The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-15
Over Twenty Million Dollars Worth
Of Property Destroyed.
The Whole State of New York Four
Feet Under the Snow.
Drifts Reach the Second Stories OF
Houses in Some Places.
Impossible to Move Steamboats,
Lost In New York Harbor--state
OF Affairs In New Jersey
and Pennsylvania.

PirTsBuRo, Pa, March 1A--The snow
blockade east OF this city IL over, and
from indications trains will be running
this evening. The mail train which left
New York Sunday night arrived at mid
night, aud the Pacific express will reach
here about 1880 o'clock this afternoon.
The railway officials think the tracks are
cleared and that they will be able TO move
trains as usual within the next twenty-four
hours.
The passengers and trainmcn on the
mail last night report an eventful trip.
Expressman Collins, of this city, said: 81
never was so long In that car before
iorty-three hours without once getting
OF. am glad am hero, l can tell you.
We left Philadelphia at o'clock ON Mon
day morning In terrible snow storm.
We got along the best we could until
about 8 o'clock In the afternoon, when we
arrived at the Lemon place, flfty-seven
miles this side OF Philadelphia. There
we wen completely showed in. The gale
blew at tho rate Of fifty miles an hour,
and II was showing as hard M II could.
| The snow was like fine powder, and II
soon covered the ground all around and
under the train, until u reached up TO
the door Of the car. II must have been
four feet deep We had TO stay there un-
Ill 3 o'clock this afternoon, when four
engines pulled MS out OF the drift. We got
10 Harrisburg all right, then; from there 1t
was all clear running believe that by
tomorrow the road will bo all right again,
and trains can run as usual"
Mr.. Fred Mchaels q young man from
stonington, Col, was the only passenger
who came from New York. lie had left
there Mt IL o'clock Sunday night. Mr.. Mi
chaels was on his way 10 Washington.
The train left Philadelphia ON Monday
morning and soon came into terrific
snowdrift. 81 never saw such a blizzard
in my liic," said Mr. Michaels, land
have been living out west for the past ten
years right on the plains. The train pulled
along slowly until We got 10 Chester. There
were nine trains lying all together, each
blockading the other. Snow Was sur
rounding aud partly covering them, an,
where the driit had been pretty strong yol
could not see anything OF the car nt all
There was nothing 20 be done but 20 stop
| Inc Nliiu DicW nuiFlCNH'i HNu tii' rnbN
was binding. An tho fires In the car
were rcd hot, vet II seemed almost rs colo
IA II they had not burned at all. We las
there for about ten hours.
Continuing, Mr.. Michaels said: ~ good
many OF the passengers began TO get hun
cry very soon, and now the complaints
began. OF course there were some OF u,
that had sandwiches aud such things, bul
they did not last long don't think any
man can cat when he secs somebody else
starving, 10 We all divided. Then the men
had 10 get out and buy bread, etc. In oil
our misfortune, however, We retained good
cheer. Through the snow we went, nearly
up 10 our waists, hunting up bakc-shopa.
Some OF the passengers did quito bust.
ness, selling what they could not eat
themselves. The nowsboy ON that train
sold one loaf Of bread nj 10 cents n slice,
and made - out Of the loaf. In tho after.
noon, at lust, the broken telegraph poles,
trees and other distractions were got oui
Of the way, and ! got 30 Washington NIL
right, eighteen hours later than should
have done. From there | came on here,
without being stopped anywhere. "
The brakemcn suffered intensely from
cold. They report that old mountainccrs
say that the storm was tho worst known
In many years.
The teicgraphic service Is slightly i'm
proved today, but business " still delayed
several hours The mail service Is also ia
bad shape. The superintendent Of mails
says there are thirteen postal cans with
800, 900 letters and sixty tons OF mail lying
somewhere between Pittsburg and Phila
delphia.