Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-15

tween New Hamburg and Poughkeep5ie niteeh
feet deep
cHEAP MILK IN HEwBuRGH.
This afternoon Ave engines showing q snow
pillow were stuck between CastlotOu and Albany
on tho down track. IL f. hardly possible for a
train 10 get through 10 albany tonight. farin
ers ere NJ loss what 10 do with their mix.
Some loads that managed 10 get 10 town lhst
night 20 be shipped on tbs railroads we're Pe1,
dlof for two cents quart about the street. All
agree tb8t this storm beats the record
ROUGH on NEW JERSEY VOTERS
JERSEY CITY, March H.-Yesterday Yves the
day set Tor holding the spring elections In many
towns In Now Jersey. The rosds being iInpss-
sable but very few people managed 20 get 70 tho
polls. IL Is said that in some instances the poils
were not opened az all The places In Which
they were opened presented remarkable scene.
Politicians who brayed tho storm wrapped them
selves In fuIs snd rode 10 the polls. Those VINO
came from any considerable distance were
nearly overcome by cold ana several voters bad
- Do revived with stimuiants. Tho vote was the
lghtest ever polied IN NeWJersey.
At Paterson tho drifts Ia streets are fifteen
aud twenty feet high. The inmates OF many
dwellings were completely shut in business
and iraffic Is completely at a standstin No news
from the outside world had been received since
Monday morning until last night New YORK
papers then got through after Journey OF thirty
Fix hours from Jersey city.
NARROW ESCAPES PROM DEATH.
Hundreds Of people had narrow escapes from
Ierishiug I'm the street Monday night. The po-
lice rescued scores Of men, women, and children,
who Ind 20 sleep In the staii0n-house Many
buildings we're damaged by the wind. The Mar
Eet Street Methodist church spre is bent ana
twisted, mills were uurOoicd, and trees were
blown down Several persons are reported As
missing. and perhaps are lost In the snow mere
are fears Of loss Of lite in the country districts
Coal and milk are scarce snd the poor people are
suffering for Tho necessaries Of liie
CLEARING TIE STREETS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK. March 1L-S,eady progress towards
ultimate release from the effects Of tho great
storm have been made to-day. Large gangs OF
labOrers were at work all day on the main
arteries Of traffic, aud streets I'm which are car
tracks, and with picks and shOyels removed vast
quantities Of ice and snow from the payemons
Two or three lines Of surfnce-cars began 10 run
this afternoon, and others will follow more
rapidly. IL must be some days before all tho
siGe Streets especially IN the poorer quarters,
can be opened and grcstly-necded supplies Of
provisions taken IN. Fortunately the tsmpern-
turo has risen. and suffering from lack Of coal
will DO much lessened.
EFFECTs or VAIN SUNSHINE IN WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON. March 1A-The improvement In
the weaher which began tails morning has con-
tnued throughout tho day, and tonight the
streets OF Washington have resumed thoir usual
appearance. Tho warm sunshine aud wind
have removed most Of tho snow. and commun-
cation within the city limits IL now almost as
unimpeded n before the storm. Tho favor
able change in the weather has enabled railroad
hands and telegraph repairers to work 10 better
advantage and with greater rapidly, and the
situation tonight is much improved. The rail-
roads and telegraph lines west aud south Of this
city GTe IN fair condition, and there Is com
paratiycly little delay in communicating with
western ami southern points.
40 NEW YORK TRAISs YET.
So far. however a. New York is concerned
the situation remains unchanged. No trains had
arrived from New iOrk up % O'Clock tonight,
and mono were expected. ire last mail from
that city left hero sunday night \ few north
ern mails have been forwarded from there since
then. but none OF them seem % hsvo got beyond
Philadelphia. Auch delay IN dspaichlng mails
from here has bsen caused by want Of postal
Ca"s most OF those on mo Pennsylvania line
being snoW-bOund at various points lnforma-
ton WAS received 30 the pOs.-onice here today
% tho effect that there was long limo
~ postal cars slde-trscked at Philadelphia,
and 10 WAS expected that some or al of tnom
would reach here might. Several trains have
arrived today from Philadelphia. and local
trafic between Washington and baltimore on
both tho Baltimore md Potomac and Beld-
more and ohio roads Is being carried on with
little interruption. One train was dispatched
from here % Philadelphia today with mail for
New ork.
TIE POTOMAC.
