Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-02-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
MOTHER WESTERN BL1zzABD CHICAGO BURIED
IN THE WORST SNOW STORM FOR YEAns-

shteB hpOut o CLOCK SUNDAY evening" ana
the biting wind whirled it about in clouds
for "a hours. The streets we're deserted
Monday aud no one ventured out unless com
PEELED TO do so. The street cars did not pre-
tend to observe any schedule time, and the
suburban trains on all the roads were run on
the widest time, If at all. At times during
the day the storm ragged so furiously that it
was impossible for pedestrians to see 20 feet
in front Of them. In some parts OF the city
the drifts we're II feet deep, and many houses
we're blocked in by huge masses OF snow.
As thorough a blockade on the railroads has
not been experienced in Chicago for years
On ten or y leading roads centering in the
city not a train was moved Monday or Mon
day night The roads hired every idle man
who could be found to shovel snow. The Bur
lington, Alton and st. Paul roads alone sent
out 1000 men.
High winds drifted the snow badly in Iowa
and caused almost complete blockade on the
10 railroads. Passenger trains were stalled
in snow drifts, none Of the roads moved a
freight train, and most of the north and
south roads abandoned everything The
storm arose in the gulf Of Mexico Sunday
and travelled east Of north, the wind blowing
about 20 miles per hour 1t went far to the
northwest, the weather being specially severe
in all the lower lake region from Chicago to
Buffalo The storm took its flight to the st.
Lawrence region.
Tuesdays dispatches represented the con.
dition of things in the section of which Chi
cago is the centre to be even worse than on
Monday. The weather was intensely cold
and railroad trains were blocked in every d.
rection. Iowa reported the worst north west
err blizzard for years. A sad feature Of the
storm was the suffering endured by cattle,
sheep and swine en- route to the market, and
many of the poor animals have frozen to
death Thirteen cars Of sheep on the Ohica-
go, Burlington Quincy road we're reported
frozen to death.
At the east on the same day there was seri-
Gus trouble from rain and water. The Bos-
ton i Albany track in Boston was two feet
under water. At Portsmouth, n. H., gro
GERS delivered goods on hand sieds. Many
stores and private houses were flooded at
Portland, Me.
DISASTROUS ACCIDENT ON THE PESNsY1vANIA
ROAD.
-Carelessness in telegraphing caused a
railway horror on the Pennsylvania road,
near New Brunswick n. j.. last Saturday
morning, That cost three lives and nearly ell
100000 The operator on the east bank of
the Raritan river, who had displayed to the
through southern freight the white go
ahead" signal four blocks from the scene Of
the accident, showed the red light OF danger
after it had gone two blocks farther, when it
was too late. The regular freight went
crashing into the rear OF an extra freight
standing on the river bridge, telescoping the
caboose and wrecking an oil car. An explo-
sion followed which threw to the street 70
feet below, IL cars, killing 70 horses en- route
for Jersey City, and burning to death three
trainmen. The blazing oil, running through
the streets and over the RaritAn canal burn
ed Janeway Co.'s wall paper factory and
seven other buildings. inHicting total prop
erty loss of nearly 81, 900, 600. The scene
as the blazing oil rushed down Water street
and slowly made it's way through the streets
sewers, and RsritRn canal, was remarkable
aud attracted thousands of onlookers Just
at the vent where the sewer empted the
blaze shot up 80 feet in the air and the wind
carried It with fatal effect over to the Jane
way company's building. The scene under
meath the bridge after the conhagration where
twisted car-trucks, warped and melted Gil
tanks and half burned carcasses Of horses lay
mingled With q small mountain Of dry goods
was only less remarkable than the smell that
rose from the stesming mass Streams Of
water were played all day Sunday on the FIRE
A RAILWAY TRAIN THROWN OVER BRIDGE IN
IOWA
Six people were killed and six more or
less seriously injured by a train breaking
through bridge on the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy road 10 miles west of Creston
Ia, Sunday afternoon. As the New York
fast mail approached the bridge rail broke
beneath tue forward cars. The rear coaches
we're thrown from the track and toppled
along on the ties until they were on the
bridge, when the two rear coaches and the
sleeper careened and fell from the bridge in.
to an icy abyss below, carrying down about
20 passengers, many of whom we're women
and children. The escape from general de-
struction was marvellous as the cars are bad
ly wrecked and the fall desperate one. The
coaches fell bottom upward into the stream
crushed through the ice and wedged into the
chilly water, and we're held until the front
end of the train could be pulled ont aud a re-
lief crew returned. The engine and tender
went down with the rest and the engineer
WAS killed at his post. force Of rescuers
was hastily organized, and, armed With axes,
strong men hewed their way to the impris-
ened dead and wounded. Many who were
not killed we're knocked unconscious by dis
mantled seats and debris and lay limp and
helpless. Three were killed outright aud
three died on Monday, and one or two are
not likely to recover.
DREADFUL NIGHT on LAKE MICHIGAN.
"A Milwaukee despatch Of the 10th SAYS :
The 800 inhabitants Of Jones Island, q desc.
late bleak strip OF land in Lake Michigan, at
the mouth Of the Milwaukee river. narrowly
escaped destruction last night. On the lax e
shore of the island the ice is piled ten feet
high, and on the opposite side huge snow
drifts are piled one after another A fearful
gale ragged on the lake last night, and the
waves began washing over the icy barriers.
The people were aroused by the food, and
many narrowly escaped death while trying to
cross the ice to the mainland. This ice was
found broken, and they had to return. They
were thoroughly drenched by wading through
ice and water knee deep. When it WAS found
that escape was cut of they repaired TO the
second stories Of the larger houses and wher.
ever they could perch out Of reach of the wa
ter. The suferiDgs of the poor people were
eTcruciating, as the mercury was lso below
zero. The gale subsidized by daylight and the
angry waves receded. Many of the people
were almost crazed by fear and their terrible
suferiDgs.
TEE CHINESE MUST GO.
During a riot last Friday night in the
Chinese quarter at Eureka Cal q stray bull
let killed David Kendall, a member Of the
city council, and another severely wounded a
boy. The news created such intense excite
ment that mass-meeting was called and
over 1000 men responded. Resolutions of in
dignation at the lswless acts of the Chinese
were adopted and committee was appoint
ed to notify the Chinese that they must leave
the city. Groups Of citizens visited each
Chinese house and compelled the occupants
to pack up their effects and then marched
them to large warehouse where they were
imnFgOnah n ha - A.
steamer for San Francisco next day. sec.
ond mass meeting, attended by 1000 people,
was held Saturday and a standing committee
was appointed and empowered to prevent any
Chinese from locating in the city in the fu-
ture.
The sensational story told last week that
anarchists are armed and drilling at Pitts
burg, Pa, and that dynamite is stored in va
rious parts of the city, seems TO have some