Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1888-03-16

cCIcotSs especially IN the poorer quarters,
can be opened and greatly needed supplies
and provisions taken to the unfortunate.
A wEsTERNER's STORY.
P1TTsBURG, PA, March 14-Only one
train has arrived from New York. Fred
Michaels of Stonington was on board. II
never saw such blizzard in my life and
have been living out west for the last ten
years right on the plains. The train pulled
slowly along until we got to Chester,
There were nine trains lying together.
each blockading the other. The snow was
surrounding and partly covering them and
Where the drifting had been pretty strong
You couldn't see anything of the car at ali.
There was nothing to be done but to stop.
The wind blew a hurricane and the snow
was binding. Although the fires in the
cars were red hot, yet it seemed almost as
cold as if they had not burned at all. We
lay there for about ten hours. The news
boy on the train sold one loaf of bread at
10 cents slice and made 50 out of the
loaf. In the afternoon the passengers d.
ylded what food. they had and some
nearly starved to DEATH
SCRANTON ISOLATED.
SCRANTON, PA, March 14.-The snow
blockade in the Pocone mountains is so
severe that no trains will be run over the
Delaware, Lockawanna & Western rail-
road for week. In some places the track
Is covered to a depth of twenty-five feet.
NO mails have been received from New
York or PHILADELPHIA since Saturday.
IMPRISONED SINCE MONDAY.
REARING, Pa, March 14.-On the Will
mington s. Northern railway there is a
tram in a snow drift twenty-five feet deep
near Dupont which has been there with
six passengers aboard since Monday
night. Their sufferings from hunger and
cold can better be imagined than de-
scribed. Some teraible
STORIES OF SUFFERING
are told by men who were engaged in
opening up the railroad. The wind blew
with velocity of sixty to sixty-three miles
an hour, with the temperature ranging
from 70 below to 100 above. The dead bod
les Of three men are reported to have been
found between this city and Pottstown.
Cattle have perished from the cold in diff
ferent 1 parts Of the country and teams had
to be abandoned on the roads. Farmers
are still unable to reach this city and milk
and country produce command a premium.
Barns were unrOOfed, fences were blown
down and mighty forest trees leveled by
thO storm. PASSENGERS on train on the
East Pennsylvania road, after being snow
pound tWenty-fOur hours. were rescued
half starved and nearly frozen to death.
THE STORM AT NEwBURGH.
NEwBURGH, N. Y, March 1A.-The snow
is over four feet deep and still falling. No
mails or trains have arrived for three
days. All agree that this storm beats the
record. This afternoon five engines SHOW
ing snow plOw were stuck between Cas-
tleton and Albany,
SUFFERING AT PATERSON.
PATERSON, N. j., March 14.-Hundreds
had narrow escapes from perishing in the
streets here Monday night. Mills were
unroofed and huge trees were blown down.
Several persons are reported missing and
perhaps are lost in the snow. There are
fears Of loss of life in the country dis
people are suffering for the necessaries of
life.
THE WORST OF THE CENTURY.
P1TTsF1ELD, MASS, March IL. The
snow storm now prevailing here is the
worst of the century according to the rec
ords of the county library.
LOST IN THE STORM
WATERFOWL, N. Y, March 14-James
W. Fitzgerald, a farmer residing five miles
from the village OF Lorraine, went there
Monday to buy groceries and left for home
IN the evening: Yesterday his horse was
found in field half frozen. Fitzgerald is
undoubtedly buried under the snow.
THREE VICTIMS.
NEWARK, N. j., March 14.-Three per-
some in this vicinity are now known to
have frozen to death in Mondays blizzard.
AMONG THE LEGISLATORS.
ALBANY, N. Y, March 14.-A number of
the members of the state legislature who
have been snowbounG near Schenectady
arrived to-day. The whole crowd of legis-
l0as played poker for thirty-six hours
without sleep. Pies cost 81 apiece, sand
wiches 80 cents and hard boiled eggs 25
cents. A bottle of liquor was sold at auc-
tion on the train and brought 50cents.
ENCOURAGING AT WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, March 14.-The improve
ment in the weather which began this
morning has continued throughout the day
and tonight the streets of Washington
have resumed their usual appearance. No
trains have arrived from New York up to
10 p. m. So far as New York is concerned,
the weather situation remains unchanged.
No trains were expected. The last mail
from that city left there Sunday night and
was nearly twenty hours on the way. Re-
ports are coming in slowly from the sur
rounding country and show that the storm
ragged everywhere in this vicinity with great
fury. The country roads have been rem
dered almost impossible by the snow, up
rooted trees and other distinctions.
DIsASTERS AT SEA.
MANY LIVES LOST.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, March 14.-Captain
Burns brig Startle, which returned from
Delaware capes today, said he believed
that all the schooners that passed through
the capes since the beginning of the storm
have been lost. The Startle and the brig
Simson were both anchored at the iron
pier at Lewes. "The pier parted and the
SimsOn went down, but we were saved.