The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-29
THE SNOW BLOCKADE.
An Almost Total Suspension of Traffic in New
York, Pennsylvania and New England.

| NEW YORK. Jan. 2S.-Advices from the upper
| part of the State tonight show that traffic is
| still held fast in the grip OF Jack Frost. Hun
| dreds Of freight are laid up at East SYRIA
cuse. and live stock is being unloaded to save it
| from starvation and freezing. Fourteen trains
are stalled west of Skaneatees. Waikiki vii
| lage got one train on Thursday, and still has it.
| Two days ago family in the town of Shawan-
| gung lost child by DEATH The storm has
| prevented any arrangements being made for
the funeral. The stage between Newburgh and
Walden, which left this city on Thursday after
noon. was abandoned en- route. Trav
| elers by teams to-day between
| Walden aad NewDurgh came portions of the
way through the fields The Ulster county ex-
| press, on the New York, Susquehanna 81 West
| ern railroad which left Middletown on Thurs
| day morning. had reached Unionvie, thirteen
miles distant. this evening and the relief train
sent that evening had made only eight miles.
| At Ridgebury the funeral of Margaret Decker.
| which was set for Thursday, is still postponed
| for want of a coffin. The undertaken lives six
miles away, and cannot get there. On the Pine
Upland branch of the Erie three powerful en-
gines are still stalled, and farmers carting
fuel and water for the purpose of maintaining
the fuel and steam. One train-load OF passen-
gers imprisoned in the Catskill mountains was
BOSTON, Jan. 28-Dispatches to the Associated
Press from numerous points in New England
tonight do not indicate any substantial improve
snow blockade. The weather remains cold, high
winds continue to prevail. and the snow is still
drifting to an extent that the puny efforts of the
large gangs of shovelers and the opslaughts of
the most powerful snow-plows. driven by
many locomotives, practically useless.
As fast as the tracks are cleared the snow drifts
In and fills them again. occasionally hemmng
In the snow plows and again packing closely
before them that it becomes impenetrabe as
or tossing them aside into the bitches. Here
and there blockaded train is dug out and goes
on its way to its destination, while others which
have been moving are brought to a standstill.
Some lines are so fortunate as to be little
impeded.
AT Newport, r. L, the temperature has been
below zero for four days, and the wharves and
harbor are full of ice rendering navigation diff
cult and hazardous
Pennington, Me-. is surrounded by snow
drifts fifteen feet Deep and has been cut off
first Maine Central train since Wednesday came
in this afternoon.
Waterbury, VI. is similarly circumstanced,
and Montpelier. st. Johssbury and Barre are
not much better off. The mail brought
over the hills by carrier snow shoes.
AT Lacona, N. H. the temperature is ten be-
low zero tonight The first train for two days
arrived to-day, followed by several others, in
Guiding the Canadian Pacific express.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28.-The snow blockade
in this State continues. In the neighborhood of
Reading. this afternoon, high wind sprung up
drifting the snow into the cuts along the rail-
roads and undoing the work of the past few
days. It is the worst storm in a quarter of a
between Lenhartsville and Allentown, is miss
ing, ia believed that Ia perished