New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-28


Although there were reports that the Sound was so
full of lee as to endanger shipping none OF the sound
steamers delayed yesterday beyond ther usual
hour sailing Few passengers vcnuied 10 take 'uo
trip through The Sound in double reef breeze WIN 'o
mercury in the thermometer harborng near the zero
mark and the cabins almost deserted inquiries
were maize at piers late yesterday alernoon
OF the managers or captains ha'i heat h. .o
could member when such thing had nappemei,, .,
The ice at TebO's wharf, al the loot o iwen,S % san.
BROOKLYN lifted two tugs AMI they overturheI anu sM
Efforts we're made yesterday 10 raise them Inc oaaso
will not exceed $4,000
THE GALE IN NEW-YORK STATE UNABAIED
TRAINS IDLE or NEARLY ALL RAILRo'Ds-PAeSEN-
GERS IMPRISONED IN THE MIDST OF DRIFTS.
KINGSTON, Jan. 27 (SpecaD.-The wind attained
still greater velocity last night and became furious
gale this afternoon. The situation became far worse
than 1t was yesterday. The snow-drlitS were much
greater and harder penetrate. Nearly all railroad
traffic the west sLo,e Of the river was suspshueu
The Ulster and Delaware road has been absolutely
blocked since yesterday morning. Two trains Loaded
with passengers bound in opposite directions "ero
stalled In q snOw-drft quarter of mile long near
Olive Branch Station. Since yesterday noon all the
engines and sn0w-plow3 of tho company and large
force of men have been working to get through the
snow but without avail, as the drifts back on the
track as fast as they shovel 1t off. Two more
engines sent up this morning, Dut couiu ohiy
get as far as West Hurley, three miles from ohVe
Branch. Tonight the snow shut In the trains nom
this sIde and the engines cannot return Passengers
were cared for at the Little Bush Hotel near The
station. Last night spent in the cars. All
trains on the Stony Glove road have been abandoned
for the present. Yesterday a train then ran into
hugh drift soon after leaving Phoenlca, which buried
the coach so deep that 1t took hours to get out
The situation the West shore improved slowly
to night There trains TO and from Albany
last night. Five coaches of passengers were hed hero
for the night, after having been repeatedly started
The first morning train to-day arrived about noon ana
went on South. Some Of the trains were pushed
through to night. All freight trains @eD side
tracked or held The Waikiki Valley road has remained
blocked, with trains since Wednesday morning.
Two of its trains started between Waikiki and
Gardiner Tho Rhnebeck and Connecticut road
also snow bound.
The driver of tho Kingston aud Ellenviile stage
nearly perlshcd before he reached Marbietown yes
terday. He there abandoned his coach and carried
his mail on horseback. All the country roads are
blocked I'm every direction and it Will be several days
before they can be opened. An attempt to hold
funeral near this city was frustrated The UNDER
takel was stalled In the snow with his hearse for a
time and finally returned to the city, The wind still
blew tonight, though partially abated IL Is the
worst snow block known here in many years.
NEwBURG, Jan. 27.-All trains are delayed on the
West Shore road The train from Albany due here
at 36 last night did not arrive until O'Clock this
morning The first through train south to-day passed
here at = p. The trains on the Hudson RIVER ana
Erie roads were all late. The country roads wero
blocked with snow and farmers dug their way through
with shoyels. George W. Davds reporter of Tho
pougbkeepsie Eagle,n while at the Hudson blockade
Last night had his ears and badly frostbitten
SYRACUSE, Jan 27.-The storm had been increasing
in violence in this vicinity for the last forty eight
hours and to night seemed at Its height The Romo'
Watertown and Ogdcnsburg road north from this city
Is snowbound The last train to reach this city on
rday he last
from here left at 6:15 last evening. That train haa
forced its way to Central square by morning, and
struggled through to tchand at 3 O'Clock TINS aiter-
noon taking twenty one hours accomplish journey
usually made in an hour and half The train on tho
Auburn road due in this city at 80 O'Clock this AFTER
noon was abandoned at Seneca FAILS
BUFFALO Jan 27.-TrainS from the East were Oh an
averace twelve 10 fifteen hours late to day. The snow
was not deep enough cause delay In this ncighbor-
hood The Western trains were about on tlme'
ALBANY. Jan 27-Thls morning found the storm
cleared up and the sky as clear and plue as ON
summer day. The thermometer was near zero. Maj
ters on the railroads even worse than yesterday
M trains whatever ran on the Delaware and Hudson
road The Western tracks are blocked, and incoming
New York and Boston trains are moved with the great
ost dieculty There is no freight moving in any d.
ectlon No trains moved on tho New-fork central
Branch between schenectady and Troy, but success
f effort was made to keep trains moving on the main
Trains arrived over the Efchburg and New YORK Ooh-
,raI and Hudson River roads. Only one-half OF the
Albany and Troy belt line was in operation.
ROCHESTER. Jan. 27.-Thc deep snow greatly I'M
ucdcd railway travel in this regon the trains on all
the roads entering this city being from one 10 SIX
hours late. ,,,
road are Laid outo at points east and west OF this
city, Only ono train has arrived from Ncw-forK
in thirty hours. The snow drifted badly In all d-
,ccttons and trains were either abandoned or ran
- wds Three Delaware and Lackawanna west
hound through trains-NOs. o, and IL were showed
nm al Pocono Mountain, Penn, all night, but man
aged 10 move at O'Clock this morning. Trains rom
tho West on this road were also moving very slowly
No trains have arrived from Albany on the Delaware
and Hudson road since noon yesterday and the p'o
ade ia complete. The Syracuse ana 'tca ro''i' "''
ho,or their trains being only two and four hours late
respectively. IT,, man sovs that
-, ,,,,ht 900 loaded freight cars were blocked In at
W. ,horv and 200 al Dewitt on the New" y ork Ceh-
trail These 800 together with al ieast 'oo on
switches and side tracks, make to'ai Vi -ooo ioaoo
.. h.oorod each ear averaging ten tons OF freight.
Tho order TO start freight trains was sNon tou"y' pu'
q viii be several days before the pressure Is over
ITHACA Jan. 27 (SpecidD. "inu o'o" s''c W
-, ana tho snov consequently shifted and driited
., o.mnl.,.ly blocking traffic OF lac various rail-
' T., c..tr.l New. York Dispatches received to
h, Uere % the effect that 1t was impossible TO Keep
~ clear as the wind drives the snow into cuts
. ,a.t as they were cleared snsw plough wits ni"o
nss behind II seemed OF little use. as the hne shs
nack,d 80 close and that scarcely power cond
dsoIce IT, Little mail gets to Ithaca and nearly All tue
trains OF tho various reads ware hours bein time 10
night tue hotels were full OF suowbeund passengers
CAxANpMcuA, \. Y, Jan q tSpseah.-Iraln. on Al