The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-10
IN NEW YORK STATE.
New York Central Has Not Yet Re-
covered from the blizzard.

view Aork central Has Not Yet Re-
covered from the Blizzard.
NEW YORK. Feb. 9.-Outgoing trains on
the New York Central railroad were dis
patched on schedule time tonight, but in
coming trains were still behind time, on
account of the storm. Local trains were an
hour late. The Chicago express due at Las
p. m. was delayed eight hours; Southwest
ern limited trains due at 6 and 6:3l d. m.
were not reported; the Albany day express
due at z .. m. was two hours and twenty
minutes behind time. The Berkshire divi-
sion of the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford was covered for a mile With twenty
feet OF snow. and was therefore not fully
open for traffic. 1t Is expected to be cleared
BY tomorrow. Ferry boat traffic was prac-
-ically suspe nded tonight.
Reports from the interior Of the State
tell OF the continuance of the great storm.
Trains on the Central Hudson are from five
to twenty-four hours late. The Duanesburg
and Mechanicsville branches of the Delaware
& hudson railway have been entirely aban-
doned and no efforts Will be made to open
them til the stom abates. The Geneseo
branch of the Erie is blocked, the train
which left Geneseo at 4:32 this morning be-
ing blocked in a snow drift two miles north.
since yesterday morning. The Port Jervis
& Monticello railroad and its branches are
so badly blocked by snow that they can
hardly be opened before next week. The
main line OF the Erie west of MiddletoWn
is entirely closed, no through trains having
Iassed since Thursday night. All trains OH
the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg are
abandoned.
The temperature in this city to-day was
SO throughout Sunday. The thermometer
reached zero at 6 O'Clock this morning, and
highest velocity of the vino here was at 10
O'Clock. when 1T was blowing forty-eight
miles an hour. At Sandy Hook it is howl
ing along at the rate of fifty-siN miles an
hour.
Commissioner Warning, of the street clean
ing department, stimates that it win take
ten days and an extra cost of 100000 to
clear the snow from the city's streets.
River and Railway Traffic Impeded.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Intensely cold
weather continued to-day. but it's severity
was modified by the sunshine.
Navigation on the Potomac river for about
nifty miles down is practically at an end.
For about forty miles between Alexandria,
Va, and Maryland Point the ice is gorged
in 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 the
officials report that the situation shows lit
tie or no announcement, and say but lin
tied success attends efforts to move trains.
trains from all points are belated from six
to twelve hours. Those on the Chesapeake
afternoon and evening reached the city at Z
ociock ms morning. a train was sent out
VI Tie AtldullC coast line IOT the South at
an early hour this morning, but the latest
heard regarding it was that it was an
chored in a snowdrift five miles from Wash
ington.
Annapolis snow-Bound.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 9.-Railroad trains
continue demoralized as to time and the
postofHce here is full Of mail matter await
ing dispatch. The Baltimore & Lehigh has
not had a train through since the storm
began. h Western Maryland is Elso
blocked: Snow drifts have made the/high-
ways impossible, and produce from near by
places Is thus kept out of town. sending up
| prices of all commodities.
| Annapolis, the capital of Maryland, is
snow bound. A report comes from there
that several men and horses We're frozen
to death in attemctS to cross the Severn
river on the ice. Cumberland, in the west
ern 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. A passenger
Iran w fnr ri isi1 ZIMMERMAN hnns AZ yes EST at IT.
| passengers were brought back. Four engines
sent to extr!cate the disabled train could
morring axe also stuck fast.
Delaware Railroad Tied Up.
WILMINGTON, Del, Feb. 9.-The situa-
ton on the Delaware Railroad is serious.
A train which left here at 10 o'clock yester-
| day morning and a train that left Harring-
ton yesterday morning are stalled at Ginn's
| crossing, two miles below Middletown. A
| relief train that started out also got stuck
in a heavy drift, and a construction train
that left Wilmington this morning was
held by a drift at Farnhurst, four miles
| from here. No trains have been run over
this road since last Thursday night, and
none is expected to run before Monday. Be-
low Bridgeville there is a drift half a mile
| long and ten feet deep.
In Sussex county hundreds of birds, rab-
bits and chickens are being killed by the
| cold. Funerals had to be postponed on ac-
| count of the impossible condition of the
roads.
Mails Fifty Hours Late.
HORNELLSVILLE, n. Y, Feb. 9.-The
blizzard still continues. although the
weather is somewhat warmer. No trains
have been sent out to-day. The mails are
| fifty hours late this afternoon. Six engines
were stalled three miles east of here. Train