The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-03-16
STREETS FULL OF SNOW.
Cities In Northern Michigan Expert
encinE Much Trouble from
q Heavy Storm.

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Detroit, Mich, March 13.-Nearly all
points in the upper peninsula of Michi-
gan report railway traffic completely
blocked+ by snowstorms.# A. special
to- the Tribune from Bessemer, Mich,
says: The heaviest snowstorm in the
history of the snow belt is prevailing.
For 4s hours all trains have been
showed in at different places. ALI
streets are blocked with banks of
snow from four to eight feet deep. This
with former storms will make total
fall of snow bout eight to twelve feet
on an average. In some places the
drifts are from the top of one roof to
the other. Telegrap phi wires are down
and all communications are by private
lines. ~ -
Another Tribune special from
Houghton says: A bowling blizzard
for the past "a hours has tied up every
thing. All trains are cancelled and no
railroad communication with the east
has been had since Saturday. Adouble
header sent out Sunday morning over
thf Mineral Range railway TO, try and
open communicatioh with Calumet
struck q snow bank IL feet high one
mile west of Hancock and a gang of
shovelers was dispatched to shovel the
engines outs Snow drifts eight feet
high are in the streets.
Calumet reports the streets COM
pletely iblockaded and in places the
drifts cover the first story of some OF
the business places. Joseph Wilmer. a
trammer in the Tamarack mine. while
coming from work Saturday night was
overcome by the stormand was found
dead Sunday.
Milwaukee, March 13.-Special to the
Sentinel from Ishpeming, Mich, says:
The worst snowstorm experienced here
IN years has been raging for sc hours.
In places the snow has drifted from ten
to fifteen feet. Railway trains are
abandoned and street cars are stalled,
The north-bound passenger Train on
the, Chicago & Northwestern line
reached Little Lake Sunday morning;
but remained there all day, snowbound.
Two extra engines with large plow at
tached were sent from here to open the
line, but got stalled between Swansy
and Cascade.
/ Oshkosh, Wis, March ia thaw, a
freeze, a sleet storm and heavy rain.
fall occurring in the order given, have
resulted in flooding various portions OF
the city. 1t is the most serious in the
low portions of the south, where some
of the smaller least improved streets
are; under water, and houses and build.
ings are surrounded by water.
Milwaukee, March 13.-Most Of the
railroads between Milwaukee and St.
Paul are in crippled condition on ac
count of the storm in the northwestern
part of the state. Throughout the Wis.
consin Valley districts, large drifts are
reported, the snow being from one tc
four feet on the level and the drifts
much higher. The snow that accom-
panied the blizzard is not the only con.
dition that the railroads are fighting
Many OF the streams in eastern Mime.
sofa and northwestern Wisconsin over.
flowed Friday and Saturday and in
territory west and north of Lacrosse
there are bad washouts. ;
Omaha, Neb., March ia Bee spe.
cial from Rapid. City, S. D.. says; The
biz ~ that swept over the country
east ofHhis city last week was the. worst
ever experienced here, Reports Just
coming in say that at least two lives
were lost. The son of Shelby Reed. a
large sheep owner, who was out tend.
ing sheep, is missing, and there is lit
tie doubt that he persisted. A carrier
named Pearson is also missing. Shell.
by's, horse came home riderless during
the storm, and the saddle has beer
found, but>no traces of the young man
1t is feared that others were caught ir
the, storm and have persisted.
Lincoln, Neb.. March ia blindins
storm of snow and wind was the caus.
of bad collision on the Burlington
road about two miles west of Lincol1
at six o'clock Saturday evening". Tn,
accident resulted in the death of tire.
trainmen and the injury of four others