The Portland daily press., 1888-01-30

Poland and Minot each $1,000 TO open the
roads. The lweather is still very cold. the
thermometer registering IA. below at 7.3C
this morning. The paper mills and elothine
day noon. The Webb's Mills stage has moi
arrived since Wednesday. The kunford
Falls q Buckfield mail train arrived at mid
night Thursday, 133 hours late. They lefi
for Canton at 4.30 yesterday, with three en-
gines and plow.
Where Drifts are Huge.
Especial to the Press.l
SPRINGvALE, Jan. 28.-Huge and impene-
trable drifts extend across all the streets
here All female operatives are carried to
and from the factories, and some Of the
teams could not reach them. No effort has
vet been made by the town authorities to
break the roads. The PRESS is the only
daily paper received here since Thursday.
The temperature fell rapidly last night.
Snowshoes a Necessity.
Especial to the Press.l
GoRHAM, N. H, Jan. 2S.-This has been
the most severe storm ever known here. The
mercury has not been above zero since Sun
day, and since Thursday travel on our streets
and highways has been suspended. The
streets are blocked, and snowshoeing Is the
shut out from the outside world from We'd
nesday night until this morning. Our first
mail from Portland has just got through.
Rescued by the Gutter Woodbury..
RocKLAND, Jan. 28-The revenue steaTer
Levi Woodbury.. Capt. Fenger. arrived here
this morning from the eastward, having
forced her way through the ice with much
difficulty. She had on board the captain and
crew Of the British schooner Riverside, OF
st. Andrews, n. B., six men in all, whom
they took off Gooseberry Island, north Of
Isle au Haut and near McLaughery's Island
The Riverside was bound for New York,
with a cargo of turnips. On Thursday she
got caught in the ice and was carried by it
on some lodges near this island. Then
quite sea arose, and she began to pound
badly. Holes were soon broken in her and
she filed. 1t became evident that she would
go to pieces during the night, so the crew
took an ample supply of provisions and sue
ceeded in reaching the island safely in their
boat Luckily there were trees ON the island
and they were able to build fire. Never
theless they suffered very much from the In
tense cold. They remained there all Thurs
day night, and all yesterday noon, when
their signals were observed from the Wood
bury, and they were taken off. Capt. Fenger
was looking out for them, having been noti-
fed by the crew of another British vessel in
Deer Isle Thoroughfare, that the Riverside
had gone out, and had very likely been
wrecked. The Woodbury. accordingly went
at once in search of her. The shipwrecked
men had plenty of provisions, and say they
could have kept alive day or two longer.
Capt. Fenger, on his arrival here, telegraphed
to the British Consul at Portland, and by
his direction the men will be sent there as
econ tho trains Upt tlr0uuh. and thence
sent home. They are all well.
The first mail from over the kennebec
since Thursday noon arrived tonight, being
brought across the river at Bath by team.
A big crew is at work there cutting chan
mel through the river. No mails have yet
arrived from the upper part OF the county,
the roads being impossible with crust and
Ice.
Governor Marbles Experience.
BATH, Jan. 2S.-The snow blockade is be
ing slowly raised, but as yet there have bee
only few arrivals by road from the coun-
try towns about here, and it will be at least
a week before the roads are cleared and
travel resumed to such an extent as before
the storm. There has been no stage CON-
munication with Phipsburg and Georgetown
since Wednesday, nor Is there any prospect
Of stages being run before the middle Of next
week. Trains on the Maine Central began
to arrive on time this forenoon, the train
from Portland being the first to reach this
city on time since the storm, having arrived
at $50 this morning.
Passengers bound to Rockland, who
stopped here over night, and those who ar
rived today for that place, had to cross on
the ice to make train connections on the
Woolwich side of the river.
Governor Marble and several OF his Coun-
ell were among the passengers who were ice
bound at a farmhouse in Woolwlch last
night They crossed on the Ice to Bath this
noon.
THoMAsToN, Jan. 29.-The cold spell has
not yet broken. This morning the mercury
14o below zero. The mail received last night
was the first one for three days. Postal
Clerk Gilchrist, on the Knox 81 Lincoln Rail-
road, came home last night and says he went
into Rockland with SO sacks of mail matter.
1t took him until last night to assort it. No
such storm or cold weather to stop the mails
ever occurred before on the line OF the Knox
& Lincoln.
Caught at Wiscasset.l
DAMARIscoTTA, Jan. 28.-Yesterday fore
noon passenger train proceeded from Rock
Ianu TO Wiseaeeet. where the conductor was
ordered TO DOdTu pdSSeuSere nj h0telS until q
passage could be cleared across ths Kenne-
bee.
The New York Central Clear.
NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-Henry Montt, gen
eral passenger agent of the New York Cen
tral railroad, says: "The weather through
New York State has moderated, and the pas
senger tracks of the New York Central are
free from snow. Through trains from the
North and West arrived at the Grand Gem
tral station today, not over an hour late. All
through trains on the New York Central are
running without serious detention,