The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-01-16
SEV[REST STORM OF
 TIE WINTER RAGING
White Pass Filled With
 Driving Clouds of Snow
COLDEST DAY INSIDE
51 TeIow at OgIIvIc- MRu suffers Frozen Hands Near Fraser.

Yesterday was one of the most severe days of the winter. lt was the coldest Of the season in the Yukon b,sln. A north west gale blew all day long, and with ll fell a granular snow. that filled the air and was driven into every CT Wee, and greatl, annoyed pedestrians. only at few ventulej from the houses. The thermometer was degrees above zero the greater part of the day, and stood at that point at To o'clock last night. Three steamers due from the south did not arrive, and it was expected probably the thick weather kept them back.
 The wind felt here prevailed at all points in White Pass and far down the Yukon lakes. A wind was reported as far north as Five Fingers. Beyond that to Dawson was calm weather, and the most intense cold of the winter was nported from each station. Ogllvie, the coidest spot on gen eral average on the Dominion line or any place reached In the north by wire, yeSier- day had it g below zero. Dawson basket in the rays of the midnight sun with it on!v 52 below. Twenty below was the sharpeSt clip Bennett eouII ike, and Allin had 10 be satisfied with TO below.
 Nearly lf not all places in White Pass suffered under drifting snOwS, and Glacier reported fall oi I4 inches of snow in I2 hours.
 The weather was also very stormy in Skagwav Sunday.
 The White Pass & Yukon did not at- tempt to move my trains vesterd ". but pushed the rotary on toward Bennett The rotary Is going to relieve the train which arrived at Bennett several days ago by having th. way shoveled op.n from neal thr Summit.
 The rotary Jeff here at ?. m. Sunday and has since found the deepest and most difficult drifts to 20 through ever eneoun,. cred on the road. lt WAS not until 6:]o -lsss ,,ialsi-ilaa,..ihs s'srhlnsa sui -iis..ps'y into Summit station. lt got one mile north Of Gl der vestsrjav. For a con siderable distance melted snow had Co be used in the rorary's boiler, the water sup ply having given out. snow was six to thirty feet Jeep and light.
 Al o'clock nigh; efure last a big slide occurred in front of the tram a mile nlrih oi Gla,irr. Fr ring thit th- slide might contain hidden rld,s that would breik the knives of the rotary, the men in charge would rot rsk going trough lh- slide bliudlv. and had a crew of men shove away the snow. About a hundred men were employed vel |, tuo< two hours to do the work. They get double pay for night work which Is C. cents n hour
 The rotary worked hard and steadily.
 nd held up well, but it was E hours after the slide was cleared away until the machine m ,de its way the next five and fout-tenihS miles into the Summit. The top of the deep snow had to be Shoyeled down by he men before the rotary could throw out any part.
 Word was received by wire last night that a man, whose name had not been learned, had reached Fraser after having been lost 10 hours in .the storm, and that both his hands were frozen three in:hes above the wrists. He had lost his nit tens, and was exposed to the chilling blasts without protection to his hands. The sta | lion men at Fraser wee doing all thev could at last report to make the man com tortable. Only a meager report was re- eeived.