Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-01-25
IreIdcnt. ofthe storm.

Commodore George :. Blake. Of Br13kline.
Mass, was not lost in the storm, Is it was
feared. After leaving biz back. be succeeded
in reaching a house about q third % a mile
distant, about SIX O'Clock in tie morning,
completely exhausted.
y milkman o! Lexington lef, Boston Tor
hone Thursday, and arrived a. aIs house On
Saturday morning, being obliged 20 shovel d
path nearly the en;iIe way.
The little girl who vas reported Ice. m
South Boston, Mary y Ian, has arrived -a.e-
l. home. The body found was tlat Of some
other child, name unknown.
Two gentlemen WHO were Obliged to IT.
nain in Boston on Thursday night, were
sought by their wives, wh5 secuted tie lea
Of beng stopped by the snow an! s-t cut
FOR the city in eomrany,in a sleigh driven Nv
az Is.sh mau-seryant. They got ;JJ las 10
return and found themselves su,w-,.lnd,
but found shelter IN house by the mad
side. Tie husbands meanwhile bad started
from Boston together IN sleigh. and after
many mishaps were compelled to halls for tie
night in q house next door % that in which
then better halves were quaFtered. Neither
party discovered tie close proximity Of the
other, until the next morning
The railroad men were hard at work al
day sunday to clear the tracks; and a heavy
force Of shoyclcrs and teams was employed
By the superintendent OF streets in Bo-,oo,
it being found necessary {, cart the snow
Of.
The FIRE, through train in three days irom
NV York via Worcester reached Boston at
II p. N. Saturday. There were twenty
eight engines ON the road between Prlyi
deuc, and Worcester at one time.
The streets Of Boston, have not been SO
deserted, as On Thursday. fer many years .
and tie crowd of storm bound inliTiiuals who
sough, lodgings in the city .ha. night was
lager than any known siu-e the Great
Water Celebration. The drifts in the streets
were four OF five fec, high in many place.
It is the uniform opinion Of old railroad
managers that the roads were never before
50 badly blockaied with snow in the inme-
date vicinity OF Boston. The Fi,cA5urg
road suffered the most, and the Lowell road
least.
On the y. Y Central Road, two freight
trains were frozen in, Friday night, eas; Of
Schenectady, and 10 passenger trains from
the ives. got beyond that city. The Boston
road was completely blockaded west of Pitts
field.
The Boston Journal Of Friday evening
says:
We never realized the value Of & series Of
good exchanges 80 fully as last night and to-day.
Our whole receipts in that line included only
five papers, one being a local religious 10 rnal,
another a publication touching dry goods aud
clothing matters, the third a popular boys and
girls magazine, aud the other two country ex-
changes, one Of them a day behind time. Cur
rent history We found on careful examination,
could not be Interestingly cullel from such ma
terials.
The Hartford Tunes Of Thursday evening
slys:
The storm Of Dec. 27-zs, which ''snoNed IN
Ter the whole country north ami west Of this
city, was declared by the people Of Berkshire
county tMass.) TO be the greatest snow storm
they ever experienced. The people hsd Just dug
themselves out when the storm Of Thursday set
in.
The Snow SToRN.-Down in Berkshire
Co Mass. the hens had their bills frozen to-
gether and the pigs their ears and tails froz-
en- of during the recent big snow storm.
The snow lies from three to four feet deep in
the woods there, and drifts Of fifteen to twen-
ty feet are common.
4 three daYs interruption Of mails between
Burlington and Boston has occurred but
once before since the railroads were CON-
pleted. Seven or eight years ago the Boston
mails Of Monday did not reach here till
Wednesday night, in consequence Of a sim
liar storm. On Friday night nearly three
thousand strangers were snow-bound At New
Brunswick, n. J.