The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-14
out last night To day, however, few OF
them have been restored.
AFRAID oE IsrrNfs RT0yUN AwAy

out last night. To day, however, a few of
them have been restored.
AFRAID OF BEING BLOWN AWAY.
The worst trouble was at the long bridge
over the Potomac, where the men could not
work on account of the high wind. From
Alexandria south the wires are intact and
by tomorrow enough will be working
| between here and Alexandria to afford
prompt photographic communication south
ward. Washington is noted for its change
| able climate, but there is nothing upon
record or within memory more remarkable
than the change from the spring-tlm mild
ness of Saturday to the furious snow and
rain of Sunday, followed by the freezing
gales of Monday and Tuesday.
WORK UNDoNE BY THE WIND.
The work done yesterday in the way of
repairing the telegraph wires leading to the
city and clearing distractions from railroad
tracks was to large extent undone by the
wind of last night and to-day. The velocity
of the gale at Q o'clock this morning was
| forty eight miles an hour. The force of
linemen that started out from Philadelphia
arrived in this city early this morning.
| Between Philadelphia and Washington
they removed from the railroad track over
ZOO telegraph poles. The cutoff between
this city and New York seems to be hope
less, for the present at least, and there
oCSulo W 10 10 CLdilCb Vi
communication as long as the weather con-
tinues to be so severe. Last night the wind
blew down all the poles along the MetropOl-
itan branch of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road. 1t is difficult to get men to work, and
it is more difficult for them to accomplish
anything when they attempt to work. Tel
egraph men state that the wreck of the
lines is the worst they have ever known.
WESTERN UNIONS ENTERPRISE.
The Western Union company has sent a
force of operators to Alexandria and has
established a messenger service between
Alexandria and w ashington. BY this means
they have cleared up belated business. Com
munication with New York is only had by
way of Cincinnati and Chicago. Philadel-
phia is still isolated.
The mail service is demoralized. The
only mail closed and sent North to day was
sent at IL: 80 o'clock this morning. Trains
left the city on schedule time but t44e
trouble was that there were no postal cars
or postal clerks to send with them. The
cars and clerks that should have been here
are delayed at points en- route TO this city.
That which left at II: 80 O'clock was mailed
for Baltimore Philadelphia, Now York and
the New England States. Trains from the
West by the Baltimore and Ohio and North
Central road of the Pennsylvania sys-
tenn are arriving on time.
At the signal office yesterday it was
learned that the storm was the result of the
splitting of storm, tending south from
Michigan. Saturday night it divided, form
ing two storm centers, one over Lake Erie
and one in Georgia. The southern center
then began climbing up the coast, striking
Washington Sunday morning. The central
piece did not reach mere until about 8 O'clock
Sunday afternoon, when the storm changed
to snow. This took until nearly midnight
to pass away, the total rainfall amounting
to AZ inches. The wind reached velocity
of twentyfour miles per hour at midnight
Sunday and subsidized to nine miles an hour
Monday morning.
FIRST TRAINS INTO WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, March Is, Ills PM
Three trains arrived here tonight from
Philadelphia after a long and hard trip.
The trainmen report that the storm is still
raging furiously between Philadelphia
and Baltimore, and that the
track is badly DISTRACTED by snow
drifts and telegraph poles The
wind blows the snow on the track as fast as
it is removed, and the road is likely to be
in almost as bad condition by tomorrow
morning as it was to day. No trains have
arrived from New York since the one which
came in yesterday and which left New
York at midnight Sunday.
At the Signal Office it is said that the
present storm is the worst since the organi-
cation of the service. The temperature to-
day was lower han wa, ever before known
at this season of the year.
PENNSYLVANIA TRAINS PARALYzED
PITTsBURG, PA, March 13.-Business on
the Pennsylvania railroad, between this
city and Philadelphia, is completely par
alyzed. No trains have arrived from the
East since last night Everything is block
adad with Ali fraioyf trains
suow-bound, and there is little or no pros
poets of their getting out for at least TWEEN
ty-four hours. AT some places the snow has
drifted as high as 5 feet, and there are miles
and miles of freight trains watching to get
through. Never before in the history of
the railroad has there been such blockade
The cold weather will be very severe on the
freight brakemen, as most of them are snow
bound several miles from any station or
habitation. The passengers on the trains
will also have to suffer as the thermometer
at most places is below zero.
10000 LETTERS STOPPED.
No mails have arrived from the East
since o'clock last evening, and it is esti-
mated that g. 900 letters alone are snow
bound between Pittsburg nd Philadelphia
Telegraphic communication is still almost
entirely cut off and all messages are taken
subject to great delay. There is no trouble
west, ana trains are arriving ana depart
ing on time.
For several years there hes not been such
an absolute dearth of Geographic COM
munication with the East as there was yes
terday and last night. Though intense
cold, Pittsburg suffered but little from the
storm of Sunday night. Eastward the
blizzard rolled down the mountain side
and through the Juniata valley. scat
tering fences, breaking telegraph wires,
upsetting small frame buildings, and caus-
ing great loss in many ways. II was bad
night for the Pennsylvania trainmen. Many
freight trains were compelled to take to
sidings and wait until this morning. A
short distance east of here last night a
brakeman was blown from the top OF car
but was not dangerously injured. Train
men pronounce this the worst storm ever
known in this region.
BALTBoRE's BLIZZARD.
BALTIMORE. March 13.--For the first
time in the existence of the telegraph Balti-
more was cut off from commu ication with
New York and Washington for over TWEEN
ty-four hours from Sunday night Not
only were the wires down, but hundreds of
telegraph poles along both the Western
Union and the railroad lines were broken.
A wild wind sou in Sunday morning from
the east, but soon the wind veered TO the
northeast, blowing gale, and by
nightfall the worst blizzard that
has swept this section in twenty years was
blowing. The temperature fell 20 in ten