The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-15
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tonight
The East Pennsylvania branch is entirely
blocked, as is the Schuyll1ill and Lehigh
branches The bridge at A bany station, on
the latter branch, was entirely demolished
by the storm. Several wrecks are reported
on the Reading and COLUMBIA branches.
Trains are snow bound in all objections, and
the telegraph wires are all down. The snow
drifts are from six to fifteen feet deep
throughout Lebanon, Dauphin, Lehigh,
Bucks, Chester and Berks counties.
STUCK IN THE DRIFTS.
On the Wilmington and Northern rail-
way there is train in a snow drift 25 feet
deep near Dupont which has been there
with six passengers on board since II O'Clock
Monday night. Their sutferings from hun
ger and cold can be better imagined than
de cribed.
Two more trains on the same road are
showed in in a bank near Joanna. The engine
of the first train has its tender off the track
and the other has one of its driving wheels
broken.
A train on the Reading and Columbia
railroad is fast in a drift near EDhrata with
the snow as high as the smoke stack. The
fires are out and the passengers and crew
have taken shelter in neighboring farm
houses
Some terrible stories of suffering are told
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opening the railroads. The wind blew
with a velocity of sixty to sixty-flve miles an
hour, with a temperature ranging from g.
below zero to TO- above. At Mohusville,
five miles southwest of this city the mercury
was 12' below zero at IL o'clock yesterday
morning and al 5:l5 o'clock this afternoon
there had only been change of 3.
SLOW TRAVELLING.
1t took a special messenger from that
place three hours to reach that city on
horseback, and the ma ! carrier who passed
through the place was ten hours in coming
ten miles with a single sleigh and one pas
seDger, having been compelled to open fences
and drive through fields.
Many persons engaged in opening roads
yesterday were overcome by the cold.
The dead bodies of three men,
one of an elderly person, are reported
to have been found between this city,
and Pottstown. Cattle have perished from
cold in all parts of the country and teams
had TO be abandoned on the roads, Farm
ers are still unable toreach the city and milk
and country produce command premium.
DAMAGE oE THE FARMS.
Barnes were unroofed, fences blown
down, and forest trees leveled by the
storm. 1t will take weeks to repair the
damages. Passengers on a train on the
East Pennsylvania railway, after having
been snow-bound twenty-four hours,
were rescued half starved and
nearly frozen to death Among them were
three ladies. The gentlemen, af er effecting
their escape from the train procured two
sleighs, and returning, placed the ladies in
them. They then dragged the sleighs
through the snowdrifts to Mertztown, a
that place last night thoroughly
exhausted. The ladies suffered dread
fully from their exposure to
the storm. Another passenger train on the
main line of the Reading road was snow
bound twelve hours at Meroon station.
Some of the shop hands who were sent out
from this city to relieve trains returned at
noon to-day, after having shoveled snow
from fifteen to twenty hours without food.
A number had their feet and ears badly
frozen.
SNOW BALLS FOR BALLOTS.
JERSEY CITY, March by Yesterday was
the day set for holIing the spring elections
in many towns in New Jersey. The roads
being impossible, but very few managed to
get to the polls. 1t is said that in some in
stances the polls were not opened at all
The places in which they were opened pre-
sented a remarkable scene. The politicians
who braved the storm wrapped themselves
in furs and rode to the polls. Those who
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nearly overcome by the cold, and several
voters had to be revived with stimulants
The vote was the lightest ever polled in New
Jersey.
At Paterson the drifts in the streets are
Is and 20 feet high. The inmates of many
dwellings were completely shut in.
Business and tradc is completely at a
standstill. No news from the outside world
had been received since Monday morning
until last night.
TOO STALE TO READ.
The New York papers then got through
after journey of thirty-six hours from
Jersey City. Hundreds of commuters who
LETT Patterson for New York Monday morn
ing were snowbound in the cars for two
days few miles away and could not get
either way or communicate with their fami-
lies. Hundreds had narrow escapes from
perishing in the street Monday night The
police rescued scores of men, women and
children, who had to sleep IN the station
house.
Many buildings were damaged by the
wind. The Market Street Methodist church
spire is bent and twisted. Mills were I'M
rooted and trees were blown down.
Several persons are reported as missing
and perhaps are lot in the snow.
There are fears OF loss Of life in the coun-
try districts.
Coal and milk are scarce and poor people
are suffering for the necessaries of life.
MORE SNOW AT NEwBURG.
NEwBURG, N. Y, March l4-Snow
began to fall again at o'clock Yesterday
afternoon and continued until | O'Clock this
morning. 1t is nearly feet deep on the
level in the country. In this city and
vicinity mills are either shut down or run
ming in a desultory manner. Most Of the
streets are impossible for vehicles, but the
city authorities have gang of men at work
clearing hem. No mails or trains have
yet arrived.
The Utica express, on the West Shore
road was showed in at the West Point tun-
mel on Tuesday and is Still there
Long trans of engines are at work on the
Erie branches trying TO clear the road.
TRAINS STARTING.
On the Hudson River road the Cincinnati
express, which had been lying at Pougkeep-
sic since Monday morning, left at | 80
o'clock this aft. rnoon for New York with
clear track ahead all the way to the city.
The Albany local train, which reached
PoukeepsIe Monday afternoon, followed the
Cincinnati express at ! 40 O'Clock this after
noon for New York running on schedu
time. Eight locomotives are pushing snow
plows north on the up track. 1t is
thought that they will reach Pough-
kecpsie about 6 o'clock. It will
New Hamburg and Poughkeepsie IS feet
high. This Afternoon five engines showing
a snow plow were stuck between Castleton
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