Daily Republican., 1885-02-18
I'll GREAT STORM,
INTENSE COLD AND DEEP SHOWS
~ MANY PARTS OF THE
COUNTRY.

COUNTRY.
Dispatches from all parts of the conn
Try continue to announce manifold ef-
fects OF the recent storms. Travel by
land and water has been delay ed in
all directions, and the country is wrap.
ped in snow varying in depth from q
few inches to several feet. loss of life
Is reported from various points. In
tense cold has prevailed in the North.
west, and at some points the snow con-
tinued yesterday. Great damage has
been sustained on the coast, and build.
ings. wharves and railway embank-
ments have greatly suffered.
SNOW has fallen to . great depth
throughout New York and New Eng.
land. Dispatches from Poughkeepsie.
Troy, Oswego and other points.
In New York, announce snow
blockades on all railroad and
csrriageways. At Poughkeepsie
no trains from the west had arrived
since Z O'Clock on Monday night, and
snow blockades were reported at Little
Falls, on the the New York Central.
The thermometor had fallen 800 since
Monday night. Trains on the Troy &s
Boston and New York Central roads
were snow-bound at RoHse's Point and
Pownal.
| Street car travel between Troy and
neighboring towns was suspended on
Monday night, and surrounding conn
try roads were blocked by drifts, some
times twenty feet high. At Oswepo
the storm continued yesterday with
lower temperature. Trains on the
Rome, Watertown g. Ogdenburg Road
were abandoned on Monday, and four
trains reported stalled were at last ac.
counts still in the snow. No trains
have come into Oswego on the Ontario
ing, but train left on that road two
hours and half late last night, behind
a snow pillow.
A despatch from Jamaica, L. l., says
that every road in Queens and Suffolk
County was impossible yesterday.
The Long Island Railroad trains were
delayed by serious washouts on all it's
branches. A quarter of a mile of the
Steward Road, over which the princi.
pal Babylon trains run, was destroyed
and the route abandoned. The loss
to the railroad company will reach
thousands. Gibson's docks at Far
Rockaway were carried of by the sea.
The Hunters Point ferry. boats could
not enter their ships yesterday morning
because of the ice, and passengers had
to climb ladders from the boats to the
spiles and walk ashore on planks.
Old railroad men at Bellows Falls,
VT, declared the wheeling" of Mon.
day night and yesterday the worst
within their memory. Last week there
were two feet OF snow topped with q
hard crust on tho line of the Vermont
Central Road, and Oh Monday a foot
more OF dry snow fell, which was drift
ed on the track by. hig1 wind. The
Centraps Rutland division suffered
most, and at the date of Tuesdays des-
patch no train had passed between Bel
lows Falls and Rutland for twenty four
hours. Trains are snow.bound all
along the line. Country highways are
impassable. Like reports come from
St. Johnsbury and other towns in Yer
mont. Six inches of snow fell at st.
on Monday night, and two
trains showed up on the St. Johnsbury
and La Croix Road had not been reach
ed by the snow-plow at noon on Tues
day.
Snow was four feet deep at Chester,
VT, yesterday, and trains and hstages
were blockaded. Ten engines were
snow bound between Chester and Rut.
land. There were no mails either to or
from Chester. At Plymouth eighteen
inches of snow fell and trains due at
terday morning. Trains on the Pemi-
Eewassett Valley Railroad were all
cancelled. The bridge over the river in
near the Waterville town
line, was blown into the river on Mon
day night.
Dispatches from Springfield, Mass.
report the Boston and Albany and Con-
necticut Railroads blockaded with
snow, and the trains bound for Albany
stuck between Springfield and Pitts.
field. The tracks are slowly heing
cleared. At New Haven, Conn, bath
houses were washed away and Kelsey's
long pier at West Haven Point " as de-
stroyed.
A Chicago despatch of Tuesday night
reports snow falling all day throughout
Iowa and Western Illinois, with mod
crate temperature. Snow fell all day
on Tuesday in Southern Ohio, but
ceAsed before 9 O'Clock on Tuesday
night, after reaching depth of six
inches. Trains were delayed. Snow
also fell throughout Missouri, and fears
we're entertained that railway travel
would be blocked.
The storm throughout Canada WAS ex-
severe and blizzard AT Quebec
continued until day light on Tuesday.
All railways are blockaded The new
St. Charles branch of the Inter Colonial
has been abandoned and trains
on the Grand Trunk are snow-bound.
BALTIMORE The high Northwest
wind prevailing since midnight has
driven nearly all the ice from the Pa
tapsco River and from the West side of
Chesapeake Bay to the Eastern shore.
There is now All obsti uctiun TO vessels
coming to or going from the port, but
'he weather is intensely cold and with
subsidence of the wind ice viii form
'apidly There are very few foreign
vessels in the bay.
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