Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-19
The Great Storm.

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history in the line of great storms and
! the interruption of railroad and tele-
| graphic communication. While the
| great blizzard of January and the I'M
| precedented cold of that period was
somewhat remarkable, the season of
| year was mid-winter and such a thing
might not be looked upon as phenom-
email, but the storm of last week,
after the snow had disappeared in the
West and along the coast of the At
lantic, was thing not only not ex-
pected, but seemingly impossible. 1t
is said to have been a production of
the far West, that took a sweep
across the lakes and then came down
upon New York, New Jersey and as
far south as North Carolina, while it
was especially heavy in New England,
except, perhaps, in Maine. A depth
four feet fell at various places, while
violent wind piled it high in every
drifting place and filled many railroad
cuts level with the banks. Vermont
was visited by the storm and though
not as badly blockaded on the line of
railroads in some sections as other
locations, was pretty we'll buried up
in snow. On the Passumpsic Rail-
road trains were not greatly delayed,
except by connecting lines, and few
hours -suficed to get the roads in
comfortable condition for business.
The mails were cut off on account of
trouble below. The snow was so
deep everywhere that it was difficult
to break the highways and the snow
rollers were put to severe tests. But
communication is open everywhere
now and business is going on as usu-
al. The Dakota people have a chance
now to turn the tables on the East,
and some of them showed their satir-
ical sympathy by sending kilograms
to the Mayor of New York asking if
he needed any help from Dakota.
The reports below give accounts in
detail:
NEWARK, n j., March 14.-Five
or six people here have been frozen
to ath while wandering in the storm.
Several people are missing, and it is
feared they are lost.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Mar. 16. Rail-
road traffic around the city has very
generally resumed, and signs of the
great storm are fast disappearing.
By o'clock it is expected that near
ly everything will resume it's normal
condition.
New HAVEN, Conn, Mar. 6. The
first through train from New York
since o'clock Monday morning ar
rived in this city at Fps this after
noon.
New HAVEN, CT, March 16. The
train leaving Boston on the 18th for
New York by the Shore Line at 10 a.
M, arrived at this place last night at
y o'clock, having been snowbound
mile from Saybrook junction, 50
hours.
WATERBURY, Ct, March Is. The
shovelers, cutting their way south on
the Naugatuck Road, have passed
Burrville, within four miles of the
cleared track, but were battling at II
m. with drift 800 feet long and 10
feet deep. The Naugatuck Division
will be clear from Winsted to Derby
this evening, but nothing relative to
the track below Derby is known at
the general office here.
PHILADELPHIA, March Is. 1t is
the opinion of the Delaware River
pilots in this city, who are in most
direct communication possible with
the breakwater, that vessels went
down during the Sunday and Monday
storm which will never again be heard
from. The list of wrecks that are
known of is increasing daily. Pilots
and others who arrived from LeWeS,
Del, yesterday, say the condition of
affairs in the harbor at that place is
appalling.
ELIZABETH, n. j., March IA. Six
trains are stalled on the Pennsylvania
road near this city and an equal num-
Der on the New Jersey Central. The
drifts along the roads are from seven
to ten feet in depth. 1t is feared
that several lives have been lost, but
no accurate reports of fatalities have
yet been obtained.
BALTIMORE, March IA. Communi-
cation with the South from AleXan-
dria has been restored, and yesterday
the Western Union sent large force
of operators there. Business will be
cleared up and sent here by train.
The mail service is demoralized. The
only mail closed and sent North from
here yesterday was at II 80 in the
morning. Trains left for Baltimore
on schedule time, but there were no
postal cars or postal clerks to send
with them. The mail that left at 80
was for Baltimore, Philadelphia, New
York and New England points.
Trains from the West by the Balti-
more and Ohio are on time.
WASHINGTON, March IA, Three
| trains arrived here last night from
| Philadelphia, after a long and hard
| trip. The train men reported that
the storm was still raging furiously
between Philadelphia and Baltimore,
and that the track is badly INSTRUCTED
by snow drifts and telegraph poles.