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Show ! THE GREAT STORM EAST. ! Ten to Fifteen Feet or Snow. Efforts I to Open Communication wit" Wet. A Nturm or Interne Bltter-' Bltter-' and Fur y. Trains nt lust Moving. Knowing the aniiety here relative to trains and mails from and to the east, tho Herald used every exertion yesterday to procure t-uuh information as would s:t the publio mind at rcs-Our rcs-Our special correspondent at Cheyenne yesterday morning tclegraphod as follows fol-lows ; Cheyenne, 17. Thero is nothing new from the east, and no trains have reached Worth Platte yet. I hope to be able to give you something reliable this evening. During tho ahernoon tho Western Union offiao bulletined tho subjoined; by the lattor part.of which it will be seen that no train will leave Ogden oast thia morning: Ogdcn, 17th, 4.30 p.m. A special engine left North Platto this morniog at two o'clock, with the Atlantic and Pacific dispatches for the other side of the break; but tho track was to bad the engine oould only get to Piuin Creek. An operator with tho dispatohos tried to get through afoot, but oould get only fifteen miloa, when ho had to rotorn to the eogino, and the engine returucd to North Platto, and has juac arrived thero, Tho snow and sleet is reported about ten feet deep on tho tr-clc, in places, and frozen. The Union Pacific linos aro now up to Plum Creek. No Union Pacific train will loavo here in tho morniog for the east. Nu oars here. Last night tho appended dispatoh was recoived by Wesiern Union line, f rom which it will bo seen that tho trains are again in motion, and some idea may be formed of the fierooness of tho storm: (Special to thf IIehald.) Cheyonno, 17, 7:40 p.m. The storm at Grand Island proved even heavier than was imagined, terribly severe as it was known to be. Commencing Com-mencing on the evening of Saturday, thj rain poured down during the night, and turned to blinding sleet on Sunday. Sun-day. This was followed by one of the most tremendous snow-storms ever oxperienced on the plains, especially ; at this advanced season, accompanied by high winds; and the wind and drifting drift-ing continued, with different degrees of fury, until last night. The-trains, however, which were stuck fast, are at last moving westward. Tho train whjoh left Omaha on Monday Mon-day morning has just passed North Piatte; and Tuesday's train is arriving thero. All the outs were filled with snow, and in many places it was ten to fifteen feet deep. The sleot had mado a oomplete wreck of the telegraph lines; the cross arms and poles having been broken down and prostrated for a long dis-tanco. dis-tanco. There is a good force of repairers re-pairers at work, and we now look for a wire being in working ordor by tomorrow to-morrow morning. The railroad wires are still down; and nothing has been heard from the trains bound east, but it is supposed tbey are satb through the blockade. Tho weather haB greatly moderated, and no farther railroad trouble is now anticipated. It is clear and pleasant hero. |