Show TiE STORM Disasters OH Lend and Water Railroads Snow blocked Chicago 16 Tribunes Q and Haven Such Great anxiety u felt for the Sued rico steamer Alepena whwh left here for hicJo at 9 pm o t Friday and was aitiocn by the aPAmer Muskegon half war over at 1 am on Saturday No tidings since W S Pmham editor of the Grand Haven Gerald and wife Mrs Newton Bradley ard two daughters of New Mexico Hober V Squer jr U F tarliss of Grand Haven were among tne pestenser ° The cleamer cirried a crew of thirty and passengers numbering lirty or tony Tho principal hop3 u that the msy have gone north to the Manitou Inlands for shelter The Tribunes marine editor finds thq company here do Dot conider it certain I that the veisel is lost but buhevo she bus put in port somewhere a sue must have Deco driven otf her course by terrific I wind which came about 2 oclock catur day morning Chicago 16A terrific wind all day I muub minor damage The South bide oiling Mill elaci house bow down and bur men warn buried in the run one fatally injured the otieri slightly I Council Bluffs 18 Fridays and aturdaya storm was unusual for this eason Snow full all Friday night and melted a it fell It has turned told since with a rw northwestern Kale and oa4a are frozen solid and very rough On the Maple Vullcy branch of the Northwestern snow blockaded trains The snow it from fives to seven feet deep tell along the Sioux City Railroad from tat point to Sioux City Snow foil cun nually Fridy night and Saturday meitirg almot as feet as it foil On saturday night sheet ice and enow were reported three tu four inches tick raini from St Paul and Yankton duo on Saturday have not yet arrived here Chicago 17 The wind ntmued > throughout the day with somewhat lest force I wag far lets diiastroui on the lakes than might have been expected ejnuso warning cufBuient had been iven to allow most o toe craft to leek 0 harbor The only acid ct of a serious nature reported u the loss of the schooner B Jv Wells Captain Tnitrauff iron iv from Escaraba to Chicago crew of eight pcrspnc which foundered ctl this port hat night and ts none of tho crew have reported it i presumed 1 were lot Its masts and spars were sightd his morning but no trace of any of ill crew The damage by the wind will in he aggregate be very heavy it thir drlhah viinilr The forCii of the wind caaiued most maiked about the space included within a retdius of 100 miles from Chicago Chi-cago but the blow itself extend much farther Omaha being about the western limit iliohuan the eastern Cutml Illinois the foulh ra ad Wise > nsiu the northern Telegraph wires remain in n 1 precarious condition and many of them are entirely u elect at present AJ ilwuuko 17 The wit d storm hare yesterday and lat night was the sever st ever known In this ftclion Tho bru meter wa never to low Tho wird was from the south blowing between sixty and seventy miles per hour Dispatches from LiCroiio say the storm all along Hie line of the Southern Minnesota Railway Rail-way was the severest known in ye < r Passenger and freight trains along the line were blockaded in snowdrift ten to twelve feet de p and lcm with i rovis ion havo been duplched to their relief from several point The train whioh left LaCrosso on Friday is pot heard from since leaving Fulda thL night l cuts west of Fairmounl are filled with sLow packed hard Rep rta of cattle hor cj etc having perished are constantly received re-ceived Loss of human lifo is not yat ie ported It was the worst storm ever < known in southern ilinneola and coast ern Dakota and is still raginr Chicago 18 Journals Des Moines The ground io frozen several laws deep hereabouts Twothird of the potato I crop is out dug and is i prubably 1 total loss lossIhe train that left Dubuque on Friday m irning ores the lllinju Oeatal for the nest h i still stuck in a mow drift wit ot Howull ani the wind hU in the sn > w faster than it can be shoveled out The company does not expect t gt tbo toad open to Sioux C ty before Tuesday Thi captain ot the barge C A Irish parted company with the musing steamer Alpena after sailing with her three hours ten mile 1 rxenoaha She wa > then beading shoreward Notning has ben heard of her since Montague Mich 18 The mail carrier car-rier from ClaybanLs arrived at thu place at 1 oclock a m and reports that jut a ho wu leaving CUyb nki with the mal 1 a Mr A K Wheeler tOld him the deck of the Alpena had ben discovered dis-covered on the beach at Stony Creek The mail carrier oid not sop tu getpar ticulars Chicago 18The crew and passengers passen-gers of the wrekedstcmer4pe7ia are variously stated at from fry to sev only the captain Napier wa 1 trutwortry and very fknful ofljcrr Officiali of the Goodrich line to whicn she belonged refuse to give any particulars about her or her passenger pas-senger lst Sne was one of the ttaunchet veisos on tho line |