The Mena weekly star., 1898-02-02
BLIZZARD D-SWEPT.
A Great Storm Rages in the Eastern
 States and Canadian Provinces.
BURIED IN A SNoWSLIDE.
An Idaho Family Dug Out by Miners After Their House Had Been Covered for Five Days Fearful storm
 on the Lake.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2.--The entire east ern portion of tue country is snow bound. In Rhode Island, Massa- chusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and in the Canadian provinces nearly all the wires are down as the result of last nights storm. New York city is under snow to an average depth of five inches. The temperature at eight o'clock this morning was 20 degrees above zero. but the weather forecast promises cold wave tonight, which is expected to send the temperature down 15 or 20 degrees More than 8, : 300 shovelers were W orking to remove the snow in the boroughs of Manhat- tan and the Bronx alone. Local traffic has not been seriously impeded yet, but both surface and elevated roads are beginning to fear the storms con- tinuance.
 Reports from Massachusetts say tn at | that section has never been so com pletely snow bound since the great | blizzard of 1888. In Worcester busi- ness this morning was practically sus- pended and the streets in most parts of the city were impossible. There is probably an average of two feet of snow on level, but the high winds make huge drifts 10 or 15 feet high. Railroad service is at standstill and there is at this hour no communica- ton of any sort with Boston. None of the telegraph or telephone compan es has wire working and it is not known when a mail train can get through. The electric street railways are tied up There are reports of wrecke d trains which have not been verified | In Albany the storm, which started tate yesterday afternoon, still con tinues There is now 31S feet of snow on the level and the drifts are 70 and
 l2 feet high. The trains on all rail- roads are from half an hour to two hours late. The snow is still falling. 4 dispatch from fMalone, N. Y., says l 1bout IS inc hes of show has fallen in
 that section during the last 12 hours,
 anu snow blows have been kept run
 ning all nighs on the railroads. The storm is still raging At SaratoTa two
 feet of snow has fallen since last night,
 and the storm is a, Ii rec as ever.
 hur.ed U,sT..r a nDw-lhse.
 BOISE Ida, Feb. 2. The mountain
 home of q .ogge Ashcroft and his fam iy was caught by portion of the
 ,nowslide in the Elmore mountains. | The house was set well back into the
 mountain side. she back part of it be- ing a cave The avalancne broke the | front part of the house down, covering the remainder. and the family were
 buried five days. 6urings which they suffered intensely one of the chil- dren, an infant, dying. When the miners who rescued them reached the place they found the half-crazed par ents preparing for the extermination of the entire family, believing a worse death awaited them.
 l Fearful storm on the Lake. 1 CHICAGO, Feb. 2.-Reports from vari- ous towns in Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana tell of a severe blizzard. The wind is blowing gale and huge snow drifts are being piled in the highways. All trains are delayed and 1 in some towns street railway traffic has been entirely suspended. A report from Marquette, Mich, states that the storm on the lake is fearful, and that waves are breaking completely over Picnic rocks, something they have not done in years.
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 NO MARKET FOR WINE,