The Penn's Grove record., 1888-03-17
THE GREAT STORM.
General Stoppage of Traffic.

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Mills. Erery Evening has just been fur
nished with the following dispatch:
81 send the following report from
Lewes this morning: One tug boat
sunk out of sight; wrecking company
steamer sunk near railroad pier, one
tug ashore; % sailing vessels of various
kinds ashore; heaviest loss ever &C.
CURED in that harbor; 1t is estimated
that about 25 lives we're lost; but two
bodies recovered as yet.
Reports have also reached here that
the iron railroad pier at Lewes parted
in the middle during the storm. leaving
some people on the outer end of it,
whose fate is unknown.
WEST CHESTER, Pa, March BIAS
yet no railroad communication has been
had, and the snow blockade on the Me-
dia and Frazer lines remains unbroken,
but it is thought that trains VIII be run
ming by tomorrow morning. TIL,
morning sixteen of the one hundred
snow-bound passengers at Frazer started
to walk to this place, a distance of only
sever miles, and eleven of them came
through, while the others became ex-
hausted and sought shelter in farm
houses along the way. The report Is
that yer one hundred men, women and
children slept in the little station al
Frazer, and all they could get to eat
this morning was a cup of coffee and a
slice of bread. During the night the
floor of the waiting room took fire from
the open fireplace, and it was only
through the utmost and timely efforts
that the flames were extinguished ana
the building saved.
At Woodland Station there are two
trains covered with snow, with only
about three feet of the smoke stack
showing. Five locomotives reached
here from Media tonight, and these
will be used in the morning for clearing
the Frazer branch and l~iberating the
blockaded trains at Woodland. The
passengers of these trains have taken
refuge in the farm houses of the neigh.
borhood. Conductor Griffith and
Baggage Master Munshower and Engi-
nee Buxton, all of this place, who wer.
injured in the collision yesterday al
Clifton, are reported doing well. N,
mail whatever has been received OF
sent since Saturday last, and business
has been greatly impeded. At some
points on the Philadelphia and Balti-
more Central Railroad there are cuts
twenty feet deep completely filed witt.
snow, and the same condition exists OIL
the Wilmington and. Northern Rail
road. Postmaster Pyle of this place
has an office filled with accumulated
mail matter awaiting transportation.
YOUNGSTOWN. March 13.-The biz.
card that has prevailed since Sunda,
night in this section of country shows
little improvement this evening. Busl
ness has been at a standstill. The tele-
graph and telephone wires are down
today in every direction save a wire
connecting with Reading. The street
car lines are idle. One car was run
last evening with four horses. On the
return trip, within an eighth of a mile
of the stable, the horses had to BIT
taken off and the car abandoned.
Many of the streets are closed t.
travel, the DIR fits at some points being
neck high. A train and two locomo-
tives on the Stony Creek Railroad have
been stuck in the snow at Belltry. five
miles from here, since Z A. M. yester
day. Passengers, upon alighting from
the train to trudge their way to the near
est h~abitati0D, stepped into snow banks
waist high.
Relief engines have been sent out
and only reached the snow bound
trains with the utmost difficulty, ana
n of these was unable to get back.
Station Agent Althouse says it will re-
quire two days to open the road fol
traffic. No effort has been made to
operate the Plymouth Railroad.
Not more than a half dozen trains
made trips Over the Germantown and
Norristown Railroand yesterday, and
none to-day until II O'Clock noon.
when 1t became possible for two pow
erful locomotives to draw three OF
four coaches from Philadelphia to Nor
ristown in two hours.
In the vicinity of Bellevue one of the
tracks is buried under nine feet of
snow, and will likely not be opened be-
fore Thursday. Two locomotives are
held by the snow. Near this point, GU
the Richmond branch, stands a coal
train more than half hidden by snow,
and so firmly held that the locomo-
tive car only move it by taking ont
a at a time and drawing it to some
siding that is not snow.covered.
The Reading Railroad main road is
lined with detained trains almost from
the Belmont bridge to Pottstown. Only
the west bound track is In use between
Pottstown and Bridgeport. The other
track is effectually blocked at several
points. At Merton Station lies the
noon express, that should have reached
Philadelphia yesterday about II. 80
L. NJ.
AT Port Indian, a few miles above
Norristown, is another train, at which
a force of men are digging and shovel
ing. Nearly opposite Ph9nixville.
yesterday, a train became lodged in a
snow bank, and the passengers were
put to severe straits for the time il
their efforts to keep warm aud procure
food. A train that left Philadelphia
about . 7. NJ, yesterday could get no
farther than Franklin avenue, one OF
the company's stations here, where it
arrived after a four hours journey.
Court has adjourned until the jurors
from the country districts can get in,
only % of the GO jurors being present.
The a of John Pawlyk, indicted for
murder for the killing of Frank Gresko
at Pottstown on Thanksgiving day last,
was called yesterday, but, owing to the
absence OF a sufficient number of jur-
Ors, had to be abandoned for the pres
ent, and the present outlook is favor
able to a continuance until next term.
READING, Pa, March 13.-The
Reading Company partially succeeded
IN releasing their snOw-bound trains on
the mainline to-day.
The Wilismsport express was -
hours late reaching Reading to-day.
The Lebanon Valley branch, between
here and Harrisburg, Is open, and
trains are making fair time. No fur
Their trouble is expected west of Read
ing, unless the wind should increase in
velocity. The East Penn branch, be.
tween Reading and Allentown, is still
badly blockaded.
Information was received here to-
night that the railroad bridge at
Albany station, on this branch. was
completely demolished by the storm,
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