Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-29
STILL RAGING.
The Storm Doing Great
Damage to Commerce.
SEVERAL LINES BLOCKADED.
All the Mails Badly Delayed-A
Strong Wind Blowing
Huge SnOw-Drifts.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Huge Drifts.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
OswEGo, N. Y, January 28.-The
storm ragged worse than ever last
night, and deep cuts on the railroads
that had just been cleared of snow
were once more filed up. The ther-
mometer was ten degrees below zero,
and the wind blew sixty miles an
hour.
All trains on the Rome, Watertown
and Ogdensburg road have been
abandoned. The Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western Railroad is badly
blockaded, and the trains that are
run are making very poor time. The
passenger train due here last evening
from the West spent the night about
thirty miles west of here. The block
ade is the worst in years, and every
effort is being made to raise it, but
with little effect, as the high wind
fills the cuts up as soon as cleared.
MAIL SERVICE IMPEDED.
NEW York, January 28.-Delay in
the arrival and departure of mails
owing to the snow blockade continues
and was worse last night than during
the preceding twenty-four hours.
Trains have not been so irregular for
several years. The New York Cen
trail is making no attempt to send out
freight trains.
INCIDENTS OF THE STORM.
Advices from the upper part of the
State tonight show that hundreds of
freight cars are laid up at East Syra-
cuse and live stock is being unloaded
to save it from starvation and freez-
ing.
Fourteen trains are stalled west of
Skancatles.
Two days ago family in the town
of Shuagukunk lost child by death,
and the storm has prevented any
arrangements being made for the
funeral.
At Ridgeburg the funeral of Mar
garet Decker, set for Thursday, is still
postponed for the want of coffin.
The undertaken lives six miles away
and can not get there.
AT SEA,
The wind at Sandy Hook for the
past three days has been blowing from
forty to sixty miles an hour. Only
two liners made port yesterday. Their
captains tell stories of waves noun
tains high and bowling gales. A large
number of sailing vessels were bound
in when the storm commenced, but
were forced to turn round and scud to
sea before the gale. No serious acci-
dents are reported.
COMPLETELY SHOWED IN.
FARMINeroN. Me-, January 2S.-The
town is surrounded by snowdrifts fif-
teen feet deep, and the place has been
cut off from the rest of the world for
three days. Waterbury, Vermont, is
similarly circumstanced, and Mont
pelier, st. Johnsbury and Barrear not
much better off. AT Laconia the ther-
mometer is ten below tonight. The
first train for two days arrived to-day,
followed by several others including
the Canadian Pacific express.
GOOD FOR THE HOTELS.
AUBURN, N. Y, January 2S.-The
storm shows no sign Of abating in this
section. The hotels here and at Cana
joharie are crowded with snow-bound
guests, and there is but little prospect
of their being able to continue their
journeys for some days.
BLOWING HARD.
CHATHAM. Mass, January 2S.-The
northwest gale was renewed with in
crea ing force tonight. Atten O'Clock
it was blowing fifty miles an hour,
and it is intensely cold with binding
snow falling. The ice embargo is
hourly getting worse and the position
of the frozen vessels more perilous.
A MAIL CARRIER MISSING.
PHILADELPHIA, January 2S-The
Snow blockade in THIS State continues.
In the neighborhood OF Redding a
high wind sprang up at noon; drift
ing on to the tracks of the railroads
and undoing the work Of the past
three days. 1t is the worst storm in
twenty-five years. Willoughby Ro-
nero, a mail carrier between Len
hartsville and Allentown is missing,
and is believed to have perished.
SERIOUS SITUATION.
PITTsFIELD, MASS, January 2S.-
Miles of freight cars are side-tracked
between here and Albany with much
perishable property on board. Over
100 belated passengers are detained
here and many. of them are without
money and are obliged to
sleep as best they can in the
railroad station. Fears are enter
tanned that the coal supply OF
the towns off the line of the railroads
will become exhausted before the
roads can be opened, and many re-
ports OF suffering among the poor are
being received from various points.
The losses in live stock are already
considerable, the farmers in many
instances being unable to reach their
barns.
GENERAL REPORTS.
Boston, January 2S.-Reports from
northern New England indicate unin-
terrupted continuance of the cold
weather. The snow is badly drifted
and it will take some time to clear the
tracks so that travel maybe resumed
Low TEMPERATURES.
To-day has been the coldest day of
the season. The following tempera-
lures were reported tonight, with the
mercury falling rapidly in most cases
Boston, 4 below; Gloucester 15;
Marblehead II; Montpelier 12; Cape
Cod 4, the coldest for seventy years;
North Adams 10; Pittsfeld 20, Wood
vile, N. H., 20.