The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-28
THE BAD WEATHER
In Various Places in the
States.
MANY TRAINS ARE BLOCKADRD
Revsnue Reform-Sioux Delsgates--
~ The Coercion Mili-Cora
Lee Trial. afaJs I
The weather

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New, YORK, January 27.-Nhe storm
of night before last and yesterday was
most severe in the Mohawk Valley. The
New York Central abandoned all its
trains en- the Hudson River division at
o'clock last night, on account of the
snow blockade. The wind which blew
at sixty miles an hour, swept the snow
across the tracks in SUCH quantities that
rests lance to twas useless. The snow
was no sooner cleared away by gangs of
lsborers, than it covered the tracks
again. There we're three passenger lIains
stalled in the snow between Albany
and rev York and fully a score OF
freight trains. 5lHss. IN EJa
The Chicago limited, over the New
York Central, arrived this morning
thirteen hours late. The st. Louis
limited, over the Erie at noon, was in a
snow bank one mile east of Deposit
The snow has drlfted badly in sli dlrec-
tons, and trains are either abandon ed
or running wild" Three Delaware g.
Lsokawanna through trains were
showed up at Kokomo Mountain all
night, but managed to move this mora
ling. eatsst.sf5. 90 l8f1aig
snow. all trains on the Elmira,, Corning
Snd Northern at this, point are, aban-
doned to-day. lts VIA
1 Troy. N, Y, January 27.-Thelhfects
of the snow storm are felt this nftNning
with greater severity even than yestef-
/ day. The Boston train ran into the
rear end of a freight train mile west
of .Wiliiamstown about midnight. kill
ing Conductor, Ludmore and Brakeman
Wheelock, and seriously injuring three
tother brakemen. No trains are moving
on the Delaware d Hudson Railroad,
and the express from Montreal ca the
Central Vermont is fast in the, snow.
PLYMOUTH, n. H., January 27.-Ihc
weather here is the worst ever known.
| Eighteen inches of snow fell during the
past tWenty-four hours, and the Their
mometer is degrees below zero, with
the wind blowing hurricane. Seven
trains are blockaded between Warren
Summit and Ashland, and some are
without fuel and water, and ii is impos-
sible to communicate with any of them.
No mails have been received since
Wednesday night. ~" f'i'Ly
/ BIDDEFoRD, Me-, January N.-The
snow blockadeis uneq0aied since 1886
From A o clock yesterday morning till
8 last night, no train passed through
All OlClOCk-- 1857 llSub oStGu
passenger trains and one freight were
blockaded within a mile of this city.
On the western division, where the
snow Is drifted worst, but little head
way is being made, and the wreckin z
train did notrinish IT'S work atOld Or
chard until 8 o'clock last nieht, Having
spent seven hours in getting the engine
and snow plOW back on the track. at
midnight it was still showing
ALBANY, January 27.-fhe morning
finds the storm cleared away. The
: Thermometer is about zero, anda strong
wind makes the cold intense. Railroads
are in a worse condition than yester-
day. No trains whatever are being
moved. The Delaware 81 Hudson
Railroad tracks west of here are all
blockaded, and trains from New York
and Boston are moved with the great
est difficulty. No freight trains are be-
ing run in any direction. A magni6-
cent sun dog was visible here this
4 morning.
PITTsFIELD, Mass, January 27.-Five
long passenger trains on the Boston
and Albany road are snowbound here
awaiting news of the opening of the
! fast st. Louis express spent last night
, in a snow drift near Washington Cut
+ 100 passengers on, board, but notwith-
! standing that the fast mail
, which left Boston for the west las
night. spent he night in a drift one
mile from Hinsdale. Passengers suffered
greatly from cold, and many ladies
-were Frustrated and number of chill
rem were badly frost britten. They
3 could obtain but little to eat, bui
? country drug stores supplied passengers
, with brandy. Freight trains covering
over mile of track are showed in near
Shakers, and much perishable goods
will be lost. In many places the sno v
has ,drifted to the. depth of forty feet
A passenger train that can 60 two miles
: al hour is considered to be making
good time.
M1LB INK, OAK. January 81. The
situation here is growing serious. The
road was opened to blocKaded train
, between here and Big Stone yesterday
and the train brought in. A train with
eastern mail is stuck at Ortonville and
of here. This city will soon be short OF
coal and there is not pound of sugar
,, in dealers hands. Wilmot is out oil
coal, while Corona and TWinbrook have
neither coal nor wood.
READING Pa, January N.-In Berks
Lebanon, Schuylkill and Lohigh Coun-
ties, the snow has drifted SO that public
| roads have been Abandoned. Farmers
, are turning out in bands of from fifty
to 100 to open the roads.
BosToN, January 2a-Further details
of the storm received tonight, show
that the railroads are completely
blockaded. Forty passengers on the
Canadian Pacific express were com
! PEELED to abandon the train, and walk
2 to the nearest village, many of them
gettinglhands and feet frozen.
NEW YORK, January 27.-Advices to-
]. night are to the effect that the storm
: has been steadily increasing throughout
' the northern part of this State for the
+ past forty-eight hours, and is at the
3 worst tonight. The temperature is
/ falling, the winds blowing gale, and
} the snow is drifting upon the railway
3 tracks and country roads. There has
, been freight blocksde both on the
E Hudson River and New York Contra
t since Wednesday,, and is the Aeavies
ever known. Two thousand loaded