Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-01-09
HEAVY SNOW STORMS,
SEVERITY OF r,iIs WINTER WEATHER
ueep snowfall In fittsburE and Terrible
t;ales Eisewhsr re-Trains Blockadod,
Houses Unroofed-i.abor Inter.
fered WIN

Gales EIsewhsre-Trains Biockadod,
Houses sUnroofod-Labor Inter.
tered with.
Snow fell incesssntly at Pittsburg for L.!
hours, and Mt IL O'Clock Tuesday nig' II
there was no indication of clearing wealth or.
Tho snow Ia nearly two feet deep and the
streets are almost blockaded. The street
railways, with the aid Of swoepers and by
placing four horses to each car, sue ceeded
in keeping th cir cars running, but a num-
Der of the companies were compelled to
stop at night, and it is quite probable that
by morning travel will be entirely sus
pended. The steam railways have suffered
severely. Trains on the roads are several
hours behind time, and in one or two in.
stances trains have been lost entirely. On
the Pittsburg. Virginia Il Charleston rail.
road passenger train became snow bound
q few miles from the city aud the passen-
gers were forced to get out and walk
to town in snow knee deep. a mum.
Der Of accidents have been reported by
roofs breaking, and il the storm continues
few hours longer the damage that will
result to fiat roof houses cannot be csti
mated.
Tuesday night, whilo boy named Avery
aged IA. was shoyeling snow of four
story house in Pittsburg, he fell from
the roof and was so terribly mangled that
| his death is only a question of q few
| hours. About seven o'clock in the even.
ing another accident happened, which may
| result fatally. young girl named Annie
Dunn was on her way home, when brick
| knocked from n roof with some snow
| struck her on the head and fractured her
skull. She was removed to her home
where the physicians pronounced her in.
juries fatal.
| A Great storm on tho Chesapeake-Cold
Weather, snow and Ice.
\ dispatch from Baltimore, Md, says
The cold weather which has prevailed
| since Friday night has almost entirely
checked navigation in Chesapeake bay,
except for tho larger class of vessels
Tuesday, with higher temperature, ter
rible northeast storm prevailed with
snow up to Q O'Clock o. N. and rain since.
All the tributaries of the Chesapeake -
far down as the mouth of the Potomac are
blocked with heavy ice. Some of the
steamboats, which went into them on
Saturday have not yet been able to get
| out. ln the Susquehanna the ice is
reported ten inches thick. In the Chop.
tank navigation is entirely obstructed,
aud at Cambridge one thousand persons,
employed in the oyster packing houses,
are thrown out Of employment. The suf.
fering of those employed on the smaller
class OF vessels has been very severe. The
harbor of Baltimore is kept open by the
| ice boats, but the river and bay are frozen
as far down as Sandy Point, q distance of
nearly thirty miles. The heavy storm
continues and may break up the ice in the
bay, but will have little effect upon the
rivers, which generally arc we'll protected.
| Tns Greatest storm on Record and Twenty
| Iuches OF snow a. wheeling.
At Wheeling, heavy snow fell until
three o'clock Tuesday morning. an aver
age depth of twenty inches being now On
the ground. Trains on the Pittsburg
division of the Baltimore and Ohio road
aud the Pittsburg, Wheeling and Ken
tucky division of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati
and st. Louis road are almost abandoned
and trains on all the roads are badly
delayed. Street car traffic was suspended
early in the day one line substituting
sleds in the place of cars. 1t is the heav-
lest continuous snow storm on record az
Wheeling.
Terrific storm at Reading.
At Reading snow began falling about
five o'clock Tuesday morning. \ strong
notheast wind blew the snow into drifts in
the country roads, making travel very
difficult. About noon the snow became
very fine and soon turned into rain, ac-
| companied by roaring wind. The storm
was terrific, the rain pouring down in per-
feet torrents, The streets in the lower
portion Of the city are flooded, and, unless
a change takes place soon, there will be
danger from the river. Houses were un.
rooted and signs torn from their haugings.
Part of the roof OF the postotfice was
blown off and il is almost impossible for
citizens to 60 out. Reports from the sur
rounding counties say the storm is the
severest known in ten years.
AG Other riaces.
Snow fell continuously all day at Oil
city. More than a foot has fallen, which,
in addition to that previously on the
ground, etfectually blocks travel. The
few trains which have arrived Tuesday have
been late and brought in by two or three
locomotives. Several have been unable
to get through at all. Some are showed
in along the route and cannot be reached
by wire.
1t has been showing constantly al
Washington, Pa, since early Tuesday
morning and the snow is about eighteen
inches deep, the, deepest it has been for
many years. Tho weight threatens to
crush 10 tue roofs of houses aud people are
engaged in removing 1t.
fierce snow storm prevailed at Will
kesbarre all day Tuesday. The terrible
velocity Of the wind, with the air full oi
fine snow, interfered with business gencr
ally and caused a suspension of work at
many of the collleries.