The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-15

The biggest snow storm know
during the present generation, in Yer
mont, set in last Sunday forenoon
and lasted until Tuesday night. AL
day Monday and Monday night the
snow fall was accompanied by higI
winds, and to say that huge drifts
were made, almost everywhere is
drawing it mildly. The snow fall
was fully 30 inches. Main street in
this village was drifted beyond any
thing ever seen by the Oldest inhabi-
tants. To give our distant readers,
who are acquainted, an idea of the
matter we will state that between the
residence of DR.. Marden and that of
A. f. Cudworth huge drift lay
Tuesday morning fully ten feet deep
and extending across the road; from
the dug-way to the residence of Lar
kin Smith was a continuous drift,
much of which had to be shoveled be-
fore team could be got through OPP
posite the Hoskins house and VIM.
Thompson's were drifts 6 feet in
depth. Not team was seen on our
streets from Monday afternoon until
Tuesday afternoon when Mr.. O. S.
Stuart got outsa pair of horses and
accompanied by Mr.. S. NJ Ho-
bart, who had previously shoveled out
few of the worse places, drove from
Mr.. Stuart's residence to the post
office and down as far as the carriage
shop. Wednesday morning the same
parties started out, and with the as
sAeance of four or five shovelers
reached the old Hubbard Barrett
place about noon. On Tuesday
afternoon R. E. Bostwick, who lives
a mile and half out, got into the vii
lage with a pair of horses, and in the
afternoon Josiah Pierce got through
from his place and the Holden bows
from the hill farm.
On Thursday most of the roads
throughout town were opened.
Thursday night we received our first
mail by the way of Chester, but it
contained nothing later than Monday.
To bring this mail the driver had to
back it from the Andover and Ches-
ter town line to Simonsville. Friday,
by the same route, we got full mail
with Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs
day and Fridays dailies, from which
we learned of the severity of the
storm throughout its wide area.
The MARROW GAUGE.
The regular mail train left this sta
ton Monday morning and reached
Brattleboro. At the same time the
mixed train left Brattleboro for this
place but was stalled little this side
of Jamaica, where it remained until
Friday when an engine with the snow
pillow, that left Brattleboro Monday
afternoon, reached it and pulled it
back to Jamaica. Reinforced bv
this engine, Saturday morning push
was made to clear the remaining dis
lance, at this end, but early in the
morning the snow pillow left the track,
and in such shape as to compel de-
lay until Brattleboro could be re eil
ed and tackle obtained by whicb t.
place it on the track. The track allI
probably not be cleared before Aon- /
day or Tuesday so as to resume *.
ular trains. After getting through to
this point it will be necessary to 90
back and clear the lower end of the
track that filed in after the snow
pillow. This will be, as we under
stand it, from West Dummerston to
Brattleboro. Altogether nothing like
this storm can be recalled by our old
est inhabitant, yet, compared with
many other places in the storm area,
we came out of it well. No reports
of loss of life or severe suffering has
reached us from this locality. Below
we give few press dispatches that
Will give our readers an idea of the
extent and severity of the storm.
The storm extended over New
England, all of New York as far
west as Buffalo, the greater part of
pennsylvania, the northern part of
West Virginia, and the whole of New
Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and the
District of Columbia. Canada also
came in for her share of the blizzard.
Throughout all these sections railroad
ravel has been generally suspended
md Geographic communicate in
great measure cut off from Monday
morning until Thursday. Thursday
! few of the roads got trains started,
out probably not until Saturday will
rains be running on schedule time.