Show 1 BOREAS BLOWS from manitoba to montreal and ana new hampshire to pennsylvania uy by western asad press to the Cn CHICAGO icAro F eb 17 tho weather lr in chicago has moderated somewhat at 8 a fit the tile mercury showed four degrees degre wow zero at omaha it was wa ces cloudy 0 u dy and ten tell above A at t des moines it mas was snowing and d five above in dakota and manitoba the thermometer still ranges from twenty t to thirty below so that no immediate relief can be expected the worst effects of the storm arc are still felt bouth and southeast of Cli chicago leago where freight traffic is quite generally suspended Was passenger trains of tho thil cast bound roads except the grand trunk are moving though delayed dela jed the tile incoming trains are from one to three hours hour late slate the grand trunk ha has bee been 11 C closed lo 10 ed since sin ce sunday the pan handle eastern astern illinois is i and louisville new albany chicago are still snowed up the illinois Ilfin ois central trains are several hours late but announce they will bo be in by noon tile acton fe 11 wabash aballi I 1 chic chicago ag go burlington ft quindy are all delayed the tile st paul and ind northwestern are ate going out on time but the incoming trains are from front one to two hours late lace N 11 II feb IS the worst snowstorm and anti blow of this year occurred jast ast night the inch high ways vas are impassable and eight eighteen eca inches of fell WHITE N yo Y feb feblot 17 A heavy eay snow now storm occurred last about bout 11 inches there was a ter terrible wind whid the tile rains are all laid out and there have been no trains from the tile south since last evening TROY N Y feb 17 last nights storm was the severest in years the trains on oil the troy boston and new york centi central aland and up north are all snowbound at houses rouses point northbound trains laid over list night the trains on the troy A boston are now bound at pownal streetcar travel between troy Lansing barg colloca cs and other points points was su suspended last night efforts froats fr orts were lu akine tb this is morning ill orning to open tracks corthe different points in this section the heavy beavy wind is stripping the trees of their branches bran clies leveling fences fence sand and blowing down chini nea the country roads are blocked an and drifts in places arc are tv twenty enty feet high the stages are abandoned and the mails are late MOC feb 17 the heava heaviest ett snowstorm for years has been raging here since last evening traille on the railways ruil nasis ja at a standstill no trains arrived to today day front any point EAST TAWAS TA WAS mich feb 17 john and abram johnson Jo linson woodmen goodmen wood men left for gardiners gardinere Gar diners callip p saturday they werd out two nights when tho weather was 26 below and both froze to death QUE c feb 17 the blizzard continued with unabated fury till til I 1 daylight when a storm set in all railroads are blocked LANCASTER pa ila feb 17 owing 0 w 1 ng to the danger threatening the pennsylvania railroad bridgest brid peat columbia in the tile event of the tile ice ice breaking u up in th the 11 ali river the ralf railroad officials decided to blast the ice fee from tho the immediate vicinity of the bridge it was then disc discovered overe d that tile river in many places is frozen to the tile bottom thua thus rendering the plan great damage daLu age to property along the tile river is apprehended when the tile thaw comes |