Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-02-01
In GRIP OF BOREAS
Deep Shows ldLoV TemDaa-
1res Over Northern States.
HIGH WINDS ARE ALSO ADDED
Steam and Electric Roads Are
Paralyzed in Many Places.
BOSTON IN A BAD PLIGHT
Two Hundred Horses Killed by
Falling Trolley Wires.
SITUATION IN THE WEST
BOSTON IN A BAD PLIGHT
SITUATION IN THE WEST

| WORCESTER, Mass. February Not
since the memorable blizzard OF Mar,b
II. 1888, has this section been 50 COM
pletely snowbound. Business this morn
ing was practically suspended and IN,
streets In most parts OF the city w.r. i'm
passabie.
Inc storm began early Monday morning
ana Tor twenty-four hours It showed CON
uhuouslN There is probably an average
OF TWO feet Of snow on Level but tn.
h'gh winds that prevailed yesterday and
last night made huge drifts some of them
ten or fifteen feet high
Railroad service is at a stanastili aud
there is at this hour no communicable Of
any sort with Boston. None of the ,ele
graph or telephone companies have q wire
working, and IL is not known when a mail
train can get through. Postma ster Green
states that he is expecting news Of
starting OF train soon. but no plans hay.
as Yet been made.
Situation In Basto.
WORCESTER. Mass. February AT
noon communication with Boston WAS .s
| tablshed by telephone. Boston is COM
pietely blockaied today. Only Two or thre.
Street cars are running on Washington
suee'' ana railroad communication is prsc-
tically cut off
Over no horses were kfrla5 i,, ,,,t,
trolley wires and by exhaustion last night
ana their carcasses are lying I'm IN. street,
| today. most Of them being on fremont and
Washington streets in East Boston. No ia
lahties or accidents to people have been
reported up to noon
The railroad trains which LEFT the CITY
,s ,ast night are stalled. A train came in
| this morning from Newton on TN. Ro,,on
ana Albany; one on the Boston and Maine
from soneryilie; one from Milton on The
Oid colony, ana a fourth on IN. Revere
Beach from Lynn
The Boston streets with tho .,..,,,i -,
/ w sssshlnston and fremont, which are par
tia!ts1 fit &ned. are frnpassahl.a for peds.
.Iiahs. ana bsrzes have been pun in sef.ir@
10 accommodate traff1e.
Worcester IL Isolated.
Not train from Boston has atlivsi in
tiiis city since last night. Three trains
i'oih Spriheneld and the west have come
IN ana have started for Boston, Dt;t when
lheJ VIII arrive thsre is a matter Of doubt
Ire local railroads have no wires and no
means Of tracing the trains. The train
from Boston due here al 1920 d m il sun
posed 10 be stalled at South Fran,ingham
no trans nave arrived on the New Eng
land or the New York New Haven arm
Hartford roads. All Boston and Maine
trains have been Cancelled, except the on,,
due here at 80. and the road will devote
iis energies 10 the efert to get that one
throug n On the Boston and Albany on.
track is open from Springfield TO worces-
ter The last train from Boston was Che
last freight, due here at 9:13 last night
Whiclr arrived. at HAS. and got stalled in
the deep cut just outsida the city. bal VAS
pulled into the yard this morning
= Inere. Is story of wreck at I-Nbriige
where local train is said to nave colIided
with a snow plow. but the local officials
have no particulars.
The Fitchburg road managed 10 get one
train into Worcester.
Electric Lines Tied In.
The lines of the electric street railway
are tied up. and scores of cars We're siaIi-
ed at points Ilong the lines all night
Several snow piows sent out last even,
Ing are also imbedoed in huge drifts Prob.
ably some Of me lines will be opened up by
night.
There are reports of wrecked trains and
i1any stories, Of stalled passenger trains
which have not yet been verincd.
AT 10 O'Clock the storm here was over
and The sun came out.
1t is conside- -ed probable thlt The storm
WAS more severe east Of here and il will
be late in the day before there is any COM
municaticn with Boston.
blizzard I'm the Northwe.t.
CHICAGO. February 1.-Repor;s from
vsrious towns in Michigan northern MIS-
corsia and northern Indiana tell Of a
severe blizzard raging I'm that section OF
the country. The wind is blowing :, gale
and huge snowdrifts are being piled in
;he highways.
All trains are more or less DELAYED and
IN some tovns street railway u:sffi,. mas
been entirely suspended. The report from
Marquette, Mich, states that the storm on
TIE lake is fearful, and that WIVES ata
breaking completely over Picnic ROCKS,
something ttat they have not lone IN
years
a reputation established as "a record
breaker IL was tie warmest January i'm
tnis city IN twenty-six years. The figures
prove that il had l75 degrees excess ~
heat as reckoned by the books OF the
weather bureau. Those figures are oh
tained with the mean Temperature as "a
basis for computation. the month having
been almost degrees above the normal
temperature of 3 degrees.
Peculiar Character OF Storu..
Besides making a name for Itself as IN
unusually warm month January was re-
narkatle for the peculiar character of the
storms. which visited the country dursns
its thirty-one days.
Instead OF the usual visitations of zero
weather from the far northwest IN the
fern OF bllzxards and piercing winds there
have been no. less than six successive
of these storms have taken place within
the last two weeks. and each has prc.iilced
heavy rains and SHOWS In the western ard
eeItrsi states. They have invariably orig
be derived by the farmers are beyond cai- !.
culatien. =
Still spowing af Albany.
ALBANY. N. T.. February 1.-The storm
which started here late yesterday after
non still continues There is now thres
and half feet OF SNOW on the level and
over public roads. and in the outlying coun-
try the drifts are ten and twelve feet nigh.
The car lines. BY running sweepers and
plows during the night. have kept up traf-
&c. but are not rurning on scneduls time