The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-15
The Recent Blizzard in the
Eastern States.
LOSS WlLLFoOr UP see, 900, 600.
Terrible Suffering From the Cold
Deaths From Exposure The
Fierceness of the Storm.
Tho Storm.

DlOchaue east OF CnlS city is over, 8nC
from indications trains will be runnine
this evening. The mail train which feft
New York Sunday night arrived at mid
night and the Pacific Express viii
reach here about o'clock this after
noon. The railway officials think the
tracks are now cleared, and that they
will be able to move trains as usual
within the next twenty-four hours,
Passengers and train men on the mail
| last night report an eVentful trip
ExpTessman Collens, of this city, said !;
I'VE left Philadelphia at 7 O'CLOCK on
Monday morning in a terrible snow.
storm. We got along the best we could
till about 3 o'clock IN the afternoon,
when we arrived at Lemon Place, fifty
seven miles this side of Philadelphia.
We were completely showed in. The
gale blew at the rate offifty miles an hour
and it was showing as hard as it could.
The snow was like tine powder,
and it soon covered the ground all
around and under the train until
it reached up to the door of my car. 1t
must have been four feet deep. We
aad to stay there until 8 q CLOCK yes
terdav afternoon, when foQp engines
pulled US out Of the drift"
Fred. Michaels, young man from
Stonington, Colorado, was the only pas
senger who came from New York. He
had LETT there at II o'clock Sunday
night. Michaels was on his way to
Washington. The train left Phila6el-
phia on Monday morning. and
soonicame into terrific pnCTdrift. 81
never saw such BLIZZARD" said
Michaels," in my life, and 1 have been
living out west for the last ten years
right on the plains. The train pulled
slowly along until we got to Chester.
There were nine trains lying altogether.
each blockadiDg the other. The snow
was surrounding and partly covering
them, and where the drift had been
pretty strong, you could not see any
thing of the car at all. There was moth
ing to be done, but to stop. The wind
was binding. Although the stoves
it seemed almost as cold as
if they had not burned at ali. We lay
there for about ten hours. A good
many of the passengers began I'd get
hungry very soon, and now complaint
began. OF course, there were some OF |
Us that had sandwiches and such |
things, but they did not last long. / |
don't think anyone can eat while he |
sees somebody elsa starving. Then the !
~ had to get out and buy bread. :,
Iii nnr misfortune, howeve-. DE - -
aimed ed good cheer. rbrs a. ~ w the Eee
snow, We weD.ts Aeafly up to cur
waists, hunting up bake shops.
some of the passengers did quite
4 business Of selling what they could not
eat themselves. The neNsboy on the
train sold one loaf Of bread at 10 cents
slice, and made s. out of the loaf. In
the afternoon at last, the broken tele-
graph poles, trees and other obstruc-
tons were got out OF the way, and got
to Washington all right" The brake
men suffered intensely from cold. They
report that old mountaineers say the
storm was the worst known IN many
years.
New York, March 1.-THE sun is
shining brightly this morning and the
weather is moderating. Travel on the
elevated roads is fully restored, but the
surface roads are still impossible. There
is no Improvement in the condition of
telegraph wires. The south and east are
entirely cut off, and there is little if
anv communication with the vest.
Meagre reports received show that peo-
pie living in New Jersey towns who
started for New York on Monday had
dreadful experience. Many trains were
showed in few miles from this city
and passengers were compelled to sleep
on trains, or wade through snow TO
look for shelter in the villages. A num-
Der of persons are reported persisted
from cold and exhaustion. At Eliza
bethport a dozen employees OF the Sin
ger Sewing Machine works started for
their homes; several OF them were badly
frozen. One man named Ellis was
picked up out of the snow stiff and
GREATNESS. He was carried into the
railway station where he soon died. A
party walked over three miles through
deep snow and in the face of terrible
gale. By strenuous efforts the
Pennsylvania road got single
track clear to Newark. A train was
kept running all night between there
and JERSEY City, to keep the track
open, None of the other roads have
been able to move trains. Above New
York the New York Central situation
is unimpro7ed.
NEW YORK, March 1.-THE Chicago
limited, on the Pennsylvania road,
stalled for a day on the New Jersey
Meadows, reached Newark last night.
A relief car of supplies had been SEPT
out in the morning, with three loco
motives pulling and three more push
| ing, to insure the passengers
against starvation. Much of the
| live stock On the stalled trains
is perishing with cold. The milk
| famine is becoming alarming. One
hotel, yesterday. paid five cents quart
for the last fifty gallons dealer had.
The meat supply is growing shot. and
prices are advancing. Fifteen dollars a
ton is being paid for coal. There is
plenty of it in the yards of New York
and Brooklyn, but the difficulty is to
deliver it. Two thousand business men
from Mott Haven have been showed IN
near Pelhamville, a suburb of New
York, since Monday am.
One of the passengers on the Chicago
express, into which the Atlantic express
ran, at Dubb's Ferry, on Monday, was
Mrs. Bell, of California, on the way to
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