News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-15
Notes of the Great Storm.

The great storm is said to have
compelled the postponement of five
hundred funerals in New York and
Brooklyn.
Washington suffered much from the
snow storm, and not even during the
first days of war was it so completely
cut off from the outer world.
The storm is reported as having
ragged with frightful violence in the
Southern States, but no report of the
damage done is vet obtainable- --
Between Philadelphia aud Washing
ton, the telegraph Hnemen removed
700 telegraph poles from the railway
tracks. 1t is thought that it will take
a week to restore direct connection by
wire between Washington and New
York.
The snow is piled from to u feet
high along the curbs in Springfield,
Mass. The body of colored peddler,
who was frozen to death Monday
night of last week, was found in a
drift east of the city.
Men breaking out the roads in
Shrewsbury, Mass, found the dead
body of George w. Cheney, 90 years
old. He left Worcester to walk home
in the storm Tuesday, and his body
was found within a few hundred feet
of his house.
The blizzard proved an even more
effective bar to the making of laws for
State of New York than the Assembly
chambers unsafe ceiling. Noquorum
of either house of the State Legislature
had been secured up to Thursday.
1t is said that 5000 men were at
work on Wednesday between the
Grand Central depot in New York
and Poughkeepsie. The worst place
was in the Spuyten Duyvil cut, where
the drifts were from 10 to 20 feet
deep.
Over 2OOO sandwiches, 400 quarts
of coffee and large quantities of bread
and ham were sent by train and sleigh
last week Wednesday from Jersey
City to feed the shovelers and passen-
gers.
The formal announcement on the
part of the labor organizations that
the great Rerading strike is ended or
rather tardy confession of defeat.
1t would be hard for anybody review
ing the long and bitter struggle to
tell what good had become of it.
A petition for the closing of public
houses on Sunday in England pre-.
scented recently to the Home Secretary
by Mr.. Phillips ofLiverpool, measured
1928 yards in length. 1t was signed
by 1882 900 women over the age oil
16.
Several accidents because of the
storms are ported on the Fitchburg
road. An engineer and a fireman
were killed in a collision of snow plOws
at Gardner. A track-walker was
killed by a snow pillow at Conway
Junction. Two men were found dead
in the snow at Arnoldsyille.
A sad feature of the great storm
was the killing of track walker Rome
at auckland Monday night by being
struck by snow-plow, also the death
of Peter Horne at Maple Grove,
Mass. Horne left his work at the
usual time for home and was found
the next morning only a short dis
lance away, stuck fast in a drift on
Main street Of the village, frozen 10
death. The wind was so loud that
his cry for help was drowned.
A train containing between 100 to
200 passengers that had been stalled
in the Spuyten Duyvil carve since
Monday, was rescued Wednesday
morning and taken to New York
about noon. There was plenty of
coal on board. The only trouble was
the difficulty in getting food and in
sleeping arrangements. Some of the
passengers went TO the nearest houses
and stores and procured provisions.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, March 10
The first train through on the New
England railroad was ditched near the
Armory Hill depot here at l.3O p. IN.
Two locomotives left the track and a
steam pipe in the forward one burst
fatally scalding conductor Hinett, fire.
man William Nichols and brakeman
Jerre McKune, who were in the cab.