Smyrna times., 1895-02-13
The Storm of This locaIitv
ITS EFFECT IN THIS COMMUNITY AMI
ELSEWHERE

q Ao NIOTm OF This Locality.
no EFFECT IN THIS COMMUNITY AMI
- ELSEWHERE.
!, OId Boreas has been holding fnIl
e sway the past week and has given ms
$ some OF his sharpest touches of winter
g such that has not been known to the
:. Oluest lnhabltant. Ever since SUNDAY
n week ago the cold has been severe
a ouC since our last issue, we have gone
g through seige which equals. if not
e surpasses the blizzard of '88
LaSt thursday afternoon and night
IertlLhc snow storm came up which
raged IN fury. The high. cold winds
were driVlng the snow into reefs and
i, uriits. 1t Kept this up all night long
until aurora broke forth to dlspel the
,, gloomy torebodiDg. That dav. Friday
was clear, cold and crisp. A heavy
western gale was blowing apAce and
the fine, powdered snow was heinz
blown into high drifts. During the
whole day the air was full Of Hving
snow, and the streets We're almost inn
passaOIe As fast as the snow could he
snOVeled OIL, 1t was filled up again by
Ihe driving wind, until it seemed use-
less TO attempt to clear passage. The
town was dcsolate. Hardly anv one
was seen OD the streets. Business was
paralIzed, and only those who were
Obliged to be out in the zero weather
could be seen on the streets
MI. vernon and North streets. prob
aOIy received the highest drifts "a
tney were exposed almost directly to
Tue "laSts OF piercing winds, aud the
nShest drltts were on the north side of
the street, where all along it was from
tour to five feet high. From Captain
Mustard s out beyond the coal bins and
the station the drifts were 50 bad AS TO
make II utterly impossible. Residents
OI that side OF the street were Obliged
TO cut their way through the snow
banks.
In fact, all over town we're ennm4r-
aDIe drifts OF various heights South
street was full of them and Commerce
street was very deep at some places
In front OF the old VanGasken & Cats
| Lumber yard" now Frank Bailev's a
drl1C several feet in height crossed the |
path, and pedestrians going down town
early that morning were obliged tn |
wade through. All up and down Main |
street on the west side was a continu- |
Gus ridge rising at different intervals |
several feet in height
The severest drifts were in the conn
Try, where unprotected bv houses Ola |
Boreas had full sway Our complete
isolation from the outside world Dre.
vented US from getting "A graphic ac-
count Few of the farmers were abl.
TO get to town, in fact, it was SATURDAY.
before anyone attempted to make an
effort
Between here and Smyrna Landiny
IN front of BaiIey's brickyard. was tre'
mendOns drift, much over horses
head This cut Off all transnnrtatinr
ana those farmers who wished 10 come
70 town. came by foot in another direc.
tlon. The Transportation Companv
700, were very much hampered bv this
drlit, as 1t lnterfered very materially i'm
getting coal Orders We're coming in
TOO fast for them to fill which fbev
were ooIlged to keep waiting until q
passage could be cut. This was nn
conlpIlshed the next day, Saturday, by .
gang OF men which they put to work
smyrna was virtually cut off at a
Doth ends Of the State road just he 7
yond the iron bridge at Duck Creek a !
neaVy drIit crossing the road mpeded (
Vhe progress. In coming TO town. sat. f.,
urday' round about way was made /
through fields. This was ACCOMPLISHED
nrst oy Nathaniel y. Carey, of Green -
spring AT Duck Creek there was a ,
h'gh, lmpaSsable drift in Denney's Iane :,
road was broken through a field :,
down through the meadow to the main ;,
road. mann q ,
At the southern end of the town the :,
progress was also impeded From tho
nam clear out the main road was long ..
lrlit several feet IA height, many places a.
l was eight to ten feet deep and was !,
Utterly impossible of travel. In FROM =
u the tenant house Of Mrs. Peterson. =;
'peakman, there was drift of snow
eachIng the second story window and
ne road leading from here around tho
lead OF the pond, was fllei up TO the
ever OF the hedge, while as far as Won
ouId see was one continuous drft II
ne state road too, leading out bevond
ne "hnger board" was, too. almost i'm
'assa0ie. ]. Frank Dennev was the -
rst 10 break a way aud Gatnrdov
lornlng he managed to get to town l.,
rs sleigh. The long drift in front of Tn
ne Odd Fellows cemetery was olivia ID
ed by taking the wide path. on
Inc road leading east toward CLAW. pc
)n' was the first to be Travelled and a. IT
lOugh not quite 50 bad as the Others St
'as enough to make it difficult TO get co
yer. The tracks we're comnlefe- On
oanked aud all efforts to run the StC
ans were useless. It was not until SCI
Ionday that our branch road he made ia
ear. ~ '''''''e de
several walked to and from here To We
layton over the drifts and found il ms
lth the cold. piercing wind very slow MS
a"ellng. The longest walk taken bv er,
~ OF our citizens was by John Con. ~,
4r and Edward Green, who were IN
applng down or the Leipsic marsh 10
iIer the storm came that night and U"t
e thermometer registered below zero Su
ey found their hut too cold and wa
ereupOn set out to walk home. a dis
nee of ten or eleven miles ma
Inc report comes from ThOroughCare SCH
ltcH and White Hall Eeczs that the Uof
Drm ragged very severe aBd the drifts
0ng the road We're banked no to or Spe 9p'
owe the hedges. Passage over all IN
oroughtares is blocked and the only
sort is to travel by horseback through
Ids. d"
ne rigid temperature has been very c..-
d on stock, and one farmer in Thor. Ool'
ghiare Neck has lost one heifer and '
me lambs. Most all the farmers tur
eak Of this blizzard as being far to 1
cad Of that of 'S8 500
The effect of the zero weather in sigi
'n has had its telling on the water out
'es' pumps, &c. The plumbers, if NO the
Ter business people, have had rush. imp
: season. Nearly every one 10 town and
) suffered more or less with frozen the
'es and not a few have bursted We F
derstand that there was only one prol
ident on Mt Vernon street who was and
troubled with froTen pipes. while the
South street there were many cases e4h
ne residents have found Unnecessary pect
take up the flooring of their bath earn
ms etc. in order to get to the burstad and
~. pie
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