Morning journal and courier., 1894-02-27
WORST SINCE THE BLIZZARD.

4 wild snow Storm-Big Drifts and ]
. Heavy Gale-Travel Delayed
Scenes About TOwn-Hard Shedding
The Richard Peck-A Wild Night
ON tho Sound-The Storm in other
Parts OF the State.
The snow storm which paid q visit to
this city yesterday was one of the most Sc
we're that We have had since the great biz
zard of 1888. The snow began falling at
about 1890 o'clock Sunday night and CON-
tinued to fall, with but q few hours inter-
ruption in tho forenoon, until about Q
O'Clock last night. In the afternoon
high wind blew and the snow few, blind
ing the eyes of people in the storm and
filed the streets full and seriously delayed
travel. The street railroads were able to
run their cars, but with difficulty and less
ened trips. Tho State street line took
their cars off early in the evening, one car
having been stalled In a big drift near
Neck bridge at $50 and the united efforts
of four horses being unequal to the task of
extrioating 1t. The line ran their cars
with three horses all the afternoon,
making trips every fifteen minutes,
and being in the teeth of the gale |
on the return trips. The line had
to have big snow pillow out to clear the |
tracks for every other trip. All the lines
were badly hampsred by the drifts. The |
Fair Haven lines doubled up and succeeded |
in making trips. The big sweeper was out |
branch of the Winchester avenue line kept |
running on a reduced number of trips. |
The big electric sweeper was out doing |
good service With the big drifts. The |
Whitney avenue line kept running until
about 10 p. a., when the cars were called |
In, there being no travel to speak of, people |
generally preferriDg to hug the fire to en-
countering the storm. Chapel street
looked d. serted before 10 O'Clock. Nearly
all the big Chapel street and State
street stores closed at 6 o'clock instead
Monday nights. The outlook for trade was
very unpromislng with the wind blowing
gale and the snow falling at binding
rate. At 6 p. m. there was every prospect
for q bad night and a continuation of the
blizzard, but at $3.50 the snow had ceased
falling and the stars peeped out, and soon
the sky was clear and the storm was over.
The gale also moderated, and people took
heart again. From appearances during the
afternoon everybody had begun to expect
prolonged storm of blizzard proportions.
The storm travelled along the coast from
Cuba, where it was q regular cyclone, and
it took pretty much all of the country east
of the Mississippi valley, but the Atlantic
Coast experienced the worst part of it.
The storm csues1 but little damage to
the Western Union and Postal Telegraph
wires hereabouts. Superintendent Baker
said that he had no trouble to speak of on
his lines and that he did not expect there
would be He said reports from the interior
of the state were that in some sections the
snow was five inches desp and Others as
aigh az twelve inches, but in all parts it Is
badly drifted.
The storm along the sound was very
| severe, the worst since the great wind
storm of last fall. The Richard Peck left
New York city at o'clock last night, four
hours later than usual.
On the Consolidated railroad there was
but little trouble, and the trains were near
| ly all delayed in the afternoon. The 1916
p. m. mail train was forty five minutes
L late. On the Canal road there were bad
drifts and the trains were delayed consid-
erably.
On the State street line driver who was
with the force who were Operating the big
snow pillow was seriously hurt. The snow
plow struck stone and the conclusion
| threw him over one of the horses and he
landed on his face, receiving a bad cash
| and confusion over the eye. His wounds
we're temporarily attended to by Druggist
Ernest Hesse of Trefry's drug store, pend
| ing the attention of physician.
! One mitigating feature of yesterdays
| storm was the comparative mildness of
| the temperature. At 2 o'clock the mercury
was only at about the free zing point, and
in the height of the storm there was not
| much change from this point.
| The winter of 1913 and '94 has, after all,
distinguished itself, the recent intense cold,
yesterdays blizz srd-like storm, and the va
rious snowfslls of the last month having
Offset the mild streaks.
Notwithstanding the severe storm of
yesterday the through cars of the Fair
Haven and Westville company were run
on time through the day and evening. The
University place cars were taken off late in
| the afternoon, but the three minute cars
from Fair Haven to Temple street and the
through cars to Westville were run 1egu-
lsrly.
There was only one passenger at the
steamboat dock last night waiting to go to
New York.
The lighthouse keeper says that the
storms of the past two weeks has pre-.
vented him from procuring supplies. Oar
ing the blizzard the lighthouse keeper had
to telephone the town agent for help.
Men were sent down to the eight" and
way had to be dug before the inmates of
the lighthouse could b. reached. The
lighthouse keeper said last night by tele-
phone that he had enough supplies to last
him two or three days longer.
At Cox & Lyons, Chapel street, last
night at midnight, the thermometer regis
tered EST above, a rice of 2 degrees in
four hours. The night was bright, clear
refreshing change in the weather from
that of the afternoon. The snow wss
being cleared at midnight from the walks
in front of various of the large Chapel
street Stores
Official reports of the storm received in
this city at 10 o'clock last night show that
the anow fall throughout the state aver
sged about eight inches. In Norwalk,
Stamford, Greenwich and vicinity the snow
was twelve inches deep. In Bristol, Mid
| dletown and other places ANY, from the
coast the snow fell eight inches deep. No
great damage was reported as having bsen
done by the storm. The wires of the
Southern New England Telephone COM
pvny were, as stated sb1ve, in working
| order all over the state Notwithstanding
the severity of the storm. In this city the
snow averaged about foot in depth.
THE sTARIN BOAT EDaERToN-THE John b.
sTARIN.
WH1TEsroNE, L l., Feb 26.-The steamer
William 6. Edgerton of the Starin line an
| chored here this morning on account of the
| storm. The steamer has a small list of
passengers on board. The John q. ssarin
| of the same line also came in here this
morning and dropped anchor. The hsr-
Dor shelters q big feet of steamers and
| coasters which were caught In the storm
this morning and put in here for safety.
Some of the big Boston steamers which
were here left this afternoon, but afterward
put back because the storm was found to
out.
| TWO LOCOMOTIVES.
HARTFORD, Feb. 26.-Travel on the Con-
solidated road to day was interrupted con-
siderably by the storm. Trains from this
city were seat out this afternoon drawn by
two engines. The snow was blown on the
tracks in big drifts, and in some sections
of the road the trains had to be brought to
q stop when these drifts were approached.
LANDED PASSENGERS AT NEW LONDON.
near here is frozen, SO that the Norwich
line of steamers have not bssn able to
reach their docks. The steamers of the
Norwich line which arrived from New
York to day were obliged to land their
passengers at New London. Tonight the
storm has developed into a regular Kansas
blizzard, and none of the regular line
steamers left the hsrbor. OF the harbor |
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