The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-16
The 9utlana Daily Glube
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1875.


Inc Ncnther.
The storm in the west was of great Sc
verify. All the roads out of Oswego, N.
y, have been abandoned, and in the vi
cinliy of Toronto railway travel is almost
entirely suspended and highways are i'm
passablc on account of snow.
In the storm of Thursday .0S inches of
rain FELL The thermometer at ) p. IN. in
dictated ~ 9 above, but at midnight IL had
fallen to 30 : , and at daybreak is was only
y ; above. In Boston and suburbs the
streets and sidewalks were very icy and
locomotion difficult ard dangerous.
Travel between New York, Brooklyn
and Jersey City was suspended again on
Friday, and immense ilocs of ice gathered
in the East and North rivers, while the
whole bay, from the Battery TO Sandy
Hook, was covered with thich ice and no
water could be seen from an elevated posi-
sition in the new telegraph building. No
vessels could enter or leave the harbor.
The effects of the sudden freeze after
the storm Thursday night were quite Sc
we're in some parts of Massachusetts,. The
Worcester GaScttc says all the railroads
leading from that city were more or less in
commodcd by the ice. In many places
their tracks were in shallow canal with
banks OF ice, and the water which settled
in these soon froze, covering the tracks and
rendering such accidents as the two on the
Norwich road on Monday morning partic-
ularly imminent All the switches were
bedded in ice, and had to he cut out before
trains could be shifted. The Boston, Barre
and Gardner road seemed to have Jared the
worst. The trains from the north arrived
several hours late. The Burlington train
on the Fitchburg and Vermont railroads,
due in Boston ut $50 a, m, arrived at the
depot at 2:55 Friday afternoon. The train
hands reported that the locomotive and bag
gage car were thrown from the track at
Fitzwilliam on account of the-ice and were
delayed several hours 1t is SAID that trains
on nearly all the northern roads were off
the track, the rails being covered several
inches thick with ice. 1t was only by ex-
IRENE care that the morning train on the
Fitchburg railroad was run to Fitchburg
without running off the rails, the ice hav-
ing formed on the inside of the rails, rem
derlng it dangerous to run at ordinary
speed.
The extreme cold has had an effect to al
most close navigation in New York harbor.
Ferry boats were held in the ice for hours
Friday night. unable to gain their wharves,
and trips this Saturday morning have
been slow and infrcquent Jersey City and
New York were united by an ice bridge.
Very little water is visible from the Bat
terry to Staten island and the Narrows. The
lower bay 10 the westward of the ships
channel is frozen solid to Keyport Both
boats of the Southern New jersey rail.
road have been frozen in at their dock al
Sandy Hook since Wednesday, the ice at
that place being packed to the depth of
twelve feet. Several nward-bound YES
sells are anchored in the vicinity of the
lightship, being unable to get their anchors
in consequence of the strong northwest
wind and the intense cold They are also
badly used up. In Long Island Sound the
ice is also very bad, several of the harbors
on the Connecticut shore being Temporal
rily sealed. Two tug boats with three
barges in two belonging to the Eastern
Transportation Company, are helpessly
frozen in in the middle Of the sound, of
Captains island. At last accounts they
| could not be moved, and fears are enter
tanned that they will have TO be abandoned
by their crews, who may find it Difficult
to reach the main land alive, and propel
Ter is ashore at Falkland's island. The Pc
tomac is frozen over, and Baltimore harbol
is nearly closed. The weather was SO colo
at Erie, Pa, that business was almost en-
tircly suspended. The thermometer rang
cd from sixteen to twenty degrees below
zero. Large numbers of cattle have beer
frozen 10 death.