The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-02

Sue ny sOlHe sClOOutF WuiCu DIoko away
from her moorings.
THE STORM IN DEERlNG.
City Literally Buried in the Drifts
Streets Rendered Almost impossible.
Dsering people pretty generally stayed
at home yesterday. Locomotion was
difficult in the neighboring city. For
one thing a freight train right across
the principal street, does not add to the
ease of getting about and then ten foot
drifts are not the best things In the
world to struggle through. Deering
contained some of tie largest of the
drifts. A PRESS reporter started to
go to Deering about the middle of the
forenoon. He went on foot as that was
the only means of transportation open to
him. The Deering city fathers had kindly
had the road broken so that for much of
the way between Portland and Woodfords
there was broad track left by the horse
pillow and in this the walking was very
good. There was plenty of company for
Deering people were making slow pro-
gress in the direction of Portland having
grown tired of waiting for the cars. The
first really big drift, judged by the Deer
ing standard, was just beyond the Wins
low pottery where the roof and the tops of
the windows Of story and half house
could be made out over mountain of
snow. Farther along it was the same
~ %,;
heights at the sides Of the road way, but
strange to say there was no drift among
all of.them which blocked theEssroad.
The wind had kindly piled the snow up
at the sides and not in the middle. There
was little group e. of men in the railway
station at Woodfords discussing the pros
poets on the railroads. One of sthe fire.
men on the stall trains hazardedss thesguess
that he would still be there on the next
day, a guess which fortunately for him
did not prove to be a good one as the
trains were liberated late in the after
noon. The reporterE on.his walk to Deer
ing, passed one team being driven to-
wards the city and saw another headed
for the country. TheIdriver ofIthis team
afforded amusement for the loungers at
the stations by asking if that.'stalled train
could not be broken in two and part of
it moved to allow him to drive across
the tracks. There was little to record in
the way of news in the neighboring city,
interest there as elsewhere centering in
the efforts of the railroad mon to get the
lines once more in working shape.
IN WESTBROOK.
Westbrook was buried with the rest of
this part of Maine in the storm Monday
night and had no communication with
the outside world until the Portland IL
Rochester got train through at about
half past two in the afternoon. Among
the passengers on this train: were Depu-
ty Grand Chancellor Harmon Of the
Knights of Pythias and his staff They
had started for Portland the evening be-
fore to attend an installation. and spent
the evening getting there. The car left
Westbrook at o'clock, and..it was 10
when it reached the head of Preble street.
OF course it was out OF the question to
attend an installation that night. Every
body who had gone to the hall had given
up all expectation of seeing the officers
from Westbrook, and the gentlemen from
Westbrook and the gentlemen from that
city decided that the best thing they could
do would be to go. home on the same car.
This was the car which left Portland at
about half past eleven and stuck in the
drift out by the ball grounds. The Sir
knights made the best of it and were
among those who rode into Portland
in the barge which the road sent out af-
ter the imprisoned passengers. Then they
waited around Portland until the Roches-
ter had opened communication with West
brook and they took the first train out
getting, home as has been stated in the
middle of the afternoon.~ Considering
the fact that kthey did nothing but try to
get to Portland and then to get back
again it was prettyfslow travelling. One
of the Westbrook cars, that in charge of
Conductor Harry Roberts spent the night