Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-05
STORM COVERS WHOLE STATE
Train Service Demoralized and Street
Cars Tied Up.
CATTLE SUFFERING IN WEST
Iowa Threatened with Coal Famine,
Dealers Being Unable to Get
Shipments-Stock Suffers
While in Transit.

LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 4.-Drtfting snow
impeded railway traffic throughout south
ern Nebraska today. Trains were beated
on all railroads. Telephone and telegraph
companies encountered persistent troubles.
In Lincoln the street car service was COM
pletely paralyzed. The lines to the subur-
ban points were showed in and it will be
some time before the schedules are re-
stored.
NORFOLK. Neb.. Jan. 4-Another snow
amounting to half foot fell In northern
Nebraska and southern South Dakota to-
day, adding new handcaps to train service
which has been more seriously demoralzed
by weather conditions this winter than
ever before during so protracted period.
The temperature is below zero, but there
is no wind. The condition is not blzzardy
Big Cattle Herds suffer.
ALLIANCE, Neb., Jan. 4.--(Specisl Tele-
gram.)-The weather conditions have set
tied somewhat 1t is showing in several
places in western Nebraska at present and
the thermometer is slowly pushing upward.
1t ranges now from about above at Ans
ley to "a above at the extreme western
part of the state. The Black Hills reports
zero weather and there is a flat average
Of about 8 above over northern and eastern
Wyoming
There is much loss and suffering among
stock throughout the west, as this con-
tinued cold has not been experienced in
years. The big cattle men are suffering
greater loss than the small men, the latter
being in better shape to care for their
smaller herds.
Iowa Hard Hit.
DES MONIES, jan 4.-(Special Tele-
gram.)-The storm today practically par
alyZed rail traffic in Iowa. and locally
business was nearly suspended All trains
were off schedule. This morning a Rock
Island passenger train ran into a Wabash
freight in the eastern part of the city and
three freight cars were thrown from the
track, but no passengers were injured. The
snowfall continued all day but ceased in
the evening. A Rock Island trainload of
cattle headed eastward was laid out at
Valley Junction and the company planned
to get permission to use the state fair barns
for housing the stock instead of trying to
send them on. At Cedar Rapids twenty
head Of cattle went out on the ice to escape
the fury of the storm and the ice broke
so that all were drowned.
The danger Of q famine in coal caused
the local dealers to raise the price to "a a
ton today but there was very little deliv-
cred and hundreds of families are short OF
fuel. One of the leading dealers reported
that the railroads were confiscating his
coal by the carload and he would not prom
Use to make any deliveries. All the mines
are running with full equipment, but Goa
stocks are very low.
BOONE, Ia, Jan. 4-(special Telegram.
The Northwestern railway in Iowa wa,
completely tied up by the storm today. AL
freight trains have been annulled and the
complete equipment of motive power /.
being used to get passenger, mail and ex
press trains through on schedule This
however, is impossible and all trains ar,
late. Snow drifting badly may compel tn,
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