Omaha daily bee., 1905-02-15
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City to ONeill and during the trip the crew
became stalled in a snowdrift east of town,
which held them about eight hours In one
place. The men all suffered from exposure,
as the cold was terrible, and when they
reached ONell all were covered with ice
and their clothing was wet and frozen.
Pender was unconscious for more than ten
hours. He is now resting more easy, but
complains of pains in his head and arms,
and 1t is presumed that he was injured
from a fall he received in his engine when
he became unconscious.
| NORFOLK, Neb., Feb. 14.-(Speclal Tele-
gram.) .)-This was the worst day of the
winter in northern Nebraska. a brief
blizzard put the railroads out of business
All trains on the Union Pacific and Mime
apolis Omaha lines were annuled also
all freights on the Northwestern. But two
trains passed through Norfolk during the
day. The Omaha -Bonesteel train, due at
noon, arrived at midnight. The coal sup
ply is low in many towns. 1t is fair and
colder tonight.
| GENEVA, Neb Feb. 14-(SpeciaL)-O
| Saturday driving blizzard kept up all day,
with extreme cold, reaching during the
night to 81 degrees below and Sunday night
repeating exactly to the day and hour six
years ago, when the mercury fell to the
same point Sunday morning, February
r. 1899 Snow lies in great drifts every
| where, travelling is impossible over the
roads and the trains even do not arrive, and
no mall. No services were held in most OF
| the churches Sunday on account of the
severe weather and deep snow. Business is
/ n a Sfa oil vi.
to town on many of the roads.
| Blockade General in Iowa.
| DES MONIES. Feb 14-Not in many
years has Iowa been so completely shut in
| by the cold and snow as today. Not In
the entire state has a railway train made
| a rip on schedule time and In most sec
| tions the train service has been practically
! abandoned for twenty-four. hours. Less
| than half a dozen passenger trains have
1 gone out of Des Moines today and the
| same condition prevails in all railway CEN
| ters of the state. Scores of trains have
been stalled on different lines The block
ade has lasted for several days now and
the results are manifestlng themselves in
coal famine in a score of larger towns
| and cities and food famines in other places
Tieup at Cedar Rapids.
CEDAR RAPIDS Ia, Feb. 14.-(Special
Telegram THE worst tieup in the his
tory of railroad traffic in Cedar Rapids was
recorded last night on account of drifting
snow. Not a train came into went out
of here on either the Rock Island or Mil
waukee roads, and trains on all other
roads were from one to seven hours late,
with a total abandonment of freight
trafic.
ONAwA, Ia, Feb. 14-(Special Tele-
gram.)-This has been one of the worst
days OF the winter here. With fierce winds
and snow drifting badly rural carriers
were unable to get Through the drifts
Driver Best of the Onawa and Decatur.
Neb., stage route, who never missed a trip
before, was stalled in the drifts at Blue
lake and unable to get through. The Chi
cago train east tonight was abandoned
Mail service Is demoralized.
Blizzard at Perry.
PERRY, Ia, Feb. 14.-(SpeciaI Telegram
The worst blizzard OF the season struck
Perry at a. m. and has continued all day,
the wind reaching a velocity of forty to
fifty miles at times. accompanied by snow
all forenoon. The snow, already over foot
deep, has been drifted into cuts and both
the Missouri & st, Louis and Chicago, MIL |
waukee & st. Paul are practically tied up |
The former has not turned wheel all day
and the Milwaukee trains are from four to
eight hours late, with no freight moving |
II the thermometer showed cold II would |
be bad on stock, but zero weather Is not |
cold after the last few days around 30
below.
HURON. s. D., Feb. 14-(Special Tele-
gram. .)-Last nights wind and snow caused |
ALMOST complete tie-up of railroads here |
Great Northern trains are from six to ten |
hours late and on the Chicago & North |
Tracy and none to or from the west TODAY. |
but this line will be opened tonight. The |
express from the north was several hours |
late, but went south to Hawarden. Snow
plows are working in all directions and all |
lines will be opened tomorrow. This Is the |
most serious interruption this winter
In the Central states.
CHICAGO, Feb. l4-A snowstorm, which
at times assumed the nature Of a blizzard
succeeded the cold wave here today From
10 below zero yesterday the mercury TODAY |
rose to above zero. Railroad traffic, how
ever, is yet considerably interfered with.
CINCINNATI, Feb 1.-THE intense cold
continued today, the official Thermometer
in this city reaching degrees below zero
during the night. From all points I'm the
Ohio valley came similar reports. below
zero temperature prevailing generally.
Along the river the situation continues seri-
Gus and river men anxiously watch the ac-
cumulation OF heavy ice, which threatens
disaster when the breakup finally comes.
Henry Mastru was found frozen TO death
In a quarry
Danville. Ky, reported the coldest
weather in its history when the thermome-
ter registered II degrees below zero.
In the south.
KANSAS CITY. Feb. H-The tempera-
ture early today in western Missouri, Kan
sas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory had
risen thlrty-hve degrees in twenty-four
hours. The following temperatures, all
above zero, are reported; Kansas City,
l2i Springfield. s; Concordia, Kan. "a;
Oklahoma city, 12 With no snow and the
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