The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-02-24
the storm orBlizzard.

In Bennington since Friday we have
experienced two heavy falls of snow, &C
companied by high winds. There was a
lull Of about one day between the two
and that enabled our local railroads to
''dig out" SO that the immediate delay
of trains here was not near as much as
that reported from all points of the com
pass. The Orm must have been severer
down the Hudson, and to the least and
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from two feet deep and upward in Ben
ningtOn-the heaviest continuous fall in
q number of years. The reason for the
storm wave is outlined in the following
from the New York Sunday Press:
"The snowstOrm which began Friday
afternoon and lasted until yesterday
noon was the worst that this city has
seen since the great blizzard of March
18th, 1888. The snow fell this time
steadily for seventeen hours, and just
seventeen inches of it came down. Traf-
fic was completely blocked, and every
thing was at a standstill.
"The storm came out of the West. IL
started in Michigan and raced across the
country. closely followed by a cold wave
frOm White River, Canada, the same
place where SO many of the cold waves
of this winter have originated.
"The cold wave got here trifle ahead,
and this was the cause of the sudden
drO' in temperature just before the
storm began. The storm, however, got
here before the rain storm, which was
racing from Florida and the Southern
States.
THAT storm arrived in time to unite
forces with the other during the night,
but the colder weather here Overcame the
warm wave which was coming this way
with the storm. and its only effect was
to make the snow little mOister and a
good deal heavier than 1t would other
wise have Geen."
This condition of things must have
been repeated with even greater proper
lions on Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Our exchanges are full of casualties,
which, fortunately, We have been singu-
larly free from in this vicinity. The Troy
Press of Wednesday says ofOurneighbUrs:
1.-The storm was the heaviest eXper-
fenced about Troy this year. The snow
fell to depth of at least foot, and in
some places was driven by the wind into
drifts several feet deep. The motor cars
made several trips, but only at long in-
tervals. Walking was very disagreeable,
and only in a few cases were sidewalks
cleared. Continual tramping, however,
had made paths along the streets, but
progress through them was very SLOW"
''Snow began falling at HOSsick Falls
about IL O'Clock last night and at. noon
was still falling. The snow was then two
feet deep aud is badly drifted in many
places. Train No. from Troy. due at
Y.O2 o'clock was an hour and thirty
minutes late, and tram No. 10 from Bus
4 A. A, IA :
o'clock. Train No. 30 from Greenfield
due at 1886 was reported four hours
late. Boston trains will be from four 10
seven hours behind time. The snow
pillow is at work ON the Fitch6urg rail-
road, going to WilliamstOwh ON the east
bound track and returning on the west
bound track. All local freight trains
have been ordered to carry nothing ex-
cept perlshable goods and live stock"
The Rutland Herald devOtes several
columns to the situation in that city aud
to the north, all of which is about the
same story of blOckaded roads and incpn-
Venice arising from delayed trains, block
ed street railways, and country roads
drifted full. Ali cOncedc that 1t is the
worst storm siuce that In 1888, referred
to above. On that occasion the elements
ragged three days. Business was sus-
pended for two days locally and the rail-
roads were blocked nearly week. We
are certainly not in that condition now.
Moreover in 1888 the Thermometer
dropped 800 and the cold became intense
to add to the horrors of the binding
storm. This week the weather report
was 'cOld wave" but in town we tx-
perienced little inconvenience from the
last part of the storm, although follow
ing the first the thermometer Monday
was the lowest it has been this wintet-
from 49, to 25o below zero, the report
varying in different localities.