The Penn's Grove record., 1888-03-17

ing the tracks are reported in worse
condition than ever. The Wilmington
and Northern Railroad between Read
ing and Coatesville is in bad shape, and
there is no telling when 1t will open for
travel-it may take three days and
probably longer.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
have had great trouble south of Read
ing, but Superintendent Reed hopes to
have all trains running by tomorrow,
If the storm abites. Reports from
Allentown, Bethlehem, EastoD, Mauch
Chunk and Slatlngton show the storm
to have been unusually severe. Trains
are snowbound in all directions and
telegraph and telephone wires pros
trated. The stages from all sections
have failed to reach their destination,
and in many instances the mails have
been removed and the vehicles aban-
doned.
Reports received here by telephone
from lancaster, Lebanon, Dauphin,
Lehigh, Bucks, Montgomery, Chester
and all points in Berks counties, show
that the storm was the most severe
ever experienced in Eastern Pennsyl
vania. The country roads are abso-
quietly impossible, the drifts being
from 6 TO Is feet deep and packed as
solidly IS to bear a person. AS an
illustration of the condition of affairs,
of the 5000 country people who usually
attend the Reading markets on Tues
day, only % succeeded in reaching the
city, and these came from the suburbs
at 7 O'Clock this afternoon.
The wind is still blowing, and the
snow is drifting very badly, but indica'
lions point to a change for the better.
Six hundred men were sent out to-
day from Reading to shovel out snow
bound trains, and it is reported that
many OF them were badly frost bitten.
They were taken from the car shops
and are mostly mechanics.
The storm of tonight threatens to
stop all traffic on the main line of the
Reading by morning. The Perkiomen,
COlebrOokdale and other branch roads
are under snow from 1--WE to fifteen feet
A number of industrial establishments
are closed down because their employees
are showed in at their homes. A number
% houses and barns have been un-
rooted, and it is feared that some lives
have been lost In the extreme country
districts.
PoTTsTowN, Pa, March 13.-The
fearful storm seems abating. Tel
egraphic communication was all cut of
Yesterday. Previous to l O'Clock to-da,
no Philadelphia mail arrived for "a
lours. Up passenger trains were foaI
to eight hours late. The WIlliamsport
midnight express west arrived at noon
II hours late. There have been no
trains through in "a hours on the Cole
b%rookdale Railroad, and three passen-
ger trains were blocked all day on that
road, Il having three engines. Coun.
try people cannot reach town except on
foot, and some walked in over eight
miles. Business has been almost at a
stand still. There has been no SNOW
storm in 40 years like this.
LANCASTER, Pa, March 13.-The
news express on the Pennsylvania Rail
road due here at $50 yesterday morn.
ing, arrived here after noon to-day,
having been Over 80 hours on the road.
Last night was spent at Leaman Place.
Four engines were unable to penetrate
the snow drifts, which in many places
were 10 and 20 feet deep and 100 yards
long. The country roads in this county
are all impossible, the fields being used
exclusively for what little travel there
il. Travel has also been suspended on
the QuarryvIlle Railroad.
SHENANDOAH, Pa, March 13.-The
storm to-day was wen more severe
than that of yesterday. No mails from
Philadelphia and New York have been
received for the past AZ hours. The
Tarmers have been completely blocked
out, the roads being badly dr.fted.
louisville, Pa. March 13.-All in
dustries and business are completely
paralyzed by the storm and there is no
sign of its abating. Only a dozen col
heres in the entire region worked to-
day, and these with only small forces.
The Reading Company had thirty.oDe
idle.
On the Lehigh Valley Railroad coal
traffic is entirely suspended. Not a
passengers tram is being run, and only
II train has reached here since Sun
day over the Pennsylvania road. The
Reading road Is making a mar
vellous record. Local passenger trains
are running regularly, and delays re-
suit only from main line connections.
South of here the road Is open, but
north, cuts IN all the roads are drifted,
especially so on the Lehigh and Penn
sylvania lines, trains being snowbound
on these lines The trains on the Read
ing main line tonight are from one to
two hours late.
The Philadelphia morning papers and
mails did not reach the city until to-
night, and the first mail from New
York since Saturday arrived by the
same tram.
HARRISBURG, "a, March 13.-Such
a blockade as has existed upon the rail
road and telegraph lines in this section
of the State for the past two days has
not been known in many years. No
trains arrived in Harrisburg from Phil.
adelphia after GAO yesterday until 3
O'Clock this afternoon, when the train
which stuck in the snow bank at Down
ingtown pulled through with the aid of
three engines,
Another train, which has been lying
at Coatesville, reached here with five
locomotives at 4 O'Clock. All trains
arriving from the West after three
O'Clock yesterday afternoon were held
here, with their several hundred pas
sengers, until late this afternoon, when
tie blockade was partially lifted and
travel eastward was resumed. 1t Is
now thought the worst is over, though
it is showing and blowing very hard at
intervals tonight. Travel north, south
and west OF this city is not affected.
NEW YORK, March 13.-Forty
trains were blockaded to-day between
New York and Albany. OF this num-
Der Is were between this city and
Yonkers. Only one truin was moved
this side of Utica, that was the st.
Louis express; which was pulled out of
a snowbank near Spuyten Duyvll. This
train left Buffalo at 6 O'Clock Oh sun
day night. 1t WAS stalled at s O'Clock
on Monday a short distance from
Spuyten Duyvil Station. The train
could not make any further progress
because there was no water III the
engine. The passengers suffered greatly
from 1anG nf fnnd and uyutar A nartu