The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-15
Forty Mile Wind Piles up the Snow In
Kansas and Puts the Rail-
roads Out Of Run
ming.
BLIZZARD WAS FURIOUS
Storm Of Yesterday Was Number Six
for the Winter and Causes
Great Ineon-
venlence.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
TOPEKA, Kansas, March 15.-Driv-
en- by forty mile wind. from four to
six inches Of snow has fallen through
out Kansas and every railroad running
through the state is blocked for the
sixth time this winter. Drifts are from
eight to twenty feet deep.
. The Burlington was the only road
which was able to keep its tracks clear
up to last night and today officials
OF this line announced traffic has been
abandoned. 1t is not expected the
lines will be cleared for several days.
4
Mrs. Bryan Rlockaded.
LINCOLN. Neb., March 15.-Rail-
road traffic on every Nebraska rail
road was completely payalyzed this
morning al result of yesterdays
furious blizzard.
Mrs. w. j. Bryan is one Of the
victims of the blockade. The wife
OF the Commoner is passenger on
Missouri Pacific train stalled by a
series of deep drifts three miles from
Eagle fifteen miles east OF Lincoln.
Food and fuel were skirmished from
adjacent farm houses and the passen-
gers were compelled to spend the
night in the coaches OF the train.
Fifty hand shovelers We're digging In.
10 the drifts this forenoon and the
Missouri Pacific officials expect to
bring the train into Lincoln before the
day is over.
All Over the West.
CHICAGO, March 15.-Railroad
transportation throughout the west is
at a practical standstill today, subur-
ban traffic is tied up and elevated and
surface lines are operating few trains,
far behind schedule, as the result of
the worst storm of the winter which
has ragged over the middle west since
early yesterday. On the western
prairies the storm with proportions of
a blizzard has stopped all traffic
Kansas. Nebraska, parts of Oklahoma,
Iowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas
have been storm-swept since Sunday
Railroad traffic has not been SO de-
moralized in years.
Officials OF trans-continental lines
have given up efforts to start new
trains and are bending all their ener.
sies to locating snow bound passengers
and rescuing them from the rigors of
fne blizzard on the shelterlass wastes.
Fourteen passenger and freight trains
are reported stalled on one division
OF the Kansas branch of the Union
Pacific. East bound trains on the
Santa Fe due in Chicago today have
not been reported and officials are
irving to locate them. Snow plows
ana other rescue apparatus together
With large gangs of men sent out to
relieve stalled trains have been tied
up by the heavy fall of snow and the
railroads are helpless.
The local forecast promised con.
tinuation of the snow all day with a
minimum temperature Of 10 degrees
above zero tonight and clear tomor-
row. The center OF the storm passed
eastward over Illinois during the
night and is now sweeping over Ohio
headed for the Atlantic coast.
A terrific gale whirled itself across
Like Michigan last night. The steam.
er Kansas with the assistance of sew.
eral tugs and with IT'S crew of fifty
thoroughly exhausted from the work
at the pumps to keep the vessel above
water, limped into port last night. A
great hole showed in her bows where
sne was torn by the heavy ice floes
encountered.
Texas is Cold
FORT WORTH, Texas, March 15.--
North Texas is today experiencing the
coldest March weather in its history
The temperature has fallen below
freezing resulting in great damage to
fruit.
Over rs Trains Stalled.
DENVER. Colo. March 15.--More
than IS passenger trains are stalled
In huge snow drifts in eastern Colo
rado and western Kansas and Ne
braska today. Ten Rock Island
trains are snowbound near McCook
Neb.; nine Union Pacific trains a,
Oakley. Kan, and half dozen Santa
re and Burlington trains have not
Jet reported.