Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-03
MARCH CAME IN LIKE A LION
With a Howling Wind and a
Heavy Storm.
GREAT HAVOC IN PENNSYLVANIA
Williamsport Cut Off From
the Outside World.
Much Damage Done at Scranton, Read
ing, wiikesbarre and Harrisburg
Telegraph Wires Down and Railroad
Travel Seriously interrupted.

~'NHfie was aohtiGu III WIFI IuSn
N this part Of the country to-day. Snow
began falling yesterday morning, and
by noon to-day it covered the earth to
an average depth of 18 inches.
All the railroad and commercial, tele-
graph and telephone wires are pros
trated in every direction, and Williams
port is tonight practically cut off from
communication with the outside world.
as far as telegraph and telephone con,
nections are concerned.
Passenger trains on the PHILADELPHIA
q Erie railway have been running with
out Geographic service. Freight traffic
has been stopped, so as to leave the
tracks clear for passenger trains. In
coming train employees report that tho
snow Is two feet deep at Drlftwood,
Lock Haven and Remove; 90 inches at
llmira and Altoona, and IS inches at
Hazleton and vicinity.
The first trains in from the north were
from two to four hours late. Il was
necessary to stop at intervals and re-
move trees and telegraph poles from the
track.
No information of any accident has
been received so far, and it is believed
that tho cautious running of the trains
will prevent disaster.
There is broken trees and telegraph.
electric light and telephone wires All
over town. The electric street car lines
trolley system is disabled and no cars
have been run during the day.
inns afternoon the mayor issued q
proclamation warning the electric light
ana power companies not to send any
current over their wires until they are
cleared OF the overhanging telephone
and telegraph wires. The necessity for
TINS action is apparent to the most casual
observer. In every block one or more
broken wires hang across the electric
wires. The number is being added to
by the breaking Of additional wires,
which are swelled by ice and snow to
the size OF an average baseball bat.
Frame sheds in many instances have
been crushed in by the weight of the
snow, and workmen have been busy all
over town all day shoveling the snow
from the roofs Of the houses, the strain
being almost too much for some of them.
Only few heavier falls of snow than
that Of to-day are recalled by the oldest
inhabitants.
THE STORM AT READING.
READING, Pa, March IA portion of
the roof of the City Passenger Railway
Co.'S large stable, on North Tenth
street, was blown off, and the whole of
the roof of the company's blacksmith
shop was carried considerable distance
by the gale.
a temporary shed covering some fin
ished steel at the Carpenter steel works
was blown down. Many people in the
northern section of the city feared,
during the height of the hurricane, that
the roofs OF their houses would be taken
off.
The telegraph and telephone companies
| have experienced no serious trouble
to-day. The wires are all working. Five
inches of snow fell north of this city on
the mountains. After showing at inter
walls during the morning, the snow com
mcnced descending furlously before
noon, and continued with but little ces.
sation until late tonight
SCRANTON FEELS THE BLIZZARD.
SCRANTON, Pa, March THE
heaviest snow of the winter has fallen
in northeastern Pennsylvania TODAY.
thestorm commencing early this morning
and continuing uninterrupted with no
signs OF cessation. From New Milford
and Pocono Summit there is IA inches of
snow. The gravity railroad across the
Moosic mountains from Carbondale to
Honesdale is blocked. Street car traffic
is stopped, and trains on the main line
OF the Delaware, Lackawanna l. West
ern are delayed.
THE STORM CAUSES WRECK.
HAMBURG, Pa, March While the
I. ;. v. freight train, due at Hamburg
at q. M, was going east il struck
landslide, caused by the violent rain
storm during the night, in the deep cut
north Of this borough, derailing the
engine and tank and tore up the track
for a considerable distance, causing a
delay OF traffic for 10 hours. The engi-
neer and fireman escaped uniniured,
| OVER TWO FEET DEEP In HUNTINGDON.
HUNTINGDON, Pa, March The
snowfall Of yesterday and to-day was
unprecedented in this section in The
| past 10 years, measuring 3 feet inches
in depth. The storm only extended 40
miles east Of here. In many places the
Western Union telegraph and telephone
lines are down, and in this town several
| buildings have been crushed under by
the great weight of the snow.
BUSINESS STOPPED IN wILKEsB ARHE.
WILkEsBARRE, PA, March IA
hard storm of driving sleet began here
last evening, and during the night it be-
gan to snow. There was a covering Of
six inches on the ground this morning.
and it has been storming hard all day'
The neighboring mountains report n
heavier fall
| DAMAGE IN CHESTER COUNTY.
| WEST CHESTER, Pa, March Tho
wind and storm here last night from IL
O'Clock to this morning was the most
alarming Of any experienced in several
years, the velocity of the wind at times
being over 40 miles per hour. Though
| considerable damage was done. none of
II was serious, the most marked destruc-
tlon being at the new gymnasium of the
West Chester State Normal School.
where large window, Is by 20 feet
was blown from It's place in the cast
gable, and the large building was flooded
with rain.
At Llonville the tin roof of James
Lcomis residence was blown off. In
East Bradford Charles Shiller suffered
considerable loss by having his hot
houses IN part demolished and carried
away. Throughout adjacent districts
trees, chimneys and fences suffered cor.
siderably.
FIFTEEN MEN FROZEN TO DEATH.
ST. JOINS, n. f., March Fifteen
Of the men who were driven off from
Trinity by Il fierce breeze while seal
hunting on saturday last, persisted from
exposure, and 10 arc still missing.
-
In the storms Path.
The storm OF Monday night is re-
| OOrtpd Ia have r1avpI buvoc ns;.l, So,