The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-05
BLIZZARD IS STILL BLOWING.
TRAFFIC. GREATLY IMPEDED BY
SNOW DRIFTS.


The Storm at Sioux city the worst
known in Years and Deaths in the
Outly ing Districts PrObnbIe-Hav-
Oc Played with the Railroads in
NebrnsISa-A Rise of 1875 Feet In
the Mississippi River at ST. Louis
in 36 Hours.
Sioux City, Iowa, Jan. 4.-The worst
blizzard known for years has been raging
here for SO hours. In this town, the street
railway traffic is practically blocked,
Many trains have been abandoned and all
are late. The conditions are steadily grow
ing worse asd a general blockade is fear
ed. Deaths are reported from the outlying
districts, but until after the storm nothing
definite can be learned.
Topeka, Kan. Jan. 4.-The railroads of
Kansas are suffering badly in the snow
storm. All the trains are late and In some
places traffic is entirely blockaded Not
much snow is falling to-day, but the high
winds are drifting yesterdays snow so
much as to make it still harder for the
roads. In some places the drifts are six
feet and ten feet high. At Larned, the
snow is four feet deep on the level.
Four Santa Fe passenger trains were
stalled over ten hours between Dodge City
and Nckerson yesterday. An engine with
snow plow was sent out there, and II
also was stalled.
Traffic on the Panhandle south of
Woodward, Oklahoma, is entirely blocked
as was the case on the Liberal branch Of
the Rock Island Trains on the main line
of the Rock Island are away late to-day
st. Louis, Mo-, Jan. AT noon yester-
day the official measurement of the riv-
er's depth was given as eight feet and six
inches; at o'clock this evening 1t was
twenty-four feet, being a rise of fifteen
and half feet in thirty-siX hours. This
phenomenal rise is accounted for by the
dispatches from every quarter recording
heavy and continuous rains, beginning
Sunday noon. The danger line for high
water is thirty-two feet. But the worst
is believed to be over as a freezing bliz-
zard began with sunrise to-day and cut
off the volume of water from the small
streams.
The most serious reports come from
Western Missouri, Kansas and the Indian
Territory. All the streams in Western
Missouri were swelling the Missouri up
to midnight last night, when the cold
wave set in. At st. Joseph the thermom-
eter dropped from 68 degrees above to Is
above At Great Bend and vicinity In
Kansas the blizzard followed numerous
washouts out on the railroads and bust
ness is impeded.
A plspatch from Purcell, /. T., says:
THE South Canadian river is now higher
than 1t has been for number OF years.
The Blue Goose saloon, which was sit
uated in the middle of the river, was
turned over in the night Six men were
in the house at the time, and they had all
lodged on a log, which had become fast
ened in the river They were rescued
about noon by parties in Oklahoma. The
men We're in the cold and wet for over
twelve hours before rescued"
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 4.-The blizzard which
visited this city Sunday continues, and
while comparatively little snow has fallen
the wind drifts what has fallen and i'm
pedes traffic. Snowplows and road scrap
ers have been constantly in use. rhe
thermometer here ranged from zero to 5
degrees above. The weather reports to
the railroads show heavy winds and snow
in every station.
The storm and wind have played havoc
with the train service The Chicago, st.
Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha is blocked
north of Blair and no trains came in from
Sioux City or came up to-day over that
road Trains came down on the Iowa
side of the river over the Sioux City ana
Pacific road. The Union Pacific branch
trains were running, but all main line
trains were late this afternoon.
Eastern, western and southern trains ar
rived from ten to forty-five minutes late.
Rock Island trains from Denver were laid
out by the snow, and stub train went
east this afternoon from Omaha.
Telegraph wires are working poorly
throughout the west and east, as well as
north, each road doing nearly all its busi-
ness over one wire.
The Union Pacific snow plows are break
ing a way over the Columbus and Grand
Island branches.
Reports from Huron and other points
in South Dakota show thirteen inches Of
snow.
A special from Vermillion. S. D., states
that the wind has drfted the snow from
ten to twenty feet in places. Three
stockmen are reported to have been frozen
to death seven miles northeast of Nell
son, Neb.
Freight trains are stalled on the Elk
horn, west of Norfolk Neb., and on the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis and Om-
aha, between Norfolk and Winside.
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