Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-02-24
SNOW STORM IN
CENTRAL STATES
Blizzard Is General Over
Iowa, Missouri and ADJ
joining Places
HIGH WIND CAUSES
DAMAGE TO WIRES
Trains Are Delayed BY Big
Drifts and the Slippery
Condition of Rails

Chicago, Feb. 23.-The worst sno"
storm of the winter, which started yes
terday, continued early today over
large part of the middlewest.
Throughout Missouri, Iowa, central
and southern Illinois, Kansas, Me-
braska. Indiana and Ohio heavy snow
was falling, accompanied by hlgn
wind. Telegraph and telephone wires
were demoralized, especially south and
west of here and steam road traftlc
was badly delayed.
In central Illinois and Missouri
many trains we're reported stalled oy
tho deem snow. Interurban lines were
nut ont of commission and in severaf
cities street car traffic was entirely
stopped.\ $780,.
Around lake Michigan the storm
abated during the night and early TO-
day it was clear and cold, the ther
mometer registering 16 above zero at
7 o'clock. Colder weather and sno"
was the forecast today for Chicago.
More Snow Coming.
Des Moines, Feb. 23.-The storm
which gripped Des Moines and centra,
Iowa, Yesterday and last night, had
diminished considerably early today
but the temperature remained at .
above zero. Yesterdays twenty-five
mile gale left reminder in the form
of late trains, street car plough gangs
and demoralized telegraph and tele-
phone wires, though comparatively
little snow had fallen. Weather bur
eau Off Gals predicted still colder
weather in prospect and central Iowa
NAV be visited by heavy snow IN
the next day or so.
Peoria, ILL.,, Feb. 23.-Peoria remains
TODAY in the grip of one of the worst
billiards. in the memory OF the Oldest
residents. The storm began early yes
terday afternoon and continued with
ont cessation until late this morning,
increasing in fury with each succeed
ing hour. Telephone and telegraph
, wires are down and railroad trains are
behind schedule. a .r
The Illinois traction system has
been compelled to temporarily dis
continue it's service. It's Peoria, st.
Louis SLEEPER. which left here last
night at II o'clock is held in DRIFT
ten miles east of Peoria. ~
Trains Are Delayed
St. Louis, Mo-, Feb pa blizzard
that struck St. Louis late Sunday
afternoon continued today. A hne
snow was being driven before
twenty Ave mile wind, delayed trains
which were marked from 80 minutes
to three hours late. During the night,
the wind reached velocity OF forty
miles an hour. The storm was gen
eral throughout eastern Missouri and
southern Illinois.
Burlington, Feb. 23.-The worst
snow storm of the winter hit Burning
ton last night and street railway traf-
Ac was completely paralyzed and hum
dreds of people were compelled to
wade through drifts to their employ
ment. Railroad trains were all late.
A stiff gale from the northeast is
blowing.
Train is snowbound.
Jacksonville, ILL.,, Feb. 23-The worst
blizzard of many years was raging in
this city and surrounding territory to-
day. All business was at standst1ll.
A Chicago and Alton passenger train
due here at o'clock Sunday night was
held In a snow, drift three miles south
of the city. The passengers were
brought here on sleds this morning.
A Wabash passenger train due at
800 Sunday night and two later trains
on the same road were all snow bound
a short distance west of Chaplin, this
county. The same conditions existed
on the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
and on the Chicago, Peoria and st.
Louis railway, both as to passenger
and freight trains.
Kansas Suffers Heavily.
Kansas City, Mo-, Feb. 23.-With
only slight abatement the storm that
swept into Kansas and western Mis-
souri, last night producing the worst
conditions of the season, continued to-
day. The biting sleet of last night
changed today to fine snow which,
driven by high northeast wind, piled
in drifts, demoralizing railway and
street car traf1c.
LOSS of wire communication with
the west made impossible any estimate
Of the damage done by billiards. IN
Kansas said to be the most severe in
years.
Storm is Unique.
Washington, D. c., Feb. ga howl |
ing Tennessee blizzard, something rare
in the varieties of winter, is the lat
est storm to whip the east with icy
rains and snow. The weather observ-
ers today described the storm as Wig
orous. Driving SHOWS were falling in
the Ohio valley, the middle Atlantic
states and southern New England
while the south Atlantic and gulf
states were having cold rain.
.OWAN'S NEPHEW KILLED.
New Sharon, Feb. BE. H. Wood
ward received a message that his
nephew, Norman Woodward, was kill
ed in the copper smelters in Hayden,
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