St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-03-15
THE STORM.
Boston, New York and Washington
Isolated.

Boston, New York and Washington
Isolated.
Wednesday mornings Boston papers
state that the great white wall which
for forty-eight hours has separated
Boston from the rest of the country is
as i~mpenetrable as ever. 1t will be
another day at least before the i'm
mense barrier can be pierced. AS the
work of the storm becomes more fully
realized, it becomes apparent that
nothing like it was ever known in the
history of railroads and telegraphs in
the region affected. For thirty-six
hours no communication passed be-
tween Boston and New York save a
few words sent twice under the ocean
by cable via London. Late Tuesday
night a single wire to Albany and an
other between that city and New York
opened a slender line of land cOmmu-
nication once more. There is no pros
pect of getting a direct wire to New
York for several days.
The most terrific work of the storm
was between New Haven and New
York. The snow is piled in tremen-
dOus drifts in that territory, and trains
are fairly buried from sight. No at
tempt was made to move Il train there
Tuesday. Boston and the suburbs
enjoyed a remarkable escape from the
severe features of the great visitation.
Beyond Il radius of 40 miles from the
Hub the embargo for fully "a hours
was complete. Bostonians had only
the absence of all intelligence from the
outside world to remind them that the
greatest storm the present generation
has seen i'm New England was still
raging outside their little favored
circle.
The storm was unprecedently sever
at Washington. The city was never
so completely cut ont from commune
cation with the outside world. There
was only one train from New York be-
tween Saturday night and yesterday.
Wires are down and complete resump-
ton of telegraph facilities is not deem
ed probable for a month. One train in
stopped 300 times to remove fallen
telegraph poles. The Pennsylvania
road refuses to sell tickets farther
North than Washington. The high
winds seem to have driven the water
ont of the Potomac and it is lower than
ever known. The channel is bare and
frozen and steamers and schOoners are
fast in the mud.
The only way to reach New York ut
present is by steamboat. None of the
railroad lines are open to travel and
the managers are unable to say when
they will be able to run their through
trains. The trains that left Boston
Monday night returned he following
night. They found it impossible to
force through the great of snow
that blocked the tracks.
There is at present from eight to
fifteen feet of snow on the tracks be-
jefferson and North Hampton,
N. Ii. The storm has caused Il more
extensive blockade of the mails arriv-
ing and leaving the Boston post office
than has been known by the officials
for many years.
Elsewhere in Vermont.
All news that has been received from
other sections in Vermont show that
the storm was equally severe at all
The highways in the back
are impossible. Business is
a stand-still. At Bellows Falls the
storm was so severe that business was
entirely suspended. Some of the viii
lage houses were completely buried.
Towns hotel had one door buried far
above the top and the front door was
only reached by a tunnel.