New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-21
wHIRIING OVER NEw-ENGLAND.

TRAINS BLOCKED BY DRIFTING sNow-woEK
OF TIE STORM.
Boston, Feb. 20 (SpeciaD-About fourteen inches
OF light fell last Friday night and saturday
forenoon. 1t drifted badly and delayed railway
trains on Saturday. The storm was renewed sunday
evening, accompanied by low temperature and n
gale, wind from the west reaching velocity
OF tk!rty-s miles hour The gale increased In
velocity up O'Clock this afternoon, when 1T blew
forty Weight miles hour and began soon afterward
TO decrease Light SHOWS had fallen continuously
since O'Clock Sunday evening. in the gale ana
snowst0rm sunday evening the three nastcd schooner
Enos B. Phillips struck on Iiardings Ledge and soon
after sank. Captain j. F.. Brown and crew We're
saved by the OF TIE Hun Lfe-eavng station
The schooner Ellen NJ. Golden was directly behind
the Phillips and would have shared her fate had not
the OF the stranded schooner warned her on
The Enos b. Phillips Is schooner OF BED tons. she
was built ut Wilmington, Del, in 1917 ana was
owned by Peter II. Crowel and others. OF Boston,
The vessel is partly insured. Her cargo OF so tons
OF Cumberland coal is valued at ST. 100 ana Is iSreu
Ship and cargo will be a total loss.
The storm was severe In New England. dis
patch to The Journal from Concord, \. h. says :
"A binding northeast lsnowS'orm Is prevailing mere
About n foot ard half OF snow had fallen up 10
noon, and the wind Is blowing gale Tile electro
cars have stopped running Al noon NJ ra'lroaa pas
senger trains had arrived in Concord from the NORM
but several trains reported within few miles
OF the city, ON the Northern Railroad one freight
train is of the tack a. DanhuTy, and another Is such
IN the cut at Hogs Back in Andovcr. The Cher
m 3mcte. Is Is degrees above zero At Waterbury,
Vt, the mercury fell % degrees in five hours TINS
morRing.'
Worcester Mass. Feb. oO-A fierce westerly wind
has blown in this vicinity since midnight. ana HIS
been practically blizzard. only little snow iell
but the wind has drlfted it badly Tic country roads
are nearly impossible and electric roads are stalled
The telegraph and telephone service is also somewhat
crippled.
Pi,,sneld Mass, Feb. 20.-Ecrkshire County en-
pelieiced general blizzard to-day Of such severity
as tC paralyzc business step street railway tr"ih'
and delay all railroad trains. The storm has mecd
with great severity and the city is baicd under
drifts. The storm IS the worst for twenty years, cN-
cepting only the blizzard OF 1855
Plymouth y. H.. Feb. 20.-Twclve inches Of snow.
blown by bowling wind has delayed all through ana
local trains during the day, The paper train WIZ WIZ
showing and blowing and the thermometer is falling.
All freight trains were cancelled.
White River Junction. W., Feb, 2O.-Ihe worst
early this morning The high wind Is diluhS lhr
snow terribly blocking the po %Fh% 1 @q rgc
impeded end freight trains all discontinued. Tia
same conGition OF thinss Is reported Throughout "in
Chatham Mass, Feb. ao.-rhc terrific northwest s.l'
and driving snow OF to-day continued tonight ~
coast The lfe.savers have been obliged patrol thc
beach during tle day since the snow came on anl
the end Of their beats. The keeper Of the ClaIhin
Station reports that he saw the ing MercnTy 9utsc,
Amelia q. Ireland which had parted her hawser, tcn
anchored but dfcd seward. dragging anchors. h'ins
near her The SHOW cleared slightly at = y. m when
the tug was sighted coming III under tle Dcach. bh'
ohp Sow was sen e Gs nsa w n IRA SpS
Walcott remains anchored under Chatham