Show quicksilver QUICK SILVERS S QUIPS gold wave all over the northwestern Northwest em region from chicago by western ad press to the herald He raold jan 4 the extreme cold weather yesterday and last night delayed all tho the trains the mails malls from all it quarters of tho the country delayed their arrival today to day from three to sixteen hours eleven miles south weal vrest of the stock yards on the wabash road stands stand a stock train of twenty cart curb of famishing cami i and freezing stock the train being snowed under and stalled tuesday night sinco since which time it is believed iho the animals have been without food or A rescuing parly drove within three milre of the earty belated elated train then abandoned the sleighs and walked the remainder although beveral er engines baes have been bent sent down the train could not be reached and the party returned several of whom were badly frostbitten it is believed the stock perished today to day at atone one this afternoon the mcimeyer mo mci meter stood at 15 below another rescuing party succeeded in reaching the snowbound linow enow bound trainor train of tho the wabash road late this afternoon of 20 cars of live stock all were ere cattle save live two or three rara carlof of hogs some cattle were found frozen others partly frozen were immediately killed th the exact act number thus killed is not known the remainder odthe of tho cattle were fed and cared for by the railroad company who are making every effort to bring them through another large force of men were sent out today to day having been offered 50 cents an hour arriving near the train I 1 they refused to go to dorkas work as they could not eee see ten paces ahead fur th the e immense drifts lo 10 of faces snow ow they je turned nearly frozen the thermometer has been going down down the entire afternoon and evening at 11 it stood 21 24 2 1 below reports other points are re calved as follows rock island ills at 5 oco k 18 below at 9 23 below keokuk iowa 19 below at points on the wabash narrow gauge 32 below des moines iowa 30 below the coldest ever known and still growing colder dubuque 9 22 below several cases of frostbite trains two to eight hours late algona Al irona iowa 32 below icoria peoria ills 16 15 below rock island ilia ills 32 1 bolow below the tile coldest in 40 years ar sr PAUL NUL minn jan 4 on the manitoba line on all divisions the thermometer stands from 32 to tu 30 0 below zero the northern pacific Iaci lic reported 42 to 28 29 bellow from froin st paul to fargo on the dal dakota dalta ta division it was 40 below at st paul and duluth it ranged from 38 to 25 below the latter being the figures for Dul duluth on the line linoal at dayfield 30 below in StPaul st paul alie range e was from 35 to 22 belo bolow nl inn jan 4 the thermometer mo meter at athia morning stood 42 degrees below CHICAGO ills jan 4 none of ti the to towns in the alie above above licit list reports a any ny cases of freezing to death or an any dam d ago ag go to property from the tile froat t in chicago a number of minor casualties are reported including the brea breakage kate of plate buds windows by the intense cold |