The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-01-06
Heavy Snow storms and Gales.

The snow storm Of Monday was the
seyerest of the season in New England
and delayed travel on all the roads. In
northern Virginia the fall Of snow was the
heaviest for twenty years, the depth at
Richmond being ten inches, All the
trains due at Richmond on Monday night
and Tuesday morning were delayed several
hours. In Western Virginia the snow
was from eighteen to twenty inches deep.
Fourteen freight trains were blookaded
between Lynehburg and Bristol, Tenn,
and travel was suspened on the Chesapeake
and Ohio road. As far south as Missis-
sippi and Louisiana, the snow was so heavy
as to interrupt travel on the railroads. A
quorum of the Mississippi Legislature was
prevented by the blockade, aud the House
committee from Ouachita we're snowbound
at jackson, Tuesday, In the interior OF
Pennsylvania the storm was one Of unus-
ual severity. The mails from Philadel-
phia to Pottsvilie were eleven hours behind
time. On the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road the trains were delayed from ten to
fifteen hours; three engines, in several III
stances, were unable to move train more
than three miles per hour; the Annapolis
and Elkridge Railroad was also showed up,
and trains were delayed The storm on
the Chesapeake Bay is represented as being
the most severe experienced for great
many years,
A dispatch from Johnstown, Pa, says:
The Ebensburg branch Of the Ponnsylya-
MIA Railroad is showed up so solidly that
it will require the efforts Of over hundred
men to open it for traffic again inside Of a
week or so. The mail aud passengers are
being carried in sleighs between Ebens-
burg and Cresson, Pennsylvania.
The snow storm which began at Oswego,
n. Y, on Friday night, did not abatc
until Monday morning, The train from
Rome and Ogdensbu.g, due at Oswego on
Saturday evening, got stuck in the snow,
and the passengers were taken to OTsego
on Sunday in sleighs. No trains let Os.
wego on Monday, except on the Syracuse
road.
Shay and Wilson, the boatswain aud
carpenter of the U. $. revenue cutter Moe
asin, were drowned at Charleston, sc, on
Monday in trying to rescue the remainder
of the wrecked crew of the wrecked bark
Disco The weather having moderated
Tuesday, further efforts were made to save
the cargo.
The ship Circassian, which went ashore
near Bridgehampton, L. l., on the l1th
ult, was broken up by the gale on Satur-
day morning Thirty-threc employees of
the Coast Wrecking Company were on
board at the time, only four of whom
reached the shore alive.
A fishing smack with four men on board
is missing from Bideford, Me-, and be-
lieved to have sunk in the gale of Friday
night Two men were washed overheard
from Portland schoonors during the same
gale
The snow storm of Friday night of last
week, blocked nearly all the railroads in
Northern New York, Vermont, Massachu.
sets and New Hampshire The furious
wind blew the snow into drifts, which in
some places, were seven feet deep.
A severe wind storm at Bennington,
Vt, on Saturday, destroyed s25 900 worth
of property. A church spire was blown
down and the greater portion Of A. b.
Valentines knitting mill was demolished
by the falling of a chimney.
The heaviest snow storm ever known at
Chattanooga, Tennessee, ragged there on
Monday. The snow was eighteen inches
in depth and all the roads were blocked
The schooner Emma Pemberton, from
Porto Rico for ST. Andrew, foundered Of
Hatteras in the recent gales Her crew
were saved.
A wind storm in Vermont on Saturday
did considerable damage to property, un.
roofing houses and blowing down chin
ney stacks.
The bark of Susan L. Fitzgerald is re-
ported wrecked off Cape Isabella, with a
cargo Of 10000 gallons of palm oil, val.
uod at $50, 900, and consigned to Boston
merchants.