The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-29
PASSENGER TRAINS ON SOME
ROADS PULL THROUGH.
Freight Blocked from Pennsylvania
to Canada.
The Weather Very Cold and Accompanied
by High Winds-Railroad Cuts Fiji
Upas Fast Cleared

| MONTREAL, January 2S.-The snow
blockade has lifted somewhat, and two
| trains from New York arrived last night.
| One was due Thursday night and the
other Friday morning.
WORSE THAN EVER
OswEGo, N. ", January 2S.-The
| storm ragged worse than ever last night
The deep cuts on the railroads that had
| Just been cleared of snow were once
more filed up. The thermometer was
ten negroes below zero and the wind
blew sixty miles an hour. All trains on
the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg
Road have been again abandoned. The
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Road was also badly blocked. and trains
that are run are making very poor time.
The passenger train due here last even
ing from the West spent the night about
thirty miles west of here. The blockade
is the worst in years. and every effort is
being made to raise it, but with little ef-
feet, as the high wind fills the cuts up as
soon as cleared.
CONTINUANCE OF COLD WEATHER.
BosToS, January 2a.-Reports from
northern New England Indicate the un.
interrupted continuance of very cold
weather with limited movements Of
trains. Snow is badly drifted and it
will take some time to clear the tracks
SO that travel may be resumed.
PASSENGER TRAINS BEHIND TIME.
Nrw Vnpr Jauuarv 2-Tho IaIay
in the arrival and departure of the
mails, owing to the snow blockade, con-
tinues, and was worse last night than
during the preceding twenty-four hours.
Trains have not been SO irregular for
several years. The Chicago express over
the New York Central, due at SEQ LAST
night. did not arrive till i:10 o'clock this
morning. The train due this morning
at $40 O'Clock did not arrive till 2:15 p.
m. The greatest delay was on the New
York and Dunkirk division. The train due
here at 10:47 last night did not arrive
until $50 this morning. All trains on
the Pennsylvania Road between here
and Washington are from an hour to an
hour and half behind. The Chicago
express on the New York Central, due
here at 6:45 O'Clock this morning, is five
hours late, and the train on the Dun
kirk branch, due at S:16, is six hours be-
hind time. All trains from the West on
the Erie are from four to five hours late.
NEW YORK CENTRAL BLOCK.
No attempt is being made to send
freight trains over the New York Gen.
tral Railway. One thousand five hun
dred and fifteen east bound loaded
freight cars are stopped at East Syracuse
and about 800 more are at West Albany.
West bound trains are comparatively
slow.
CoLDEST OF THE WINTER
WINCHESTER, Va, January 2S.-In-
tensely cold high northwesterlv winds
have prevailed for several days. The
theI mometer this morning registered
four degrees beloyr zero. The coolest of
the winter.
no SIGNS OF ABATEMENT.
AUBURN, ". Y. January 2S.-The
storm shows no signs of abatement in
this section. The hotels here and at
Canaioharie are crowded with snow
bound guests and there is but little pros
pect of their being a lie to continue their
| journey for some days. Eleven passen-
ger trains are stuck in drifts within fifty
| miles of this city. A snow plOw with
| Eve engines has been sent out by the
| New York Central Road, but its labors
are useless as the wind drifts the snow
Il L IL n -
| The snow in cuts near Cato is over thirty
| feet deep.
THE LATEST on THE SITUATION.
| WASHINGTON. January ss.-The dis
details of the trouble occasioned by the
cold weather, snow and wind in all
territory from a north and south line
through the middle of Pennsylvania and
New York to the northeastern British
provinces. West of that line, while the
weather is cold and plenty of snow and
wind prevails, they have not been severe
enough to cause the railroads to sus
pend operations, or to obiiterate rura
landmarks.
THE SAME STORY OF BLOCKADE
The storm this afternoon has undon,
about all that had been done to opei
communication in Eastern Pennsylvania
New York and New England. The JEFF
ferson branch of the Erie, from Sus
quehanna to Carbondale. Pa, has beef
abandoned for two days and severa
trains are showed in. The Carbondal
and Honcsiaie Gravitation Road is ais.
blockaded- The worst places are alon,
the mountains. The Bangor and Port
land, and Lehigh and Lockawanna Rail
roads, which run to the slate regions o
Pennsylvania, remain blocked wit
/ drifts The main line Of the Readin
Road. between Phila2elphia and Read
ing, has been kept open, and trains hav
made reasonably good time, and Penn
sylvania seems to have had but ittl
| trouble ON its main line, but there
scarcely branch road in that part {
Pennsylvania that is clear. Report
from Reading tonight indicate that th
snow storm has been the worst for ovt
twenty five years, and railroaders hav
never experienced more terrible times.
CONDITION THE sANR.
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