Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-02-09
STORV AND FLOOD.

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SERIOUS TIMES AT THE wEsr-uEAyY STORMS .
BLOCKADE THE RAILWAY LINES IN THE NORTH
EBN SECTION, AND FLOODS CAUSE GREAT
DAMAGE IN ONO, INDIANA AND PENNsYL- /
WANNA.
A storm which prevailed throughout the
western states on Friday and Saturday OF
last week was one Of the most disastrous
known for many years. In Minnesota, Hill
nois and Nebraska there was n violent snow
storm, many railroads being completely
blocked up by drifts. In Chicago, and along
the lake shore as far as Cleveland, telegraph
wires went down under the weight Of ice de-
posted upon them ia the freezing sleot.storm
Of Friday night. In Iowa, Nebraska, Kan
sas and Northern and Western Missouri the
snow storm was accompanied by intense
cold Meanwhile indianapolis was being
drenched by forty -eighthour rain storm,
ending Saturday night, and all over Western
Pennsylvania and Ohio this rain storm at
tained the proportions of a deluge. The loss
of property in the inundated towns is very
great, amounting to millions Of dollars. The
loss at Cleveland, Ohio, alone is put Mt s l.
100000, including damage doneby fire among
the Standard company's oil tanks. At Noungs-
town the loss is 500, 600, at Akron $780, 900,
at Pittsburg, Penn, 100000, at Meadville,
$50, 600 in lumber RATS and boats alone, the
damage to other property being much great
err while from a score of towns in the valleys
of the Allegheny and the Monongahela and
on the banks of the innumerable streams of
Eastern and Northern Ohio come dispatches
telling of warehouses, factories and bridges
swept away, and of hundreds of human hab-
itations under water. The waters rose so
suddenly ut Meadyille Penn, owing to an
ico-gorge that 200 families were imprisoned
by the flood, and after great suffering were
rescued in boats. All the families in the
northern part of tho city Of Akron, Ohio,
fled from their homes to save their lives, and
in Youngstown 200 families were compelled
to leave their houses in boats. The damage
ut Pittsburg was caused by tho coming Of
tremendous ice. gorge, Is miles long, before
which boats, steamers, barges, laden coal
floats, and all manner of river craft were
crushed or driven down the stream. The
Cleveland flats, stretching along the winding
Cuyahoga and covered with uumberess faco-
ries iron mills and coal yards, lumber yards
etc, were under water for mile and half
on each side of the stream on Saturday.
Fortunately but few cases of loss of life are
reported from these disastrous floods.
SOME PARTICULARS OF THE SNOW BLOCKADE.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 1.-The snow storm and
blizzard that has prevailed for three or four
days past has been the most disastrous ever
experienced in the Northwest. There was a
greater fall of snow during the terrible times
of 1881, but the storm in its disastrous ef-
fects was not near SO serious as the present.
For three days the Northwest has been al
most entirely cut off from the outside world.
Telegraph wires have all been down and
railroad communication cut of. The great
snow fall, averaging all the way to five feet
/ in depth, extended over the greater part of
| Wisconsin, Northern Michigan, Dakota,
! Southern Minnesota, and Iowa. The Wis
! consin Central railroad, extending from this
city to Lake Superior, was completely block.
/ cd for four days. The Milwaukee and North
4 ern and the Lake Shore have been showed
under since the storm began. With great
/ difficulty trains over the st. Paul have worked
their way through from Chicago to St. Paul,
and divisions of the Northwestern have been
kept open only by very hard work. The st.
/ Pauls far western division, west of the Miss.
issippi, is almost wholly blockaded. Large
gangs of men, thousands in gang are
working day aud night, but the job is neces-
sarily a slow and very tedious one. Winter
before last the st. Paul road expended nearly
/ $1,000, 600 clearing snow from the tracks,
and from the outlook the expense this year
will be as great. Trains cannot run on sched-
ule time for weeks to come The line be-
tween NIllbank and Aberdeen in Dakota,
| has been closed to traffic since the middle of
, October, and there is no show of raising the
snow embargo before late in the spring
Snow has been falling in the northern part Of
this state for a week, and in many places has
drifted to n depth of - or II feet. In and
about Milwaukee the snow fall has been very
great and since Saturday there has been al
most complete suspension of business.
Horse cars could not run, as the streets were
blockaded with snow, and everything in a
commercial way has been at n dead stand
still. The winter thus far has been the cold
est ever known. The mercury at noon to-
day is 10 below zero. Last Saturday it
ranged all the way from % to 10 below re-
70 in different parts of tho state. Such
weather was never before experienced
LATER.-ANoTHEB STORM AND MORE DAMAGE
FROM FLOODS.
The great rain storm which set in through.
out the flooded districts Tuesday has swollen
the rivers again. The Ohio rose at the rate
of nine inches an hour at Cincinnati, Ports
mouth, o., and Uatettsburg Ky, Wednes.
day. Every family of Florida, o., has been
driven from home. The lower part of Mari
eta O., was overlooked. Hundreds of PEG
Pile have been driven from their homes there.
Jasper, o.. was flooded by the breaking OF
the levee. The damage is enormous. The
river is rising again at Wheeling, w. Va,
aud the south end of that city and portion
of the island are under water Residents
have no communication with the outside
world except by boats. Fifty coal barges,
valued with their contents at $50 OOO were
swept away from Covington Ky. The river
there was ~ feet deep at midnight Wednes
day night and still rising.
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