Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-14
train. The stock all froze to death last
DEEP SNOW EVERYWHERE.


compass The snow is badly drifted.
Troy, y. Y. March l3.-It has been
showing here forty hours, and the ground
is covered four feet.
AMSTERDAM, \. y, March BIN this
city the snow is nearly four feet deep.
In some places the drifts are twelve TO
fifteen feet high. The snow Is still
falling
PROM WASHINGTON.
WAsHrvorov, March 13.-I'he tele-
graphic situation tonight has vastly i'm
proved over last night. The weather
has been bitterly and continuously cold
until late this afternoon, when the wind
abated somewhat, making the cold APP
pear lessintense. No trains have arrived
today from any point north OF Balti-
more. But the clearing OF the Baltimore
and Potomac road gave the pennsylvania
road a clear outlet tOthe West and North
over It's Northern Central road r'G har-
risburg. The Pennsylvania road was,
however. blocked on its main line be-
tween Harrisburg and Philadelphia.
Up to s o'clock tonight no person has
reached Washington from New York
who started after midnight Sunday. The
last 10 come through left New York at
midnight Sunday. and they reached here
at IL o'clock Monday night, along with
the Philadelphia papers OF Monday
morning. The latest northern news
papers 10 reach Washington are the New
York papers Of Sunday morning
and the Philadelphia papers OF
Monday morning Communication
by rail with Baltimore is prompt, not
wIthstanding the railroad company have
no telegraphs with which to direct
trains. The railroad company Is selling
no tickets over its New York and Phiia-
dclphia line except ut passenger rlsk as
TO detention beyond Baltimore. Rail
roads and telegraphs around Phlladel-
phia are still in a chaotic state.
Railroad-men who have attempted
TO open communication between Balti-
more and Philadelphia report railroad
cuts drifted ten feet deep or more and
the snow frozen solid in the broken
country north of the Susquehanna river.
The Western Union wires between Wash
inQton and Alexandria were all broken
Yesterday excepting one, and that sol-
tarv one gave out last night. To-day,
however, few of them have been re-
stored. The worst trouble was at the
Long bridge over the Potomac, where the
men could not work on account of the high
wind and intense cold. From Alexan-
drIa both the wires are intact, and 10y
tomorrow enough will be working be-
tween here and Alexandria to afford
prompt Geographic communication
southwark Washington Is noted for ITS
chanseable climate, but there IS nothing
upon record or within memory more re-
markable than the change from the
spring-like mildness of Saturday to the
furious snow and rain of Sunday, fol-
lowed by the freezing gales Of Monday
and Tuesday.
THE TELEGRAPH's TROUBLs
The work done yesterday in the way
Of repairing telcgrapb-wires leading to
this CITY and clearing distractions from
the railroad-tracks WAS to a large extent
undone by the wind of last night and
to-day. The velocity of the gale at >
o'clock this morning was forty-elght
miles an hour. The force of lnemen
that started ont from Philadelphia ar
rived in this city early this morning
Between Philadelphia and Washington
thew removed from the railrOad-tracks
over seven hundred telegraph-poles
The cutoff between this city and
New York seems to be hopeless, for the
present at least, and there seems to be
no chance of re-establishing communi-
cation rs long as the weather continues
10 be so severe. Last night the wind
blew down all the poles along the Metro
poltan branch OF the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad. II is difficult to get men
TO work and it is more difficult Tor them
TO accomplish anything when they at
tempt to work. Telegraph-men state
that the wreck Of the lines IS the worst
they have ever known.
The Western Union Company havesent
q force of operators to Alexandra and
have established q messenger-servlce be-
I tween Alexandria and Washington. BY
this means they have cleared up belsted
/ business. Communication with New
York is only had by the way of CincIn-
natl and Chicago. Philadelphia IS still
isolated.
DEMORALIZRD MAIL SERVICE.
The mail service is demoralizod. The
only mail closed and sent North to-day
was at / 30 this morning Trains left
the city on schedule time, but the
trouble was that there were no postal
cars or postal clerks to send with them.
The cars and clerks that should be here
are DELAYED at points oH route TO this
city. That which left at 1870 WAS
mailed for Baltimore, Philadelphia,
/ New York, and New England States.
Trains from the West by the Baltimore
and Ohio and the Northern Central road
of the Pennsylvania system are arriving
on time.
/ BUSINESS on TEE PENNSYLVANIA ROAD
PARALYZED.
PITTSBURGH, March 13.-Business on
( the PENNSYLVANIA railroad between this
/ city and Philadelphia Is completely para
+ lived. No trains have arrived from the
! East since last night. Everything is
/ blockaded with snow. All freight trains
are snowbound and there IS little or
no prospect of their getting out for at
/ least twcntv-four hours. at some places
/ the snow has Omitted as hlgh as hNe ieet,
+ and there are miles and miles OF freight
trains waiting to get through. Never be-
fore in the history of railroads has there
been such a blockade. The cold weather
will be very severe on freight brakemen,
as most of them are snow-bound several
miles from any station or habltatiOn.
/ Passengers on trains will also have to
suffer, as the thermometer at most places
Is
BELOW ZERO.
No mails have arrived from the Fast
since O'Clock last evening, and 1t is estl-
mated that 90, 900 letters alone are snow
bound between Pittsburgh and Philadel-
phia. Telegraphic communication IA still
almost entirely cut OFF and all messages
ore taken subject 10 great delay. There
is no trouble West, and trains are ar
irving aud departing on time.
For several years there has not been
such an absolute dearth OF telesraphic
communication with the Fast Us there
WAS yesterday and last night Though
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