Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-01-24
The Great Storm of the Season, from Hal
flax to Washington.


.N5r Haren, co., acknowledgements at
o'clock Sunday a. IN. 60 below zero; severe gale
sunday night; Rev. Mr. Eustis's church stceplc,
near the depot, was blown down at half-past
Monday morning; it went through the roof and
crushed the galleries and seats the first floor;
,l,,narc about $4,000. All travel is suspended by
snow drifts, In the midst of the gale, Sunday
evening" the lillhouse public school house was set
on fire. but was saved with but $500 damage.
.4Baav, NJ y, Monday evening--Storm con-
,nues over foot of snow has fallen and it is still
falling; roads blocked; trains on the Hudson river
road suspended; thermometer on Sunday 20 be-
low zero; drifts between Albany and Schenectady
six feet deep; Cleveland express train in, eight
hours behind time.
.Ntie- York, .Moaday ereaiRg-The storm con-
tinucs with undated violence; roads blocked with
snow; Brooklyn ferry nearly all suspended
their trims; Long Island and New Jersey trains not
running; Staten Island boats frozen IN at quaran-
tine.
Washingion, .Monday-Snow two feet deep on
level; drifts four feet high; no trains in from
the North and none gone out; no vehicles in the
streets, they being impossible.
Baltimore, HoRdGV-The storm continues :;
snow drifts in some places ten feet deep the level
is about two lect streets impossible for vehicles.
PGHadclphia, Monday erening-No train has
arrived or departed since Sunday morning
HdiJar, Monday crening-Strong east wind;
thick snow storm; America detained by the wealth
or, sailed this morning.
Boston, .Nonddy ereniRg.-Some trains from
suburban towns, with extra engines, have made
passage to the city, but up TO p, M railroad COM
munication had not extended over thirty miles. No
trains have arrived from Springfield or Portland;
on the Boston and Worcester and Eastern roads
trains did not leave Boston, the superintendents
decming it useless to encounter the drifting snow
Much anxiety is felt for the shipping the coast
.New Bedford, Monday erening-Dlocked up
with snow; no trains through; locomotives from
Taunton attempted to break out the road this af-
ternoon, but failed; in some places drifts were high
as the smoke-pipe.
Bangor, Ne, Monday ereniag-Furious north
east snow storm commenced early in the morning
snow is piled in drifts, rendering the roads almost
impossible; thermometer 60 below zero.
Providence, RI, .Monday erening.-The snow
is two feet deep; all communication is interrupted;
no trains have gone out and none have come in (;
the snow is drifting The storm Of Sunday and
Monday was very ut Newport. Bark Lucy
Ann from Mantanzas for Boston, dragged anchor
near fort Adams and lies in precarious situation,
with three feet Of water in her hold. Assistance
was sent to her.
81. Johns. ". b.. .MoHday ereniag. Showing
hard all day; indications this evening of its turn
ing to rain: railroad travel almost entirely sus.
pended.
Cincinnati. .Afonday.-Last night was the cold
est Of the season; at eight O'Clock this morning ii
A. below zero; this evening l3' above. There
is no SHOWS the ice in the river is foot thick.
Buffalo, NJ y, Jionday.-Ycsterday was the
coolest of the season, and the Thermometer was 50
below zero. This morning there a slight fall
Of snow.
Chicago, acknowledgements this morning
- below
Portland, Ne, Monday acknowledgements
ter yesterday was 2Oo below zero. A furious storm
commenced Sunday evening, and continued to-
day; the dritted badly. Many stores were
closed, and few people to be in the streets
which are almost impossible. The storm seems tC
have extended throughout Maine and over most oil
Canada. At Montreal, Sunday morning. the ther.
momeer was 22' below zero.
Dubuque, Iotca, .Monday-At sunrise the Their
mometer registered So below zero.
Waiertown, ". y, .Monday-In this yillag
yesterday, all the mercury Thermometers CONCEAL
ed at about 3Is below zero; spirit Thermometer
registered 40' below.
Boston HdrJor Frozen Up.-At Boston, Tues
day morning, the weather fine and moderate
AT sunset, Monday morning, the harbor was clos
ed over down to the castle by about foot thick
ness solid ice, and the steam tugs unable t,
go through it, Great efforts made Tues
day to open channel, in order that the British
steamship America, due from Halifax, might cont
up. The Chelsea and East Boston ferry boats con
tinued running, but with great difficulty.
The steam tugs succeeded in opening n clea
channel in the harhor during Tuesday. The morn
ing train from Portland arrived ut Boston Tues
day evening
Schooner IIonetta was blown upon rock, n
Marblehead, Monday night, and afterwards wen
ashore Race point. One man was drowned il
attempting to get ashore; the cook was frozen t
death Schooner Nile driftcd out of Gouceste
and lost two men, Benjamin Ball of Eastport, Nc
and Henry BroOkins, cook Ship Orssa, froT
Calcutta, went ashore on Nansct beach, Sunda
night; the mate and three Of the crew drown
ed. Several other vessels ashore at diilerel
points, but the crews saved.
At New York neither the stonngton, Fall RiY
err, Providence New Bedford OF Norwich boats ven
tured out on Tuesday. No mails had arrived 4
any point, from Saturday evening up to Tuesda
evening, except an overdue mail from the Yves
A similar disarrangement Of the mails is indicate
by the telegraph at prominent points in all dre'
tons.
At Philadelphia, Monday, no trains from an
direction had arrived, and none had departed sine
the storm. All the eastern delegation to the nj
tional agricultural convention were detained the
on their route homeward.
The Sunday night mail train from New York a
rived at West Haven, Tuesday evening" and stol
ped on account of the snow in the long cut. III
passengers walked to New Haven, about two mile
getting there at O'Clock. They were in Milfor
Monday night and were treated there with gre
hospitality. Some of them had previously walk
fr ON Stratford Junction to Milford in the storl
81 cczlng their ears, fingers, etc. The down tra
from New Haven to New York will not be clear
in two days more. The cut between New ii
Ven and West Haven is filled with snow twelve ic
deep and cannot be got through for the up trai
before Wednesday night.