Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-10
IN BL|zzARD'S GRASP
Western States Experience
Severe Cold Weather.
WORST THAN LAST STORM
Train Schedules Demoralized and
Wires Affected.
BIG DROP IN MERCURY HERE
Thermometer to Register About
the Twenty-Five Degree Mark by
Tomorrow Morning.
BIG DROP IN MERCURY HERE
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
CHICAGO, February 1O.-A blizzard
raging over Iowa, Nebraska. Minnesota
South Dakota, Wisconsin and Michigan is
expected to make its presence felt in Chi
cago today when the cold wave pre-
dicted by the weather bureau is due to
arrive from the west.
In Nebraska the temperature in places
went to 20 degrees below zero. In South
Dakota today the schools are closed be-
cause of the storm. and traffic is almost
impossible in points in Minnesota. Wiscon-
sin and Michigan. The storm ragged over
the southwest and in Missouri.
Iowa this morning reported more
severe storm than visited the west ten
days ago. All freight trains have been
stalled, the Chicago and Northwestern
road only attempting to move live stock
Train Service Cut Off.
All the passenger trains are behind their
schedules. Train service from Nebraska
and South Dakota is completely cut off.
AS a taste of what is in store for Chi
cagoans, high winds, with a velocity of
fifty miles hour, prevailed most o!
last night. being accompanied by snow
fiurries. There has been drop of III
degrees in the temperature since lasi
night.
Advices from ST Paul are that train
schedules are entirely demoraliZed. while
telegraph and telephone service is affect
ed. The indicatiO for colder weather
and continuation of the storm make ii
practically certain that traffic will be
The snow is drifting badly. street cars
are moving with the greatest difficulty
and the streets are practically deserted.
Worst Blizard in Years
The worst blizzard in years prevails in
northwest Missouri today. Reports thus
far received indicate that it is proving
most destructive to property and live
stock cutting wind which set in last
night from the southwest increased in
force today Joined by blizzard from the
north.
There is zero weather today at St.
Joseph and other Missouri points
Schedules of all passenger trains are up
set. but no service is entirely annuiled.
The temperature continues to fall There
is snow also throughout Missouri and
southwestern Illinois.
While there is no meteorological af1n-
ity between cold waves and torrential
rains. still the unusual spectacle Is pre-
sented in the blizzard that has been rag
ing in the west and which is now moving
eastward and southwark of cold wave
cOnO1tlOnS ana nedVy uOplcdl rains as the
features of the disturbances. AS a result
cold wave flags are flying in one section
of the storms path while flood warnings
are being sent out this afternoon to an
other
While snow. ice. low temperatures and
chilling winds mark the progress of the
storm in the middle west and lake re-
gion, heavy rains are reported from Ala
bana, Georgia. South Carolina and Ten
nessee. The rivers are rising with dan
gerous rapidty in those states and Prof
Willis l.. Moore, chief of the weather bu-
reau. has ordered that food warnings be
hoisted. The storm was central this
morning over Lake Superior and the up
per lake region.
II is showing today far north as In
diana. but the fall is not heavy. The
heavy snOwfals We're recorded in the lake
regions.
The weather conditions in the District
today with the sun shining and the sky
covered with broken cumulo and cumulo-
stratus clouds suggested 70 the weather
wise the tropical storm that was held UP
off HatteraS last summer and another
disturbance that was stopped in. its, career
on the crest of the Rockies in the same
season.