Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-02-16
A HoWlin8
Blizzard,
The Peninsula Experiences
the Worst Storm for
Many Years.
NO TRAINS, NO MAILS.
Cut on From the Outside World
for Four Days. En-
perience of Seamen.

Snow HILL people realized last Fri
day that it was cold day" and tina
we had a snowy time of it, but tn,
rain of Thursday had packed the snow
and prevented il from forming grea
drifts as ii did up in Delaware, where
they had no rain. The regular train.
from Franklin City went through
Snow Hill on schedule time on Frida,
hut failed to return in the afternoon
and then it was we ascertained thai
the railroad men were experiencing
much trouble up ON the Delaware
Road. All over the county people
thronged around the post offices wait
ing for the mail to come in that they
might learn of the storm elsewhere
They were still waiting on Saturday
hut no mail from the North came
The only mails which came to Snow
Hill were those from Box Iron, POGO
moke and Princess Anne. Saturday
morning was bitter cold and when the
editors of this paper ascertained that
no trains were running and that the
MESSENGER was still lying in bags on
the Post Office floor here, they de
termincd it should be delivered tc
every Post office possible in the count,
on Saturday; no matter wha; the cost
They secured a driver and about 1C
o'clock he set out in a sleigh fol
Newark, Ironshire and Berlin. Around
the sleigh were banners on which were
inscribed these words: The Nessen-
ger-The peoples paper-Sops 10,
nothing. The people must hare It,
1t is needless to say it was received
with pleasure. They sent it South by
special carriers, and have been rcceiv.
ing congratulations all the week fol
having the only live newspaper ever
published here.
Let us return to the story of the
storm: In this county we have learned
of no serious damage to property OF
loss of lite. At Stockton on Friday
morning a reliable thermometer reg.
istered eigh. degrees below zero. The
bay was frozen over and all communi.
cation between the mainland and
Chincoteague Island mad 10 I've made
over the ice by pedestrians or skaters.
The cold was 50 great on Friday
Saturday and Sunday that many per-
sons had their hands and feet badly
frosted The first mail from the North
was received here on Monday night
about ~ o'clock, and on Tuesday
morning people anxiously scanned the
papers and learned of the terrible
storm elsewhere The condition OF
affairs which existed OH the peninsula
as a result Of the blizzard is SO serious
in its nature that the outside world
can only form but the slightest con-
ceptioa OF the distress. On Sunday and
Monday trains were lying IN the great
snow drifts all the way from 10 TO %
feet deep, between Middletown. Del,
and the Delaware and Chesapeake
Canal Hundreds of workmen had
exhausted their strength in shovelins
snow and in making superhuman
efforts to rescue passengers and train
crews from their perilous positions.
Several trainmen lost their lives
fighting their way through the noun
tains of SNOW which lowered higher
than the passenger tram. Three
engines coupled together were trying
to force a pas>ageway through a halt
mile of snow embankment at Wyoming
Monday afternoon. The front engine
jumped the track, plunged high up Oh
the snowbank, and then, wh;rline
about, turned over on its side, striking
the cabin and wrecking the pilot
house. Michael Griffin, the fireman
was fatally injured. He was removed
to Wyoming in an unconscious con
dition. William Conner, the engineer
was scalded by escaping steam. lii
may recover.
Conductor Tom Hawkins was ',adl,
hurt while shoveling snow near Noun
Pleasant, and had to he carried 10 hi
home in Wilmington. At Feltol
citizens OF the town turned tn ant
worked with II will in the task o
clearing the tracks. Among them VII
Rev. Gilbert Meredith, who lahore,
increasingly all day with the shovel.