Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-02-03
BLIZZARD-SWEPT
A Great Storm RACES in the Eastern
States and Canadian Provinces.
BURIED In A sNOWSLIDE.
An Idaho Family Dug Out by Miners After
Their House Had Been Covered FOE
Five Days-Fearful storm
ON the Lake.

New YORK, Feb. 1.-THE entire east
ern portion of the 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 30 degrees
above zero, but the weather forecast
promises cold wave tonight, which
is expected to send the temperature
down Is or 20 degrees More than s.
500 shovelers were working 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 Massa chusetts say that
that section has never been so com
pletely snowbound since the great
blizzard of 1888. In Worcester bust
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 Is feet high.
Railroad service is at standstill and
there is at this hour no communities
ton of any sort with Boston, None of
the telegraph or telephone compan es
has wire working and it is not known
when mail train can get through.
The electric street railways are tied
up. There are reports of wrecked
trains which have not been verified.
In Albany the storm, which started
late yesterday afternoon, still con-
tinues. There is now 81 fe t of snow
on the level and the drifts are 20 and
IL feet high. The trains on all rail
roads are from half an hour to two
hours late. The snow is still falling.
A dispatch from Malone, N. Y, says
about 10 nches of snow has fallen In
that section during the last l9 hours,
and snow plows have been kept run
ming all night on the railroads. The
storm is still raging At Saratoga two
feet of snow has fallen since last night,
and the storm is as fierce as ever.
Buried Under u snowflake
Boise. Ida, Feb. 1.-The mountain
home of George Ashcroft and his fam
lily was caught by portion of the
snowslide in the Elmore mountains.
The house was set well back into the
mountain side, the back part of it be-
ing cave. The avalanche broke the
front part of the house down, covering
the remainder, and the family were
buried five days, durings which they
suffered intensely, one of the chill
1ren, an infant, dying. When the
miners who rescued them reached the
place they found the half-crazed par
ents preparing for the determination
Of the entire family, believing a worse
leath awaited them.
Fearful storm on the AXE.
CHICAGO, Feb. Reports from vari-
Gus towns in Michigan, Wisconsin and
Indiana tell of a severe blizzard.
rhe wind is blowing gale and huge
NOW drifts are being piled in the
All trains are delayed and
II some towns street railway traffic
las been entirely suspended. A report
rom Marquette, Mich, states that the
torn on the lake is fearful, and that
waves are breaking completely over
Picnic rocks, something they have not
lone in years,