Evening star., 1897-04-01
TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR
SEVERE BLIZZARD IN THE WEST.
Snow Storm Has Swept Colorado,
Wyoming, kansas and Nebraska.

Snow Storm Has Swept Colorado,
Wyoming, kansas and Nebraska.
OMAHA. Neb.. April 1.-The severest
blizzard of the entire winter has prevailed
for the last thirty-five hours in western
Nebraska and adjacent territory, and has
completely stopped all traffic on three
Omaha railroads.&c. Burlr gton. the Union
Pacific ano the Rock Island-in that sec
ton. The interruption to train service
and the best means of getting trains
through, e1 gagged the entire attention Of
officials at the Union Pacific headquarters.
Throughout the Union Pacific system the
storm extended along al the lines in Colo
rado, Wyoming and Kansas. The only
part of the system on which trains were
moved was between Omaha and Sidney,
Neb. The overland limited is snow bound
at Hillsdale, Wye. twenty miles east OF
Cheyenne. The fast mail is lying helpless
in snow drift near Sidney, this state.
The passengers on the snowbound trains
are suffering no discomfort. one of the first
orders going from headquarters being that
the passengers should be well looked after
and that no expenses should be spared 10
make them as comfortable as possible un-
der the circumst stanceS.
The weather reports of the Burlington
and Missouri lines showed great depths or
snow in Wyoming, Colorado and South
Dakota. Belmont reported six inches. Ard
more, two inches: Custer, three inches.
Deadwood, fifteen inches; Gillette. eight
inches. and Hoiyoke. four inches Most of
the points in the southern part of Ne
braska reported heavy rains, with the
weather growing colder.
Great piles of snow cover the plains of
western Nebraska. 1t is four feet deep
in many places. The mercury is above
zero but a very high wind prevails. In
the eastern part of the state great guam
titles of rain have fallen during the last
forty-eight hours. All the streams are
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crossing hourly. When this flood strikes
the already booming Missouri disaster
doubtless will follow.
LARAMIE, Wyo., April 1.-The most Sc
we're snow storm in twenty years has
struck this section, doing immense damage
to cattle and sheep. Business here Is prac-
tically suspended and yesterday even the
daily papers were rot issued. On the main
streets snow in places Is ten feet high,
while residences on the outskirts of the
city are in some instances completely
buried by drifts. Several buildings col
lapsed in consequence of the weight of
the snow on their roofs. The storm extends
from Medicine Bow to Pine Bluffs, Wyo.,
a distance of 175 miles Laramie and Sher-
ma-l Hill appear to be the very center of
the storm
All freight trains on the Union Pacific
have been suspended for the past forty-eight
hours, and officials are making strenuous,
but apparently futile, efforts to keep pas
senger trans moving. Trainmaster Cutross
of the Union Pacific hopes to have trains
moving some time today. On Sherman Hill
the big rotary STOW plow has been kept
moving all day, pioughing through drifts
fully twenty feet high in numerous places
Several snow plows working west of
here, making an endeavor to keep the main
lines open. Fears are entertained for the
safety of several hunting parties in this
section. Sheep are scattered all over the
pial2s ana ii is expected the loss Will
reach into the thousands Several herders
reached town, having deserted their herds
and only with the greatest difficulty es-
Gaping from being frozen to death 1t is
feared that the driver of the North Park
stage has been frozen, although he may
have reached scme ranch
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