Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-02-09
ANNAPOLIS SHOWED IN.
NO TRAINS RUNNING.
The lceBoat "Latrobe" Comes to the
Relief of the Dredgers-A Rough
Experience With Ice and Wind
Great Distress Among the
Watermen.
MANY LIVES REPORTED LOST.


this morning, not train being able to
lease or arrive-consequently the little
city by the Severn was cut of from all
communication with the outer world.
In other words, Annapolis was COM
pletcly isolated-her only communion
tion with the outer world being by tele-
graph and telephone.
Never in the history of the 'soldest in
habitants, y has there been such extreme
weather and of so long duration. Busi-
ness Of all kinds is completely paralyzed,
and there is much distress and suffering
among the laboring classes, and especial
ly those who depend upon oystering at
this season.
In order to relieve the distress of the
INDECENT poor, the relief committee have
opened soup house at the Assembly
Rooms where hundred and more per-
sons were supplied with vegetable soup
and bread TO-DAY.
The railroads have not been able to
get any trains through over their roads
for twenty-four hours or more, the snow
drifts in some places along the tracks of
the railroads being from ten to twelve
feet deep. The A. w. &. B. sent out
train last evening at 3.45, with num-
Der of passengers, among them being
the Judges of the Court of Appeals, who
were on .their way home. The train
proceeded as far as Bestis station, about
four miles from the city. where it got
stuck in heavy snow drift, and could
proceed no further. The train hands
did all they could to relieve the train,
but to no avail. After exhausting all
efforts, a messenger was dispatched to
Annapolis on foot for assistance. He
reached here after terrible struggle of
several hours in snow drifts up to his
waist, exhausted and benumbed by the
cod. An extra heavy locomotive and
engine was sent to the relief Of the snow
bound train, and it was near eleven
o'clock when the train returned to the
depot with its snow bound passengers,
after an experience Of five hours in
three miles travel.
The A. w. & b. sent out another
train this morning with two engines at
tached, but met with the sam edi fficul-
ty as the evening before. and returned
to the depot at 1880. Another effort
was made to get train through this af-
ternoon, with what effort we have not
been able to learn.
ICEBoAT LATRoBE ARRIVES.
Secretary of State Edwin Gott, tele-
graphed to Governor Brown Yesterday
to have the ice-boat sent to Annapolis
at .once, to relieve the dredgers, who
were IN danger of freezing to death on
their boats in the harbor and bay. The
ice-boat f. G. Latrobe, Captain William
Carter, arrived here at six O'Clock yes
terday afternoon after an exciting trip
from Baltimore. On board were Mr.
James f. Hare, OF the Baltimore Neus,
and Secretary Irving, of the Baltimere
Harbor Board. They had threatening
experience.
After breaking fields of ice, six inches
thick, from Fort Carroll to Seven Foot
Knoll, in comparatively smooth water,
the brave old ice-boat began heroic bat
~
gave that swept the bay, according to
Captain Carter, who has for forty years
ploughed the Chesapeake, was the worst
he ever experienced. Ice was everywhere.
The cold WAS bitter and the wind was so
strong that man could not stand on
the decks of the LatrObe. The pilot
house, thirty feet above water. was swept
by monster seas, and clouds of spray en-
velOped the entire vessel. She ground
through solid ice miles after miles. Small
bergs of drifc ice were on every side. BY
the time Seven Foot Knoll lighthouse
had been left astern, the pilot-house win
dow panes were so thickly crusted with
frozen spray, that the quartermasters
at the wheel could not see through
them.
The true state of affairs became ap-
parent upon reaching open bay. Over
on North Point shore were five oyster
pungies, grinding to pieces in the ice,
two OF them we're sunken as far as solid
mass Of ice would allow them to sink
and the other three were lying on beam
ends, surrounded by mountains of ice.
On Kent Island another batch of strand
ed oyster boats were sighted. For two
miles to Brick House Bar they were
strung along, either fast in the ice OF
stranded on the store. They numbered
at least dozen. Some of them were
dismasted and others lying at angles,
nearing f0rty-five degrees, all were in
gre3test danger, but no signs of life
were aboard. They had evidently been
abandoned by the crews, who walked
ashore on the ice.
The big three-masted schooner "How-
ard Middleton, with two anchors out.
was passed near Sandy Point. She was
enduring severe weather. and clouds of
smoke pouring from her cabin stove
pipe indicated that the crew were trying
to keep from freezing. Down on her
course the Latrobe steamed with seas
breaking over her bows. At six o'clock
she reached the Naval Academy wharf.
She looked like q floating iceberg. Her
forward decks we're covered with ice
three inches thick and from her rounded
bow, at waters edge to the top of her
pilOt-house, she was solid mass of ice.
There was great rejoicing when the
Latrobe arrived. 1t is estimated that
the loss of the vessels and their cargo
viii amount to over $4,000.
Several vessels are reported missing
and are thought to have sunk with all
on board. The ice-boat Latrobe left
here at six O'Clock this morning to aid