The herald., 1898-02-21
ALL TRAFFIC STOPPED
BY THE BLIZZARD RAGING IN
WISCONSIN
STILL SHOWING AND BLOWING
A Score of People Missing and Search
For Them Prevented by the
Wild Weather
Press Special Wire

Associated Press Specia! Wire
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Feb. 20.-The bliz-
zard which started in yesterday morning
and of which Milwaukee is the center,
still continues. Twenty-Five inches of
snow has fallen in this city. The storm is
confined to the eastern portion of the
state. Tonight the street railway traffic
is becoming congested again, as the wind
has increased in velocity and blows the
snow back on the tracks about as fast as
it is being cleared off. The company does
not pretend to keep the suburban lines
open and not a wheel outside the city limits
has moved since yesterday afternoon. The
temperature has fallen about twenty de-
greos tonight. Snow to the depth of seven
feet is piled up all along the different
lines of street railways and it will be
many days before it can be carted away.
Railroad trains on all roads entering Mil
waukee are all the way from two to TWEEN
ty-four hours late. The passenger train
on the Chicago and Northwestern from
Green Bay, due at p. m. last night, has
been stalled in a huge snowdrift about
three miles from this city and did not
reach the depot until II o'clock this morn
ing.
All boats entering this port are accounted
for The steamer Iowa of the Goodrich
line, running between Milwaukee and An
napee and which was due here last night,
drifted across the lake and took shelter on
the east shore. The steamer reports
very stiff gale blowing and the
snow is so binding that it was impossible
to see more than foot ahead. The steamer
Wisconsin on entering the river bumped
into a dredge of the Hathaway company
sinking 1t. The steamer was not injured
and the dredge will be raised as soon as the
storm abates.
IMPlIRILED FISHERMEN
MAR1NETTE, Wis, Feb. 20.-Nothing
has been heard from the twelve fishermen
who started from Green island for this
city Saturday. The storm has continued
so severe that no one has vcnturod on the
ice today. Friends of the fishermen believe
that they must have found a shelter in
some of the fish shanties on the bay.
The Sturgeon bay stage which left yes
terday for the east shore, has not been
heard from. 1t should have reached its
destination last night. There We're five
passengers and a driver.
All trains today We're six to seven hours
late and the snow is drifted fifteen to
twenty feet high. 1t is still showing and
blowing and on this account it is impossi-
BILE to search for the missing people.
TRAFFIC TROUBLES
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worst storm of the season began last
night and has continued all day. North
western trains have been abandoned and
on the Central line the trains are five hours
late.
Racine-On account of the storm street
cars We're taken off today. Not a train was
run on the St. Paulb ranch to Western
Union Junction.
Oshkosh-The worst storm in twenty-five
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eight hours late. Street car service is
badly crippled.
Manitowoc--The most severe storm of the
year has been raging since yesterday. Only
one train has arrived since yesterday af-
ternoon.
IN MICHIGAN
DETROIT Mich, Feb. 20.-Railroad
traffic is badly tied up in northern Michi-
gan, the result of the unusual storm which
has prevailed since last night. Mackinaw
City reports all trains on the Mackinaw
division of the Michigan Central Cancelled
and trains badly blockaded on other roads.
AT Pctoskcy the snow is four feet deep
on the level and badly drifted. Street cars
are tied up and all traffic delayed at Mar
quette and lshpeming. Trains on the west
ern division of the Flint and Pere Mar
quette road are experiencing much delay
and the Saginaw street cars are unable to
we're in western Michigan.
IN OTHER STATES
CHICAGO, Feb. 20.-The states of Wis
consin. Iowa and Illinois are practically
snowbound. An average snowfall of two
feet is reported from Illinois and Iowa
points, while throughout Wisconsin and
northern Michigan the fall was much
heavier; in fact, the greatest of the sea-
son. A forty mile gale has piled the snow
INTO enormous drifts, completely paralyz-
ing street railway traffic and seriously in
terfering with the operation of trains on
the steam roads.
Northern trains have been delayed in
some instances fifteen hours owing to the
heavy drifts and steady fall of snow which
makes the use of snowplows unavailing
Rain and snow alternated in Chicago and
vicinity. Not enough had fallen tonight.
however, to interfere with railway traffic.