The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-31
HEAVY SNOW STORM.
Maine Railroads suspend the Turning of
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Maine Railroads suspend the Turning of
Trains.
BosToE, January 26.-RepOrts this morning
from various points in Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont state that the heaviest snow
storm for years prevailed all night, and III
most places it is still showing. Snow fell from
fifteen to eighteen inches and travel is greatly
impeded. Many trains have entirely suspend
ed and the highways arc practically impossible.
4 dispatch from Bellows Falls, Vermont says:
A solid blockade Of snow exists in all directions
today. There was previously about two 1eet
on the ground, ard last night the heavy fall OF
eighteen inches added to the previous amount.
1t is still showing and high wind is piling it
up ili all directions. No trains have arrived or
left On anyof the roads. The same conditions
Sre reported within a radious of twenty-five
miles.
Biddeford, Maine, reports that the roads are
everywhere blockaded and up to II o'clock to-
day no train has passed over either division of
the Boston and Maine The morning express
which left Portland at 80, is showed in near
Old Orchard. Help has been tele9raphed for.
Engines and snow plows were sent from Port
land. Streets about the city are almost i'm
passablc, and none of the schools are i'll ses-
sion.
New YORK. January 26.-Reports from
eastern and northern New York show that the
storm is almost as severe in those sections as
it is in New England. 1t began last night,
and by morning over foot OF snow had fallen.
A high wind then set in, and the snow is pill
ing up in great drifts.
dispatch from Albany says that ell rail
roads centering. there are i'll bad condition,
and trains are many hours late. a high wind
is making matters worse each hour The AS
ISOLATED Press correspondent at Middletowm
reports the limited express from st. Louis, on
the Erie road, fast in a snow drift one mile
west of that city. The track at that place
crosses low, fiat meadows, and the high wind
has dTifted the snow until it is higher than the
cars The limited had been i'll the drift over
three hours when the dispatch was sent, and
as the drifts are growing larger. the prospects
for its getting out soon are poor Three other
trains are stalled at the same place.
At Port Jeryis snow began falling at 6 p. IN.
yesterday, and continued until this morning,
eight inches being added TO TIE mass already
on the ground. Early this morning the wind
began blowing furiously from the west, making
huge drifts. Travel on the Erie railroad is
almost suspended. No trains from Now ork
have reached here, though some have got
within few miles of the village. An express
train from the west, which passed through
here at 10 O'Clock this morning, is stalled in II
snow bank. With the aid of two engines it
made but six miles all day More than dozen
engines on the mountain side near this place,
are making efforts to get through. aided by all
the men possible to be secured. All freight
trains have been abandoned. Drifts on the
railroad in many places are ten feet deep. 1t
is the worst block since 1851.
y terrible sGoW storm is raging along the
west shore OF Lake Champaign. 1t is the worst
storm that has visited this section i'll years.
Two feet of snow Las already i,.3len. 1t is
drifting badly, and trains are many hours late.
AT Concord, n. H., a freight train is off the
track on the Northern railroad at East An
dover. This. in addition to the storm, will
eifectually block the road No trains have
reached here since last night over the White
Mountain division of the Boston and Lowell
railroad and none been sent out. The SNOW
still continues and the wind has increased in
force.
Reading. Pa, reports the worst snow storm
prevail led there today. 1t was only about
foot deep on a level, but it drifted to sucf. an
extent aud was accompanied by such violent
wind that some of the country r0adsideS are
simply impossible. Trains ON the Reading
railroad and branches were all late from thirty
minutes TO two hours, and on the Reading and
Columbia railroad train which was due here
at half-past two O'clock this afternoon, is not
expected in tonight, as it is lying between two
snowArifts at Marietta junction. At some
places along the railroad snow has drifted ten
and fifteen feet deep a Similar state OF
affairs exists throughout the coal regions and
in consequence not q single collicry was in OPP
Grafton this afternoon and not a ton OF coal
has been shipped since yesterday.
All trains due at Boston from the north and
east arc from four to eight hours late, and on
many roads all freight trains have been abalid
oned. All Old Orchard snow pillow with
three engines attached, is fast i'll snow bank
and almost hidden from view. Tie snow is
light, and drifts badly. The wind is high, and
about two feet Of snow has alredy fallen, and
still no signs of let up. 1t is the worst
storm that has visited New England in -
years.
At Albany the wind was blowing at a rate OF
forty miles an hour today, and at eleven
O'Clock tonight it is Goins5 down. Snow las
drifted III the country roads. making them inn
passable. Telephone and telegraph wires are
down or crossed. Horse car tracks are driftcd
full, and suburbans have not run since noon
At that hour all traffic on the Delaware and
Hudson railroad stopped, and between BIZ
mingham and Rouses Point not a wheel is
moving. Boston trains reached there several
hours late this afternoon, but none have
come in since. they are stuck in
drifts in western Massachusetts,. Several have
started toward Pittsield. On the Erie Cen
trail railroad all trains are hours behind
though men are trying to keep the tracks open
\ train due here at 80 this afternoon got
stuck in an eleven foot drift few miles west
of here, requiring nine engines to move il out.
No trains have come from down the river
since niGhtfall, Several are tied up between
here and PouShkeepsie, The West Shore has
been tied up since noon.
OMAHA, Neb., January 81 Miss Elite Shat
tuck, young school teacher who was severely
frozen in Holt county, during the late blizzard.
had both her legs amputated ut Seward ycster-
day, and will live. Tho night of the storm
Miss Shattuck took refuge in haSstack, but
was unable to burrow deep enough to prevent
her limbs from freezing. After staying i'll the
stack forty-eight hours she was discovered by
a farmer and rescued.
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