The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-17
IT WAS QUITE A BLIZZARD
SETFRE STORM OF SNOW IND WIND
 HERE AND ELSEHH ERE.

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 Yesterdays storm was the severest experienced thus far this winter, and resulted in a great deal of inconVen- fence to people who had to be out in it, Some of the street railways were temporarily blocked, and the condition for travel on the sidewalks was far from inviting.
 The sharp cutting wind, which ac companied and formed an important part of the storm proper persisted in piling up the snow in deep drifts on the sidewalks and 1t was not until a late hour that the shovel brigade had got them in fairly passable condition.
 The street railways, though splendid ly equipped for keeping their tracks open under most conditions, experience ed great difficulty yesterday, as the strong wind heaped the tracks with snow almost as soon as they had been cleared by the blows. The public was accommodated as we'll as possible un- der the circumstances, and every ef- fort was made by the roads to furnish the usual accommodations.
 The Fair Haven and Westville rail- road started it's snow blows at mid night, and kept them running until yesterday noon.
 The tracks of the New Haven Street railway and the Centerville roads were blocked with the snow, and 1t was sometime before they could be cleared so that the cars could run. The cars be- gan to run with old time regularity at about 10 a. m.
 It was almost noon before the Edge wood and Centerville branches of the street railway system were open their entire length.
 The trains on the Consolidated road were somewhat delayed, but no serious delay occurred. At the depot a gang of twenty-five men were employed in clearing the tracks and sidewalks.
 The steamer Richard Peck did not leave Belle dock until o'clock, instead of at midnight, its usual hour.
 The Continental arrived in New Ha- ven several hours late, having been compelled to seek harbor on account of the storm
 No damage was done to the various crafts in the harbor
 The fall of snow averaged about six inches on the level.
 It was not cold storm and was warm everywhere outside of New Eng land. The thermometer was down to 22 degrees above zero in this city at s a. m, yesterday. It was 20 degrees at Boston at the same hour, and in northern Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine it ranged from IA to 16 de- grees.
 It was a narrow storm and did not reach fifty miles inland. Albany, N. Y, and other inland cities escaped. It was central about fifty miles off the coast yesterday morning and ex- tended north and south from Philadel- phia to Maine. It was blowing at the rate of sixty-six miles an hour at Block Island at a. m. yesterday, forty-eight at Atlantic City, and fifty at Woods Holl, Mass.
 The storm was first seen by the weather bureau at NlCkSDuFS, MISS, Monday It moved east and struck the Atlantic coast off the shores of South Carolina, then it changed it's course to the north and travelled north and struck this city early Tuesday.
 The departments of the board of public works put on a number of ex- tra men to clean the snow from the streets. There was a big extra force put on the streets and on the parks, thirty extra men were employed.
 It was thought best to close the pub lie schools for the day and the school bells were rung at 8:30 and again at il 80 to inform the pupils that there would be no school. Tn view of no school 1t did not take very much grace for the youngsters to become reconciled to the storm.
 Some of the lady teachers bravely faced the storm and waded through the lrifted snow in order to be present at their post of duty, but the heroines of education arrived only to find the fort surrendered to the storm, no pupils presenta and did the only thing possible, a retreat to their homes. Hillhouse high school and Boardman training school also suspended operations.
 It was nearly noon before the snow ceased faI]ino