Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-21
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ness loss, contingent loss and actual pc
cuniary outlay which the storm will occa-
sion in New York City at not less than
81, 900, 900, and the loss to the States in
volved at 500, 100000
A message came from ST. Paul, MIMI.
yesterday. to Mayor Hewitt, signed Many
Citizens" which offered any financial as
slstance need ID. Bismarck and Huron in
Dakota have also wired offers to help
BREAD At TEN CENTS A SLICE.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 15-The snow
blockade east OF this city is over, and, from
Indications, trains are running again.
The mail train which left New York
night arrived at midnight Tues
day. The railway officials think the tracks
are now cleared, and they will be able to
move trains as usual within the next twen-
ty-four hours. The passengers and train
men on the mail Tuesday night report an
eventful trip
Mr.. Fred Michaels, young man from
Stonington, Col, was the only passenger
who came from New York He had left
there ut II o'clock Sunday night Mr.
c. The train left Philadelphia on Monday
and soon came into terrific snow
DRIFT Said he:
81 never saw such a blizzard in my life and
I 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 all to-
gether, each bl0ckading the other Snow
was surrounding and partly covering
them, and, where the drift had been pretty
strong, you could not see any thing OF the car
at all. There was nothing to be done but to
stop. The wind blew hurricane and the
snow was binding. Although the fires in the
cars were red-hot yet it seemed almost as cold
as II they had not burned at all. We lay there
for about ten hours.
"A good many OF the passengers began to get
hungry very soon. and now the complaints be-
gan. or course, there were some of US that had
sandwiches and such things, but they did not
last long don't think that any man can eat
while he sees somebody else starving. so we
all divided. Then the men had to get out
and buy bread, etc. In all our misfortune,
however, we retained good cheer. Through
the snow we went, nearly up to our waists,
hunting up bake shops. Some OF the passen-
gers did gu to a business, selling what they
could not eat themselves. The newsboy on
the train sold one loaf OF bread at ten cents a
slice, and made 81 out of the loaf. In the
afternoon, at last, the broken telegraph poles,
trees and other distractions were got out OF
the way and got to Washington all right,
eighteen hours later than I expected. From
there I came on here without being stopped
anywhere"
The brakemen suffered intensely from
the cold. They report that old mountain
GERS say that the storm was the worst known
in many years.
The superintendent of mails says there
are thirteen postal cars with 500, 900 let
tiers and sixty tons of miscellaneous mail
matter lying somewhere between Pitts
burgh and Philadelphia
THE STORM AT OTHER POINTS
PATERSON. N. j., March 15-The snow
storm which set in Sunday night was the
greatest ever known here The fearful gale
piled up enormous drifts, and did
great damage. The drifts in the streets
are fifteen and twenty feet high. The
inmates of many dwellings are
completely shut in. Business and
traffic are completely at standsull No
ceived since Monday morning: Several
are, perhaps, lost in the snow. There are
fears of loss of life in country districts
Coal and milk are scarce, and poor people
are suffering for the necessaries of life
FAST IN THE DRIFTS
READING, Pa, March 15.-On the VIII
mington b Northern railroad there is q
train in q snow-drift twenty-five feet deep,
near Dupont, which has been there with six
passengers on board since IL o'clock
on Monday night Their sufferings from
hunger and cold can be better i'm
agined than described Two more trains on
the same road are showed in a bank near
Joanna A train on the Reading l. Column
bia railroad is fast in drift near Ephrata,
with the snow as high as the smoke-stack.
The fires are out, and the passengers and
crew have taken shelter in the neighboring
farm houses Some terrible stories of SUI
fering are told by the men who were en-
gagged in opening the railroads
The dead bodies of three men, neatly
dressed, are reported to have been found
between this city and Pottstown. Cattle
have persisted from the cold in different
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.
down and mighty forest trees leveled by
the storm.
WRECKS ON TIE COAST
PHILADELPHIA, March ia special
from Leith, Del says that twenty-five per-
sons We're drowned or frozen to death at
Delaware breakwater during the storm. A
number Of vessels of all descriptions were
sunk, several were badly damaged, while
many were stranded so far up on the beach
that it will very likely require weeks to
doat them The privations of the crews
were extremely pidful The men were
literally incased in Ice and binding
snow which followed tho gale added to
their awful sufferinga More than sixty
persons were bound hand and foot by ioe,
and large majority Of these are now badly
frost bitten and confined to their beds with
heavy colds During Sunday night twenty
eight barks and schooners were driven
ashore The crews were saved
The total loss to shipping is estimated at
between $4OO.O 900 and $500 600 Only
two bodies have been recovered The har-
Dor is ohoked with fragments and the
waves are running high.
Princess ANN, Nd, March H. In the
Hanokin river three vessels were capsized
and many others were driven ashore In
the Wicomlco river at Mount Vernon nine
vessels are ashore at one point and are
greatly damaged. Names Of vessels and tho
fate Of the crews can not be ascertained
Many lives are supposed to have been lost
and much more vessel property demol-
ished
CHICAGO, March 15-The severe storms
in the East have had a serious effect on
Eastern mails Superintendent Wllbanks
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