Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-03-16
NO NrM. from lhe ConnIy.
THE STORM ELSEWHERE.
IN Washington, New Work, Connecti-
tcut aud Massachusetts.


The storm was worse at the souths than
here. and the story Of its severity is told
in brief in the matter copied from our ex-
ira issued yesterday morning. As yet the
distance b. which the storm reached south
and west is not fully known, but it seems
to have been mostly confined 10 the Allan
tic coast. The city of Washington suffered
severely, and il is said that not even dur
ing the war was it so completely cut of
from communication with the outside world.
Every telegraph wire went down in the
great storm. Snow began 10 fall furiously
Sunday afternoon, accompanied by high
wind, which finally became a perfect gale,
breaking down all telegraph and electric
lyht wires Railroad communication was
cut of with New York Even the perfect
ly-equipped Pennsy lyauia Central road be
tween New York and Philadelphia had
serious time in liberating its stalled trains.
In New York the storm began with "A
slight snow fall about o'clock on Sunday
night By < O'Clock Monday morning it
was blowing a gale and snow was falling at
remarkably rapid rate The wind in
creased, uutil at g o'clock on Monday even
ing it was blowing like a hurricane, and
people had difficulty in standing up. The
stores and offices closed before O'Clock
their homes. The hotels were overcrowd-
ed, and lodging commanded S2j 10 $50 for
the night. God knows how much suffer
ing there was that night said veteran
official. The snow fell to "a depth of two
and a half feet on level over all the coun-
try within a radius uf 30 miles Of New
York. 1t lay in drifts of six and eight feet
high on all the streets aud traffic of every
kind was stopped No horse cars ran Tues
day and it was only toward night that the
elevated roads got their tracks cleared.
There was a collision Oh one of these roads
and an engineer was killed.
The snow fall was heavier in Connecticut
than elsewhere, and trains will not he run
ming ON the roads Of that state before to
night. New Haven appears to have been
one Of the most completely blocknded cities
in the whole list There aud at Bridgeport
snow filled the streets to a depth Of five to
20 feet
It is II curious fact that during Tuesday
and Wednesday the only communication
between New York and Boston was by the
way of London through the Atlantic cable
Later messages we're sent 10y way Of Alba
ny.
The loss Of life by exposure appears to
have been much less 'tfan WIS anticipated
The statement comes from Newark. y. D.,
that five or six people have been frozen o.
death while wandering ia the storm
The storm OH the Atlantic was terrible.
but not many wrecks have been reported
us yet.
\ Cohusset, Mass. despatch of Tuesday
said The stormo of the past IS hours has
had the effect of creating the heaviest seas
off the South Shore which have been seen
since the destruction of Minot Lighthouse
Oh April -, 1851. At an early hour this
morning the seas were sweeping over Nj
nots in almost solid body, and the sight
along the shore was one of the most beau
tiful imaginable
From Various Vermont Points.
MONTPELIER, Mar a. The storm which
ragged so iuriously south Of here. Monday
and Tuesday, was at this point also the
heaviest If the winter The ~ inches of
new snow with what already lay on the
| ground, made u total depth of nearly four
1 feet. The drifts are enormous. Montpe-
lier was for ~ hours cut off from tele-
| graphic communication with Boston and
| New York, and there have been no mails
| from the south since Monday.
BRADFORD, Mar. l3. 1t has showed here
| for 30 hours. \ heavy wind has also ragged.
I and there are two feet of snow ON a level
while IN many places it has drftcd badly
| In Topsham and Corinth it is piled in i'm
mense drifts, SO that travel is impossible
| The body Of the widow Of Col Reuben Page
was brought to East Coriuth Yesterday for
| burial, hut the cemetery cannot be reached
! today. There have been no trains over the
| Passunpsic railroad since the seven o'clock
| train up last night, which is now stalled at
/ Fairlee, six miles below here.
| RUTLAND, Mar. H. The storm was the
| worst ever known in Vermont. Drifts are
| from 10 10 20 feet high. business was
stopped until this afternoon. Railroads
suspended from Monday until tonight.
There were many perilous experiences of
/ people caught out in the storm