Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-11-30
"A NOVEMBER Blizzard
ARRIVES SUDDENLY.
And makes things lively
while it lasts.
4 RECORD BREAKING NOVEMBER SAoH-sToRI
DEEP sNowDRIFrs, BLocKADED ROADS,
DELAYED TRAINS AND GENERAL INcoN-
vENIENC.
vENIENC.

Not tor many years, if ever blfore, has
such snow-storm swept over Southern
New Jersey, as swoOped down upon us
on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
| Damp. snow commenced falling Satur-
| day forenoon, but the weather was
warm, the wind was light from the
South, and there was no visible indica-
tiOns of storm of the severity that
| came on 80 suddenly few hours later.
During the evening the wind chopped
around to the North and blew all-night
with increasing violence and the snow
| fell rapidly, Whom morning came on
Sundsy the wind was blowing with al
most hurricane velocity, and the air was
filed q hundredfeet high with dry, sharp,
cutting and binding snow. Travel by
team was out of the question. Huge
snow-drifts four, five and six feet deep
stretched across the roads and effectual-
ly blocked them. a few persons vsntur-
ed out on foot to wade slowly through
the beautiful Snow" but they soon
wished they had stayed at home, and
gave utterance to language which The
Press is too pious to print. None of the
milk men could get their teams through
to serve their customers, and some of the
latter had to tone up their systems with
water and ''cold tea." One wicked man
at the railroad station suggested to The
Press that a few hot "Tom and Jerrys"
would be appropriate to the occasion,
but the idea was abandoned when it was
found that the proper ingredients were
long distance away.
The freight train on the West Jersey,
which was due at O'Clock in the morn
ing was still safely anchored here at II
A. M. The accommodation train that
brings the Sunday papers, was only an
hour late, but the New York papers
were lost 10 the shuttle somewhere be-
tween here and the big city. The up
train was about an hour late. and The
forenoon motor trains made slow time
from Atlantic City, and brought no
passengers. The Reading trains were,
with few exceptions, all on time, and
all the tyafn-men every where had q rough
time Of it.
The temperature was not very low
during the storm, not lower than -25o,
but the wind aud the storm combined
made it seem very much colder.
On Monday the weather was warmer
aud the snow settled down more COM
psctly, and some of it tbawed and turn
ed to water. The big drifts were shovel
cd down, the milkmen and butchers
weighed anchor and made their regular
deliveries of milk and meat, and before
noon teams were running almost as
usual.
The storm was very severe in New
England, where many vessels and lives
were lost, and where all travel was sus-
pended for the time being.
Later dispatches indicate that the
storm on the New England coast was
one of the most destructive and terrible
ever known. The harbors are filled
with sunken vessels and the coast
strewn with wrecks everywhere. The
loss of life has been very heavy. but it's
full extent is not yet known. 1t is fear
ed that one of the big passenger steam
era that runs between Boston and
Portland has foundered with all on
board, fifty persons, but there is a faint
hope that she may be safe somewhere.
1t will be many days before the full par
ticulars of the storm is known, and
there is every reason to believe that the
worst news is yet to come.