The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-03 00:00:00

The Snow Storm in Scotland.

(From the Scotsman.)
The snow which had ceased falling in Edinburgh
on Wednesday afternoon, again came on early Yes"
terday morning, and continued falling for son!
time. Although the wind was from the north and
north-east, the snow-storm seemed to be coming
from the south, and since Monday it had progressed
over Badenoch, Strathspey, and Strathdearn, uP t.°
Inverness. The fall of snow has been very caw
derable on the high grounds, drifting in some Parts
to several feet, and necessitating along the line
lie
the Highland Railway the use of the snow-Pleut
which, however, has worked most admirably. •".-
fall of snow was slight in Clackmannanshire and all
along the east coast in comparison with that exPe-
rienced farther up the country. All the trains on
the Highland Railway were more or less detained
by the snow-drifts, although men were engaged in
cutting the snow where it was too deep for the ePe'
rations of the plough. In some of the more exPesed
parts of the Highland Railway the drifts reached to
a depth of 18 or 20 feet. A correspondent who was
travelling northwards on Wednesday, says that 11,
saw a man, with a shovel over his shoulder, leadills
a horse laden with hay. Upon inquiry, he found
that the man was conveying the hay to his farm In
order to keep his cattle from starving. Both Mae
and beast had experienced great difficulty in getting
along the road, the guide being often compelled to
cut a path in the turnpike road for himself and hi. 4
horse. Our correspondent adds that should the
storm which had come ou so unexpectedly be of 1013. g
duration, the owners of cattle and small farmers
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the higher districts would suffer much owing to the
scarcity of fodder this spring. On Wednesday
goods train, which had no snow-plough attached to
it, fairly stuck on its way north, and after fruitless
attempts to push onwards, had at last to be dug eat
of the drift. The snow fences, erected since the
great snow-storm in February, 1865, at the lOre
exposed part of the Highland Railway, have pr°Yed
of groat service this winter in breaking the fore
;
of the storm—preventing much of the Ole:
from drifting in upon the line. The parts where We
drifts were heaviest were at Blair-Athole and Boat
of Insch. Even with the powerful assistance of the
snow-plough, several of the trains were brought to
a standstill ; while the 12.40 a.m. train from Inver-
ness stuck in an immense drift about a mile ROI,
Dalwhinnie station. The train which left Perth 5:
1.50 arrived at Dalwhinnie station, but owing t,
the accident above narrated could not go on. 1:t
large number of workmen were despatched to ass°,,
in digging out the train ; and after working for twi:
two hours the train was at last dragged to na',
whinnie station. Both the north and south trains
had been delayed for 3 hours. An attempt /IA
bow
then made to proceed on their journeys, but
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failed. The north train stuck in the snow at the n"
beyond Dalwhinnie drift
, and the south train in the
which had proved such a stumbling-block t° the
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north train a short time previous. Several unsuc-
cessful attempts were made by the officials of both
trains to proceed, and it was at last decided to 01115
them to remain snowed up for the night. A-1301,, it
p.m. the passengers prepared to leave the trains 't
stay over the inclement night at Dalwhinnie-
was, however, anything but a pleasant or an ess.l
matter for the passengers, unprepared for such to
journey, to walk through such a depth of Snell a
dee
they did not know what inconveniences. T -13 the
many of the passengers preferred remaining in
carriages to plunging headlong through five or rot
feet of snow ; but after some persuasion on the Ptho
of the officials, those who remained behind t°
at
comfort of the snowed-up carriages, proceededvie.
last to pilot their way to the inn at Dalivilaintj-
The whole of the passengers were lodged in
whinnie during the night at the expense of the l',
way company. Yesterday morning great andsriloal
cessful efforts were made to extricate the trail's f
ed t
the snow, and they were at last enabled to preeie nth
10.11 and 10 a.m. respectively. The greatest "e'd
na let
of snow was between Dalwhinnie and Dalnagr-
and Dalwhinnie and Sturan. A Frazerbn
rg
that die
correspondent says that the fall of snow in
trict has reached a depth of eight or ten inches, It
though the showers of the beginning of the 3
melted as soon as they fell. In the country Plieeut ev.
the drifts and wreaths were three and four feet' 0
b
At Dunbar the snow is lying six inches deep, .fted
the country roads and along the hedges it hn:ladre,:jos
to a depth of three and four feet. A a
correspondent sends a similar report.

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