The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-03-01
A Woman Blown From a Balcony of
Her House and Killed.
Schooner Delhi of saco Injured In a
Collision.
Particulars of the Loss of the
Steamer sdIewiId.
Nine of Her Passengers Blown Out
to Sea and Lost.
fsneeial to the PREss.)

years has been raging here since Thursday.
At noon to-day the sun is breaking through
the clouds. but the storm is still very severe.
| The wind has been blowing gale since Fri
day forenoon, piling the snow in drifts and
filling roads and cuts Passenger train No.
A, consisting of two engines and four cars,
which leaves here at GAG a. M, pulled out
| from the station this morning about 40
minutes late and had gone but short dis
| tance when it struck snow drift and stop
ped. An attempt was made to force through
| the drift, which only made matters worse,
and at noon the train was completely blocked,
unable to move either way, and waiting for
assistance to pull it out A large crew of
men was set at work to shovel it out, but the
high wind drifted the snow in faster than it
| could be shoveled. The men could work but
| a short time owing to the cold and numbers
of them have been frost-bitten. Fifteen or
more years ago bad drifts used to form and
block trains where the present train is
stuck, but since the night Pullman trains
have been running it is not remembered that
a train has been stuck by snow drifts near
Richmond before.
AUGUSTA, Feb. 28.--The great storm
worked much mischief in this section. All
| the streets leading out of the city are blocked
and no stages were moved since Friday
| Drifts from three to ten feet deep obstruct
| the highways and it is estimated it will cost
some $1,000 to clear the streets of the city.
| The railroad has been blocked in a bad man.
| ner and trains have not been running regu-
| larly since Friday The train which should
| have arrived here at pm. Saturday did not
appear till 5 p. IN. today. All Western pas
| sengers for Bangor passed through here be-
| cause the back route was blocked. Four tons
| of delayed express matter arrived here from
| Portland at O'Clock tonight on a special
train. Conductor Alden's train which de-
parted from Augusta Saturday morning got
stuck in a Richmond drift and was pulled
| out car by car and returned here this after
noon. Train men say this was the worst
storm for score of years. The rain which
fell iced the rails so the car wheels would
not take The mails were all broken up and
| theLewiston mali has not arrived since Friday
night while the western mails are "a hours
behind time. Its estimated that sixteen
inches of snow fell. The Pullman trains
were cancelled tonight
WATERvILLE, Feb. 27-This afternoon
there has been the worst drifting snow storm
known in this part of the country for twenty
| five years.
| BATH, Feb. 27.-The severe northeast
! snow storm during the past twenty-four
| hours has blockaded railroads leading to the
| city The Maine Central track from this
| city to Brunswick is buried in huge drifts
! of snow in the cuts, and in many places the
rails are covered with ice to a depth of six
/ inches. Since last night no trains have gone
| out or come in on that road. One train on
| the Knox & Lincoln road arrived here from
Rockland three hours late. Telegraph wires
| east of this city as far as Rockland are down,
and there is only one wire working to the
westward
BATH, Feb. 2S.-The snow blockade on the
Bath & Lewiston branch of the Maine Cen
tral was raised this afternoon, Conductor
| Cobb's train, which left Lewiston at 8
| o'clock this forenoon, arriving at Bath
| station at five tonight hauled by two en-
gines. The plow and engines left the iron
| ten times and were buried once in drift ten
| feet deep. Eastward bound passengers were
| obliged to stop at Bath tonight, no train be-
| ing run over the Knox & Lincoln road till
tomorrow morning. Conductor Cobb says
| that during fifteen years railroading the past
| two days have been the worst he ever ex-
| perienced.
RICHMOND. Feb. 27.--No trains have pass
cd here for twenty-four hours. Five engines
with snow ploughs are trying to break the
| drifts Snow drifted as high as the car win
dows No Bo ston mail has arrived since
Friday afternoon. All the ice business is
suspended.
BANGOR, Feb. 28.--Bangor saw the sun
| this afternoon for the first time, but it is
still cloudy and heavy wind is prevailing.
During the storm eighteen inches to two feet
of snow has fallen and this is drifting in an
| indescribable manner Entrance to some
houses in the city is effected through second
story windows, the lower story being buried
under the snow. The streets outside the
central part of the city are in an impossible
| condition No mail train from the west has
arrived here since Friday morning and none
from the east since Saturday morning, while
| the prospects are that no train will get in be-
| fore tomorrow noon.
On the Buckport Branch, ten miles from
| this city, there are three engines off the
| track and two more are stuck in the snow.
| On the Bangor & Piscataquis Railroad two
| trains are stuck in the snow while on the
| Maine Central few miles east and west of
| here are two trains stuck fast Bangor
| hotels are full of snow bound travellers. The
country roads are effect ally blockaded and
| hundreds of men are at work on them to-day.
| Every available locomotive and snow plow
| is in use and many snow plows are being
smashed in the great drifts. No such storm
has been experienced here before for twenty
| years, and were it not for the telegraph and
telephone wires, which are working well in
all directions, Bangor would be wholly cut
off from intercourse with surrounding
places.
WINTHROP, Feb. 27.-The storm COM
menced Thursday morning and still con-
tinues. The oldest inhabitant remembers
nothing like it. The gale has blown the
snow into huge drifts, and it is still blowing
with great velocity, entirely impeding travel.
The Augusta and way stages have been
snow-bound for two days, with no prospect
of starting.
BosToN, Feb. 27.-Early this morning a
brakeman named Cornelius Coughlin was
blown from the top of car in the Boston &
Lowell freight yard into the water and was
drowned. He was q years of age. He was
| engaged in shifting ears, and the force OF the
wind was so great that he was swept from
the car like straw and blown over the ends
! of the ties
MAIDEN, Mass, Feb. 27.-The blizzard last
| night caused considerable damage in this city
and vicinity. The mercury at o'clock this
morning registered zero, and strong north
west wind blowing. Throughout this city
large number of the telegraph and telephone
| wires are down. Blinds were blown OIL
| houses and fences are down, and trees badly
damaged. At Melrose, Stoneham and Wake
field considerable damage was done to trees
| and houses.
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