The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-10
In THE ICE And SNOW.
Traffic Practically Blocked
in the East.
SWEEP OF THE BLIZZARD.
Trains Are Tied Up in Many States
by the Storms.
SEVEN MEN FROZEN TO DEATH.
Jack Frest Has Full Sway in Large
Territory, Extending Even to
Sunny Florida.


solid field of ice. The upper bay would be
as bad were it not that a number of tugs
are at work breaking the ice to permit the
passing of craft and small steamers ply
ing in the East and North rivers. Tugs
are constantly at work clearing passage
way for the Staten Island ferryboats. Two
boats of the Lehigh Valley were stalled in
the East River for over an hour, and a tug
that went to their assistance was also
stopped by the ice.
Reports from the interior of the State tell
of the continuance of the great storm.
Trains on the New York Central and Hud-
son River Railroad are from five to eight
hours late. The Dannesburg and Mechan-
icsyille branch of the Delaware and Hudson
Railway has been entirely abandoned and
no effort will be made to operate it
until the storm abates. The Genessee
branch of the Erie is blocked. The Port
Jarvis and Monticello Railway and
branches are so badly blocked by snow
that they can hardly be opened before next
week. The main line of the Erie Western
is entirely closed, no through trains having
passed since Thursday. All trains on the
Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg are
abandoned.
I sBALTIMoRE, Feb. 9.-Annapolis is snow
bound. Reports come from there that
seven men and horses were frozen to-day
in an attempt to cross the Severn River on
the ice.
Cumberland, in the western part of the
State, telegraphs that two passenger
coaches and nine engines are fast in a
snow drift on the West Virginia Central
Railroad at Black Oak Bottom. The dam
age done on the Chesapeake Bay and its
tributaries by the storm is very great.
North Point and Kent Island shore are
strewn with wreckage, and loss of life is
feared. The heavy snow and wind and
the almost unprecedented formation of ice
cut off all succor to smaller craft caught
in the blizzard, and their crews, unpro-
vided with fuel and food, are suffering
many hardships.
CHATHAM, Mass, Feb. 9.-Monomoya
station is to-day in the midst of field of
ice. As far as the eye can see west and
south the field is unbroken, and it is be-
lieved the ice extends to Nantucket,
twenty miles distant to the south, up past
Hyan1is, and nearly to Edgertown. Three
two masted and several three masted
schooners are fast in the ice between
Handkerchief Lightship and the north
shore When the ice moves there will be
danger of the ships being torn from their
anchorages and carried ashore. Nothing
but iron steamers can come down from
Vineyard Haven over the shoals now.
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 9.-The James River
is closed from shore to shore for the first
time in twenty years. The monitors at an
Choir in mid-stream, twenty miles below
Richmond, are in the midst of an acre of
ice. No trains from the north by any route
have passed this city since Thursday.
ST. JOSEPH, Mich, Feb. 9.-The Chicago
and West Michigan Railroad is entirely
blockaded by the blizzard, hardly wheel
having moved for nearly twenty -four
hours. The mail train which left here for
Chicago yesterday is still stalled in the
snow one mile south, with snow walls from
fifteen to twenty feet high on each side. A
snowplow with four locomotives attached
was sent to dig the train out but could not
get within half mile of it. The passen-
gers were brought to st. Joseph. Drifts
near Holland prevent the passage of any
trains at that point. The Big Four and
Vandalia lines are blockaded.
SUNBURY, Pa, Feb. 9.-The railroads are
still blockaded and the situation is not i'm
proving. The first mail from Philadelphia
since Thursday arrived this morning. A
passenger train and seven engines are
showed in at Mcclure, on the Sunbury and
Lewiston road.
CARLISLE Pa, Feb. AT noon the Cum
berland Valley Railroad called in all hands
and announced all trains would be aban-
doned. Nothing more will be done until
the storm abates. The Philadelphia and
Reading also abandoned all trains in this
section. Four trains and five engines are
in the drifts in this neighborhood.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The intensely cold
weather Continued to-day, but its severity
was somewhat modified by the sunshine.
Navigation on the Potomac River for about
fifty miles down is practically at an end.
For about forty miles, between Alexandria,
Va. and Maryland Point, ice gorged the
channel to the height of from ten to twenty
feet. The running of steamers between
Washington and Norfolk will be suspended
until the channel opens. No boats are
running in Chesapeake Bay, those from
| Baltimore all having been compelled to
| stop. At the Pennsylvania railroad station
| tie or no encouragement, and say but
limited success attends efforts to move
trains. Trains from all points are belated
from six to twelve hours.
LYONS, n. Y, Feb. "a second blizzard
began at 6 o'clock this evening, and within
| a couple hours it was showing and blowing
harder than at any time since the big
storm commenced. Four Central Hudson
| engines are off the track in the Lyons
yards and traffic is at standstill The
silver-plating factories have shut down
| owing to the inability of the engineers to
/ get up sufficient steam for motive power
and heating purposes.
| CHARLESTON, s. c., Feb. 9.-The continued
stress of cold weather to-day will COM
| plete the destruction of vegetables and the
delay of the berry crops. The lowest point
reached by the mercury to-day was II de-
grees. There is much suffering among the
| poor.
WILMINGTON, Del, Feb. 9.-The situation
on the Delaware Railroad is serious A
train which left here at 10 o'clock yester-
day morning and train that left Harring-
ton yesterday morning are stalled two