New-York tribune., 1909-01-30

Chicago Jan 29-The storm OF sleet, snow
and rain which. swirled along by high wind
during the last twenty-four hours. has pros
trated telegraph and telephone wires, stalled
trains wrecked buildings and isolated whole
communities. struck Chicago tonight and vas
reported central In the vicinity of Detroit.
The first bite Of the storm was felt in Chicago
ct noon and it continued to increase in fury as
sfe hours passed. The wind blew forty miles an
hour, and the thermometer registered drop of
ever % degrees TO 10 above zero. Snow covered
The streets and Assistant Chief OF Police
schuettler sent orders to every police station in
Fthe city 10 turn no shelterless person away
The indications that the storm passing
through Detroit will find its way out through
the st. Lawrence Valley.
The day was one long fight by the telegraph
isnd railroad companies to restore wires and
rescue stalled trains. Early IN the day all the
reads sent out warnings TO all employees, or
6erinz them to prepare for billiards. No
freight trains are running tonight in the storm
belt in Iowa. and few in Wisconsin and Mime
.eota The Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul road
rer,orted practically all its wires down. Their
limited train from the Pacific Coast due here at
noon to-day. was nine hours late getting INTO
Marion. Iowa. and was not expected mere unlll
early Tomorrow morning. on the Minnesota
division a freight train was stalled, and passen-
ger trains were held up behind it. Another pas
senger train from La Crosse was reported miss
tre as was 3 train which started to its relief
The best information obtainable at La Crosse
was that both trains were stuck in the snow in
south Dakota At the general offices here no
news was received concerning the wanderers
That the passengers would suffer from cold and
ieck Of food taken for granted
Nadison wis was one of the cities cut of
Prom the outside world The wind and sleet cut
communication in every direction. leaving the
state Of Wisconsin for many hours without news
OF the progress Of the Senatorial fight A wire
VAS restored to Chicago in the afternoon long
enough TO get a brief dispatch concerning to-
days ballot through. but the wire was quickly
lost
Tonight the telegraph companies had sue
oeeded in patching UP a service north and west
tn sections where 1t had been abandoned during
the day Further loss of wires at other points In
the storms path, however. was feared. and, ac-
corsing 10 the weather bureau, with good rea-
son.
High winds and snow practically isolated the
state Of Texas. At some points in Texas and
Oklahoma the wind blew seventy miles an hour
A passenger train on the Southern Minnesota
division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul.
running between La Crosse ana washington
Springs n D., stuck in a snewdrift west of
Jackson. Mimi, last night. There is no early
prospect OF it's release. 1t has no sleeper or
diner A relief train is also lost
Minneapolis was cut off from communication
with the outside world Kneeiing at her bed,
Mrs Neis Nordeen, forty-four years old. was
found dead. There no fuel in the room and
snov had drifted into il through cracks
In Colorado where the storm has been raging
fer several Gays in the mountains and on the
west slope railroads are blocked by drifts that
have rendered even the big rotary ploughs
vowerless and big snowslides reported from
all directions On the South Park branch Of the
Colorado & Southern Railroad three passenger
trains are said 10 be stalled in the drifts, with
messengers suffering from cold and hunger.