Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-28
FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE GREAT SNOW STORM. Railroad Travel Almost At A ..s. Standstill. MANY TRAINS SHOWED UNDER. All Trains Run Hours Behind
 Time. READING MINERS QUIT AGAIN. Tariff RefOrmers Urging
 Their Demands.
HARD TIMES F0K THE RAILROADS Roads BlOckaded All Through New England Trains Showed in and Travel Almost Impossible.

HARD TIMES F0K THE RAILROADS l England Trains Showed i'm and | Travel Almost Impossible.
 ] PTTTsF1ELD, Jan. 27.-The railroad block ton yesterday afternoon, which spent the I night snowbound at Hinsdale and Chester, | reached Pittsfeld at 10 o'clock this morning,
 remaining all day side tracked. About 2 | o'clock an attempt was made to send train | of six drawing room cars west. It started ! out with two engines, but got only mile from the depot when the forward engine | struck 8 twenty foot drift The second engine
 and cars pushed the forward engine upon the
 drift, derailing both engines Two brakemen 1 walked back to PittsfeId depot
 through the blizzard, being near- l ly prostrated on their arrival and brought news of the accident Two relief engines were sent out and dragged the train
 back in sections, the snow having so fastened l the cars that it was impossible to start them l save two at g time. About 8 o'clock two l trains arrived from Albany, it having taken twenty hours to make forty-fve miles,
 
 get the two derailed engines on ! the track and pull them to Pitts l field when a train of three drawing room
 cars drawn by two engines will be started for Albany preceded by big blow. This train will start about midnight and is expected to reach Albany to morrow morning. The rail- road officials are doing all in their power to
 raise the blockade. Three trains have been | made up for the East, the first starting at 4:30 pm. It is reported this evening that one of them is derailed at Dalton, six miles east of
 here No loss of life, but particulars are l unobtainsble. Reports from the south are I less encouraging. Two express trains which left yesterday have not yet reached Pittsield being stalled all day near Ashley Falls. They are expected tomorrow morning. The ac- commodation train made up here left at noon and got to Great Darlington, then started on it's return, being unable to proceed further owing to immense drifts. On it's return it got within two miles of Pitts6eld where it was stalled. Many of the. passen- gers walked some distance to the depot in binding blizzard. Dr. E. s. Robinson, To- exerted himself in attempting to reach ! town and shortly after leaving the cars suffered a severe hemorrhage
 from the lungs. He was carried ! back to the cars and is in Ia critical condition. Trains on the North
 
 well all day, became blocked late this after- noon and two passenger trains are stalled somewhere near Cheshire about ten miles north of here.
 LAcoNIA, N. H., Jan. 27.-Up to late hour tonight no trains had moved. .ip this To- cality on the White Mountain division of the Boston and Lowell road since yesterday af- ternoon and there is no prospect of their moving before tomorrow night and possibly Sunday. The snow has piled ia from three to ten feet deep and is very solid. This af- ternoon while three locomotives were push-
 ing plow through the snow near Meredith the blow broke and the locomotives went through it. Soon after the Canadian Pacific express due here yesterday morning came along and when near the wreck stopped in stantly and one man was thrown on the stove and severely burned. About forty
 passengers then started for the village hotel at Meredith and number
 froze their hands and feet going through the deep snow. One hundred men went to the scene from Lake Village with shovels this evening as blows have been abandoned. All stage lines in this locality have been discon- tinued since Wednesday and but few trains are moving. Two cases of freezing have been reported in this town to night.
 LEWISTON, Me, Jan. 27.-Yesterday's Waterville trains arrived at half past two this afternoon. As it entered the station Joseph Dubois, aged twenty-five, 8 shoveler, was struck by the blow and probably fatally in jured.
 CAMDEN, Me-, Jan, 2T.-On account of bad roads and the heavy snow and sleet storm yesterday no mails arrived yesterday or to- day from the back towns of Iincolnsville
 Hope and Searsmont.
 The ice crust cuts the horses feet and gro ceries delivered by men on foot. Milk
 men haul their pungs themselves from house to house. No mail arrived from the west last night or to-day.
 MONTREAL, Jan. 27.-The snow storm still continues. All trains are seriously delayed RICHMOND, Que, Jan. 27.-Snow has
 fallen steadily since yesterday and it is now frem six to eight feet deep. The mercury is below zero The railroads are blocked and travel on the country roads is entirely sus- pended
 RUTLAND, Vt., Jan 27.-The train which
 left Boston yesterday morning arrived this afternoon twenty seven hours late. 1t went no farther. It started back at 6 o'clock with two engines and two passenger coaches and when one engine and all three cars left the rails. No one was injured. A wrecking train was sent out from Rutland. The Delaware and Hudson road got a train through from White Hall, but the main line is entirely blocked. The Rutland and Wash ington division is open, but not running reg ularly. The Central Vermont is still blocked north of Rutland. There are eleven lecomo- tives tonight at Shelburne trying to move 8 train from Montreal due here at 10:35 last night. The Bennington and Rutland road is running trains. This is the worst blockade ever known here. The surrounding country is badly choked up and the roads are impas- sable. It is showing, bitterly cold and prom ises to be the most severe night of the sea-
 son. The wind is blowing and still drifting, | filling up the railroad tracks almost as fast as they are cleared.
 RAN Mo Tba cfo ued here till about Il 9. m., the snow drift | ing fesrfully. Railroading in all directions | is extremely difficult. Trains from the west 1 due at a. m. and 12:05 p. n. arrived at 6:35 D. m. The latter train, which was ahead, met with an accident between East
 Newport and Etna by spreading rails. The 1 cars left the track, running on the sleepers | two hundred feet. Two passenger cars, con | taining eighteen passengers, rolled over on | their side in the snowbank, breaking in | the windows, but fortunately only slightly bruising and scratching two of their passen- gers. The engine from the other train helped ! to get the cars back on the rails. Country | roads are badly blocked. No stages have ar- l rived except from Amherst and none went ! out to-day. Schools were suspended today, and will not keep to morrow OR account of | the fearful travelling.
 | The Snow Drifts i'm New York-Rail- l roads Showed Under and Great DiR-
 cu1ty in Running Trains.
 | EMIGRATION, N. r., Jan. 27.--During the | past two days severe storm has been raging | in this section. Trains on the New York, Lake Erie and Western and Delaware, Lack awanna and Western roads were delayed
 several hours. To-day several passenger trains on the latter road were stalled on the Pocono mountains and two trains on the Al
 bany and Susquehanna road were abandoned
 near Cobleskill. Tonight trains on all the
 roads are running little behind schedule time.
 l SYRACUSE, Jan. 27.-The storn. has been
 increasing in violerce in this vicinity for the
 past forty eight hours and tonight seems al it's height. The Rome, Watertown and Og
 densburg road running north from this city
 is snow bound and all trains have been aban doned. The last train to reach this city or
 that road arrived at noon yesterday l The last train to leave this city lief ! a4 R.5k oe