Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-15

cluster of passengers inside the cabin door a' | the Stonington people first saw them wal | too small to be an anxious crowd and was no I too much in hurry to be interviewed. Two
 ladies stood just back of the male passen gers. They were Mrs. Gates and | daughter, twenty or twentyone year cid young lady. MT. Gates was also there. They were from Caroliua in this
 State. They had como from the South, Sa- vannah, and arrived in New York only Tuesday night. Their steamer had been caught in the storm Monday forenoon some miles above Delaware breakwatsr and had been compelled to lay-to for the whole day
 at Sandy Hook. The steamer, the Seminole,
 was a mere coekle shell upon the surface of
 the water and at times no one thought there
 would be soul landed alive. Life lines
 and Monday afternoon no one was allowed on deck unless with rope about their waist
 The Gates family congratulated themselves on their good fortune when at last the agony of the danger was past
 The Worst storm i'm Sixty Years-Ef-
 fects Of the Storm in and Around
 Bridgeport.
 BRIDGEPORT, March 14.-The storm is the severest known in this vicinity the past sixty years. Business is almost entirely suspend ed. The streets are filled with snow to 8 depth from five to twenty feet and communi- cation has been cut of from the outside world until teddy. Not . wheel moved on the New York and New Haven, Housatonic or Naugatuok roads from 10 o'clock Monday until 10 o'clock to-day. The Housatonic road made an attempt to-day with five engines to reach Brookfeld Junction where 8 train containing the Alvin Joslin troupe has been showed in since Monday, but were un- able to get beyond Botsferd. Another at tempt is to be made to morrow. Two engines and gang of two hundred men began work ing west on the New York road this morning and only cleared two miles. From present indications none of the above roads will be opened before Saturday. The steamer Block Island took the United States mails and large number of storm bound passengers to New York and returned tonight with mails and New York papers, the first received since Sunday. A large number of factories are unable to run owing to scarcity of coal. Much damage has been done by buildings being unroofed and chimneys blown down. The New En.Iand Road Open-Tele-
 graphing From New York to Besten
 Via Liverpool.
 BOSTON, March 14.-The New York and New England railroad was the first to open it's line for traffic between Boston and New York. It is expected that by tomorrow afternoon the line will be open to Hartford, and if the New Haven road succeeds in open ing it's line between Hartford and New York through trains for New York, Phila- delphia and Washington may be expected to run that way tomorrow evening. A cable gram from New York via Liverpool was re- csived in Boston this evening stating that number of passengers left New York by line steamer Cephslonia, which sails from Boston tomorrow.
 No Trains cut of BostoR-PIenty of
 Passengers Hut N 0 Means of Travel.
 BosToN, March 14.-There were no trains out of Boston today on the southern roads. The downtown offices of the several lines running to New York have been thronged all the morning with people who want to reach the metropolis But they cannot get any further than Millvil1e on the New York and New England, Worcester the Boston and Albany, and Stonington on the Boston and Providence. The Fall River boat that left on time Tuesday night did not leave Newport until 2:30 this morning. The Stonington Doab Luhb leAt SeSL6IuAy IuOEu1uS AaO uOG been heard from up to noon, but is supposed to have made the trip to Now York safely. No boats have arrived frsm New York on either line. If the boats arrive to day they will return to night.
 The weather in Boston during the day and evening has been comparatively fair with oc- casional light snow and rain. The streets are full of slush, making wretched travelling, but there is not snow enough to prevent street cars from running. At midnight the signal observer announces, although with large degree of uncertainty, that the probabilities for the next twenty-four hours are of fair weather, colder with westerly winds. To-day has seen great improvement in the running of trains. The train over the Providence road connecting at Stoning- ton with the New York boa arrived in this city about 7:3o p. m. bringing some passengers but no mails. The Old Colony road ran no boat to or from New York to-day. but it's trains are running with their usual regularity. Two trains reached here from Springfield this evening, the first since Monday.