Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-02-14
GREAT SNOW STORM AND VIOLENT
GALE

night. The snow fell fast and thick, and the
wind drove il with binding fury and piled II
on III huge drifts worthy OF the most noted oil
New England snow storms. The gale soon
aftet midnight was terrific, and take the storm
ali in all we have had nothing equal to it since
Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 8 and Is, 1881,
when the streets were blocked up with snow
drifts, many of them ten-footers, and some es-
iimated as high as IL or ID feet in altitude
Our streets are now in similar predicament,
the side walks being lined with ramparts Of
snow, in many places several feet high, and
some indications Of more snow still yesterday
afternoon.
All travelling is Of course much mpeded.-
We had no communication with Boston from
d P. NJ. Tuesday afternoon until yesterday
afternoon. The train which should have arri-
we'd from there at quarter Of p. NJ, did not
reach here until 81 P. M. on Wednesday. An
interesting account of the trip by a passenger
will be found below. The rail road is terribly
blocked up. At the end OF the mill pond bridge
is adrift ten feet high-at the second ledge an
other at least fifteen feet high, and for mile
or more above Castle Hill the road bed is said
to be covered with snow TO the depth OF three,
fopr and FIVE feet. Eastward there is probably
as much or more.
THE following thrilling account of the night
on the rail road has been furnished US by
gentleman of this city, who was passenger:
"'rhe evening train of cars left Boston as
usual, at O'Clock on Tuesday, Davis, con-
duetor.) About forty passengers were on
board. The violence of the storm fortunately
prevented females from attempting TO travel,
and the passengers were, for the most part,
persons who felt themselves able to meet some
degree of exposure. The steamboat passed
the.harbor of Boston without difficulty. The
train left East Boston as usual. After proceed
ing about a mile, il was stopped by the increas-
ing violence Of the gale and depth of the drifts
Alter exhausiing every expcdient, il became
necessary 10 go back 10 East Boston. As the
gale still increased, some of the gentlemen adj
dressed the company, and endeavored TO dis
sIiale them from another attempt. But as
large number were from Salem, and, on ac-
count of the peculiar stale Of alarm pervadng
this city, unwilling to be absent from their
homes over night, il was concluded 10 try again.
Two powerful engines were attached to a sim
gle passenger car, and the train again proceed
cd. II had not gone mile before it was bur-
ed ina snow drift, and so deep that it could
neither advance nor recede. This was about
8 Oclock. The passengers were informed that
tlrereahey must remain until the next morning.
The tempest was terrific, almost lifting the car
from the track II was most unpleasant pre-
dicament, 10 he thus, at so early an hour and at
SO small a distance from the city of Boston,
confined for the long night in bowling and
rafting prison. But every expression and ev-
cry feeling ol complaint. was hOshed and for
biJ,fen by the reflection that their situation was
81 infinitely preferable TO that Of the poor sal
lors but few miles from them, in the Bay
Tic conductor and his men did all that men
cSdld do, and worked in the snow and the cold
and the storm until every passenger was relev-
ed TO have them abandon all further efforts to
extricate them from their remidess condition.
Two strong and athletic men went back upon
the track 10 the depot at East Boston, and
spent the night in the steamboat there. But
no assistance could be procured, lnr no man
could. move against that storm, and il required
all the strength of the strongest TO avoid being
actually blown off from the road. About o.
clock messenger arrived from the Portland
train, for assistance, that train, having pass
eIthrough Salem at II O'Clock, was buried 10 a
snow drift in Chelsea, about 2 in the morning.
After daylight the passengers walked back TO
East Boston; and from hall past until half
past IL the railroad steamboat was operating as
battering ram, upon the ce-clad harbor of
Boston, driving into il with the full power of
her steam, and penetrating about hall her
length at each impulsinn. The Portland pas
Sengers reached East Boston about II O'Clock.
The passengers who had lett in the six O'Clock
train returned to the Boston depot after about
10 hours, having reached no farther point than
one mile from East Boston, and endured an ex-
perencc which has not been paralleed since the
days when our first ancestors ploughed through
the SHOWS from Salem by the way Of Mediord,
and thought themselves fortunate if they ac-
complishcd the journey to Boston in two days.
As the engines were frozen up, or exhausted,
during the night, they had to be dragged hack
h2 ropes, and the passengers could not start
again from Boston until half past Q yesterday
afternoon. Salem Register. ss
The cars which started from Lowell on
Tuesday evening were unable TO get any near
er Boston than Medford that night. Some of
the passengers proceeded to Medford village,
and took the stage on "Wednesday morning,
while others waited the arrival of "Wednesday
mornings down tram, which left Lowell a
quarter before and arrived in Boston at half
past one, having in tow the train of the previ-
Gus evening, the whole preceded by train Of
Eve locomotives. The snow was drilted in
some places higher than the top of the cars
No train left Boston for Lowell until O'Clock
Every attention was paid to the comfort OF the
passengers by the conductors of both the Tues
day evening and Wedne iday mornings trains
Messrs. Barrett and Short. When il was as
ceriained that il was utterly impossible to pro-
coed with the cars which left Lowell on Tues
day evening, Col. Barrett procured carriages
from Medford, TO which place all the passen-
gers who chose to go were conveyed, and eve
~ attention and kindness was shown them by
this gentlemanly conductor.-.atlas.
Hartford Wool .Market-The sales for the
month Of January exceed $4,000 pounds,
mostly made the latter part Of the mouth. Pri-
ces have ranged from so 10 4l cents for Sati-
net wools.--From 40 to $4,000 pounds Of Sc