Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-01
Snow Ceases Falling gind
Goes Down, Is RepoN That
Comes From Out in Ne
braska and West.
OMAHA ROAD BLoCKADED
Union Pacific Gets Through
Wyoming Drifts and Again
Starts Trains Moving.
COLDER THIS MORNING
some Cold Spots.

Helena .......,.. .-26 North Platte. 10
sheridan .......--s6 Pierre, s. D..-it
! WiIliston. Nd. .--S6 Edmonton ..-42
Rapid City .....-20 Winnepeg .....-S0
| Valentine .... Ia Omaha ..........-t
Moorhead, Minn. .-Is
The blizzard that ragged all yester-
day in northwest Nebraska abated
last night, but temperatures continued
to fall and reports received at head
quarters OF the railroads operating
west predicted that all through the
northern and western portions of Ne
braska, 1S to "a degrees below zero
would be the rule this morning.
O'Neill at 7 o'clock last night re-
ported q degrees below zero; Staple
ton, 20; Emerson Grand Island, Kear-
ney, Sidney and Galloway, 18; Croft
ton, Long Pine, D. and Winner, S.
D., "a.
Agents at most of the railroad sta
tions reported that the wind ceased
blowing early in the evening, though
along the Omaha road i'll the north
ern counties of the state, a blizzard
was on at s o'clock. The Wakefield
and Crofton branches of the road
We're blocked and no effort was made
to keep trains moving, owing to the
severity of the storm and the intense
cold.
Getting Trains Through.
The Burlington, Northwestern and
Union Pacific late last night reported
that their trains were moving. though
mot on time. Out through the terri
tory where they were operating, the
wind had died down and the snow had
stopped blowing. No new snow had
fallen since noon. Ii.
Union Pacific officials asserted that
the blockade through Wyoming had
been raised and that trains were triov-
ing over the entire system, though mot
on schedule.
Burlington trains were making
fairly good time, though they were
encountering the coolest weather of
the winter in Wyoming, where NUM-
Der of stations reported temperatures
of "a to 80 below zero. Through east
ern Wyoming, along the line of the
Burlington, the snow ceased falling
shortly after noon yesterday, but the
wind blowed a gale until evening.
To Last Several Days.
The cold spell, according to the
weather man, will last at least for
several days.
Through the storm belt four to six
inches Of snow fell Tuesday night,
but ceased in the morning. This
snow was driven along by wind
that had been blowing from thirty
to forty miles per hour since early
afternoon. As result, the snow has
drifted badly, greatly interfering with
train service. Passenger trains are
run into the storm belt with snow
blows ahead and even then they are
two to four hours behind schedules.
Freight trains carrying stock are
hurried to stations where there is
feed and yardage and there the ami
mails are unloaded. Other freights
have been annulled
Along the Union Pacific there was
little snow over the Nebraska lines
until the extreme western part Of the
state was reached. There the fall was
four to six inches during the night,
but the weather cleared in the morn
ing.
Difficult Task in Wyoming.
Tuesday afternoon out through
Wyoming, the Union Pacific cleared
one of the tracks OF the main line
and rushed lot of passenger trains
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Omaha. During the early evening it
began to snow and drift and the cuts
that had been cleared were again
filled The storm, however, continued
only a few hours. More than 500
shovelers and four rotary snow plows
were started and before noon the
track was again cleared and trains
were moving. The wind died down,
so no more trouble is anticipated for
time, at least Trains are now
running both east and west through
the blockade zone.
Work of opening the second track
of the main line is progressing slowly.
The snow, mixed with sand and dirt,
has become as hard as rock and can
not be moved by the rotaries. The
workmen have resorted to dynamite
and it is being used in removing the
blockade.
Trains from the north are expert
encing great difficulty in getting
through that portion of the blizzard
that struck Minnesota. Both the
Omaha road and the Great Western
have been unable to get in their St.
Paul trains Of Tuesday and all the
officials here know about them is that
somewhere in Minnesota they are
stuck in the snow Trains were sent
north as usual yesterday, the hope
having been expressed that the block
ade would be lifted before they
reached the storm belt
South Dakota Roads Blocked.
Sioux Falls, S. D.. Jan. 3l.-The
storm which swept over South Da-
kota yesterday still was unabated to-
day and with the strong gale accom-
panying it the snow is being drifted
about, seriously impeding railroad
traffic throughout the state and caus-
ing much loss and suffering among
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