The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-03-15

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with the hated Briton at Chantilly on
Saturday, These fiery steeds were on
their mettle and did their pretliest; but
they seemed almost ridiculously help
less as they pulled and steamed appar
emily exhausted by their futile efforts to
respond to the encouraging calls OF their
drivers, who were anxious to have them
show their speed,
This mornings Rutland Herald gives
additional particulars:
Burlington blockaded; StOrming from
Sunday night until last evening; En-
barrassnent to travel never before
euualled; Immense drift forty rods long
and twenty feet high; The oldest inhab-
liant recalls no such storm; Highways
blocked by huge drifts twenty feet
high. This last head line applies to all
Northern Vermont as well as south and
west of Rutland.
BURLINGTON, March 13.-The storm
which began here on Sunday evening
and continued yesterday did not subslde
until after dark this evening. Over two
| feet of snow has fallen; and travel is
blockaded to degree never experienced
before in this section of Vermont. No
mail from the south has reached this
city since that of Monday morning. The
mail train over the central division Of
the Central Vermont, due here at pm.
on Monday, was stalled at Mortified
and again at Winooski, and did not
reach Burlington until 2 o'clock this
afternoon, The blockade south of this
point is still unbroken, but trains are
running between here and st Adams.
No trains are running on the Burlington
& Lamoille road. There is one drift on
the railroad near here forty rods long
and from 10 to IS feet high.
Boston, March 13.-The storm of the
past two days will long be remembered
as the most severe that has visited New
England IN many years. Though the
means of communication, both by tele-
graph and rail, are far from being COM
petely restored, it is feared that when
such communication is obtained, story
of widespread disaster will undoubtedly
be told. As an illustration of the COM
pete absence of Geographic communi-
cation between all Eastern cities, the
Boston Herald received Especial tonight
| from New York which came by way Of
London, Eng, there being no other way
of communication between the metrup
oils and the outside world except by
means of the Atlantic cables. Tho spec
ial referred to, which was very brief,
reports that all traffic in New York is at
standstill. The l. roads, street cars
and railroads are all blocked up, and
losses OF several lives have occurred.
Here is note of Tailroadng here
abouts On the Bennington & Rutland
road the New York express that was
stalled on Monday night between Shafts.
bury and North Bennington reached
Bennington at 8 o'clock yesterday morn
ing: and passenger tram No. 80, which
was stalled between East Dorset and
Dandy, at o'clock last evening was at
Wallingfold, where it remained
throughout the night. AT an early hour
Yesterday morning, Master Mechanic Nc
Master took 30 men and a locomotive
south. They returned last evening at Z
o'clock, having cleared the track as far
as about four miles below Rutland. At
this point there is cut about 80 rods
long in which the snow is from six TO ~
feet deep. The men were getting about
half way through this cnt when dark
ness prevented further progress.
From Troy comes about the same
story. also, told in brief by headlines:
Troy in the grasp of mountains of snow;
Tempest ravages; Railroad traffic stop
ped; Drifts that are ten and twenty feet
in height; Greatest storm of the century
Last night the situation had changed
because with the aid of sunshine and
muscle the blockade was raised to the
north of that city. We copy some of
the notes, expressive of the situation
Monday and Tuesday:
One of the notices posted up at the
depot is exciting considerable merriment
this Tuesday morning. 1t was posted
Yesterday and reads /: THE Fitchburg
pay car will arrive tomorrow Tomor-
row is a day indefinitely postponed ION
account of the weather"
mo tickets sold in any direction this
TUESDAY day." IS the notice pasted on
the windows of the ticket office at the
depot this morning at o'clock. The
windows are closed, and few passen-
gers who spent the night in the waiting
room are wandering disconsolately from
one point to another inside the depot.
Notes due yesterday or today, and
which the giver cannot pay on account
of the storm preventing HIM from leav-
ing the house, will be protested in order
that banks, which are not supposed to
take cognizance of storms or calamities
of any kind, may hold the endorser. The
same is true IN the case of mortgages
and other papers.
A Young man who arrived in town
Monday with just money enough to last
him until he should reach New York
that night, applied to the Union Rail
road Company this morning for job
shoveling snow. He got the job, and he
made an odd appearance this morning
as he came out on the track dressed in
fashionable clothes,a Prince Albert coat,
and seal skin cap.
The Troy Press sums up editorially as
follows When people awOke Monday
morning they found themselves contem.
plating what they considered a heavy
fall of snow. On Monday noon they
regarded it as the biggest fall of snow OF
the season. Monday night the storm had
beaten the record. The oldest inhahi-
tants who are, to use an expression that
has local history, candid liars,on Mon
day night taxed their memories and
fatigued their imaglnatiOns IN recalling
a greater fall of snow. The records wert
against them. however. The cold fact
is that by Monday night the storm had
beaten the record.
All the snow that came down after
ward serve d to put tie cap ON the eli
max. The record was not only beaten
but was left 70 far in the rear that ever
the Imagination OF the Oldest inhabllan
could not find parallel.
b Never in The history Of this cOmmuni
ty has business of all sorts been so com
} pletely paralyz ID. The merchants keep
3 those who supply provisions. have Ina,
scarcely any Gus omers. The street rail
- roads have been blockaded fOI lOrge
period than at any time since they begal
{ operations. The railroads running on
of the city are so completely choke,
with snow that even now the time whe
they will all resume operations is mat
ter OF conjecture Snow plows are O
i little or no use. Nearly all the track
must be shOveled off.
2 New York heard from: The metropoli
( dazed by the State Of the weather. II
e estimated that the storm caused loss G
8 at least $40, 900 900 to New York businrt
:. men, railroads, shopkeepers and wag
Y earners, During two days bank businet
was practically suspended.