Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-07
TERRIFIC STORM
SCATTFRS DEATH
OVER VAST AREA
Wind, Snow, Ice Gorges
and Fuel Famine Mark
Extensive Gale
TWENTY FIVE DEAD
Scores of Trains Stalled.
Roofs Caved in and
Thousands ShiVer
Especial to The Herald !

NHICAGO, Jan. 6.-From Butte to
Buffalo and from the lakes to
~ Galveston, for the last twenty
four hours one of the worst and most
varied storms in recent history has
ragged without abating.
In the northwest dozens of railroads
are seriously crippled, hundreds of
trains are stalled indefinitely, tele-
phone and telegraph lines are wrecked
and a binding blizzard is piling the
snow in veritable mountains across
track and roadway, while rivers are
choked bank full with threatening ice
foes, and hundreds of boats and
bridges are imperiled.
In the southern country, particular
ly in Tennessee, the snowfall has
broken all records for the last twelve
years, eight inches having fallen in
one day at Memphis alone.
Many reports have been received of
roofs falling in under the tremendous
weight of wet snow Other serious re-
suits also have attended the storm.
That the death list from the storm
will reach, if not exceed, at least fifty
persons, besides thousands of head of
stock, is the conservative estimate
made late tonight, and based on re-
ports received from various sections
where the storm has been most Sc
we're.
Other Discomforts
In addition to swollen rivers, ice
gorges, high winds and heavy snow
fall, which have been general today
throughout the south and southwest,
the northern cities of st. Paul, Min
neapolis and as far up as Winnipeg
report temperatures ranging from D
to % below zero. Intense sunerlng
prevails in hundreds of smaller towns
and settlements.
Many cities are facing a serious coal
famine, which adds to the terrors OF
the situation.
The tie-up of over seventy freight
trains which were carrying fuel to the
needy cities and towns makes the con-
dition desperate in many places.
Completely blocked by the derail-
ment of a snow plow and wreck
ing train at Grey Cliffs, Mont, seventy
miles west of Billings there were at
9 D. m. transcontinental trains of the
Northern Pacific and Burlington ly-
ing on side tracks in Billings and LlV-
ingston, awaiting the clearing OF the
track.
At D. m. it was forty-eight hours
since an east-bound train had reached
Billings, and the railroad officers de-
clare it will be some time tomorrow
before the blockade is lifted.
The railroad is greatly hampered ON
account of the high winds which yes
terday in an hour wiped out the work
done by section hands in the preced-
ing day.
COAL SUPPLY Low
The long continued cold weather has
reduced the reserve coal supply IN
Chicago to such an alarming extent
that dealers were powerless today to
supply the demand for fuel from many
factories that are facing shutdown
unless relief comes within forty-eight
hours.
The railroads were frantlcally
urged by coal men to get coal into the
Chicago yards. Thousands of carloads
are reported to be waiting on sldlngs
because of a lack of locomotives.
Today the thermometer registered
four degrees below zero Though
warmer weather is predicted for to-
morrow, another cold wave is pre-
dicted for next week.
The United states naval training
station at Lake Bluff was forced 10
shut down today because of lack OF
coal South Chicago and Gary con-
ditions are reported as serious.