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Show IN GRASP OF BUZZARD Storm King Now Reigns in North Dakota. TRAFFIC AT A STANDSTILL Not ft Whc:l Ha3 Moved on the ( Northern TccMc or Ore-t Northern Hallway In tho IMizzaM-Strlckcn Dlotrlct foi Two Dijs Snow Piled In Ilountalneus Dilfts-Tetnpsta- j tur Below Zero Winnipeg Is Isolated Iso-lated So Tar as Hallway Communication Commu-nication Is Concern'd. M Taul, Minn March 16 North Dakota and the Canadian northwest 1 have experienced the worst enow- I storm In man) )eats und rullr ad traf- I flc Is practical!) pnral)zed The Northern North-ern Pacific nnd tireut Northern ha5e not moved u wheel for neail) thirl) sit hours In the bllzzaul stilckcn district and have abandoned nil efforta to do so for the present The high wind has piled the snow In mountainous drifts and pat ked In solid masses, man) deep cuts being finitely tilled Ihe tetn perature haa been falling gradually and Is now at or below zero Not a trans-continental train has arrived ar-rived In Ht. I'aul since Trlday nnd none la expected for several da)s Tho Northern I'ncltlc repoits lis westbound coast train which left St Paul jester-day jester-day mornliv; tied up at Kargo the road be)ond there being blockel It will start a coast bound ttaln tomorrow tomor-row nnd hopes to be able to get through The oastbound coast train due here Saturday morning la held nt Mandln N D. and nn ertort will bo mule to move tomorrow. Ever) effort Is being made to keep tho snowbound passengeis fed nnd warm nnd for the purpose trains are being held nt stations where the nc-commodntlons nc-commodntlons uro good rather thnn attempt to get through with a possibility possi-bility of being lied up between stations The Red river nlle) division of tho Northern Pacific between Trankfort and Winnipeg Is entirely abandoned. No trains have attempted to tun since Frldi) night. The situation on the Croat Northern la equall) bad The line Is tied up entirely between Grand I'orks and Wllllstnn, N D a dim nice of about thlrt)-flvc miles 1 nd uil wires have been lost hoond I'argo. Thirty mllen of wire are gone between Targo nn Carrollton. N" D nnd communication with veestero Dnlcota nnd Montana points has been lost Po fierce has been the storm that It haa been deemed lnidvlsable to attempt at-tempt lo reopen the road until I abates Reports tonight Indicate that the gale has subsided somewhat but that tho snow still continues to fall The branch of Ihe Oreat Northern running to Winnipeg Is tied up No trains have been started imilhvvaid since Friday night nnd those that were caught out on ihe road b) the storm have beon held at the atatlon near the border Winnipeg Is reported entirely cut off from railroad communication with the outside world The Canadian Faclflc trans-contlnentnl trains uro snowbound somewhere west of there nnd no prospects of relief Is jet In right. The atorm began on I'rldav, being preceded by a light rainfall anl accompanied accom-panied by high wind, the rain turning to sleet nnd then to snow and falling wllhout cessitlon for over thlrtj-slx hours. The terrific gale drifted tho snow so bid!) that the streets of thf towns In the storm district were filled ao deeply that It was next to Impossible to wade through them nuslness of all klnda la nt a standstill stand-still since Frldiy night and not much can be done until the storm subsides So far as known there has been no loss of life but owing to the demoralized demoral-ized condition of the wires little newH has been received from the remoter districts. |