People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1892 — TRAINS LOST IN THE SNOW. [ARTICLE]

TRAINS LOST IN THE SNOW.

Traffic in Kansas Demoralized by the Severe Storm—Many Cattle Perish. Wichita, Kan., Dec. 28.—Snow fell again Monday night, and after a brief intermission resumed operations about 10 o’clock Tuesday. Railroad men say that traffic in Kansas is badly demoralized. Every train is pulled by two locomotives, and still many are so far behind time that they have been almost lost sight of. Monday night, for the first time in ten days, a train got in over the Wichita & Western, but the road is again blocked, and Comanche and Clark counties are shut off from the world. Arrivals from Englewood report terrible losses among stock in that section, and on the ranges in No Man’s Land thousands of cattle, they say, have died.

The process of canning fruit by heating, steaming and sealing air tight, was in use by the inhabitants of the old city of Pompeii, as made evident by the discovery of several jars of figs in that buried city evidently prepared according to our present process. The department of agriculture in South Australia is encouraging the growth of raisin grapes and has imported 40,000 cuttings for distribution among farmers. Vandyke married a lady for her money, and was disappointed on finding she had none. —r--