The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-30
MOUNTAINS
OF SNOW.
Rear Their Heads About Colo
radO Towns.
Storm Which Has Been In Pro-
gress For a Week
TAKES ON NEW VIGOR.
Breckenridge is Shut Off From
the World.
All Efforts to Keep Traffic Open
Abandoned.
KOk0m0 is Almost Buried Out
of Sight.
Storm Which Has Been In Pro.
gress For a Week
TAKES ON NEW VIGOR.
Breckenridge is Shut Off From
the World.
All Efforts to Keep Traffic Open
Abandoned.
KOkOm0 is Almost Buried Out
of Sight.

Denver, Jan SO-Snow began falling
on the mountains shortly after midnight
last night, and the storm, which has
been raging since a week ago, with an
occasional let up, is again in full blast.
There have been numerous snowshdes,
and at Apex, Col, the wife and two
small children of Mr.. William Rudolph
were buried in a slide and killed.
The town of Breckenridge, about forty
miles from Leadville, is completely iso-
lated. Fuel and provisions are getting
low and much suffering from lack of
necessaries must surely result. Not a
wheel has moved out of Como, on the
South Park, for two days, and the re-
ports from there tell of great losses to
TanGe stock.
The mines about Leadville have been
forced to close down, as no ore can be
moved. Hundreds of men have worked
almost incessantly at different points
on the South Park line between Como
and Leadville to open the road to traffic,
but have at last been compelled to sur
render to the elements. Snow is packed
in great drifts in the cuts, and the wind
piles it in as fast as the shovelerS can
make an opening. KOkomo is almost
hidden away by the banks of snow on
all sides. Snowslides are frequent and
danger of destruction threatens the
town. No trains have moved west Of
several days. Should the storm keep up
it's present fury great suffering and loss
of life will result. The storm extends
along the mountains into Wyoming and
already the loss to cattle has been
great.
REACHES INTO OKLAHOMA.
Wichita, Kan, Jan. 30.-Snow began
falling early this morning and a severe
blizzard extends over southern Kansas
and Oklahoma
BLIZZARD IN WYOMING.
Rawlins, WyO., Jan. S0.-A terrible
blizzard has been raging in Rawlins
county. With the wind blowing sixty
miles an hour the snow has drlfted bad
ly. The storm will be severe on stock
in the valley, as the snow is crusted,
preventing sheep from securing feed.
STORM CHECKS FAST MAILS.
Omaha, Jan. 30.-The Northwestern's
fast train arrived eleven minutes late
this morning on its initial run. The
train kept on schedule time until Lo-
gan, Ia, was reached when it ran into
an intensely cold wind and the engine
was unable to generate enough steam
to keep up the pace. The other Chica-
go-Omaha trains were also late from
twenty minutes to an hour, the Rock
Islands fast train being twenty min
utes behind schedule time, due to the
same causes which delayed the North
western.
COLD IN THE SOUTHWEST.
Kansas City, Jan. 30.-A severe bliz-
zard broke over the southwest early
this morning and ragged fiercely today.
A high north wind piled up the snow
badly and interfered to a greater or
less extent with railroad traffic. The
temperature averaged from 2 to 5 be-
low zero.
62 BELOW AT RAT PORTAGE.
ST. Paul, Jan. 30.-Thirty-eig below
zero at Battleford and 10 below at Mar
quette were the official extremes of tenn
prature in the northwest today. The
local record, 26 below, was the coolest
in years. Unofficial reports give tenn
peratures running down to 81 below at
Rat Portage.
STORM STRIKES OHIO.
Cleveland, Jan. 3O.-The worst bliz-
zard of the winter is raging in northern
Ohio today. The mercury has been
lowering around the zero mark for the
past 4S hours. A fine penetrating snow
is falling accompanied by a high wind.
Trains from the east are generally ar
irving late, owing to the storm and Sc
we're cold. The west bound Continental
fast mail on the Lake Shore, however,
was only five minutes behind schedule
time.
Kate Stevens, 20 years old, was found
unconscious in her room today, being
| frozen. Physicians say she will die.