New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-12

NORTHERN NEW-YORK PRACTICALLY
BURIED IN TIE SNOW.
RAILROADS BLOCKED AND BUSINESS AT a STAND
sTILI-THE WORST STORM IN MANY YEARS

RAILROADS BLOCKED AND BUSINESS AT a STAND
sTILl--THE WORST STORM IN MANY YEARS
Watertown. " y. Feb. il (speciaD.-Northern
New-York is in the grasp of King Blizzard. All
the railroads completely blockaded many trains
and snowploughs stalled in huge drifts and
traffic is entrey suspended. 1t is the worst storm
OF many years. and the situation now In reference
to opening the railroads is serious. Last Friday
and Saturday there a heavy fall of snow. The
Lake Superior storm struck this section early
Monday night and the wind which has since
tinued with undated fury. has wrought havoc.
Country roads impossible and business is al
most at a stan1still.
The high wind has piled the in huge drifts
on the tracks of the Rome. Waertown and Ogdens-
burg Railroad and all its branch :. and has filled
the cuts so that the is even with the en-
bankments on either side. In many PAGES on the
railroad the rises to a height of twenty-five
feet No mails have arrived here to-day, ana al
freight and passenger trains have been abandoned
The passenger trains which eft Utica and Syracuse
early this morning snowbound south OF THIS
city The trouble began at a m. when freight
train became stalled near Mannsville, and now 1t
Is buried out of sight This has blockaded the mall
line of the Rome. Watertown ana Ogdehsou's
south of Watertown.
Passenger trains are stalled at Richland. Manns-
VILE Great Bend and Evans Mills, and neari! an
a passenger train left here at 1850 ms aI,e,IoD aI,e,
show troupe. which TO play In OgdenssInnrs ,o
NAV not be released In fory-eight hours me pas
senger train which left here for utlca al w., HE
morning Is still at Great Bend. behind s'aHeo
plough. ,.,.oo or1 oe ras.
The wind Is still blowing hurricane ana as d ~
as the tracks are cleared the snow drl'ls III aSa,l
II will be Impossible TO open the ROAD unIl thS
Storm abates Two hundred men ana seVefnI iovu
motives and snowploughs are AZ MainSN my ~
ing to release the stalled trains there Inc cfcT.'
tempt has vet been made TO move plougns or ud,'S @
on the Cape Vincent. Sacketts Harbor Clayton ana
other branches
Dunkrk. ~ ". Feb. 1.-THE severest bhzzaru
known in this section In years Is raging here ana
the two feet Of snow that has fallen during the
last twenty-rour hours is being piled high ny "a
sixty-mile wind from the northwest. Inc l'uhk'i n
Alegany Valley and PittsburS ana rTie idsi
roads are moving trains with great dilncui,!' anN
the Dunkirk and Fredonia electric railway Is Coiii
pletely tied up Passengers are being traisiericu
between here and Fredonia by selgns
jamestown. y. Y, Feb. 1.-THE heaviest s"o"
storm that has visited this section in eight years
has been raging here ali day. Trains on 'he Dun
kirk Alegany Valley and Pittsburg Railway are
ali discontinued except those which are s'dlItu ~
tho snow between this city and punklrk, TWO trans
beirg almost buried near Cascade Inc, loItn-
bound train on the Western New-NOr ana ienn-
svvania was stalled during the morning ~ 9n' nm
merdala between Mayville and Berry ana Val
there al last reports Country ROADS are nea. ~ a."
i'm passahle and the storm continues WIN su,n i"'
that ii is impossible to do anythlns 10 rr"e'e ''e
trouble High winds accompany the sno"