The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15

Up to Monday last the Sag Harbor branch
of the Long Island Railroad, N. Y, from
Manor to Sag Harbor, had been blockaded by
snow since Christmas, leavingth the residents
along its line without communication with.
the main line, excepting by telegraph and
sleighs. Through the ,Shinnecock Hills the
sand was ,drifted into the deep cut and packed.
so hard that a snow plough driven by three
powerful locomotives was useless. From
Atlanticvile to Northampton, nearly seven
teen miles, the snow, mingled with sand, lies
in the cuts, from eight to ten feet in depth.
1t is packed so hard that the only way to res
move it is with picks and shovels. Since the
blockade the mails have been taken from the
several villages to The main line IN sleighs,
and from Sag Harbor by boat to Greenport.
On Wednesday night Road Master Moore left
Jamaica with large force Of men to open
communication on the branch, but he had not
reached Sag Harbor Sunday evening. The
day before Christmas a gentleman shipped
from Brooklyn for Sag Harbor suit of bed
room furniture as a Christmas present to a
friend The furniture is still in transit
A despatch from Mddleburg, Loudown
County, Va, Jan. says; The snow in
this vicinity has been on the GROUND for the
past three weeks to the depth OF forty-one
inches on q level. 1t has drifted over the
fences, hiding them from view, and blocking
up the roads entirely. The farmers have been
obliged to cut down shade trees near their
farm houses and use them for frewood, as
the snow prevented them hauling from the
woods. Great suffering is said to have pre-
vailed among the poor people. Several per-
sons are reported to have been frozen to
death.
4 water panic prevails at Galesburg, ILL.,,
and vicinity owing to the long continued cold.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Company have Withdrawn some of their
trains, and on Sunday paid ont $500 for ice
to melt in order to supply their engines with
water. Many individuals are also melting ice,
which is obtained from the Mississippi river.
The cold averages 10 degrees below zero every
night. -.
4 dispatch from Sandy Hook, n. j., states
that twenty or more sailing craft are canght
in the ice blockade, which extends mile or
more from Horseshoe Harbor out to sea.
Sundays storm was very severe, and it is be-
lieyed that should another such storm occur
the break at the Highlands will make Sandy
Hook an island
In consequence of the wreck OF a freight
train on the Richmond and DanYlie railroad
near KcysviIe Va. Saturday, no through
trains passed over that road until Monday. A
heavy sleet Saturday night broke the telegraph
wires along the same route, and prevented dI-
rect communication.
The steamer Old Dominion, from New
York, arrived at Richmond, Va, Tuesday.
being the first to arrive there since the close
Of navigation. The steamer had to break
through the ice gorge from Dutch Gap to
Richmond, the drift ice i'll places being five
feet thick.
The roof of j. p. Robinson warehouse, in
Brooklyn, NY, gave way Monday, under the
weight of snow, and carried some fifty feet of
wall with it. Several hundred barrels of lin
seed oil were stored III the building, and the
loss will reach several thousands of dollars.
4 storm Of rain, freezing as it fell, prevailed
at Fredericksburg and in other sections of
Virginia Sunday and Monday forenoon.
Much damage has been done to orchards,
shade trees and telegraph wires. Destructive
treshets are apprehended.
The snowstorm in New York Sunday and
Sunday night was accompanied by u gale of
wind, causing drifts to 10 feet deep on the
Poughkeepsie, Hartford and Boston read,
and blocking trains for some time.
Trains were delayed several hours Oh many
Of the Canadian railroads Tuesday by heavy
snow. The minimum average OF temperature
at Winnipeg, Manitoba, last week was = de-
grees below zero.
Bangor, Me, reports the worst storm of
the season raging there Monday. Nearly
foot of snow had fallen. Trains throughout
New England were delayed by the snow and
sleet.
Fourteen inches of snow fell during Sunday
night and Monday morning in New Hamp-
shire and Vermont. The storm changed to
rain which continued Monday evening.
Taylor5vilIe and Rusk, Texas, report the
heaviest snowstorm Sunday ever seen in that
State Six inches Of snow fell at Galveston,
and the mercury fell to zero.
The mercury fell at ST. Louis Monday to II
degrees below zero, at Fort Buford, Dakota,
to 53 below, and at Council Bluffs, Ia, to 35
below.
Hannibal Brown, an old colored man, was
found frozen to death sitting in his chair, on
Sunday morning, near Warrenton junction,
Va.
Billy Wilson, IL years of age, was found
frozen to death in snow drift in Baltimore
county, Nd, on Tuesday last
At Stevenss Point, Wisconsin, the mercu
ry stood at 81 degrees below zero at o clock
Monday morning.
Two inches of snow fell at Shreveport, La,
Sunday.