The Portland daily press., 1898-11-29
AFTER THE STORM.

Further Results of the Great Blizzard
of Sunday.
pa mage to shipping Greater Than First
Reported-The Railroads Resume Bus
fness.
Yesterday morning the skies tried to
clear but it seemed hard work. Sunshine
game in the afternoon, but in the west
there were heavy clouds that betokened
more wind.
Mr.. Roche of the weather bureau, ssaees
that between l6 and II inches OF snsW
fell during the twenty -four hours Oh sno"
fall from three O'Clock Sunday morning
to three oclock yesterday morning.
THE RAILROADS.
No train left for Boston yesterday
morning but the noon trains went out as
usual.
On the Maine Central yesterday morn ;
ing trains were behind time. but at noon
the trains came in as usual. Trains on
the Maine Central were running as usual
all the afternoon. In the northern and
eastern parts of the state the storm was
not nearly SO severe as it was in this
vicinity. The Mountain division did not
suffer delay.
Telegraph wires between here and Bos-
ton were in running order.
The work of getting the railroads IN
inc for business is progressing slowly
The Grand Trunk sent out passenger
train Yesterday morning, but has made
no attempt to start freight trains west.
The first freight that of Conductor .. A.
Needham, came in yesterday morning
after hard fight, and with all hands
tired out. They encountered great drift
on the top of the New Gloucester grade
and were several hours shoyeling out.
While stalled there two other trains that
of Conductor u. Robinson, and that OF
Conductor NJ. Tobin, followed. and it
was only by the use of all the engines
that the trains made the grade one by
one. They are very bad drifts at many
points. and the work of clearing the line
will be long and hard one.
The Portland electrics are running all
right. The Cape line is working hard to
get the line clear. They mad cars running
yesterday. The Yarmouth line expected
to get clear last night.
ABOUT TOWN
The northern chimney on the Smaller
schoolhouse blew down. The bricks
crashed through the roof. making large
hole and doing considerable damage. The
attic was filed with snow. but none of
the school rooms suffered.
The skylight on the Monument street
sohoolhouse blew open, allowing consider
able snow to sif5 in, but doing no great
damage.
The rear chimney of Mr.. Edwin L.
Dyer's house on Pine street blew down
with great crash, the bricks knocking
hole in the roof and demorallzing the
room below. The accident happened
during the night and as the room is only
occupied in the day time no one was in
danger.
On account of the big drifts, the signal
for no school was sounded yesterday
morning.
The line of the Cape electrics was
opened to Knightyille yesterday forenoon.
A big sign on the roof of a building in
Monument square was lifted bodily and
carried down onto Middle street.
A large limb was split off on elm in
front of William Hodgkins' house on
Mechanic street, 50 large that two men
could not lift it out of the way.
Frank NJ Low had fine display of
overcoats in one of his windows. Yester-
day morning it looked as If somebody had
been wearing the coats out in the storm
and had put them back without brushing
them.
The storm did some damage at Peaks
island, breaking Fishers wharf and
smashing his fish house.
At A. E. Perry's, No. 36 Congress
street. Sunday, the family had trying
experience. At $3.50 a. M. the violent
gale blew down the chimney and the bulk
of it went through the roof into the attic
where it lodged on the beams. The force
of the shock was SO great, that it knocked
down the plastering in Miss Perry's bed
room, covering her with plaster. She,
wonderful to relate, escaped with slight
bruises.
There was a small landslide on to the
Portland & Rochester tracks, just beyond
the Washington street bridge The tracks
run around the base of high mud bank
io Glid down for q IAnnfh 0f at1nnf
eighty feet. and buried the line three or
four feet deep.
IN THE HARBoR.
Farther Reports of Damage to Vessels.
The harbor was full of floating wreck.
age OF all kinds yesterday morning.
Pieces of lobster cars and broken spars
fioated hithsr and thither while tug
boats pulled sturdily about rendering
aid where it was needed.
The schooner A. Heaton was the one