
From Minnesota to Kansas Citizens
Are Rubbing Frozen Noses and
Wishing Spring Would Come.
ssocia.ed Press Special Wire

ST PAUL, Mimi, Jan. A blizzard
has been raging throughout the north
/. west today, and as a result railway
service is considerably crippled. In q
number of towns business was sus-
, pended. DEVILS Lake reported no trains
for thirty-six hours, and Grand Forks
makes a similar report. adding that
the schools are closed and wires down
to the west of there. IN South Dakota
there was more snow, but the storm
was little more severe than in the north
state. Huron reports drifts fifteen feet
high and the storm still raging.
Vermillion states that all business
has been suspended. Mitchell reports
no trains since the storm began on Sum-
day morning, and the streets deserted.
Brookings classes it as the worst storm
known for years, and all business sus-
pended.
Yankton reports many trains aban-
1oned on account of the storm. Water
| town fears that the stock Will suffer.
Throughout Wisconsin and Northern
| Minnesota the storm has been severe.
| Glyndon reports trains showed up in
! drifts ten feet deep. Detroit says the
railroads cannot do much toward open
ing their tracks before tomorrow.
Moorhead discovers some signs of
abatement in the storm, which is the
worst that has visited that section. the
cold winds blowing fifty miles an hour,
and the snowdrifts ten feet deep. Barnes
| Vile, in the same part of the state, re-
ports all business suspended.
RAILROADS BLOCKADED.
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 4.-Up to mid
| night there has been little abatement
cf the storm which ragged in this section
| for sixty hours. The snow has ceased
falling, but the wind still blows a gale
! and the temperature is very low.
| Reports from the state indicate only
| partial blockade. Trains on the Union
Pacific Burlington, Elkhorn, and Rock
| Island roads west are moving slowly
but within one or two hours of schedule
time. On the north and south roads
there is much trouble. The Omaha line
is completely tied up, the drifts in tire
northern part of the state being such
that the road could not be opened while
the storm ragged. Branch lines suffered
greatly, nearly all being blocked. So
far there has been no loss of life re-
ported In this city business has only
been slightly interrupted
WORST EVER KNOWN
YANKTON, s. D.. Jan. 4.--The bliz-
zard which began Sunday night RACES
with unabated fury tonight. Only one
railroad is reported to have moved
train in South Dakota. and this was the
local on the st. Paul between Yankton
and Sioux City All other trains were
abandoned last night. The storm is the
worst that has ever been known for
drifting snow, but is not SO binding or
cold as the great storm of 1888, when
more than 100 people were frozen to
death. No casualties of this nature have
rtnI a1f u
or stock is known to have perished. The
state legislature, which was to convene
at Pierre tomorrow, and the banquet to
Governor Lee, which was to have foll-
lowed, WILL of necessity, have to be post
poned, as about eighty of the 126 are
snowbound, and some of them will not
reach the capital for several days.
A WELCOME MEAL
TOPEKA, kas, Jan. 4.-Passengers on
the Colorado express, westbound, on the
Santa Fe road. had a trying experience
in Sundays blizzard. At 1 80 o'clock in
the morning at a point ten miles east
OF Dodge City, Kas., the train stuck fast
in deep cut that had been filled with
snow and until noon following not a
wheel was turned. The passengers were
warm and comfortable in the cars, and
when, after nearly ten hours imprison-
men, they began clamoring for some
thing to eat the train men proved equal
to the emergency. In the express car
the conductor found several crates of
eggs and several pals of fresh oysters
The express man had some corn meal
and salt and pepper, which he had been
carrying for an emergency. The train
men then turned in and from these arti-
cles prepared Sunday dinner that was
served to the hungry passengers on
pieces of paSteboard shortly before noon.
Six trampS who had been riding on the
brakebeams We're called in and partook
of the express messengers bounty
Railroad traffic throughout Kansas
was considerably delayed on Sunday.
but today the returns from throughout
the state indicate that the storm is sub
siding.
WORSE COMING
DES MONIES, Ia, Jan. 4-The state
of Iowa is in the tolls Of a serious bliz-
Zard. Today the tempera ture has been
falling and the loose snow is drifting
and threatens to interfere with railway
travel. Owing to sleet many telegram
wires are down.
ABATEMENT PROMISED
CHICAGO, Jan. 4.-The storm which
has been raging for the last twenty
four hours in the northwest, has not in
creased in severity, save perhaps in
Iowa, and the signal service office in this
city. which runs affairs generally in the
northwest is upon record as declaring
that within short time the storm will
probably abate.''
The wind has been high throughout
the storm, and in some instances has
shown remarkable persistency in cling
ing to the high figures, it having for
thirty-siX hours kept up g. fifty-two mile
gait per hour at Huron, S. D.
The falling terernpature is general In
the lake region and upper Mississippi
valley, but there has been no heavy
fall Of snow east os Iowa. In Iowa the
fall of sleet and snow has been very
heavy and reports tonight indicate lower
temperature and more snow In Western
Kansas there has been much trouble
by the snow packing Oh the tracks and
trains have been held at eating stations
until the tracks can be cleared.
The storm is practically over in this
locality, and the sky is clearing.
Nebraska has had about the same eX-
perience and is under drifts anywhere
frcm two to ten feet high.
FLOOD THREATENEp
ST. LOUIS. Jan. 4.--As a result of the |
late heavy rains north and west of here |
the tributaries of the Mississippi and the |
Missouri rivers hay1 swollen to- such d |
degree that an unprecedented rise has |
taken place in this harbor since yeterday |
morning. Tonight the river is still rising |
and river men and DR.. Frankenfeld Of |
the weather bureau, predict that twill |
reach twenty-five feet tomorrow morn
ing. The water is rushing by with fear |
ful speed and force and has broken the |