The water in tho Potomac. which fell 70 an ez-
traorl.nnry los stage under the influence of
strong winds from the north. ia three feet higher
to-day, and vessels which yesterday we're
aground hsvs Coated. Reports are coming In
slowly from the surrounding country. eul SHOW
thet the storm ragged everywhere IN tus vicinity
with great fury. Tho country roads have been
rendered almost i'm pnssahls By snow, uprOoted
trees, and other Instructions.
AID PRoFrIEED FROM TIE NORTHWEST
NEW YORK. March if.-Nayor Hewitt received
kilograms from sympathetic people IN Bismarck
Iufr M al her
places in thc Nest where Billiards nrc not uu-
common. Offering relief for storm sufferers In
Now ork and vicinity.
PASSENGERS II sSOv-DRIFTs SINCE MONDAY.
READING. PA. March l4.-On the Wilmington
and Northern railroad there IL train in a snow
dUft twenty-five feet deep near Dupont, which
ha4 been there win six passengers on board
since II O'Clock Monday night their suffering
from hunger and cold can DO better imagined
than described. Two more trains on the zane
road are showed IN banE near Joanna.
The engine of the first has its tender on The
track, and the other one Of lie drlvlng-Wheels
broken. traln on tne Rcating aud Columbia
railroad ia fast iu the drift with snow as high as
the smoke-tark. Tho hrcs are out and pa
seugers and crew have taken shelter In neigh
boring farm-houses.
TERRIBLE STORIES or SUFFERING
arc told by tie men who were engaged yester-
day In opening railroads. Tho wind blew with q
velocity Of sixty o. eiX'v-hvc niles an hour. with
n temperature raging from degrees below
zero % 10 degrees above. AZ Monrsville, five
degrees below zcrO st II 4. VI. yesterday.
aud 10y BILE f. Sd. there hs1 only been
change of degrees. IL took special
messenger from tllat place three hours u reach
this city On horseback, and The mall-cGuior.
WHO passed through the place, vas ten hours IN
coming zen miles with 4 single sleigh and one
pgsscuger having been compelled tOOpen fences
and drive Though The fields. Many persons en-
gagged iu opening tie roads yesterday were over
come by the cold.
lie dead bodies Of three mon, ono Of an
elderly pcrson. are reported 20 have been found
between this city AM Pot town. Cattle have
persisted from the cold ~ all parts Of the county
AND loans had 20 Doe abandoned on the roads.
Farmers gie sin unable to roach this city and
milk and country pro lure command premium.
Barns were unrolicd, fences blown down, and
forest tre letelei by tho storm. Il will take
weeks to repair thc damages.
REsCUNG LADY PASSENGERS.
Passengers on train on the East Pennsyl-
yanIa railroad, ait0r having been SNOW bound
tweuty-foar hours. wore rescued haif-staryed
and nearly frozea 10 death. Among them we're
three ladies. Tho gentlemen, after efscting
their escape from the train, procured two
sleghs and returning placed the ladies In them.
They then dragged tho sleighs through tho
70 hertzt0wn. distance OF
last night thoroughly exhausted. Tho ladies
suffered dreaGfully from their exposure 10
the storm. Another passenger train on the
n ain line Ct the Reading road was snow bound
Twelve hours at MerOn station. Some Of the
shop-hands were sent out from this city TO re-
Ii,ve the trains aud returned at noon to-day
after having sh0velled snow from fifteen 10
twenty hours without food. number had feet
ana ears badly frozon
PILOT-BOATs WRECKED AND OTHERS USHEARD
FROM.
NEW Y0RE, March 4.-Of the twenty-nine
staunch pll0i-bcats that make up the harbor feet
Of New Ork two Gre safe IN port, having outrii-
den the storm nine were wrecked Monday, and
eighteen which we're out in tho open sea remain
utterly VI heard Of. The experience Of the men
Oh tho boats wrecked WAS something terrible.
10 seems almost miraculous that there sheuld
have been no lOss II HE. There was positively
no rest for tho crews from the time tho gale be-
gan All the wrecked crews landed in yaWls
near Sandy Hook ana were given food and shell
Ter In the house Of Mrs W. ". Stewart
OF STORN IN ACCOMACK.
Houses Blown Down and Trees Up
rOOted-wharves Flooded and
stock Drowned.
Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispstch.l
ONASCOCK, VA, March 10, 1883
The wind and snOW-stOrm that swept over this
eciOn Sunday night was the severest that has
,i4lfob tha Eaeferu shore within the memOrY OF