The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1898-12-02
A November Blizzard.
SUNDAYS FAIL OF SNOW
BLOCKS RAILROAD
TRAVEL,
And Paralyzes Business.
And Paralyzes Business.
A HEAVY FALL OF STOW ON
WEDNESDAY TIES UP THINGS
AGAIN FOR A FEW HOURS.

Each year seems to have peculiarities
of weather TO mark its future history
and, so far, this year has done remark
ably we'll In this respect. There was the
Fourth of July tornado to pass down to
pOsterity and now we have Just expe-
rienced a November blizzard almost
rivalling, IN its fury, the famous blizzard
OF 1855 which came in March. lE was
not as severe storm and there was not
the fall OF snow as in 'SS, but neverthe-
less 1t was hummer" and will stand
ia history as the most severe storm this
section Of country has experienced since
that time.
1t come in November, too, and such q
storm In this month cannot be remember
ed rs happening before, even in the
memory Of the old Inhabitants. They
are never expected nowadays till
February or March. No one thought,
when the foe snow began sitting
through the air ON Saturday afternoon,
that IL would amount to much. But it
Kept on Increasing in strength and by
nghtfall the wind was chasing 1t at such
furious so mile gait that in sheer des.
peration it hid and piled itself behind
anything, to ct cape the ruthless pummeI-
ing and tossing iC was receiving. Both
wind and snow kept up its chase until
late Sunday afternoon, when the air
GitdTtu luSb III ouusGb huu Luc SHuW
ceased falling. The wind did not stop,
however, and on Monday morning it had
slNckened It's pace very little.
The scene which greeted the eye In
every direction was huge piles of snow,
with large number OF bald spots, sand
wiched iU, where there was no white
covering. or course there was no SER
vices in the churches on Sunday. No
one could get there and it was on Sun
day IL o ming when being out was exceed.
ing perilous TO be far away flo n the
hearJh-stone. The sexton of the EpIsco-
pal church, K. G.. Lake, and two of his
neighbOra, VINO came down Street, had
gate exciting times battling the snow
and drifts before they again reached
their homes, and were quite exhausted.
There was some shOveling done, Sun
day, but iC was of very little use as the
wind hustled IL back again nearly as
quickly as 1t was thrown out. The east
side OF the Street got the worst of the
drifts, though both sides had q sufficlen-
cy.
By nCol, Monday, the sidewalks were
preL,y much cleared, but not many teams
had ventured out.
The Il sc outsiders to arrive were l..
s. Mason and son from MI Pleasant.
They walked down aud reported road
way pretty we'll led. Peck's hill was
completely filed in and al proper inter.
walls all along the road there were huge
drifts that would take plenty of SHOW
cling.
The road to the depot was sight.
There was big drift ut the top of the
hill, another down by Mr. Otis place and
from the Fair grounds, pretty much all
the way the depot, the road was filled
with snow from two to five feet deep.
Il, ). Lowell tried co get to the depot on
Sunday afternoon but his horse got down
and he gave It up. He started out again,
Monday morning, with mis- milk, this time
taking shovela, and by leaving the road
way at Mrs W. l.. Terrill's aud taking a
circuiCous route through her land was
the first man TO get team through. A
little later James Farrell came along with
his OK team and he was followed by
George Dew with oxen. A garg OF
shoVeleis, under John Blsckman's direc-
ton, shoveled what the oxen could not
break thu rough and by noon a road
was open To tue depor. There we're drifts
everywhere on the roads, but east and
west roads suffered far the worst. The
road from the depot tn Sandy Fl ok was
also very baCl, filed in and some Of the
drifts were - large as any ever seen on
the road before. A gang OF shovelers
got teams through shortly after neon,
MONDAY, aud Stage Driver Charles Haw-
ley smiled again as usual to have his
stage running on time.