Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-03-14
Effects ofthe Storm.

New York l5 completeiy DlocEaueu Oy the
storm. Elevated railroad trains are run
ming at intervals. Most business men are
forced to walk. The snow is frozen so hard
that plows cannot be used, and gangs ofmen
with shovels and picks, are endeavoring to
clear the roads.
Hundreds of people were caught 10 the
suow-drifts on the other side Of the Harlem
river, and stayed there in the trains all Mon
day and that night in the bitter cold.
The Hudson river was frozen hard ye5ter-
dev morning. end many Brooklynites walk
ed across it to the New York side. The
east bound Chicago limited express on the
Pennsylvania road was showed in II miles
out. Business was suspended, all telegraphs
being down.
A stock train was showed in near Roche5.
ter and the cattle all frozen to death.
On the New Jersey lines leading out oil
Camden several trains were stalled IN spars-
~ settled neighborhoods, and sleighs were
sent will, provisions for the traiamen ana
Business on the Pennsylvania Railroad
between Pittsburg and Philadelphia Is COM
pIetely paralyzed. ~
The blizzard swept through Junlata Val
lev, scattering fences, breaking telegraph
wires, upsetllnB sinaii H"uio p"i'"'Ib "
causing great loss.
four feet deep. In some places the drilts
were twelve to fifteen feet.
Reports have been received of great de-
struction of property at Cape May aud along
the coast.
About 10 o'clock yesterday morning there
was an accident on the Central Division OF
the P. w. and B. Railroad at Clifton, just
outside of Philadelphia. All the early morn.
ing trains were blocked at Fernwood aud
Apgora by snoWdrifts. An engineer unable
to see the signals in the binding snow ran
into n stalled passenger traln.due III Phiih.
delpha at $50. completely wrecking one OF
the cars and irjurng several persons.
A tueboat within the Delaware Breakwa-
ter was sunk ont Of sight yesterday. The
wrecking oompany's steamer sunk near the
railroad pier. One ting il ashore. Twenty
shree sailing vessels of various kinds are a.
10 stranded. 1t is the greatest disaster and
accompanied by the heaviest loss that ever
occurred in that harbor. 1t is estimated that
% lives were lost, though but two bodies
have been recovered.
The railroad situation Is practically un.
changed. The Baltimore and Ohio and
Pennsylvania lines have communication
with the West, and Southern trainH are run
ming. The uncertainty about trains bound
north is such that the Pennsylvania line
stopped selling tickets this morning to any
point farther north than Philadelphia. The
| train which left New York Sunday night at
o'clock arrived in Washington at ~ o'ciocE
Monday night after hard and tedious trip
Persons who were on the train say their OK
perience was without precedent In this Sec
! ton of tho country. The storm broke IN
| it's fury when the train was nearing P6lia
delphia, and the speed haG to be s.ackeneo.
Philadelphia was reached without very
great difficulty, however, but after leaving
| that city the train had TO grope its way, the
train hands going ahead with lanterns TO
| give notice OF distractions on the tracks
Telegraph poles, wires, uprooled trees and
ob,truclious of all kinds were found lying
across the rails at frequent intervals. One
passenger estimated three hundred poles
were removed from the track between
Philadelphia and Wilmington. One of the
Southern trains had the windows of one OF
the cara smashed in by telegraph pole,
and several passengers were slightly
hurt.
The repairs attempted to the disabled
telegraph lines go on slowly, as it is dam
| gerous TO climb the poles in such high
wind. A force of workmen that started out
from Philadelphia arrived in Washington
this morning. Between Philadelphia aud
Washington they removed from the railroad
track over seven hundred telegraph poles.
The cutoff between Washington aud New
York seems to be hopeless, for the present
at least, and there seems to be no chance OF
re establishing communication as long ss
| the weather continues to be so severe.