San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-01-27
FRIDAY, JANUARY, II, 1888.
A SNOW BLOCKED EAST.

A SNOW BLOCKED EAST.
The weather clerk has now turned his
attentions towards the great northeast
and the eastern and middle states. All
New England, New York and Penn
sylvania are snow bound. The fall Of the
fieecy GOODNESS has been unusual even for
those localities. The wind blew while
the flakes piled up inch after inch until
not less than eighteen inches had piled
up In the woods, VIII re the winds could
not drift, while in the Pen country the
drifts were something terrible to con-
template. Roads we're blocked, fences
covered out Of sight, railroad trains
stalled and abandoned, telegraph lines
broken, and general embargo laid up
on travel and news communications No
trains up to last accounts had been able
to get through the blockade on the
Maine and Boston railway, the Portland
express is showed In near Old Orchard,
and country roads are blockaded so that
no travel Is possible to and from local
points.
In Pennsylvania matters are not much
better, Coal operations are entirely sus-
pended by the storm and not ton was
shipped out Of the coal regions yester.
day. Roads are impossible for teams
and the blockade lie very general over
the state.
Not only is New York State snow
blocked on her railroads and public
roads, but her rivers and hsrbors are
nlled with Ice until navigation is rem
dered dangerous In the Hudson river
and 10 the sound, and is absolutely sus-
pended 10 many points From Frogg's
Neck to Sands Point, in Long Island
Sound. the Ice Is solid and no vessels
can make their way 10 or out. Incoming
steamers report great suffering among
seamen and many cases of frost bites are
in the hospitals. The number of YES
sells collected outside is large and fears
are entertained Of their safety, as at last
accounts the wind was increasing In VIC
lence. Ice has formed to an unusual
thickness in the Hudson river and
when the tide rushes out
swiftly 1t carries with It i'm
mense blocks which threaten serious
destruction to shipping. 1t Is very diff
flcult for the Hoboken and Jersey City
ferries to maintain the trips, and CROSS
ing the river is quite an existing event
10 the midst Of the crsunohing, crashing
cakes Of heavy ice, which sweep against
the boats and jar every timber in them
until 1t seems the stsunohest ribs must
break. The st. Louis Express trains for
New York are showed up, and the re-
ports that come over the wires do not
show an encouraging condition OF af-
fairs as the wind Is blowing a gale and
the eighteen inches of snow is driven in
to the railroad cuts and packed 80 tight
that snow Dlows make but little head
way against the blockade.
All this, while the fortunate dweller in
Ban Antonio sits smilingly in his office
Jacket, his doors open to the genial
sunshine, and summary air insinuat-
Ing Itself everywhere without the aid OF
steam-heaters or furnaces. All yes.
tsrday and last evening the streets
were alive with pleasure-seekers, and
the parade on government hill was so
thronged that 1t was . fair sample ofa
Broadway crush. Ladies were driving
with light wraps, gentlemen without
coats or with very light spring weights,
and every indication outside and In was
that OF q genial late spring day, with
the thermometer above the sixties.
Texas Is the climate after all,
IT ex-Mayor Smith of Fort Worth is
OF the opinion that that Dallas resolution
did not mean Galveston he enjoys big
monopoly Of that opinion. There are
no indications that 1t lie shared By any
considerable number Of people either in
his own city, Dallas or Galveston. The
resolution meant Galveston, and the
nght 10 made upon that line. San An
tonic ls not deceived by any such repre-
sensations. Her eye is steadfastly fixed
upon Arkansas Pass and abe means to see
deep water there 10 the near future.