Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-05 | Page 2 | Fierce Blizzard Rages in Nebraska

FIERCE BLIZZARD RAGESjNNEBRASKA Many Trains Fast in Snowdrifts; Snow-drifts; Passengers at the Mercy of Elements. j I LINCOLN. Neb., Fen. 4. A train-sta'.I- j iiiff snowstorm, described by Hurlington 1 iilro;id otiKihls in Lincoln as the worst experienced fur many years, is rding to-nil-.t In northwestern a nd central Ne-branka. Ne-branka. A hitjh wind accompanies the snow, and the storm luis reached the pro- 1 portions of ;i blizzard. On tnree branch hues !adiati::ir from Aurora, seventy indt-s ue-t -f Lineoin, ti.e Hurlinnton j;as th.:ee prts-rjer trains m ihe i rifts. A i,-w roller out of t.hreek-y ti e local t-a.-pertiier , tniin. with three coai-het;. naturaee and t'piep. ,-ar, wan s;a!.-d. The enne w:-.e j ur.-oupleii jn mi effort to better buck the I drifts, hut after n n r i r- 5" n e n r e re - '. t I wi-" ur.hh- to pet Un '. to tiie rest of the I tram. ' j T:.if."e on il e Northwestern rai'road ' In r.'Mt'rri, N'vhrrVa is bi'iiy ety- i , :t to t ra: its- hn v e he n ti4 up. A II I te w-'.y ire-in the t.'i-thw e-terrt Nr'r.rapka I boundary the Miowfali 15 rerorled to bo ! uiif reccoenici, a :--u:i.p:ii;iei by r.igh 'a ir '' ; Tv- ci-i. of iVo sTil'-M "p.iFsenGer tra!n a1"- or"!'.. w n :i n-1 - fa, -.ioi etl c-";il vt'.e.-r.- a:.-l r : i . :n" K waiied throih the ,-.-i(" to far;:'. . here hcii e- and irons weie f",pre'-J to haul --o.il a no I ri". ii.ns to the Ftrande-J passneers, hfte. n in n-in-.b'-;-. who f ;vci t renia.n :n f c ''"!- I.rs t hr-",ti-.nt (be niaht- Two ot'er- trains oi; t'rt f-'lnier bran-'h of the HurliniiCun are tied up, with i-iipht pro?-tj; pro?-tj; .f cttir.s out for twenty-four It is mi.'-aIp; heavily at St. Paul ar.d A u di ;i . but it h b-!f:ibie iHncr as it . t-pi- i.n "-.- t'.- iirrn prt of The state.