The San Francisco call., 1898-01-26
Much Damage Caused to Build ings and Wires in the
 Large Cities.
FATALITIES IN ST. LOUIS.
Now the Arctic Circle Is Beinq Ex- tended to the Middle West
 Territory.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CHICAGO. Jan. 25.-Another severe storm similar to that Of Saturday swept down upon the city from the northeast this morning and ragged til late in the afternoon. It started out with an in- tensity that promised to literally bury Chicago, and when it ceased another six inches had been added to the half a foot of snow that fell Saturday. The drifts of the first storm remain and were made higher by the fresh down. fall.
 The storm caused great inconvenience and delays on all transportation lines. Of through trains on lines centering in Chicago two were reported missing early this evening. One of them was the St. Paul limited of the Great Western Railroad, and the other train running between Chicago and Eau Claire on the Wisconsin Central road. Nothing has been heard from either of the trains since their departure. The wires along the roads are down at many points, but at those where communication is possible nothing has been heard of them, and officials of the road say the trains are snowbound.
 Other roads fared scarcely better, but the storm played havoc with their time tables, and there was hardly a through train that arrived on the ap- pointed hour.
 The suburban service on the rail- roads as well as street railways was delayed. Many trains from outside points were snowbound, and those that arrived. all of them behind time, reached their destination by blowing through snow banks several feet in depth. Trains from Kansas City and other surrounding points encountered the most trying obstacles, as their route was directly through the path of the storm.
 The entire Middle West was a prey to the ravages of the blizzard, and re- ports from 300 points from Winnipeg and Montreal on the north and east to St. Louis and Denver on the south and west indicate a snow fall of sufficient depth to practically put stop to all traffic. Through the entire territory a high wind ragged which caused drifts in the prairie districts of Iowa, Nebras- ka, Minnesota and Western Illinois, in some instances twenty feet deep, which will, when they cross wagons or rail- roads, require several days to clear away. Cattlemen of Nebraska fear the herds will suffer, particularly if the prevailing winds should be accom- panied by falling of the thermometer. in which case the snow, which was very wet, will freeze so hard that cat tie cannot graZe through 1t.
 At St. Louis the storm was accom- panied by vivid electrical display and wind of such velocity as to recall the terrible cyclone of 1896. It blew at the rate of siXty-three miles an hour. Au- gust Weymeyer, carpenter, was blown from the Shields school roof and killed. Thomas J. Peterson, years old. was blown from a porch roof at his home and killed. Mrs. Sarah Lorin was caught under a falling fence and will probably die. Mrs. Dodridge, wife of the general manager of the Missouri Pacific Railway, was struck by flying debris, but not seriously hurt. Many minor injuries of the same character are reported.
 At o'clock this Wednesday, morn l ing several trains were reported miss ing by the Chicago and Northwestern and Chicago Milwaukee and St. TSul on their Western lines, and fears for | the comfort of the passengers aboard are entertained by the officials. When the coal gives out the steam will gC down and the cars become untenable | If the trains are not near farm houses where food and shelter can be pro. cured some fatalities from exposure may result.