, 1876-03-29
What the Street Railways Had to
Contend With,
III, West Sido Company Alon. Eept
Running al Day and flight.
Es'crusted Rails, Drifts, Broken Cars,
crippled Stock, and Other
mishaps.
Delays of Railway Trains Entors
ing aud Leaving tho City.
Tho Dispatches Tell of the Storm in
Illinois and Other States.

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Illinois and Othor States.
YESTERDAYS DiscoMFoRTs.
TIE LAST EFFORT OF MAhcu.
Ths enow-atorm of yesterday was tho widest
knd 10rcoBt OF tho season. From little before
In the morning until Latf-past @ In tha ovon-
iaE tho air VAS thfc}: with faxes nud drifting
Dnov. The mind came from tho northeast Blow
Ing stifly during tho forenoon, aud after mid.
day almost gallo. It was fearful. From almost
avory direction tho stoEm scanned to como.
From the sky md housc-topa it foil, and una
then caught up agaiu from tbs frozsn ground
md wbIrIed In great eddtos and columns through
the streets. In long, thin, s1ausing shrsds 1t
few ACROSS tho slippory pavement drifting in
for a Inomsut only to 10 caught up and drawn
upwards, and then to fail In nlouds and
masses.
From tho sidewalks tho houso-tops were a1-
moae hidden. or. when thoy wcro revealed In 4
momoata fuif of tho wind, ono aaw great hang
Ing drifts that tho next gust detached from thoir
fraif fastenlngs sud Bont whtsttng through tho
Air. Tho Wtndow.paues tnrncd white. Along
tha cornicob md coplngs huGo ridges appeared
and disappeared, aud camo again. Whoreyor
tlero WAS moments sholter there was u drift,
until tho rand camo awooping down. and tho
bare ground Wsa manifest again. Early In the
AFTERNOON the wind settled into steady, hal:
nuoV began drifting In Garment, and began drift
ing 10 ataY. On tho east ai3s OF tho north-and-
south streets It lay Trick md heavy. while on tin
lateral atrcets It piled up in ililla with curved
teaehes- Some Of tho drifts on tbs North Hide.
Routh Of Chicago nyonuo. wore 2 and
esen, feet IN height. Along Clark
street. o" both ssdou Of tho bridge.
200 from that s ia oae some " %a .ho
less froquentod Btroots, 1t dsiftod to hoight Of
feet On pcsrborr, North State, North La-
Sale, and North Wells. It lay hcavior On the
more oxpoaad streots north. tho sidawa1ks ucss
"a cloAn rs If swept with broom.
The weight OF the storm Was folt from North
avenue up tho road4, There wore huge, unsoem-
white surface sweeping up into = huge drift, iu
some instances noi.sly 4 faot high. Through
Lincoln Park. tho branches bent ucari1y oYor
huge banks Of Rno'., and down through tho old
immense tombs The 1ale-drive was almost
bare, the wind BwecpinE the SNOW through tho
park and into tho roada beyond. Al tbs curve
IN Clark et1cst, 1uss obovo North avonuo, a huge
mound of BnnW rose up. barricadlng tho Rt1oot
and completely cnjoining trAyel.
IN 1uR BUSINESS PORTION
OF town tho constant tra1nplnK kopt thingd In =
1omeH hhs better shape, In the South and Wcst
encountered u on ths North sido but there
was moro or loss inconvenianoo. 1t O'Clock
tho osaza In tho North DivtBton had coasod run
ming, aud had yielded tho track 70 the strug-
CLING Anow.plowB, On the West snd South Bide
dnes tho teams Wore doubled up, and the care
managed 70 get through at long intervals Ill day.
A. O'Clock sle!glls wore on the sttoets, pegging
thia way aud TINT, md by dark tho thorough
farsa Vero fairly filled with euttera
Tho obstacles to whool ttavol threw largo
and struggling PUBLIC upon their legs, Podas.
trisntsm bceamo fashionable. IL not altogether
graceful. During The day, al who could stay
alive With slipping. crawling. mtxod up maaa
q humanity, bobblng along under umbrellas,
sna fighting ~ tho pespendienlar whereof
to,a, man beasts. % Now aud thon spine was
hundred plug hats posiehcd evnrlastingly. TAo
Sidewalks were In some placoB remarkably nlip-
pesy, and The enow manifested an inolinat,on to
stick to hootheols, and B4d wero tho results,
Il wa1 no uncommon aight 10 SOC
Al xM1HxNT AND AEaFE0gABLg GENTLEMAN
tastanH his solidtty. and 1t was not looked upon
as u IL ont Of tho way TO SEQ tho German elc-
mont a. e4empiiaod Ia stont constituent
thereof, roll Into 3 anowdritt aud crawl out foet
1rst- 1Iore ana thoro = pair Of friends would
start foot-rAco, with a vl8W to tho promotion
OF circulation. hut tho conteatauts, after q
bTiof but exciting onori making part Of Tho dis
tancs .ou their legs aud thu roHI gu their Shape,
gkva It up And plunged along With many q gfoan
and cr1sc. An iatoroatod Spectator OF QUO OF
SueS0 tbhuehFofH was ltberniant With basket
on hia arm. Laborlously he followed the COM
potitors, until step On q coal-hoIe cover lifted
bis legs anu dropped tho rest OF him, and than
from oat the BASKET catno tho poal Of clock,
slovly boiling the doath Of that Hlbornian's inter
est IN Everything above bis waiHt.
The 'buhos came Into Lively demand towards
evening, and did \ good huBlnesa. They Wero
crowded inside and out tho outsiders happy III
the delicate attentions Of tho ploldlng paaos-
TRANS, Hho soas tnany q Buow-baii and 4~'ift to
the sehlng cara and noses Of The bus patrons.
:. .sealltuE = Was more honored In tho ohserYaucH
Than tho BREACH and 1t YES tho oxefelBa every
ten u!inuteB for a! banda to got cut aud push,
1ess the night hnd them buried beneath the
snoR. o. Chicago avaaua, noar LaSallo,
oedg'1lcksRtrcos bus stuck fast for tWhuty min
ntes before a!ngle soul otfored 10 got out aud
ngnten tho load. Finally the1o was general
dlaataearkatiou, and tho last thoso passengers
sAW OF that bus WAS It's disappearance around \
oofuer somo three squares or.
Gut " Z O'Clock tho wind bad almost died out.
Ana ths snow had stopped falling. Walking
Waa better ~ the roatls became tsAtnpctl, aud at
nno,doek, when the stAts ca,no out the storm
ma hecome ~ old story, With tho dnfts scat
seled hore aud there, to touind one Of tha Wild.
tempestuo,ls day that had conia In With 4 xhEl-
H'na md gone ont In tho starlight.