Litchfield enquirer., 1857-01-29
The Great Snow Storm.

Never since the establishment of railroad travel has there been 50 long suspeaish Of the ordinary regularity in that great branch sf iutercommunicat,on as within the last few days As regards our own community, the first train through on the Nauyatuck road siuce Saturday evening, came n about o'clock on Wednes- day night, bringing the New Haven papers of Monday and Tuesday. The only paper that came lnto the city On Tuesday was that eve. niny's Register brought up by Col. Welton wIs went through to New Haven that day and back with four ho;s, tcan. Ga the drifts were even less sutmountabl., and up to this, Friday morning uo train had arr.ved here from 'HLrt!o;d siIce the storm From Winsted abeve or station on the Naugatuk road, there ha, been 60 communication either way up to the ,aesent time.
 Leaving our own troubles, we learn that there has been q general blockade on the par alel railroads on tns coast az well as those d- verging to the north east and west The first tram through from New York since Saturday reached New New Haven >. Wcdmsd y morn ing, with the mails With extraordinary ex- ertons trains were put through from New Aa yen to Sprng6cli on Monday, in the course of the day and evening, No trains how yer, pas sed over either way between. Boston and Spring field ;--the same Was the case upon all the roads that centre fiji the former city. All the rs,.ds divergiug from New York to the North the F.rle, Hudson Rver, Buffalo, 6c., were completely biocked III. and days must trans- pire before regul.t co,ninunicat. .on can be re- stored. Ink tisrk south from Ntw York t" Washington War iIuimssabl", no tra,ns hay ng gouc through till Thul:.say. But it is us,l $ to tMrticalarsze. 50 far as We have heard by by telegraph, and our exchug 6, the storm was unparalleled n it's severely as we'll as in it's extent.-and of all the trials to which the rai!- road managers have bceu call d to experience on former occas.on. they were but as Hyperion to a satyr iu comparison.
 Aud to rrhder the case more remarkable, was the extreme cold proceeding and during the storm--the therm.m ter ranging from 6 to 37 degrees below zero in the States, viz; at Dubuqe, To. u, 37 degrees below on Monday morning; Watertown, N. Y. 37. White Riv' CT Ju,,ction,37; Wellsborough Pa. 2l; Albany 2l; Oswcgo, IS; Chicago. l6; Bangor, 6
 New Haven $; Montreal Canada. on Sunday
 22 below; Quebec, 80. Wonder what it was
 ill Francon;a
 With regard to the shipping exposed to the st orm on our coast which 1t was feared must
 have proved highly disasterous, we have hu'
 few returns, as the impediments to communica
 ton are cut of, except in some few places. Ths 1 Tribune of Tuesday states that number O
 vessels inward bound were no doubt of the coast on the night of the gale, but 10 tidings lhad been received of their whereabou B, savt lone br 2 6 d one ship, which were driven o, shore au the Jersey coast-the first of whici prob ably w.ut to pieces and all hands perished The other, the skip Java, from Glasgow, it wal reported, though made wreck, all pers ons o' board were saved. The East and North isls CTS were so blocked up with ice, that the ferr! transit was attended to with d.aieulty ans
 danger. aa To estimate the quantity of snow which hd' fallen is beyond the rowtr of human calcula ton, in consequence of the drifts. waich were II
 yasaous localities currently dsscribvd ss saryinl 1 from four to ten feet deep. In New Bedford
 the drifts ,n some localities were as high e tht smoke pipe to locomotive; if tue telegraph i to be relied upon. Reports from some town l iu this section of onr State go to confirm thu above statenents. % sa-s tho dei tb ef th'