The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-29
NATURES WHITE FORTS.
ASSAULTS OF MAN AND SNOW
PLOW STILL UNAVAILING.

hours cong lS Mics.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S-The dispatches
tonight are again loaded with details of the
trouble occasioned by the cold weather,
snow and wind in all the territory from a
north and south limo through the middle of
Pennsylvania and New York to the North
eastern British provinces. West of that
line, while the weather is cold and plenty of
snow and wind prevail. they have rot been
severe enough to cause railroads to suspend
operations or to obliterate rural landmarks.
The storm this afternoon has undone about
all that had been done to open communica-
toni Eastern Pennsylvania and New York,
and New England. The jefferson branch OF
the Erie road, from Susquehanna to Car
bondale, Pa, has been abandoned for two
days and several trains are showed in. The
Carbondale and HoneSdale Gravity road is
also blockaded. The worst places are along
the mountains, The Bangor and Portland,
and Lehigh and Lackawanna railroads,
which run to the slate regions of Pennsyl-
vania, remain blocked with drifts.
READINGS TRAINS MOVING.
The main line of the Reading road, be-
tween Philadelphia and Reading, has been
kept open, and trains have made reasonably
to have had but little trouble on its main
line, but there is scarcely a branch road in
that part of Pennsylvania that is clear.
Reports from Reading tonight indicate
that the snow storm has been the worst for
over twenty-five years, and railroaders have
never experienced more terrible times
In New York matters are about the same.
On the Waikiki Valley railroad, near Wall
kill village, the snow is piled up in cuts to a
depth of fifteen feet. The last passenger
train to get to that village arrived there
Thursday evening and has remained there
since.
The Ulster county express on the New
York Susquehanna and Western railroad,
which left Middletown Thursday morning,
had reached Unionville, thirteen miles dis
tant, this afternoon, and relief train sent
that evening had made only eight miles.
In Massachusetts, at Great Darlington,
an order was issued this morning that no
trains would be run on the Massachusetts
branch of the HouSatonic road until further
orders. There is a drift two miles south of
Great Darlington eighty rods long and fif-
teen feet deep. A dispatch from Highland
Light, Mass. says that no clear water can
be seen III Cape Cod bay. and it predicts
that tonight will freeze the bay solid from
Long Point TO Barnstable.
NO LET UP AT AUBURN.
AUBURN, N V, Jan. 2S--The storm
shows no signs of abatement in this section.
The hotels here and at Cana oharie are
crowded with snow bound guests, and there
is but little prospect of their being able to
continue their journeys for some days.
Eleven passenger trains are stuck in drifts
within fifty miles of this city. A snow
plow with five engines has been sent out by
the New York Central road, but its labors
are useless, as the wind drifts the snow
IL %ro, IL
sn win the cuts near Cato is over 30 feet
deep
THE DELAY IN NEW YORK.
New YORK, Jan. 2S.-The delay in the
arrival and de"arture of mails, owing to
the snow blockade. continues and was worse
last night than during the preceding twen-
ty-four hours. Trains have not been so
irregular for several years. The Chicago
express over the New York Central road due
here at $50 o'clock last night did not arrive
until l1;l0 O'Clock this morning. The train
due at $40 o'clock did not arrive until 1850
O'Clock. The greatest delay was on the New
York and Dunklrk division. A train due
here at 10:47 o'clock last night did not ar
rive until B: 30 o'clock this morning.
All trains on the Pennsylvania road, be-
tween here and Washington, are from an
hour to an hour and a half behind
The Chicago express on the New York
CeDITdI IOdu que mere at OstO O'CLOCK UDlS
morning was five hours late, and the train
on the Dunkirk branch due at SIG o'clock,
was six hours behind time.
All trains from the west on the Erie road
are from four to five hours late. No at
tempt is being made to send freight trains
over the New York Central railroad. One
Thousand five hundred and fifteen east
bound loaded freight cars are stopped at
East Syracuse, and about 800 more at West
Albany.
GoTHAM'S MAILS STILL TARDY.
New YORK, Jan. 2S, 9P. M-The railway
mail service from all points was more seri-
ously delayed to-day than during any day
Of the storm. The greatest delay is upon
the New York, Lake Erie and Western
road. The Dunkirk way train, due at
10:4O o'clock Thursday night, did not
arrive until $50 o'clock this morning.
The New York and Chicago express over
the New York Central road, which was due
at 6 As O'clock this morning, did not arrive
until 1890 O'Clock. The San Francisco mail
over the Pennsylvania road, due at SIP
o'clock this morning, did not arrive until
II :35 O'Clock. Less important mail trains
were on an average three hours late.
WORSE THAN EVER AT oswEGo.
OswEGo N. Y, Jan. 2S.-The storm
ragged worse than ever last night. Deep cuts
on railroads that had Just been cleared of
snow were once more filled up. The ther-
mometer was TO- below zero, and the wind
blew sixty miles an hour.
All trains on the Rome Watertown and
Ogdensburg road have been again aban-
dOned.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
road is also badly blocked, and trains that
are run are making very poor time. A
passenger train due here last evening from
the West spent the night about thirty miles
west of here. The blockade is the worst in
years and every effort i being made to
raise it, but with little effect as the high
winds fill the cuts up as soon as they are
cleared.
NO BREAK IN THE FREEZE.
BosToN, Jan. 2S.-Reports from Northern
New England indicate uninterrupted con-
tinuance of very cold weather, with limited
movements Of trains. The snow is badly
drifted, and il will take some time to clear
the tracks so that travel may be resumed.
LIFTING THE BLOCKADE.
MONTREAL, Jan. 2S. The snow blockade
has been lifted somewhat, and two trains
arrived from New York at midnight last
night. One was due Thursday night and
the other Friday morning.
STILL UNABATED.
ROCHESTER, n. Y, Jan. 2s.--Specials TO
the Democrat and Chronicle from towns
all along all the railway lines in Western
New York say that the storm Is raging
with unabated fury Evorywtere travel TX