The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-03-01

the track there. where one huge bank had
been dug away was buried eight feet deep
once more.
THE PORTLAND q oGDENsBURG.
Trains on the Portland & Ogdensburg will
leave here today as scheduled, and it is
hoped that they will go through without
much delay A locomotive not freight
train as at first reported, ran into snow
slide from Mount Willard Friday morning
The engine was reversed but before 1T could
be backed out another slide came down, COM
pletely burying it and the two men IN the
cab The men got out all right, however
and the locomotive can be released WlIhouG
much trouble as soon as the WeaCnel WI
permit a gang of men to go to work with
picks and shoyels. 1t had showed almost
Constantly in the mountains up to last night,
and the wind drifted the snow In 50 fast that
it was almost Impossible TO open the tracks.
Nothing has been off the iron on this road
with the exception of one snow plow.
OTHER ROADS.
The tracks of the Portland & Rochester
had been all dug out last night, and every
thing was in running order.
The storm was not felt in its full severity
on the Boston & Maine, and trains on that
road have not been greatly delay ed.
Inc storm on the ocean
Reports of the results of the storm upon
the sea have as yet revealed only one wreck
in this vicinity besides the almost I'M
paralleled sufferings of the crew of the
Gloucester schooner Sylvester.
Saturday afternoon about 2.3O o'clock the
cutter Dallas, Capt Barr, was noticed
steaming slowly up the harbor, and close be-
nd bo,r eoI,o oII
she had experienced rough usage at sea.
Both vessels were almost solid mass of ice
extending high up the rigging. The cutter
let go the schooner in the channel and then
ran up to Long wharf, where she now lies.
About as soon as the cutter made fast re-
porter boarded her Her decks were sight
to behold, being literally field of ice. In
fact every part of the vessel above the water
was frozen solid and coated thickly with ice.
The proper officer was found and his story is
as follows:
''We left this port Friday morning at
o'clock for a cruise to the eastward, and
reached Wood Island about 10 o'clock. We
saw a schooner high and dry on the east side
OF Richmond Island, but on account of the
thick vapor and heavy sea we were unable
to learn her name or to approach to render
any assistance, and not noticing any signs of
life concluded the vessel had been abandon
ed. We then stood to the eastward, but
had not proceeded far when we sighted
schooner lying at anchor south-southeast OF
Old Anthony whistling buoy, about five miles
from land. Her flag was set union down in
the fore-rigging. We ran down to her as
quickly as possible, and found her to be the
Sylvester of Gloucester, Mass. She held by
one anchor and was terribly iced up, and in
the terrific gale that was blowing and high
sea that was running the schooner was going
bow under every little while.
We were unable to communicate with her
but finally by signals we made them UNDER
stand to look out and catch our line. For
nearly an hour and half we labored before
we got our line to the vessel, the sea in the
meantime breaking over our stern and run
ming half mast high, encasing us in ICE fore
and aft Then we started for this port ar
irving as you have SEEM.
Capt Barr said he never had such hard
luck before in bringing vessel into port,
which is probably accounted for by the great
amount of ice on BOTH One of the officers
Of the cutter and three of the men were frost
bitten, but their cases were not serious.
Lieut.. Little of the Dallas said the men on
the schooner had been knocking ice off the
vessel all day and were nearly exhausted, SO
that the ice was gaining on them. Capt.
Cantillion feared she would sink at her an
chorage and he had nearly made up his mind
to cut away and make the attempt to seek
the gulf to thaw out, when the cutter APP
peared on the scene. Perhaps they were not
happy set of men on that schooner
When the cutter left the schooner in the
roads the hawser had to be cut, it was so iced
up. The schooner's crew of nine men eX-
press much gratitude for the noble work of
the cutter Dallas and her gallant crew.
SAFE IN PORT.
The steamer Eleanora of the New York
line struck the terrible gale Friday afternoon
off Cape Cod. She faced it brayely, how
ever, and arrived in port all right at O'Clock
Saturday morning, without experiencing any
damage whatever. 1t was fearful night,
and all hands rejoiced when the dock was
reached She brought very heavy cargo.
The Cumberland of the International line
put in here yesterday morning and proceed
ed on her way to Boston. She left PASSPORT
Thursday and had been detained by the
storm. She was not caught out in it, how
ever, making harbor about half an hour
before the gale struck the locality in all its
force.