The record-union., 1897-01-05
Heavy Snow and Wind Reported
Throughout the State.
A Blizzard Raging in Central Iowa,
With the rlercury Standing Below
Zero-The Heaviest Storm in Years
Raging in South DakOta-Michigan
and Kansas Also Experience the
Effects of Heavy Storm.

OMAHA, JAM 4-The blizzard which
visited this city Sunday still. continues,
and while comparatively little snow has
fallen, the wind drifts what has fallen
and impedeS traffic. Snow plows and
read scrapers have been constantly on
the go all day. The thermometer has
ranged from zero to five degrees above.
The weather reports to the railroads
show heavy snow and winds at every
station in the State.
The SnowStorn and wind have
played havoc with trains. The Chicago,
St. Paul. Minneapolis and Omaha is
blocked north of Blair and no trains
came in from Sioux City or went up
there to-day over that road. The Sioux
City trains came down on the Iowa
side of the river over the Sioux City
and Pacific road. The Union Pacific
branch trains We're running, but all
main line trains We're late this after
noon.
Eastern, Western and Southern trains
arrived from ten to forty-fve minutes
late. Rock Island trains from Denver
were laid out by the snow and a stub
train went East this afternoon from
Omaha. Telegraph wires are working
very bad throughout the West and
East as well as North, each road do
ing nearly all it's business over one
wire.
Reports from Huron and other points
IN South Dakota show thirteen inches
Of snow. A special to the 'World-Her-
aid" from Vermillion, S. D.. state that
the wind has drifted the snow from ten
to twelve feet in places. Three stock
men are reported to have been frozen
to death seven miles northwest of Mel
son, Neb. Freight trains are stalled
on the Elkhorn branch west of Norfolk,
Neb., and ON the Chicago, ST. Paul.
Minneapolis and Omaha between Nor
folk and Winside, Neb.
IN IOWA
DES MONIES Qa.), Jan. 4.-Central
Iowa has been i'm the throes of bliZ-
Zard the past eighteen hours. Snow has
been falling most of the time, high
wind has prevailed and the mercury
has fallen about 80 degrees, standing
now several points below zero. The
Weather Bureau predicts continued
cold, and that the storm will last an
other day. About eight inches of snow
has fallen and it is drifting fast. Wires
are badly interfered with in many di
rections, and the railroads are begin
ming to have difficulties in moving
trains. There are delays ON all lines
out of here and many have been aban-
doned.
IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
HURON IS. d., Jan. 4.-The heaviest
snow and windstorm since 1888 has
prevailed here and over this part of the
State since Sunday morning, with no
indications that it will cease before to-
morrow The temperature is below ze-
ro, and the wind comes from the north
at sixty miles an hour Fifteen inches
of snow have fallen. filling the railroad
cuts and piling drifts ten to fifteen feet
high. All trains on the Dakota Cen
trail Division of the Northwestern are
tied up and trains housed. The Great
Northern trains are all abandoned, and
nc effort will be made to move trains
on either line until the storm abates.
The telegraph service is seriously in
iterrupted.
IN MICHIGAN.
DETROIT (Mich.), Jan. 4.-Reports
from different sections of Michigan
show that much damage has been done
by heavy rains. Little damage is be-
ing done to crops and property.
The ST. Joseph Valley road is inun-
dated for several rods, and trestle
works are undermined.
Niles reports that rain has fallen in
cessantly there for the past seventy
two hours, and fears of repetition of
the great flood of eight years ago this
month are entertained. All small
streams are converted into rivers and
the ST. Joseph may overflow it's banks.
The Menominee River is blocked with
ice ait several points and heavy floods
are feared.
IN KANSAS
Topeka (Kan.), Jan. 1.-The rail-
roads of Kansas are suffering badly
from the snowStorn, trains are late
and in some places traffic is entirely
blockaded. In some places the drifts
are six and ten feet high. At Larned
the snow is four feet deep ON the level
Santa Fe passenger trains Nos. 5, IA
and were stalled over ten hours be-
tween Dodge City and Nickersonia. An
engine with a snow-plow was sent out
there and it also was stalled. Traffic on
the Pan Handle south of Woodward
Oklahoma, is entirely blocked, as was
the case of the Liberal branch of the
Rock Island. Trains on the main line
of the Rock Island are away late to-