Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-03-28

.I5'SNow w.--rhc snow stories this season,
almost equal IN magnitude the vcracious mar
ati}c, winch has di3tcndcd tho eyes of young
! st-fs, probably ever since the system of tell
ing stories to children was invented, of man
who passing over IL wide plain of snow hitch
ed his horse to an iron post he saw sticking
ont Of the surface, and returning to the spot
during II rapid thaw, discovered the beast
hanging by his halter to the stccplc of a VII
| lago church, just where he had left him,
the only difference being that half a
| hundred feet Of snow had melted out from
under him. The Syracuse NY Journal says
| that the plank roads in that section are in q
| bad liy, and that in one place the drifts are so
| high that the gate-keeper comes up through
scuttlc in the roof of his house, and receives
the toll by reaching up through hole in the
middle Of the road. In Peru, Berkshire Co.
Mass, the dwelling house of Mr.. Cone, which
is one and II half stories high, is complete
, ly hidden by huge drift, and it has been
found necessary to dig II tunnel 81 feet in
length, from the front door. in order to give
persons inside chance to get out. The
Railroads in Western New York and other
| parts OF the country, run, in many places, be-
tween walls Of snow as high as the car-roofs.
From these canal-like passages, the snow,
which drifts in almost daily, cannot be re-
moved by snow-ploughs, but must be thrown
out with shoyels at an immense outlay of
labor and money. a correspondent of the
y. Y. Commercial relates the following re-
remarkable instance of detention and hardship
on the Erie Road
"a friend # mine started from IIornelsville
awGck ago last Saturday morning, for Buffalo,
and arrived there last Saturday evening.
The train could not get through on the New
York City Road, and the passengers took the
Eric road to Dunkrk. They lay at Pcrrys-
burg from Monlay noon till Friday night,
where they could got no beds and very little
to cat. There were 520 passengers and 400
employees, who took in the cars all the rest
they got. During the time two children and
one young man died-not entirely from cold
and starvation, but fatigue and bad air, and
being sick when they started. One lady who
WAS ON board received a telegraph dispatch
that She had three children living i'll oi the
scarlet fever in Illinois. 1t was impossible to
describe her agony at the constant detanti,n5
AMI long delays. The cars frequently ran off
the track, and when replaced the wind would
drift the snow upon the track ant render it
impossible. We had the superintendent upon
the train, and httccn locomotives to draw Us
but there were some enormous drifts. One
OF them wac 10 feet deep One Buiialonian left
the cars within fifteen miles Of Duukirk and
walked in, and by that means arrived "a
hours sooner.
At Olcan the villagers acted nobly. They
sent their sleighs, and took first the ladies to
their private houses, then their husbands.
and came the third time and took the rest of
the men, and charged them nothing. The
"Rtllroad Recess reduced the price Of meals
from 10 to p cents. But all were not like
these villagers, and some passengers were re-
iuccd to great straits by want Of funds The
Railroad Company were obliged to furnish
food az one time, to keep passengers from
starving.