Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-19

since the organization of that service
The temperature yesterday was lowe
than ever before known at this season
of the year. All wires between her,
and New York are down, except on,
to Baltimore. The only other tele
graphic communication with the out
side world is maintained by means O.
two wires South and three wire.
West.
The fierce wind storm which STRUCK
| Washington on Saturday night, anc
which continues uninterrupted since
that time. shows no sign of abating
WORCESTER, March Is. The great
snow storm has passed away. The
precipitation for the three days was
Rainfall ,lncluding melted snow, 4 go
inches snowfall, % 80 inches. The
precipitation of this storm is over one
and a half inches greater than the
annual March rainfall for the past
half century.
New HAVEN. Ct, March Is. The
Signal Officer reports the snowfall to
have been AZ inches on level.
MERIDEN, Ct, March Is. On the
Consolidated Road good progress is
being made, and the prospects are
bright for a speedy resumption of
traffic. The first train in TODAY came
from New Haven, leaving there at
O'Clock yesterday morning. 1t con-
sisted of three engines and a caboose,
and reached here at s 40 this morn
ing. At 9 :25 the Boston through ex-
press, which should have arrived here
at y 80 on Monday, came in with
two locomotives, a mail car, baggage
car and three passenger cars.
BosToN, March IA. The New York
and New England railroad was the
first to open its line for traffic be-
tween Boston and New York since
the storm. A train left Boston at 9
o'clock tonight for New York, via
the Norwich line, carrying large
number of passengers, carload of
United States mail and several car
loads of express matter.
BURLINGTON, March 10. The storm
which began here on Sunday evening
and continued. yesterday did not sub
side until after dark this evening
Over two feet of snow has fallen and
travel is blockaded to degree never
experienced before in this section of
Vermont. No mail from the south
has reached this city since that of
Monday morning. The mail train
over the Central division of the Cen
trail Vermont, due here at p. m. on
Monday, was stalled at Mortified
and again at Winooski, and did not
reach Burlington until O'Clock this
afternoon. The blockade south of
this point is still unbroken, but trains
are running between here and St. AL
bans. No trains are running on the
Burlington and Lamoille road. There
is one drift on the railroad near here
forty rods long and from 10 to 10
feet high.
Boston, March IS. The storm of
the last two days will long be remem-
bered as the most severe that has
visited New England in many years.
Though the means of communication,
both by telegraph and rail, are far
from being crmpletely restored, it is
feared that when such communication
is obtained, story of widespread
disaster will undoubtedly be told. As
an illustration of the complete alb
sence of telegraphic communication
between all eastern cities, the Boston
Herald received a special tonight
from New York which came by way
of London, Eng, there being no 9th
er way of communication between the
metropolis and the outside world ex-
cept by means of the Atlantic cables.
The special referred to, which was
very brief, reports that all traffic in
New York is at a standstill. The l..
roads, street cars and railroads are
all blocked up, and losses of several
lives have occurred.