Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-16
DRIFTS 25 FEET
DEEP IN WEST:
TRAFFIC STOPS
Snow Barrier Between COLI
orado and Kansas Line
Stops Train Service; One
Passenger Into Denver.

Kansas City, Mo-, March ia
special Union Pacific train with 200
passengers was made up here today
and will attempt to reach Denver by
way OF Omaha. Between Topeka and
Omaha snow is drifted five feet deep.
Drifts twenty-five feet deep along the
here. ...>
One Train Into Denver.
Denver, Colo, March 15.-Railroad
traffic conditions into Denver showed
a slight improvement today with the
arrival of one Atchison. Topeka and
Santa Fe train from the east and the
announcement by Burlington officials
that trains. we're able to get through
from Chicago on delayed schedules but
not from st. Louis. Union Pacific
and Rock Island trains were annulled
again today.
The Missouri Pacific is still blocked
in Eastern Colorado and Western
Kansas.
Washington Hears Of Storm. =
Washington, d. c., March 15.-Ofi.
cial advices received today by Super
intendent ingalls, Of the. railway mail
service indicate that the worst snow
storm Of the winter now is raging
practically throughout the central
west. Many railway lines have been
obliged to abandon trains and mails
are being delayed seriously.
Severe Storm In Chicago. @
Chicago, March 15.-A snow storm
amounting almost to blizzard ragged
here throughout last night and still
continues, with the prediction from
the weather bureau that 1t will last
throughout the day, with falling tenn
perature.
The snow came in with driving
west wind, yesterday at noon and
street car companies since have had
sweepers running on their lines at In
teryals sof about twenty minutes.
Early today it was impossible for one
to see more than one hundred yards
ahead in the streets.
Street steam and elevated railways
were compelled to move their traffic
with especial care during the rush
hours of the morning. No serious acci-
dents were reported during the early
hours.
Telegraph companies became dis
tressed. 1t was reported by them that
the worst conditions of the winter pre-
vailed.
The snow was wet and heavy, max
ing conditions under foot miserable.
The storm is due to reach the eastern
seaboard tonight.
Davenport Train Service Crippled.
Davenport. March 15.- Although
trains from the east this morning are
only few hours late they have passed
on west with every expectation Of be-
ing tied up in the big snow drifts
which are blocking eastbound traffic
from the Missouri and beyond.
Communication from the Mississippi
to Des Moines is not cut off entirely,
but farther west there are few trains
even approximating a schedule today.
At the central district headquarters of
the Rock Island today no assurance
could be given when there would be
a train from Omaha, although every
snow plow from the shops is out buck
ing the big drifts. On many branch.
oskaIoosa Cut OFF by Storm.
Oskaloosa March 1o.-(SpeciaD -
Oskaloosa has been isolated since g
o. clock last night by the storm. Only
few inches of snow fell locally, but
the storm ragged all round and Oska-
loosa has had no mail since 5 o'clock
yesterday No wheels are turning on
any railroad in or out Of town today.
Immense drifts are reported in all d.
rections and all trains on all lines
were annulled for the day.
Passenger Train in Drift.
Orion. H., March 1.-two passen-
ger trains between Rock Island and
Peoria on the Rock Island road have
been stuck in snow drifts between Or
ion and CISCO since early morning. 1t
has been impossible to get to them
with food and provisions.
RENO POWELL DIED