The Washington times., 1895-02-10
Many Northern Passenger Trains
Stalled or Behind Time.
FREIGHT TRAFFIC SUSPENDED
Trains Dispatched from New York on Time,
but Incoming Schedules Badly Mixed
Paralysis of Travel in Pennsylvania
Trains Stalled for Days in the West
Cold in the South-Local Travel Impeded


patched on schedule time tonight, but in
coming trains were still behind time on ac-
count of the storm. Local trains were an
hour late.
The Chicago express, due at 1 45 p. m.. was
delayed eight hours; southwestern limited
trains, due at 6 and 6:3l p. m, were not re-
ported; the Albany day express, due ut p.
m, was two hours and twenty minutes be-
hind time.
The Berkshire division of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford was covered Tor
mile with twen;y feet of snow, and was there
fore not fully open for traffic.
II is expected to be cleared by tomorrow.
Ferryboat traffic was practically suspended
tonight.
IN PHILADELPHIA AND PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. 9.-Railroad
travel throughout South Jersey is at stand
still. Pennsylvania Railroad trains are run
ming regularly between Camden and Trenton
the seashore are blocked.
Only one train came into Camden over the
Camden and Atlantic road to-day, and that
was an extra that WIS sent to Haddonfleld TO
bring in suburban residents.
Three trains are fast in drift between
Ancora and Waterford. The Philadelphia
mail train has been lying in a drift at Water
ford station since o'clock yesterday after
noon
An express train from the shore is in the
the same predicament. and the passengers
arc being fed by the residents of the neigh
borhood. The Atlantic City mail train which
left Camden last night is snoWbound near
Waterford.
No trains arrived in Camden from points
below Woodbury. on the West Jersey Railroad.
This includes the Cape May, Salem, and Mau-
rise River roads.
The Kinkora, Vincentown, and Medford
branch and the Pemberton and Hightstown
branch OF the Amboy division are completely
held up.
The Delaware River Road is probably in
the worst condition of any of the South Jer-
sey lines, and it will be several days before
traffic is resumed.
IN BALTIMORE AND MARYLAND.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 9-Ths five degrees be-
low zero, predicted for this morning by the
Baltimore bureau of the national govern
ment's Weather Department, was not in evil
dence. Instead. the thermometer marked
! four degrees above zero. low enough, how
ever. to keep up the racket of bursting water
pipes and exploding ranges, and the freezlng
OF gas meter.
Street cars are gradually getting up tn
schedule time. Railroad trains continue de-
moraiZed as to time, and the post-office here
/ is full oi mail matter awaiting dispatch. The
! Baltimore and Lehigh has not had u train
through since the storm began.
| The Western Maryland Is also blocked.
/ Snow drifts have made the highways and by
ways impossible, and produce IRON nearby
places is TINS kept out Of town, sending up
prices of ali commodities.
Annapoiis the capital of Maryland, is snow
bound. report comes from there that sew
! eral men and horses were frozen to death in
attempts to cross the Severn River on the ice.
Cumberland te egraphs that two passenger
coaches and nine engines are fast in a snow
1 drift on the West Virginia Central Railroad
at Black Oak Bottom. A passenger train
which left Cuml lcrland yesterday afternoon
for Ekins became disabled and the passen-
gers We're brought back. -Four engines sent
to extricate the disabled train could not
bulge and four more sent out this morning
are also stuck fast.
The damage done on the Chesapeake Bay
and its tributaries by the storm IS very great.
North Point and Kent Island Shore are
strewn with wrecked oyster boats, and loss
OF life is feared.
IN THE WEST.
Fort ScoTT, Kan. Feb. 9-The passengers
who were snow-bound for thirty hours on the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas, near Selma,
Kan. arrived here to-day, the snow and sand
having been removed and the track cleared.
There were twelve passengers on the train,
ten men and two women, among them being
w. w. Read, travelling for Kansas City gro
cery house. The contents of his sample case
was all the food the entire party had. His
coffee samples were ground in the stove
shovel with the poker and cooked in can OF
melted snow.
Two Missouri Pacific trains which were
snowbound with many passengers near Yates
Center arrived tonight They had been
stalled for three days and nights.
PERRY, o. T., Feb 9.-For the first time in
four days trains passed through from Kansas
Cityon the Santa Fe to-day, the blockades
having been raised. This town received the
first mail and express matter from the North
since Tuesday to-day. For 800 yards snow
ice. and sand were banked from four to
eight feet deep in long cut.
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. Feb 9.-The Chicago
and West Michigan 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.
snow plow with four locomotives at
tached was sent 20 dig the train out but
could not get within half mile of it. The
passengers were brought to St. Joseph
Drifts near Holland prevent the passage O
any trains at that point.
The Big Four and Yandalia lines ART
blocked.
STILL FREEZING IN THE SOUTH.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Feb. 9.-The freezing
weather continues. The mercury was nine
teen at sunrise this morning and twenty-fiv,
at IL O'Clock. The prediction of the weathe
bureau is that freezing weather will con
tinue until Sunday night.
The best-informed orange grower in Flor
ida, Mr.. James A. Harris, on the Citra, say:
that So per cent. of the crop is killed out
right and that next years crop will not reacl
100000 boxes, against 100000 boxes las
year.
The early vegetable crop, the entire straw
berry crop, and four-1fths OF the pine appl
, plants are destroyed. The aggregate loss
! conservatively estimated at 1O.00O. 0O0.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Feb. g. The heavy flo
, of ice in the Cumberland River has pracri
, caIly put stopto navigation for the present
No boats departed to-day, as it is considere,
extremely hazardous to attempt the run unde
existing circumstances. Navigation may b
resumed by Monday. The mercury to-da
registered three above.
ALL ALONG THE SHORES.
Disaster Wrought to the Shipping Trad
bv the Storms.
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