The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-02-06
congress, has been made public, l deem Ii
4 matter Of proprety and justice 10 give
this letter TO the pres.
ALL ALONG TIIE LINE
A Mig Fall Of "The BeautifaIn In Dir.
feFent Parts OF the Country.

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, February Al
severe northeast snow storm has prevailed
In Northern Virginia for fifteen hours Das
aud Is still raging, The snow Is twelyl
inches deep on level, and Is driftinl
badly. Railroad trains are DELAYED. AMI
communication by country roads q cut on
NEW Y0RK, February 1.-The Enov
storm continues, with high wind. Train,
on the Long Island roads are blocked
In the interior Of the State and through
out New England the storm Is very severe
Freight trainsare abandoned on the New
York Central and Erie, and passenger
trains are compelled 10 use two and thTel
engines.
WARRINGTON, February 4.-snow eisht
inches deep and still falling.
LATER-The snow.storm continues. Four.
teen inches deep on the level, and badly
drifted in places. Street car travel Il suS.
pended.
PHILADELPHIA, February 1.-THE snow.
storm continues, and traffic Is much i'm.
peded In the city. Reports from various
points Of the state show that the storm has
not nbated; II Is more violent on the
mountains west Of Harrisburg and driftinr
badly, making 1t very difficult for trains %
run.
Dispatches from williamsport. sunbury.
Reading, Pottsville and the northern part
Of the State say the storm isvery ~ yio.
lent, and in many places the snow Is three
feet deep.
BALTlMoRE, February "A snow storm
has been raging all day, and stilIcontinues.
The snow is now fourteen inches deem on
a level and in many places has driited
several feet high.
NEw York, February 4.-Snowing and
blowing hard all day. Snow still falling
last, and Is foot deep on level. Wind
blowing gale. Street cars are mostly laid
up.
CARBoSDALE, Pa, February5.-This city
and neighborhood has SO inches Of tsnow on
level, all falling within the past three
days. The storm was the most severe one
Of several seasons. All the Bear Greek lum.
bering has been stopped by the storm.
Snow fell over 80 inches everywhere in this
section.
B0sToN, February 5.-The snow storm
was very severe throughout New England
and lasted until alter noon to-day. The
attendance at the churches WIS light, and
in some. places the churches were not
opened The trains were badly DELAYED,
and the streets and country roads badly
blocked. -
A passenger train and freight train were
in collision near NaticE, and many persons
bruised and the two locomotives damaged.
ProvinCetown had the heaviest snow
storm in many years, and Mt Gloucester
the winds reached u velocity Of 5S miles an
hour.
Shipping at many points suffered con.
siderable. AT =. N. to-day, when the
storm ceased in Boston, the snow had been
falling for twenty-four hours.
Over nine inches have been added TO
the large amount already on the ground.
1t is badly driited, and many Of the mar.
rowest streets are wholly impossible. The
storm Is reported as very heavy throughout
New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.
Dispatches from points in New Hampshire
show snow fall OF from eighteen inches
to three feet, the latter at .Pittsfeld. The
railroads all over the State are badly block.
AIDED. Fifteen inches OF snow fell at Bel
lone Falls, Vermont. Tonight the trains
are twelve hours late. A dispatch from
Waterbury, Connecticut, says the roads are
all badly dritted. Passenger trains on the
New York and New England roads were
snow bound all night, and another Ave
hours late. At Gardner, Maine, the roads
about the city are 50 badly drifted that It
vii! be several days before communication
with the surrounding country eau be had:
Ice harvesting on tho Kennebec is badly
int0rfered with, and the cost OF clearing
the snow ofthe ice is estimated at so, 900.
At Hartford, Connecticut, the railroad men
are working hard all day, and passenger
trains will probably run on time to-mor-
row.
The roof oil livery stable was crushed
in by the weightof the snow and carriages,
etc, damaged 10 the extent OF $1,000
A number OF wrecks ar. reported of
Nantucket and it is said considerable dam.
age was done property along the beach. A
portion OF the Nantucket Branch railroad
away.
HALIFAX, February 5-A snow storm
and high winds Of great severity began
early this morning and has not yet abatod.
The drifts in some places are impossible.
FREpERIcEsluRd, Va, February "a
train on the Piedmont narrow gauge rail.
road which left for Orange Court House
last night with twenty hands in charge Of
the superintendent, to raise the snow
blockade, has not been heard from since,
1t Is feared it has met with disaster.
NEw YoRE, ebruary 5.-If today had
been business day trade would have
been paralized by the heavy snow storm.
In quantity the snow that fell and the VIC.
lsnee OF the gale, the storm proved unpa1.
alleled in many years. The authorities
and the American Plunger, Walton, the
new street contractor, have been cartiag
off snow to-day Ind tonight, and by
tomorrow travel and traffic will have fewer
impediments. The congregations in The
churches this morning and evening were
small. The street cans doubled IN and
were run irregularly. Steam trains did
the best they could. The fast mail from
New York in the morning was five hours
late in making Poughkeepsie and the snow
drifts to encounter before reaching Albany
were rs many as those already overcome.
In Brooklyn much damage was done a
stable by the weight Of the snow crushing
in the roof.