Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-26
4 BLIZZARD HOLDUP.
United States In Grip of Storm
 From Maine to Texas.
SNOW, BITTER COLD, RAGING WINDS
Atlantic Coast Line Suffers - Great Lakes Get . Share-Whole Land Covered by the Bcautiful.
 All Lines BlOckaded.

portion of the United States is in the grip of blizzard which is sweeping the country from Maine to Missouri | and from Texas to the great lakes. If a meridian line was drawn from north to south across map of the United States, passing through St. Paul and | Kansas City, the great scope of the storm could be seen at a glance. All tine states east of the line, save in the extreme south, are covered with a heavy snow blanket, and bitter wind is whirling over them all at a rate of | from forty to seventy miles an hour. In the north and middle west cold wave, with temperatures below zero, is treading on the heels of the storm. New York city finds itself almost completely isolated by the worst bliz- gard which has struck this section of the country since the memorable storm of March. 1888.
 All the railroads are running on ir- regular time, schedules being aban- doned and such trains as arrive and de- part being several hours late. Surface car traffic is completely suspended in the suburbs and is likely to be through. out the entire city at any time.
 Raino Natalizo, ffty-three years old, and William II. Gray were overcome in the storm and died from exposure and exhaustion. A RnSfnn severe proportions, being accompanied by high northerly gale.
 The official speed trial of the new cruiser Maryland, built for the United States government by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock con- pany, which was to have been held off Thatchers island, was postponed on account of the blizzard. l pittsiicld has reported foot of snow, and New Haven wired that all Connec- ticut felt the fury of the winter storm.
 Cold weather prevails all over the c4ste:J. par of lh3 clu.lts'.-. ZatJ .las peea r.E..t2fea la IcnlS.Scs, .-.u ia Ohio ai.a nenrucny it is ,roin t0 ::.3 1 |. it was 2 degrees below at s o'clock in the morning.
 Reports from Albany. the Mohawk | valley, the Adrondacks. the Hudson ! valley and the southern tier show the storm to he of wide prevalence and of especial severity in ihe lower part of i the state.
 ! At Middletown the storm reached al- most blizzard proportions. IL began in the night and continued all day. with no evidence of early cessation. Flee ,ric and steam railways were greatly ! hindcred by enormous drifts. and ! country roads were blocked. | At Amsterdam snow has been stcadi- ly falling since Tuesday morning. i Al Rochester snow began failing Tuesday evening. and continues. with the temperature near zero.
 : At Buffalo light snow was falling.
 with the temperature at II degrees. ! The wind was blowing twenty-four miles an hour. and there was considera. bIe drifting
 1. Reports from Chicago and many cit ! ics and towns in the west and north. 1. west show that the severest cold of the winter is prevailing, intensified fly high winds.
 ! In Chicago inc mercury fcll from al
 above zero 10 < below i'll twenty-four
 hours. with a galf of forty miles an
 hour blowing. There was much suffer. ! ing in the poorer districts.
 1 From tho copper district of northern Michigan and Wisconsin reports say that the worst storm of the winter has ragged. The snowfall was heavy. block adins railways and srippliug communi. l cation generally.
 ! From Burlington. la. l. below zero
 was reported. with a high wind. Mar.
 shalitown. Is.. reported the same in- tense cold and 9 severe gale. In this part of the state snow WAS driftesi bad | ly in the railroad cuts. interfering seri- "tlsiy with traffic.
 ! In Omaha tine weather bureau report < e,l tho minimum temperature at 11 de sTccS below zero. the col,icSt of thc year. I-e cutters have been driven !. from their vork on the river and lakes by ti.e fierce winds and compelled to abandon work
 From kaBsss City comes report of tue coldest weather of the winter throughout western Kansas and Mis- syuri- Zerc was reached at !. oetscs at