Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1889 — STORM IN CANADA. [ARTICLE]

STORM IN CANADA.

Very Cold and Much Snow—Railread Traffic Entirely Stopped. A Montreal special of Thursday says: There has been some severe weather in Canada lately, but the blizzard which started Wednesday night and is still raging is the worst sp far thisi season. ihe snow fall has not been very great but the wind has been terrific, and dry, powder-like snow, has been swirled in great drifts, making travel exceedingly difficult in this city, while iff the out-laying districts it is totally out of the question. When the storm was at its hight, chimneys were blown down, while, to add to the discomforts, the temperature took a sudden drop and registered 12° below zero. Railroad travel is thoroughly demoralized. Out-going trains are canceled and and incoming ones are hid away in snow drifts somewhere, some of them having been reported and others not. The trains on the Southeastern Road are all four to seven hours late. The suburban train from St. Lambert started to Longueill, five miles away. It got about half way in two hours; then it was stuck and could go no further. When an attempt was made to get back, the drifts had piled up so high that it was impossible to' move either way and about thirty passengers were stuck half way. Both the Canadian Pacific and the Grand Trunk Companies have sent out orders by wire that through passengers are to be pro vided with food whenever a train manages to reach a way station All the available laborers who can be hired are at work at different points oh the road, but the snow is blowing back on the tracks almost as soon as it is shoveled off. The telegraph wires are badly only a few of the main lines being in wording order, and the“way” lines being either down or useless.