Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-01-11
TIE GREAT SNOW STORM.
CIeveIand-in a state of BIockade.-Ef.
feet Of the storm on the Railroads,
Places OF fRusIness, Courts, Places Of
Amusement &c, &c.

Places OF business, Courts, Places OF
Amusement, &c, &c.
Labrador and Siberia sent their greeting
to US yesterday, riding on the wings of the
wind, The great snow-storm of yesterday
surpaases, in its severity and long eontin-
uanee, any previous storm of the season
and can only be compared, by those who
witnessed both, to the terrible storm of
January 1868, rendered tragicslly memOra-
BILE by the Painesville railroad disaster, which
occurred during its continuance. Il COM
menced showing in an nirresoluts and half
hearted way about three or four O'Clock on
Monday afternoon, and continued during
the night, falling very rapidly during the
evening. In the morning, yesterday, we
had sleety rain, which crusted the sur
face of the snow, and made the glazed and
icy sidewalks still more slippery than
before. About noon the snow recommended,
coming down in sheets The wind rose to
a terrible force and power, driving the
snow through the air, hurting it into the
faces ofunlucky pedestrians with binding
and staggering force, piling it up in i'm
mense drifts, plastering with it the sides
of buildings, till they looked like snow
palaces, and filling the whole atmosphere
with fine and dust-like particles of snow
APPEARANCE OF OUR STREETS.
Our streets wore an wintry aspect enough
to be taken, at least as far as weather por-
tents 60, for Montreal or Moscow. Few
pedestrians ventured out, only those whom
necessity compelled to do SO, Drawing the
pitiless wind and binding snow. Those
who did venture out found much difficulty
in maintaining an equitiJriwm, as the icy
pavements conspired with the fierce wind
and snow to throw them from their bal
anee, and many luckless wight was cap
sized or blown bodily off the pavement in
to the gutter. The buildings, when one
caught sight of them through the blind.
ing and may whirl OF snow which filled
the air, looked white enough to belong t.
the city of the Snow King, coated as they
were with the damp snow. Drifts were
piled in the streets, which looked mort
deserted tn N for months before.
Tue RAILROADS.
The temperature East being few de
grees higher than at this point, yesterday
morning, and consequently rain, instead Q
snow, falling at Buffalo and Pittsburgh
the Eastern trains were not delayed to tn
same extent as the Southern and Western
The yesterday mornings Pittsburgh trail
was only few minutes late, and the LAX
Shore trains not much behind. But tn
Columbus train, which should have reached
the city at half past nine o'clock in tn
morning, did not arrive until four o'eloel
in the afternoon. Snow, however, was no
the sole cause of the detention, as the con
Meeting rods on one side of the engine CAV
out, making it necessary to put on anothe
locomotive to draw the disabled one an
the heavy train,
Atlength the long looked for train mad
its appearance, but it stuck in the sno7
when the leading engine was about fou
rods from the depot. Along hour was spen
by scores Of shovelers before the cars wer
housed in the spacious building. Mean
time the apparently never ending thrOn
of passengers went plunging through tn
snow-drifts into the depot, half sui
focated by the gusts and furiou
blasts which hurled snow fake
like salt,-men calling to their wives
mothers screaming to their children, an
boys and girls crying and bawling as the.
were caught in the drifts and eddies of tn
snow. A full company of soldiers, arme
and equipped, alighted and marched to tn
Lake Shore train, and what with the sig
nal scream of engines, bus drivers shout
ing to their impatient horses, shildre
crying, people running to and fro, shout
ing and swearing, the Depot was first
water Bedlam.
The morning Toledo train arrived 8
half-past twelve in the heafternoon. The sf
ternoOn train on that road was behind near
ly two hours. The Columbus train, who's
time of arrival is three O'Clock P. NJ, ha
not arrived at FIVE O'Clock. No train lei
over that road for Columbus up to fv
o'clock P. II. The heavy fall of snow ha
disarranged everything, throwing out c
gear the entire machinery of the roads
Many passengers in out bound trains wer
debating which were the better policy, t
commit themselves to the tender mercies c
the snow, or lie over till the fury of tn
/ storrn should have subsided
Bus and carriage drivers did a thrivin
business, as all passengers designing {
stop in the city, were glad to procure
sheltered transit from the depot to tn
hotels.
OTHER EFFECTS OF THE STORM,
The street cars kept running until Oh
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