The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-01-10
BLIZZARD HITS
MIDWEST HIND
Chicago and Surrounding. Terri
tory Faces Fuel and Food
Famine as Result OF
Storm.
ALL TRAFFIC is TIED UP
No Freight Moving and Situa-
ton Is Serious-Foot of
Snow on Level Piled
by Gale.
ILL TRAFFIC is TIED UP

l,llcaS0, Jan. S.--SnlCdSo -DSSStu "
dig itself out of the drifts today after
one of the worst billiards. in it's history.
The wind, which blew from 40 to so
miles an hour during "a hours, abated
at o'clock this morning and in the
calm of daylight, made brighter by the
great drifts and fields of snow, the sun
smiled the bland smile of the cat which
had just eaten the canary.
Everywhere were evidences of the
storm. There was scarcely block in the
outlying districts without it's stalled
automobile, hood-high in the snow,
waiting to be shoveled out. Their own
ers had left them last night, secure in
the knowledge that no thief could move
them.
The steamer Missouri, plyingsbetween
Chicago and Milwaukee, held fast in
the ice and buffeted by the gale, iimped
into port this morning like some stray
iceberg. 1t was coated with ice and the
crew after many cruel and sleepless
hours, came out of her like EsQuimauX
emerging from the igloos.
With abatement of the wind snow
plows on streets and railroads had a
chance to do effective work but SO
great was the snowfall that, with labor
short, it was predicted that days must
elapse before the streets are in normal
condition.
ne SNOWFALL IN chicago SINCE early
Sunday morning has been more than
loot on a level and the gale of more
.han 40 miles an hour formed huge
lrlfts from five to 10 feet deep, tying
lp steam railroads and electric lines in
all directions. 1t is said to be the
heaviest January snowfall in Cilicago's
history. The snow and gale continued
all day Sunday and not until after mid
night was there any signs of abate-
nent. Toward daylight this morning
the snowfall became lighter and the
wind died down somewhat. but even
able to make only meager Roadway
against the big drifts along the rail-
road and car lines.
No Freight Moved.
The temperature at 8 o'clock was 10
| degrees above zero. Practically no
freight trains moved yesterday. Every
| passenger train today carried out re
| lief crews and railroads reported that
| freight was again moving, although
| haltingly.
Switchboard operators of the tele
| phone company. owing to the paralysis
t.of traffic, We're sheltered at hotels last
night and We're at their posts without
delay today.
Employees of the stock yards battled
| through the greater part of the Sum
| day getting the stock arrivals under
cover. BY nightfall every headso of stock
1 +.
cars of stock arrived yesterday
Two Deaths Reported.
Two deaths in Chicago have been
reported SO far as the result of the
blizzard. Many persons are reported
| injured, mostly in collisions which re-
suited from the snow. Approximately
| rs fires We're reported during the past
"a hours, although in many instances
the fire apparatus became stuck in
snow drifts temporarily, no serious
blazes occurred.
! The heavy gale and binding snow
4 combined with great cakes of ice, mazda
navigation in Lake Michigan practical
| ly impossible.
The big steel plants and other fac
/ tories just across the state line in
Indiana are said to be seriously hamp-
cred by the storm Traction conditions
in the Calumet district are said to be b,
worse than in Chicago proper. There
are no Geographic facilities between
Pullman, Indiana. Harbor Whiting and
Hammond. the great banks of snow
having blocked all trains In addition,
to the scarcity of coal, the factories are
handicapped by inability of their en-
4 ployes to reach their working places
Most of the steel plants, some of them
working on government orders are said
\ TO be runHsng at about one third their
4 usual speed.
81 Outlook Serious.
4 - y IS tnOuSht to De
the most serious throughout central
Il Illinois. eoria is said 10 have ,nI,r ona
Jay SUI y, While many other towns
are repoi "a to be running short. State
fuel Adns l,istrator Harry Wheeler said
loaay tn there was plenty of coal in
iillnois, that everything depended
on Whetlsfts or not transportation facil-
lt,es ,ca,s;' re repaired sufficiently to
supply the various towns before fhei,.
local yards ran short .s b 4
\ IN .ifst,3 -
reported serious fuel and transporta-
uon tieups as result OF the storm
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, eleven inches
Of snow is reported with all railroads
tied up. Milwaukee and Beloix, wis.
report that the storm there was the
II heaviest ever felt.
! Storm Stops Pacifist..
81 meeting OF pacifists, scheeIs,ie1 in
Chicago to discuss terms OF peacts wa .
called off because only one tialecate
oraved the storm and appeared at the
meeting place 81 a. ~
No milk trains arrived TODAY and
the best the railroads could nrAxf,iar
the distributing Companies was .fla stis,s.
eries tonight Both OF the Bordei,icorna
pany $ trains from the Elgin dairv dis
trict We're stalled. one at West Chicago
. and the other at Woodstock. e'sS - 7
Drivers attempted to deliver the SIR
. plus left over from Saturday, but owing
, to drifts they We're confined Il, MATHS
. made by the street cars.
William G. COnrath. superintendent
i OF streets for the first ward which In
clndes the business district, said he
could use 7. 900 men in removing snow.
IN other years. = Mr.. Corrath said
there would have been hunt,ref,s Of
men waiting at the Randolph street
!. dumping yards after such q storm This
! morning there were exactly Is. but i
! finally rounded up $780, s. s.
Mr.. Conratl said III won,ry f.l.a !.
! week TO restore the streets 8, normal
Possibly half the homes in the city were
without their newspapers this morn
81 SOCIALIST go snraGfs.. ..