Telegram-herald., 1890-12-20
IN HUGE DRIFTS.
Eastern Railway Trains Blockaded
in the Allegheniss.
More About the Recent elizzard-h
Furious Blow on Chesapeake Bay
Several Vessels Wrecked.

snow-stOrm is over. Business has again
been resumed ard no more trouble is
apprehended The Pennsylvania Rail.
road Company suffered more Sc
verely from the storm Thursday than
on Wednesday All trains have
been late, some of themmany hours.
It has required from three 10 five
locomotives 10 pull all passenger
trains over the mountains west OF
Altoona. To get safely through with
the Chicago limited Wednesday night
FIVE engines were hisched together TO
pull that famous train. At the cele-
brated Horseshoe Bend an avalanche
of snow Wednesday night plunged down
upon the west-bound track 10 a depth
Of six to ten feet. Soon afterward
the oyster express plowed into the
drifts and stuck fast. Three engines
sent on from Altoona to pull it
out were helpless A regiment of 500
snow shovelers was then dispatched
from the Altoona shops and worked IN
til Thursday afternoon before the ten
carloads OF oysters and the passengers
were rescued. On the Baltimore IL
Ohio road two passenger trains were
caught in blockade of snow and held
al! night and half of Thursday near
Sand Patch tunnel. on the west
of the Alleghanies The Philadelphia
express west was meanwhile snow
bound at Glencoe and the Cincinnati
express at Finleyville. For some hours
these four trains were practically lost,
as all the telegraph wires were down.
There was considerable suffering from
hunger among the passengers. The
Wheeling division of this road was cut
off from the world almost twenty-four
hours by the drifted snow. For two
days the railroads hereabouts have been
able TO forward little save perishable
freights.
PORTLAND, Ne, Dec. 19.-The storm
has covered the trees and wires with
ice doing considerable damage. The
wires are down all over the city and a
large force of men is at work putting
them M. A team Of six horses attached
TO a street-railroad snow-plow ran
afoul of an electric-light wire and two
horses were killed. Down in the harbor
vessels had hard time OF it during the
night. No loss of life has yet been re-
ported.
BALTIMORE, Md, Dec. l9.-For two
days and nights the wind has blown a
hurricane on the Chesapeake bay. Tues
day NIGHT bowling northeaster raised
a tremendous sea that foundered oyster
boats, swept tho decks Of steamers and
washed away everything movable along
the shores Early Thursday morning
tho wind changed 70 the northwest
and blew violently from that quarter.
Wednesday night navigation on the bay
was almost suspended. Captains of
regular bay liners say theynever oXpe-
rienced such blow or such angry seas.
ht Sandy Point big-three-master was
wrecked and nothing has been heard
Of its crew. Three oyster dredging
sloops belonging 70 Crisfeld were lost
and II is believed all hands perished.
Near Fort Carroll two-masted schoon-
or from New York went down, but the
crew was saved One OF the Eastern
shore steamboats, Tuesday night nearl Y
foundered in the Riddle Of the bay
Its upper decks were swept. boats
carried away and cabins flooded The
passengers became panic-stricken, and.
lsueeling in tho pools Of water in the
soaked cabins, PRAYED for the safety of
the vessel In this city rows Of houses
were unroofed and chimneys blown of.