Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-29
THE GREAT SNOW.
More Details OF the StOrm's Terrible
Work.
by telegraph to the Dlspatch.l

by telegraph to the Dispatch.l
WASHINGTON, January 2S.-The dis
patches tonight are again loaded with
details Of the trouble occasioned by the
cold weather. snow, and wind in all the
territory from the north and south line
through the middle Of Pennsylvania
and New York to the northeast British
provinces. West of that line, while
the weather is cold and plenty of snow
and wind prevail, they have not been
severe enough to cause the railroads to
suspend operations or to obliterste
rural landmarks. The storm this af-
tcrnoOn has undone about all
that had been done to open com
municatiOn in Eastern PENNSYLVANIA,
New York, and New England. The JET
hanna to Carbonate, Penn, has been
abandoned for two days, and several trains
are showed in. The Carbonate and
Honesdale gravity road Is also block
aded-the worst places are along the
mountains. The Bangor and Portland
and Lehigh and Lackawanna railroads,
which run to the slate regions of Penn
sylyania, are blockaded with drifts. The
main line of the Reading road between
Philadelphia and Reading has been kept
open, and trains have made reasonably
good time, and the PENNSYLVANIA seems
to have had but little trouble on its
main line, but there is scarcely branch
road in that part Of Pennsylvania that is
clear.
Reports from Reading tonight indi-
cate that the snow-stOrm has been the
worst for ovcrtwenty- five years, and rail
readers have never experienced more
terrible times. In New York matters are
about the same. On the Wallkill-V Valley
railroad, near Waikiki village, snow is
piled up in cuts to the depth Of fifteen
feet. The last passenger train to get to
that village arrived there Thursday eve
ming and has remained there since. The
Ulster-county express, on the New York,
Susduehanna and Western railroad,
which left Middletown Thursday morn
ing. had reached Unionville, thirteen
miles distant, this afternoon and relief
train sent that evening had made only
eighteen miles.
In Massachusetts,, at Great Barring
H..
no trains would be run on the Massa-
chusetts branch of the Housatonic road
until further orders. There is drift
two miles south Of Great Darlington
eighty rods long and fifteen feet deep.
Dispatches from Highland Light
Mass, say no clear water can be seen In
Cape-Cod bay, and predicts that to-
night will freeze the bay solid from
Long Point to Barnstable Light,
NEW YORK, January Is. The delay in
the arrival and departure of the mails,
owing to the snow blockades, continues,
and was worse last night than during the
preceding twenty-four hours. Trains
have not been so irregular for several
wears. The Chicago express over the
New York Central, due at $40 last |
nipht. did not arrive until ii o'clock |
this morning. The train due at $40 |
O'Clock did not arrive until 2:l5. The |
greatest delay was on the New York and |
Dunkirk division train, due here at lO:47 /
last night, not arriving until $3.50 this |
All the trains on the Penn |
sylyania road between here and Wash
ington are from an hour to an hour and /
a half behind.
The Chicago express on the New York /
Central, due here at 6:45 o'clock this /
morning. is five hours late, and the train
on the Dunkirk branch, due at s:l6, is
six hours behind time. All the trains
from the West on the Erie road are from
four to five hours late.
No attempt is being made to send
freight trans over the New York Central
railroad. One thousand five hundred
and fifteen east bound loaded freight
cars are stopped at East Syracuse and
abont eight hundred more at West Al
bsnv. West.bound trains are compare
lively slow.
AUBURx, n. Y, January 2S.-The
storm shows no signs of abatement In
his section. The hotels here and at
Canaioharie are crowded with snow
bound guests, and there is bat little
prospect of their being able to continue
heir journeys for some days. Eleven
passenger trains are stuck in drifts within
ifty miles of this city. A sn0w-plow
with five engines has been sent out by
he New York Central road but It's Ia
1ors are useless, as the wind drifts the
now back on the track as soon as it
passes. The snow in the cuts near Cato
S over thirty feet deep.
THE STORM STILL RAGING.
ROCHESTER, n. T., January 2s.-Spe-
,ial dispatches 10 the Democrat and
rIronfeLe from towns all along all the
aiIway lines in Western New York say
hat the storm is still raging with una
,ated fury. Everywhere travel is seri-
,nslv obstructed, and several trains and
now,plows are stalled in impossible
riffs -
Ranking Its Blast. Furnaces.
fBy telegraph 70 the Dispaich.l