The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-27
FROM MAINE TO PENNSYLVANIA
COVERED.
Roads Rendered Impasssbie-Trains He
hind Time and Stuck Fast In
Brifts-snox still Failing

and Vermont state that the heaviest
snow storm for years prevailed nearly
all night in most places. 1t is still snow
| ins. The snow fell from fifteen TO
eighteen inches and travel is greatly inn
peded Many trains have entirely sus-
pended and the highways are practically
impossible. A dispatch from Bellows
Falls, VT, says a solid blockade of snow
exists in all directions to-day. There
was previously about two feet on the
ground and last night a heavy fail of
eighteen inches was added to the pre-
vious amount. 1t is still showing and a
high wind is piling it up in all directions.
| No trains have arrived or left on any
| Of the roads. The same conditions are
reported within radious of twenty five
| miles.
Two FEET OF SNOW FALLEN.
| All trains from the north and east are
| from four to eight hours late, and on
many roads all freight trains have been
abandoned AT Old Orchard a snow
| plow with three engines attached is fast
in snow bank and almost hidden from
view. The snow is light and drifts
badly. The wind is high and about two
| feet of snow has already fallen and still
no signs of a let up. Ir is the worst
storm that has visited New England in
/ thirty-five years.
/ ROADS BLoCKADED.
/ Biddeford, Me-, reports that the roads
are everywhere blockaded, ami up to IL
o'clock to-day no train has passed there
! over either division of the Boston and
Msine. The morning express, which left
Portland at 1:3O, is showed in near Old
4 Orchard. Help has been teiegraphed
for and help and snow plows sent from
Portland. The streets about the city are
almost impossible and none of the
| schools are in session.
| RAILROADS IN BAD CONDITION.
NEW YORK, January 26.-Reports from
eastern and northern New York show
that the storm is almost as severe in
| these sections as it is in New England.
1t began last night and by morning over
a foot of snow had fallen. A high wind
then set in and the snow is piling up in
great drifts.
a dispatch from Albany says that all
| railroads centering there are in bad con-
| dition and trains are many hours late.
| A high winI is making matters worse
| each hour.
The Associated Press CORE pondent at
Middletown reports the limited express
| from ST. Louis on the Erie Railway fast
| in a snow drift one mile west of that
city. The track at that place crosses
| low, flat meadows, and the high wind
has drifted the snow until it is higher
than the cars. The limited had been in
tine drift over three hours when the dis
patch was sent, and as the drifts are
growing larger the prospects for its get
| ting out soon are poor. Three other
trains are stalled at the same place.
ALL FREIGHT TRAINS ABANDONED.
PoRT JARVIS, n. Y, January Go
Snow began falling at p. M yesterday
and continued this morning, eight inches
being added to the mass already on the
ground. Early this morning the wind
| began blowing furiously from the west,
making huge drifts. Travel ON the Erie
Railway is almost suspended. No trains
| from New York have reached here,
though some have got within few
| miles of the village. An express train
| from the West, which passed through
here ut 10 o'clock this morning is stalled
| in a snow bank. With the aid of two
engines it made but six miles all day.
More than a dozen engines on the noun
tain side near this place are making ef-
forts to get through, aided by all the
men possible to be secured. All freight
trains have been abandoned. The drifts
on the railr ad in many places are ten
| feet deep. 1t is the worst block since
1857.
THE WORST IN YEARS.
WHITEHALL, ". Y, January Co. A
terrible snow storm is raging along the
worst storm that has visited this section
in wears. Two feet OF snow has already
fallen. 1t is drifting badly and trains
are many hours late.
CONDITION AT CONCORD.
| CONCORD, n. H.. January GA
freight train is off the track ON the
Northern Railroad at East Andover.
This, in addition to the storm, will
effectualIy block the road. No trains
have reached here since last night oveu
the White Mountain division of the Bos
ton and Lowell Railroad, and none hav,
been sent out. The snow still continue:
and the wind has increased in force.
COUNTRY ROADS IMPASsABLE.
READING, Pa, january e6.-The wors
snow storm that has visited this section
for several years prevailed here to-day
1t was only about one foot deep on
level, but it drifted to such an exten
and was accompanied by such a violen
windlthat some of the country roads ar
I simply impossible Trains on the Read
ing Railroad and branches We're all lat
from thirty minutes to two hours, an,
on the Reading and Columbia Railroa
the train which was due here at 2:3
o'clock this afternoon is not expected i
tonight, as it is lying between two sno'
DRIFTS at Marietta Junction. At som
places along the railroad the snow ha
drifted ten and fifteen feet deep.
similar state of affairs exists throughou
the coal regions, and in consequence No
. single colliery was in operation tn
afternoon and not ton Of coal has bee
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