Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-02-17
DIGS HERSELF OUT.
New York Shaking Off the Incubus
Of the Storm.
GENERAL RESUMPTION OF BUSINESS.
Washington Practically Shut Of from
Railway Communication - People
in Isolated Colorado Towns
Are without Provisions.

and warmer weather New York started
to dig itself out of the snow Tuesday
morning. The thermometer rose smart
rs degrees above zero and there was
not a cloud in the sky. After Satur-
days half holiday and the suspension
Of business on Sunday and Monday,
tuesdays street traffic was tremen-
dous, with the result of blockades ev-
erywhere.
In response to the piteous cries for
aid that went up from many sections
of the city, Gov. Roosevelt has ordered
the opening of the armories of the
Eighth, Ninth, Twelfth, SiXty-ninth
and Seventy-irst regiments for the
shelter of such portions of the homeless
poor as might take refuge there.
Hitherto the armories have been jeal-
ously guarded by the national guard
against every kind of invasion, and any
mention of converting them to any use
except strictly military purposes has
met with determined and organized OPP
position.
The armories ordered thrown open
are very large and in thickly populated
portions of the city.
Three Feet of Snow In Washington.
Washington, Feb. 15.-The storm
swept past Washington about midnight
Monday night and Tuesday morning
the sun shone bright from a clear blue
sky on a city buried approximately
three feet deep in snow. The gale of
Hind-driven snow travelled north-north-
eastward during Monday, leaving its
heavy mantle of snow and its tales of
hardships and suffering behind it in
the south. Washington is cut off from
railroad communication with the out
side world, but now the storm has
ceased the companies have started to
open up their lines and belated trains
probably will begin arriving.
When householders awakened Tues
day morning they found themselves
banked in by huge snowdrifts. But,
finding the skies serene, they started
to work with energy to clear a way
out, and by noon travel afoot and in
carriages was practicable, though diff
6cult. A single cable line running to
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only one in operation, the underground
electric and horse lines being absolute
ly blocked by the masses of snow fill
ing conduits and tracks. In places the
drifts were eight feet high.
The storm suspended a large part Of
the business of the city and also many
social functions. The president or
dered that the reception to the general
public, which was to have been held
Tuesday night, be postponed until the
weather is more suspicious.
Coal has gone up over a dollar a ton.
Eggs have advanced from % to so cents
a dozen; pork has gone up seven cents a
pound; Irish potatoes have jumped
from As to IS cents and vegetable prices
have advanced rs per cent.
The telegraph is the only thing that
saves the capital city from being shut
off from the outside world, the wires
working well in all directions. The
railroads are DIT a standstill, no mails
have arrived or been sent out from
Washington since one o'clock Monday
afternoon and all railroads announce
"aH trains annulled."
Fortunately, up to this time the po-
lice reports show that there have been
no casualties from the storm, the harm
thus far inflicted being frost-bite and
exhaustion, but great destitutiont
among the poor, who We're lily pre-
pared to withstand the elements. With
the exception of some inconsequential
local traffic, not a train reached the
city on the three principal railroads
Tuesday. Passengers who were for
funate enough to get in tell remarkable
stories of snowdrifts and the extent of
the storm along the route.
Out of Proyisions.
Denver, Col, Feb. 15.-Seven men on
s~nowshoes arrived at Leadville Tuesday
from Kokomo. They say that okomo,
C~arbonville, Robinson, Climax and sur
rounding towns are entirely out of
meat, sugar, bacon, butter and eggs.
There still remains a small quantity of
-four and potatoes, which is doled out
sparingly. The coal supply is also ex-
hausted. While the people are not yet
starving, they are in serious straits.
Provisions will be taken to Pando from
Leadville and will be rushed to the
ADMINISTRATOR town as soon as posi-
BILE. All the mines in the district have
shut down for lack of fuel.
The Cattle Losses.
Woodward, o. T., Feb. 15.-This town
is crowded with stockmen attending
the annual convention of the Oklahoma
Live Stock association. Prominent
Stockmen here from all parts of the
territory have been comparing notes
as to the effects on cattle of last weeks
blizzard and cold wave. 1t is generally
conceded that first reports were exag-
gerated. While there have been reports
OF heavy loss in scattered herds, the
majority OF the cattlemen report losses
ranging from one to five per cent, and
on the whole it is not believed that
losses will reach ten per cent. on the
range. The heaviest losses seem to
have occurred in herds of southern cat
&le moving through the territory.
In the South.
Chicago, Feb. 15.-Dispatches from
various points in the south are summar.
ICED as follows:
bound trees and fruit that is ruined by the
cold. The price of Florida oranges adj
Tanced Tuesday morning in one hour from
1hree dollars to five dollars per box,
GEoRGlA.-The crops about Savannah
Are a total loss. Early vegetation was
and killed by the freezing
weather. The melting snow is adding to
the freezing water that these plants have |
received.
TEXAS.-Weather for the past week has