New-York tribune., 1912-02-22
BLIZZARD TIES Up WEST
Heaviest SnoWStorm on Record
at St. Louis.
TRAINS STALLED IN DRIFTS
Three Feet of Snow Falls in
Kansas and Colorado-Rail-
road Schedules Awry.
RAINS STALLED IN DRIFTS

"a, Chicago, Feb. IA binding snowstorm
backed by a fifty-mile-an- hour gale, swooped
down on the Middle West to-day, blocked
trafic. crippled wire communication and to-
night swept eastward in the direction OF
northern Ohio, Pennsylvania and New
York.
A temperature ranging between % and q
degrees above made the WIND and snow
bearable and no great suffering was re-
ported.
The storm reached its greatest intensity
in Chicago and northern and central Him
ois. although eastern Iowa and Missouri
southern Wisconsin and Michigan and
northern Indiana felt the blizzard to con
siderable extent
The large glass dome Of the Dexter Park
pavilion at the Chicago stock yards fell In
This afternoon while several hundred peo-
pie were attending horse auction, but no
one was seriously injured.
Captain Charles Garland. in charge Of the
lfesavng station at the mouth Of the
Chicago River, said the blizzard was the
most severe in his experience on the Great
Lakes.
Kansas City reports that a temperature
Of q degrees above zero over Kansas and
Western Missouri to-day brought roliet
from the blizzard of Tuesday, and railroad;
in general throughout that district are in
most cases running trains practically OH
time
In Southwestern Missouri, where traffic was
demoralized. a senblance Of order has been
restored. but conditions in Western Kansas
and Eastern Colorado, where three feet of
snow fell, are not so good.
a Kansas Southwestern passenger train
has been stalled in a drift all day near
Gueda Springs, a ST. Louis G. San Fran
cisco passenger train is stalled near At
lanta. and four engines and a southbound
passenger train are stalled on the Midland
Valley, between Arkansas City and Paw
huska. Okla.
From st. Louis comes the report that
sixteen inches OF snow, driven by forty
mile wind, and a minimum temperature
of "a degrees, were features Of storm
which swept Eastern Missouri. Southern
Illinois and Western Kentucky.
IN ST. Louis tho snowfall was the
heaviest ever recorded for the same length
of time since the st. Louis Weather Bu-
reau started to keep snow records, in 1884.
Baltimore & Ohio passenger train No.
l25, which had been stalled all day near
Tsylorville, Ill. was released tonight
Passenger train No. on the Chicago &
illinois Midland is snowbound near Kin
kaid. and a relief train sent out from Tay-
lorville is also snowbound.
Detroit. Feb 1.-THE worst blizzard ex-
perienced in Michigan in years was respon-
sbe to-day for the death of at least one
Nd ba Int ~ r,osSib1xy wv
FIVE others as the result Of collisions be-
tween trains or streetcars due to the blind
ing snowstorm. Steam and electric rail-
read traffic is paralyzed in all directions.
Several trains are buried in snowdrifts and
others are running from five TO eight hours
behind schedule.
One passenger was killed and several
we're hurt near Vicksburg when a freight
train. crashed into stalled passenger train
on the Grand Rapids & Indiana road
At Bay City two streetcars came together
IN the storm. injuring the motormen and
several passengers.
Hundreds of miners are marooned to-
night in tipples and wash shanties near
Bay City. unable TO reach their homes
because Of the suspension of interurban
service. The men are being fed by far
msrs
Two passenger trains on the Fruit Belt
Line between Kalamazoo and South Haven
are buried in great snow banks. and the
passengers have been taken in sleighs TO
farmhouses 10 be cared for until tratfc
can be resumed.
At Jackson all Michigan Central trains
On lines running TO Grand Rapids and Bay
City have been cancelled. interurbans to
Kalamazoo and Detroit have suspended
operations, and the Lake Shore aad Michi-
gan Southern announced that no attempt
would be made tonight TO run trains 10
Toledo and Fort Wayne.
Not wheel is turning at Saginaw, all
train and electric car service there being
suspended.
Trains are reported stalled on the Michi.
gan Central at Caledonia and Chester, and
az Birmingham on the Grand Trunk
IN Detroit and many other cities OF
Lower Michigan to-day business was seri-
ousy hanpered, factories were running
shorthanded and streetcars operated re-
Rerdless OF schedule or not at all