Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-20
The HUB ON RUNNERS.


against the st. Paul authorities.
The HUB ON RUNNERS.
A Blizzard Did 1.-THE Center of Crea
tIen Cut off from it's circumference,
Boston special: While the storm has
not been as severe in New England as
IN New York and New jersey it has
nevertheless been the worst visitation OF
the present century. Boston for two days
was dependent on the Atlantic cable for
news from Nsw York, and then only got
q hsIf-dozen stock quotations which had
been sent to London. From Sunday
morning until to-day no mail reached
the city from the west or south. Water
communication was completely suspend
ed because of the height OF the gale. and
the only telegraph wires working ont of
to Rookport, Portland, and Bangor.
Rockport is the landing-place of the
commercial cable, hence il was possible
which city q branch OF that cable has q
direct entrance.
Late on Tuesday night communication
via the long-iistance telephone was
opened with Albany, \ ew York and with
New Haven and intermediate points. An
hour later a poor excuse for q wire was
patched up between these cities Except
Albany. and an interchange of press
dispatches began. A few stickfnls of
general news We're received via tele-
phone from Albany In season for
Wednesday mornings paper, but it
was not until q steamboat arrived
at Stonington, Conn, from New York
at 4 p. N. on Wednesday that New Eng
land people learned anything of the
storm in New York. The few pas.
sengers on this steamer gave q Proyl-
dence reporters narratives of the biz
2~ard'saaoings, and these were telegraph
ed to yesterday mornings papers. A
single copy OF the New York Times of
Wednesday was brought by this steamer
and its foreign news, its Burlington
strike news, and its few items OF general
intelligence were put on tho wires to
the east. Since Saturday night less
than two stickfuls of matter had been re-
ceived from the outside world. The
outer edge OF the storm was coineident
with the gull stream.
Beyond wind at ffty-four miles an
hour and Six inches of snow Boston ex-
%perienced none of Its effects. There has
been no cessation of business except the
receipt and shipment of freight. The
bulls and bears of State street have
pursued their gambols with money and
stocks, and retail trade has gone on
very much az usual. Street.cars and
suburban railroad trains have been run
practically on schedule time. Local
electric circuits have not been seriously
interfered with. but this favored CON
| dition of affairs was confined mostly to
the city itself. The disarrAngement OF
telegraph wires began in the outlying
wards all the railroads except those
leading to Maine and New Hampshire
were blocked except in the immediate
suburbs.
The mails from Maine and the mari
time provinces have arrived and departed
nearly on time. The Fitchburg load got
its entire line to Troy open yesterday
morning. being the first Of the western
roads to accomplish this feat. The New
York and New England will open to
Hartford tomorrow morning; and the
Boston and Albany also hopes to get
into working condition to Albany by
morning. The New York, New Haven
and Hartford, which is the only road
from New York INTO New England. has
been completely closed on all its di,
visions and branches since Sunday morn
ing. a dozen through trains, several Of
them heavily laden with passengers
have been showed in o N its lines, and
the entire road some 300 miles oil
double traak-has had to be shoYeled
out by hand. This task it is expected
TO complete tonight, and NOT until ther
will Boston and New York be reunited
An east-bound express train on the
Albany road was snow.bound ten miles
out of Springfield from Monday after.
noon until midnight on Wednesday, it
passengers being fed by people In tn,
vicinity and ON ~accouchment being pre-.
sided over BY o local physician. A Rey
mond excursion train, outward-bound
found q more comfortable restipg-plac,
at Fitchburg.
New London, Conn, has been crowde,
by nov bound travellers all the week
many OF whom have been compelled TO
lack Of hotel accommodations to lodg
in the cars on the Middletown branch O
the New Haven road. Famished pas
sengers raided o beef train in order to ge
food. In Worcester, Springfield, Hart
ford and New Haven the storm was q
severe as in New York. The streets wer
literally impossible. All business wa
suspended, and communication OF ever,
sort wat stopped. Milk was nnobtainable
physicians took to horseback, school
were closed, and public gatherings o
every sort were abandoned. A sImila
state of affairs existed in New Hamp
shire, Vermont and northern Name
where the SNOW lie said to be fifteen fee
deep. Communication was never befor
SO cut off.
Fortunately no disaster OF magnitude
has occurred either to life or property
The railroad o pillow has gathered il
less than half a dozen victims. Their
have been but three fires In all New
England worth mentioning. The de
%struction of the Amherst block, at Am
herst, Mass. the burning of a block @
stores q: Camden, Me-, and the burninl
Of o $4,000 furniture factory in this city
The scarcity Of beef both on hoof an,
dressed, owing to the blockade OF th
Boston and Albany road, has airead,
resulted in q rise Of three cents q pounl
at retail. This c%ompany's track in tn
western part of the state is crowded wit
east bound freight cars.
Last night the associated press re
ceived Q psrtial report via Albany, an
the Washington correspondents wer
given q chance to communicate brief
the occurrences OF the week at the CAPT
tai. Tonight for the frat time the tele
graph companies receive copy fror
special correspondents, but in Unite