Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-01-06
SEVERE SNOW STORM AT THE WEST.

they have cold weather and deep snow.
The following. from the Springfield Re-
publican. shows a much greater degree of
cold in some places than we have felt
here this season:
At Philadelphia, Friday night, four
persons were frozen to death. The ther-
mometer, Saturday morning, stood at
about s degrees above zero.
The heaviest snow storm known since
the year 1914 occurred at Buffalo Friday
and Saturday. Tue water in the creeks,
canal and slips rose to an unparalleled
hight, causing much damage. The Lake
Shore and Erie railroads were completely
blockaded by the snow. The trains on
the Central railroad were all behind time.
Two hundred feet of the Niagara Falls
railroad near Buffalo Was washed away,
and no cars left the Buffalo depot between
thursday and Saturday. Trains how.
ever, continued running from Black Rock
to Suspension Btidge. Business in the
city was almost entirely suspended. 1t
was still showing Saturday evening, and
the weather was intensely cold. The
thermometer at midnight on Thursday
stood at AZ degrees above zero, and Fri
day evening it was five degrees below, and
Saturday morning at nine o'clock it was
nine oelow. No mails were received at
Buffalo on Friday and Saturday. Telc-
graphic communication with the West
was interrupted. The Evans bridge in the
lower part of Buffalo has been carried
away, and it is reported that 50 me lives
were lost.
A very severe sno storm commenced
at indianapolis on Thursday and lasted
for two days. Railroad travel was almost
entirely suspended on Saturday. The
thermometer stood at 20 degrees below
zero. la
The weather at Chicago was most in
tenscly cold on Saturday. At nine o'clock
in the morning. the thermometer Was at
% IL degrees below zero. No trains
left for the cast or west, Friday night,
and non arrived Saturday. All the
roads were completely blocked up with
snow.
At Louisville q severe storm set in
Thursday night. The thermometer stood
at AZ degrees above zero Thursday noop
and in the afternoon at one degree below
zero. Friday morning at nine the mer-
curry was at 10 10 degrees below zero and
continued below zero all day. Saturday,
at 7.30 in the morning, it was at three
degrees above and at the same hour in
the evening at II degrees above zero.
Nothing like this was ever known in
Kentucky.
At St Louis very little business was
transacted on Saturday on account of the
weather. After the snow storm on Thurs
day the weather became intensely cold,
and on Saturday the thermometer stood
at "a degrees below zero, which is unpnr-
alleled in that region. All the railroads
leading out OF the city were blocked up
with snow, and no trains arrived or de-
parted during Friday and Saturday. The
river closed Saturday morning. and teams
and pedestrians crossed on the ice. A
large number of cattle and hogs we're
frozen to death on the weather bound
trains north.
A terrible snow storm ragged at Oswego,
N. Y, during Friday aud Saturday. The
thermometer Saturday evening stood at s
degrees below zero. Four hundred feet
of the eastern pier were washed away,
and several vessels broke from their moor
ings. The Shipping was badly damaged
by the storm.
At Cumberland. Md, the thermometer
stood at l6 degrees below zero Saturday
morning at 8 o'clock. Seven person, in
that vicinity had been frozen to death by
the cold. There had been a snow storm,
and there was sleishing a little distance
from Cumberland. r"
At Cincinnati the weather WIS intense.
ly cold m Saturday. 1t moderated on
Sunday. however, aud a snow storm
commenced Sunday noon.
At Washington Saturday was the cold
est day known for a long time. Sunday
was considerably less cold, and the Their