People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1895 — BLIZZARD SWEEPS KANSAS. [ARTICLE]

BLIZZARD SWEEPS KANSAS.

Snow and fs*,d Slop the Progress of Eillwnr 1 r»ta« at Many Points. Wichita, Kas„ Feb. 7. —People who have lived I ere for twenty years say they have never I efore known such bad weather as was experienced yesterday. A gale from the north raged all day and land and frozen snow have been so thick in the air as to almost preclude walking. Reports from exposed villages on the prairies say the blizzard is terrif • and that the suffering among the r ttlers must be intense. The wind is i» peding railroad travel and drifted si: ,w has stalled a passenger train on the Wichita & Western. The Santa Fe branch running south from Emporia is blocked by sand. It is estimated at elast 803 families in the counties of Cheyenne, Rawling. Sherman and Thomas are without fuel. A majority of the farmers are scantily clothed, and while the sod houses in which most of them live are warm the storm if long continued will cause great suffering. Fodder is likewise scarce, and consequent loss to cattle must follow. Measure*- of relief adopted by the legislature will immediately be put Into effect.