Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-22
NORTHWEST HIT
BYBL|zzARD;
WAVE ON The way
Portion of Nebraska Covered
by Heavy Storm That Is Re-
flected by Sleet Storm
Here.
TEMPERATURE DROPS FAST
Trains Running Behind Time,
With Storm Conditions
Growing.
TEMPERATURE DROPS FAs'
GLARE OF ICE OVER o. \;

While the wind blew gale all yes
terday and snow fell at intervals, the
bad weather here was not marker
to what was experienced to the north
and northwest, Advices received by
~ "ailroads late last night indicated
',c storm that set in Saturday
continued over into Sunday
and that in northern Nebraska, port
ions of Iowa, Minnesota and the Da-
kotas, the worst blizzard of the Win
ter was general. IS
Here the snow that fell Saturday
night, was held down by a heavy coat
of sleet that fell early Sunday morn
ing. This sleet was full half-inch
in thickness and made streets and
sidewalks one sheet of ice.
All Sunday the light snowfall was
driven along. by high wind, but
here there was not enough of the
snow so that it drifted and impeded
travel to any extent. During the day
the mercury ranged around 10 to 20
degrees above zero, but in the early
evening it commenced to drop and by
9 o'clock was down close to zero.
Trains Running Late.
In Union Pacific territory the storm
was not SO severe as farther north.
There were furries of snow during
the day, but not enough to drifs badly.
The wind was high and during the
afternoon, all the way from Omaha
through to Odgden the temperature
commenced to fall. Last night be-
low zero was reported all the way
from Fermont to Cheyenne and be-
yond.
Trains operating into Omaha were
all running late, due principally to the
strong wind, the engines being unable
to make steam.
st. Paul, MINI, reports the worst
blizzard in recent years, with all traf-
fic tied up, or greatly delayed.
Sioux City reports the snow drifting
badly and local and train traffic in
bad shape.
Reports from Pierre, S. D., indicate
that most of the trains have been an.
nulled and that the storm that started
Saturday night has reached the pro-
portions of a blizzard,
Drifts in Northwest.
The Northwestern Offices last night
reported foot to eighteen inches of
snow all the way from little this
side of Sioux City well up toward St.
Paul and out over South Dakota. 1t
was still showing and below zero
weather was reported from the entire
section.
Along the Northwestern's Nebraska
line there was heavy fall of snow
from point 100 miles northwest of
Omaha all the way through into the
Black Hills and Wyoming. The wind
was blowing gale and a regular old
fashioned blizzard was raging. Tenn
peratures were below zero and still
going down.
The Burlington reported heavy
snow all along its northwest Ne
braska and Wyoming lines, the fall
being estimated at three to eight
inches and still falling. Tempera-
lures were at zero and below. In the
storm belt train service was all shot
to pieces and freights were heading
in at stations and being tied up for
the night
Fear For Stock.
While no reports were received last
night from the range country, fears
were expressed that there might be
considerable stock loss on account of
the heavy fall of snow and the known
shortage of feed. However, one
thing favoring that section was the
fact chat the sleetstorm did not cx-
tend that far to the west and north
west. Advices were to the effect that
the sleetstorm did not extent to ex-
ceed seventy-hve to 100 miles back
from the river, Beyond that it was
snow that fell a greater portion of
Saturday night and most of yesterday
Iowa was in the path of the sleet
storm, and according to Northwest
ern and Burlington reports, sheet of
ice covered the state from the Mis-
souri, to the Mississippi rivers.
Reports to the railroads last night
indicated that there was little fear
of the blizzard striking this section.
1t appeared working east, its south
line extending through South Dakota
and southern Minnesota.
Zero Weather Coming.
The cold wave flag was hoisted on
the Federal building yesterday after
noon.
Zero weather this morning was the
prediction of the local weather office
with severe cold tonight.
The sleet storm that followed the
snow Saturday night, advices indicate,
pretty we'll covered the state. 1t was
anywhere from quarter to an inch
in thickness and held the snow down
so that it did not blow, nothwithstand-
ing there was a strong northwest
wind all Sunday
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