Wichita eagle., 1888-01-28
RAILROAD TRAFFIC IMPEDED AND
BUSINESS STOPPED.
The Blizzard Particularly Severe
in the States of New Hamp-
shire and Vermont.
The Blockading of Milk Trains in the
Mountains Threatens Milk Famine
in New York City.
Three Men Killed on the Connecticut River
Road While Clearing Snow Out
of a Cut.

! finds the storm cleared away and the sky
as blue as on summer day.
The thermometer is about zero and a
strong wind makes the cold intense. The
railroads are in even worse condition
than they were yesterday. No trains,
whatever, are being moved on the Della
ware g. Hudson Railroad tracks west of
here are all blocked and trains from New
! York and Boston are moved with the
| greatest difficulty No freight trains are
| being run in any direction.
A magnificent sundog was visible here
| this morning.
TROY. n. Y, JAN 27-The effects of the
storm are felt this morning with greater
| severity even than yesterday
! ROCHESTER, n Y, Jan. 27.-Trains for
the east are arriving from four to ten
hours late, and it is still very cold and
showing.
PLYMOUTH, n. H., Jan. 27-The weather
here is the worst ever known. Eighteen
inches of snow fell during the last twenty
four hours, and the thermometer is six
degrees below zero, with the wind blowing
a hurricane Seven trains are blockaded
between Warren Summit and Ashland,
and some are without fuel and water.
Boston, Jan. G.-Reports from various
points in New England show all railroads
are suffering much trouble in the opera
ton of the trains owing to snow drifts.
At st. Johnsburry, VT, the storm is the
severest ever known The wind is blow
ing gale. the highways are blocked and a
snow plough and four engines are stalled
at Danville in drift half mile long.
The passenger train from Keene, leaving
there yesterday, is stalled near Nashua.
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass, Jan. PA
heavy gale prevails and number of
schooners are in distress on Nantucket
shoals. Tugs have gone to their assist
| ance.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. 27.-Travel on
the railroads centering in this city has
been greatly impeded by the great snow
| banks that obstruct the tracks. The
annulled all freight trains and is directing
its attention to the running of passenger
trains. Two or Lhree locomotives are
attached to each train.
FREDERICK, Nd, Jan. 27.-The snow
which fell on Wednesday night has SO
drifted that the railroads to this city are
! badly INSTRUCTED. On the Frederick
branch of the Pennsylvania road the snow
in the cuts is six to eight feet deep.
PITTsBURG, Jan. 27-The Pennsylvania
| railroad express train No. g. due in this
city at s, a m, was snowbound on the AL
| legheny mountains this morning The
first train from the east did not arrive in
this city until about II a. m. An attempt
was made to run an extra train from Har-
risburg for the double purpose of clearing
! the tracks and affording accommodation
| to a number of passengers, who were anX-
| ious to reach Pittsburg very early this
morning, but the train did not get through.
| The snow is from one and a half to two
| feet deep, and at places it drifted to
such an extent that the engines
cannot push through it. A large force of
men was put to work, but the high wind
caused the snow to drift again almost as
the Allegheny Valley road are also more or
| less delayed by the snow. Fort Wayne
| trains were an hour and half late, there
being almost two and half feet of snow
west of Crestline. The Baltimore & Ohio
express trains were about a half hour late.
The snow is quite heavy on the mountain,
but it is not drifting TO any extent. The
trains on the Panhandle road were on bet
ter time than was expected, none of them
being more than fifteen minutes late.
BINGHAMPTIoN, n. Y, Jan. 21.-All
trains on the Erie road are laid out at
points east and west OF this city. Only
one train has arrived from New York in
thirty hours, and there is small chance of
another getting through before night
The snow has drifted badly in all directions
and trains are either abandoned or run
ming wild"
NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-A milk famine is
threatened. The milk trains over many of
the roads are buried in the snow with the
contents of the car frozen solid. Sixty cars
loaded with milk are showed in near
Mddletown. The milk trains over the
Pennsylvania railroad are the only ones in
today.
SPRINGFIELD. Mass, Jan. 27-The mail
train from the north on the Connecticut
River road, due at Holyoke at O'Clock
last night, became stalled in a cut two
miles north OF that city. a gang of men
went to work this morning to dig it out.
The wind was blowing the snow about so
thick that nothing could be seen few
feet distant, and the 80 train from Green
field dashed into the gang killing three
men and injuring another fatally. The
killed are: Martin Griffin, jas. Kennedy
and John Shea. and the injured man is
Michael Connors, all Of Holyoke. The
train men say they had not been warned
TO look out for a gang of men. The whistle
was blown and Roadmaster Pritchard
ordered the men off the track.