The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-09
AT OTHER POINTS.
The Effects of the storm Were Severely
 Felt All Over.

| The Effects of the storm Were Severely Felt All Over,
 Worcester, Mass, Feb. S.-The storm
 has nearly tied up all the electric lines. Trains from the west were from two to
 three hours late. The snow drifted a
 great deal and the highway department
 had on a large force of men all day
 The mercury has dropped from 10 above
 zero to nearly zero.
 Fall River, Mass, Feb. S.-The effects of the storm in this section were very severe. With one exception the barom- eter fell last night to the lowest point | ever known, the official registration be- l ing 28.32 inches. The steamer Provi- | dence of the Fall River line has not left Newport for the west and nothing was
 known in the local office of the east l bound steamers Pilgrim and City of Brockton. The steamer Richard Borden of the Fall River and Providence Steam-
 boat line had to forego her usual trips.
 The tide was the highest ever known and it flooded the wharves completely, causing thousands of dollars worth of damage. About fifty bales of cotton and hundreds of oil barrels were sent floating into the bay. The water caus- ed a suspension of operations in the American Printing company's property
 for the week. The wharves of the Fall
 River line, Fall River and Providence Steamboat company Cook Borden Lum Der company and other large wharves were flooded and much damage was caused to warehouses.
 The water on Kingsley wharf started fire in a storehouse owned by Borden & Remington. About 160 bales of cot
 ton, 1,50O barrels of cement, 4,0O0 barrels of lime. 100 barrels of plaster and some oil were stored there. The wetting of the lime caused the blaze. At least $6,000
 worth of damage was done.
 Halifax, N S., Feb. S.-The following has been received by mail at English town, c, B., from the station agent at South Ingonish, c. BE Telegraph wires are all down, and buried in the rocks from ferry to Bankers, shalf mile distance The poles are broken and have disappeared; twenty-two houses and shops have been washed off the beach, nothing saved; at Middle head all fish stores swept away; at New Haven the fish stores and dry goods stores are all gone. The above is the result of Tuesdays storm"
 Philadelphia, Feb S.-The entire Penn- sylvania railroad system from New York to Washington in the east, and as far west as Pittsburg, was seriously crippled to-day, because of snow drifts. In some places, particularly at Mifflin, forty-nine miles west of Harrisburg, the snow drifted as highs as the car tops. few trains on the various divi- sions departed from Philadelphia this morning, but the drifts interrupted their progress at intervals of every few miles. The Reading road is also in bad shape, particularly at Reading and in the coal regions.
 Alexandria, Va, Feb. 8.-Alexandria is completely cut off from the rest of the world to-day, except by telegraph. All the trains which arrived here from the south since last night over the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Richmond and Danville and the Seaboard Air Line cannot get to Washington because of drifts All traffic has been suspended on the Manassas branch and the Wash ington and Ohio division of the South ern Railway. Potomac river traffic Is completely suspended. The river is frozen to the Maryland shore.
 Newport R. l., Feb. S.-A tremendous high tide, accompanied by great seas and heavy ice, did great damage along the water front to-daV