The sun., 1888-01-28

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doned. The last train to reach this city on % that
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psh journey Usually n an hour sna
half. The train on the Auburn road due IN this
Falls and Abandoned. Central trains inst from fSe The
East are from two to four hours late, apd from
the West @ from no. one & to two hoprs and half be;
Western trains are running close to schedule
this city have been snowboand fhesf few fmiss hsS
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with Canandaigua since Thursday morning.
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drives the snow into cuts as fast as they are are
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s1 here are % fuIl of sno1bound NJ passeneers n0''''
on The New York Central Branch s Between TIVE o hers
between here and - Saratoga. nor on tho
Manages to keep trains 10 moving MS A on the % main
late: This afternoon the wind seems to be In
road are laid out" at, points east and west Of
York in thirty hours, and there is small chance
Of another getting through before tonight The
sn1T has dsiftsd Ssdiy In all direesonsM M spa
Three Delaware and Lsokswanns west bound
through trains. Nos Q. Z, and II. were showed
have arrived from Albany on the Delaware and
aad
two and four hours late respectively.
were on an average twelve to flftesn teen hours late
today: owing 70 to the storm 5ai The s f1ow is not
trains ars On ms vicinity
FATAL COLLISION CAUSED By THE STORM
TROY Jan. 27;-The effects of the storm are
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Wheelock. . brakemap. were Killed. Pat QuiS-
leS and james Lamb bFEa,ksS%en. we're Injured
the most furious snow storm OF the season.
The e freight train was 3 stalled at Coles Switch.
light on the track. The snow blew so OH hard and dd
thick thick that the engineer was unable 70 see the
Conductor Cudmore, saw the headlight coming
%han ran he to sd 0hrf As leaves H the aS
Charles Whoelock leaves q widow and four
children. Patrick Quigley was badly Injured.
james Lamb Jumped from the csboose. Fire.
man Charles Movers jumped from the engine
a sphISas1H1S. SsH EIS u JAMS m The mail train from
the north on the Connecticut River Railroad.
due at Holyoke at s o'clock last night, became
gang OF men went to work this morning to dig
It out The snow was blowing 50 thick that
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men say they bad not been Warned to I look . out
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which had been used for the down trains
stalled train. but those killed were too late.
FIVE TRAINS STALLED AT P1rTsFrELD
PlrTsr1ELD, Jan. 27.--Five long passenger
trains are snowbound at the depot here await
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since the famous blockade Of 1866, when there
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miles between here and Chester is eight to
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sengeSs spent S nsSs ths wv WasSinfeson
cuts. finally reaching Hinsdale where the pas
%sre transferred @ to the 81 Louis es.
mile or more to drug store at A. NJ, and
got food. brandy and like stimulants to revive
the women, who were fainting from exposure.
Seyeral ladies were prostrated Conductor
Fatrbankss ears and hands were frozen.
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prospects are that no mail or newspapers will
reach Plttsfeld to-day. Trains from the West
are in a similar plight. big snow plough and
three engines are stuck In a twenty-foot drift
at Richmond Furnace. ten miles west OF here.
The flyer. west bound due here at $3.50 last
evening. went through at "a. M. No train has
ar!ived since. The train leaving Albany at $3.50
drifts and Is there yet Freight cars, covering
over mile OF track, are blocked near Shaker
Village. Much perishable property will bs lost.
Trains on the Housatonics road, due here last
evening, are stalled at Ashley Falls and won't
get In before night. No trains going south
have left since yesterday noon.
THE II LoCKADE IN THE COAL REGIONS.
schuyliill and Lehigh counties tho public
roads have been almost entirely abandoned
because OF the immense snow drifts, and
teams pass over the open fields regardless Of
fences, which IN many places are not visible.
The Heading Railroad wreckinG crew were call
cd out early this morning to clear the track OF
a bad wreck at Royersford. q heavy freight train
having jumped the track there. On the Leb-
anon Valley Railroad the cuts are filed with