Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1883-12-27

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Wilmington Buried In SNOW and
sIush - Trains Delay ed-Mercury
Dancing In Its Tubular House
Down the. State.
From Mondays Every Evening.
Variable and exceedingly disagreeable
weather prevailed throughout this acc.
ton yesterday and last night. The Nor.
oury's bubble WAS tickle and constantly
changing during the day and evening.
At 8 O'Clock 1t registered 14o, and rose to
l8o at IL NJ, and BY 4 p. IN. 1t had fallen
back to 100, lost two more points at
O'Clock, and at 3 O'Clock declined another,
which 1t regained at midnight. By 2
O'Clock this morning it had reached 800,
and rose to $3.50 at s o'clock this morning
and later to $50.
Early last evening sitting, driving
snow and hail storm set in and continued
unabated until after midnight, when 1t
began raining and continued until nearly
daylight this morning.
The fall Of snow which has been laid
In instruments is about inches on the
level. For top coating it has an en-
vslope OF hard sleet and hail while be-
meath this is a layer of thick Toe which is
fast being transformed into slush. The
streets are almost impossible while the
sidewalks offer 30 many obstacles to
pedestrians that few persons are afoot
this morning.
The work of removing the snow from
the sidewalks throughout the city was
begun early this morning, and the task
was nearly completed by 10 o'clock. The
Toe, so annoying to pedestrians on Sstur-
day, is wet, snowy aud smooth, and the
difficulty experienced then in walking
has been augmented. For every one who
falls on the payements an uncomfortably
wet and chilly Judgment is inevitable.
The street crossings early this morning
were ohoked up with rain and slush. A
large force OF workmen, however, EN-
ployed by the city ,shoveled passage ways
across the leading thoroughfarss and
made an outlet for the water.
1t was with difficulty that the street
oars could make their early trips this
morning, 80 great was the impeachment
offered by the snow and hail piled on the
rails and In the tracks. Volumes of
filthy slush between the rails on Market
street bear circumstantial evidence that
salt has been literally applied to remove
the snowy surface from the cars way.
The heavy sleet formed in beautiful
crystals on tree branches and telegraph
wires, breaking many of the former and
causing some annoyance and trouble to
manipulators of the latter. The weight
of the immense volume OF sleet snapped
several of the telephone wires In twain
and large force Of worhmen is engaged
to-day making repairs to wires which
spread web like over the city.
Many housekeepers awoke this morn
ing to and their water pipes frozen solid,
and the demand for the expensive
plumber is large and vigorous.
Travel on the p, W. & B. railroad was
greatly impeded and nearly all the trains
this morning were behind time. The
New York express due here at 4.43 g. IN.
was about six hours late, having been
showed In at New Brunswick, N. j.,
where 1t lay for two or three hours. The
fast mail, due here at sos, from New
York had not arrived at ii O'Clock The
trains going north and trains from local
points all arrived here on time.
The snow fall down the Peninsula as
far as Wyoming and between this city
and Philadelphia is of about the same
depth IS here. sleighing in most parts
OF the State is said to be excellent. The
mail train from Wyoming, due here at
$50 a. m, arrived on time, but the Phila-
delphia train for the Delaware railroad,
which should have reached thie city at 9
u. M, was half an hour late aud an extra
train had to be sent down at 9.i5 pollock.
The Newark accommodation was not de-
layed. Men are at work on the various
roads clearing the tracks.
THE STORM ELSEWHERE.
"a.
ing Saturday night aud yesterday MORN
ing throughout New England aud north
ern and central New York. Tempera-
lures were reported OF 1870 to 200 below
zero at Bangor, Maine $50 below at
Rookland, Maine 200 below at Concord
New Hampshire 900 to 800 below at
Hanover, New Hampshire $50 below at
Berne, Vermont 1870 10 $50 below at
Bellows Falls, Vermont, and it's vicinity ;
$50 to 1870 below at Plymouth, Massa-
ohusetts; 10 to 200 below at Worcester,
Massachusetts, and 100 below at
Boston. The harbor at Plymouth
was frozen over. Last night there
was further fall Of 100 at Bellows Falls,
but at Boston there was rise of 14o-to
20 above zero-with fall of snow. The
cold wave In central New York reduced
the temperature 10 from o. 10 lDS DblOW
zero. Yesterday was the coolest day of
the season in st. John, New Brunswick,
the thermometer registering $50 below
zero. Snow fell at Petersburg, Virginia,
on Saturday night and yesterday morn
ing to the depth Of inches, the storm
extending to the North Carolina bound
ary. 1t began to snow at Baltimore at 2
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, and the
snow was still falling late last night.
kilograms received at an early
hour this morning report snow
storm Of wide area in the west, followed
by sleet, in some places turning to rain,
and greatly interfering with tslegrsphiC
communication. The storm Was especially
heavy in Michigan, Indiana and southern
Illinois. 1t commenced showing at Pitts
burg, Pa, about daylight yesterday, and
the snow continued until dusk, when 8
steady warm rain set in, putting the
streets in terrible condition and flooding
many cellars. ALL the railroad trains
were delayed, and the telegraph wire'
were Frustrated in every direction.