East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-01-06
The Storm.


counts of tho rocent storm, which in
its eXteat and effects, particularly upon
railroad travel, is tho worst, we be-
hove, ever known in this country
OF through travel it produced an en-
tire suspension on every western road
for some days, while the suGcrings of
passengers en- route in many instances
seems almost incredible. A fail in
the temperature Of from sixty to sew
enty degrees in very few hours,
coupled with fierce, driving wind, in
in some localities accompanied by a
fall Of snow, which, though not deep
on tho level, was carried into im-
mense drifts rendering locomotion i'm
possible, and the situation of opera
tives and passengers one of extreme
peril. The Chicago Times, which
gives the details Of the storm and its
effects in the West at great length,
says in the introduction:
The great snow storm, which COM
menccd in this vicinity about half past
one o'clock on Thursday morning,
seems to have extended over tract of
country second only to that visited by
the memorable storm Of 1855. The
recent storm was not accompanied, in
any locality, with the immense falls of
snow which formed the great feature
of the storm of 1855 neither was
the tract of country visited by it SO cx-
tensive, yet it possessed some featuces
which made it more terrible than any
that has occurred for years.
The greatest fall of snow seems to
have been in Illinois, tho quantity
gradually decreasing until at Cleve-
land, in the east, there was little, and,
at Omaha, Nebraska, III the west, but
three inches. Here it was about
eight and half inches.
Railroad men who have been ac-
customed to pay no attention to snow
only eight inches deep upon level,
pushed out their trains as usual
and found themselves with hundreds
of passengers, blocked up between
drifts Of from five to fifteen feet in
height.
Our experience in the storm though
neither perilous nor exciting was so
internally disOgreeable that we shall
not soon forget the advent of the Now
Year. Loft Detroit Thursday, Dec
81, on the 3 o'clock train for Mt.
Clemens, 20 miles north. Weather,
mild and misty-arrived there amid q
pouring rain. Early Friday morning
a change occurred, slight quantity
of snow fell, and all day New Years
the cold continued to increase in in
tensity.
We walked nearly half a mile in
the evening against the wind to the
Station house, waited three hours for
tho train, which came in all loaded
with frost and minus headlight frozen
out. Two hours and half wore
spent in running over the crcakine
rails to Detroit, where we arrived al
1.30. A. NJ, at which unreasonable
hour, with mercury zoe below
zero, and wind that would penetrate q
suit Of threo-ply rubber packing, we
made our way TO the Exchange and
turned in, to dream Of ice bergs polar
bears, Esquimaux, dog sledges and
other luxuries Of the Attic regions
At breakfast time the thermometer
indicated III below zero. Satur.
day, the I'd, was not just such a day
rs we would recommend for pleasur,
travel, but having good company We
came home in comparative com
fort and are content to stay where tho
climate is not so severe as it is in De-
troit, and along the bleak eastern
shore, until the weather moderates.