The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-09
TWAS BLIZZARD WEATHER
ONE OF THE COLDEST NIGHTS IN
 MANY YEARS.

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 The blizzard weather hereabouts prophesied by the weather bureau and which struck this city early Thursday , evening continued with unmitigated severity all day yesterday. The cold was very severe and the wind blew a gale in the forenoon, rendering life out of doors exceedingly disagreeable Tn the afternoon and evening the wind behaved itself little better, but the cold was still severe and at filings drug store at $50 p. m. the ther- mometer in an exposed place registered only four above zero. By evening the cold had increased so that the reliable thermometers about town showed that the weather was very close to the zero mark
 It was very dull in the Chapel street and other stores where the trade Is largely from lady shoppers. The num- Der of ladies out shopping yesterday was very small.
 The snow fall of the night and morn ing partially accounted for the dull ness of trade, but the severe cold was a potent factor in the case
 This blizzard weather is being felt all over the country and worse weather was last evening predicted for to-day.
 According to Elias B. Dunn, New York's weather prophet, yesterdays storm was worse than the famous bliz- gard of March 12-15 1888, in three ways lin wind, temperature and area af- fected. Only in snow fall was the storm of 1888 greater than yesterdays, but that was a very notable distinc- tion.
 This is how the two look when com pared in figures:
 Blizzard No. 1. Snow. feet. Wind. 50 miles. Temperature, AS degrees above. Area. 400 miles radius.
 Blizzard No. 2. Snow, 512 inches Wind SO miles. Temperature, degree below, Area, 1,6OO miles radlus.
 In this city yesterday Superintendent Doyle had a big force of men at work clearing the crosswalks and to-day he will begin having the snow carted out of the principal streets.
 The steamer Richard Peck of the Old Line was the only boat yesterday that ventured through the sound between this city and New York, leaving here at a. m. yesterday, eight hours be- hind the regular starting time The Peck, it was announced, would leave, her dock at New York at a. m. this morning for her return trip.
 The storm interrupted travel on the Consolidated railroad and early trains were late. The express due here at 7:45 a. m on the Hartford division reached the Union depot and house behind time. The New York train which brings the New York papers was an hour and ten minutes late.
 Samuel T. Hubbard, who carries the mail from North Guilford, North Branford and Totolat in a wagon or sleigh was on time yesterday morn ing, but all other mails were late The early mail from New York was an hour and thirty minutes late, and at noon no mail had been received from Hart ford or Boston. At 8:25 yesterday morn ing train was made up for Hartford, the train from New York not having arrived, and it was sent up the road behind two engines The special legis- 1ative train, which Is scheduled to leave this city at $50 a. m., left at 925, drawn by two engines. All the electric roads did very we'll yesterday and in the afternoon ran with tolerable regularity BUFFETED BY wAvEs-sAvED AT LAST. l The tug boat Dean of Taunton ar- rived in the harbor at o'clock yester- day morning after hard battle with | the waves outside. She had in tow two | coal barges bound to Fall River. The | tug brought the barges inside the break | water and anchored. Just after day light one of the barges, the Petersburg | of Fall River, broke her anchor chains | and went adrift. The captain and mate | were aboard the barge, and when they | discovered that the barge was adrift | they threw over another anchor, but | lost it. The Petersburg drfted out of | the harbor, out into the sound with the two men aboard. There was terrific sea running outside, and the lives of LIlOSG dDOctld LLC DdISG were III great danger.
 By greatest good fortune the barge drifted up close by the Steamboat com pany's lightship, and the men leaped off their own barge and landed on the icy deck of the lightship. The crew of two men from the barge were badly ex- hausted and their clothing was covered with ice. They were taken down into the cabin by Captain Parker c. Hall of the lightship and made as comfort able as possible
 The Dean, which started out to save the men, made an attempt to get to the lightship to get the men to bring them to this city but the sea was too rough to enable the tug to get anywhere near the lightship, and the. tug Dean steamed back into this harbor.
 There has been no trace of the miss ing barge, and it is feared that she has gone down in the sound. She had on board about 800 tons of coal
 schooner reported to be the one that carries stone to the breakwater went ashore off Lighthouse Point and the waves are breaking over her.
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