Show A Violent Blizzard in Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS March 9An unusually violent blizzard is raging hero today and snow is drifting badly Morning trains are several hours late and afternoon trains from tho west have not been beard from owing to the prostration of telegraph lines Reports from the Canadian northwest indicate indi-cate very low temperature The public schools of St Paul are closed and the interurban electric line is compelled to stop running Several trains wore abandoned or held in protected localities fearing they would be blown from tbe track if starting out in the blizzard Reports from various portions por-tions of the northwest show the blizzard is general |