Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-12-01
SATURDAYS SEVERE STORM
The Snow From Six to Eight
Inches on the Level. 7
SEVERAL FEET DEEP IN DRIFTS
Travel on Street Car Lines
lnterfered With.


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The snow storm which started son
Saturday morning came to an end that
hight and left mantle Of six to eight
+ nches on level and several feet where
10 drifted. Sunday dawned bright
xhnd clear and was an invigorating
winter day. 1t would have been more
E Fpleasant il the wind had not been at
Dimes rather high and the walking had
not been treacherous. The trees were
garbed in white, the effect being very
fbeautiful.
While the storm was in progress and
Natter it had ceased, the Wilmington
g$5eCity Railway Co. was working to keep
FITS tracks clear. Street car travel was
ipterfered with and especially was this
NE case with the Riverview line Sun,
II lay morning.
5# Although the fall of snow was heavy,
2Yt did not seriously affect railroad
travel within the State. Trains from
32 New York and the East were delayed
Aby large drifts On the Philadelphia,
Wilmington & Baltimore railroad, trains
enlountered drifts at several points,
Z *notably at Gray's Ferry, Claymont and
near Shellpot bridge. The fast mail
due here at s.0l Sunday morning
from Boston was caught in the snow
several miles frbm New Haven, Conn,
and delayed for hours.
The early morning paper train on the
baltimore Il Ohio railroad Sunday
ran into a huge snow drift below
s Holmes station and had to be dug out.
The glass in the cab was broken and
|1ingineer Nicholas Tooney had his face
sfPut.
,SS5 The @. & 0. express due to leave this
i4&ity ut g.. O'Clock Sunday morning
did not arrive until after 0 O'Clock on
~ onday, the delay being due to the
fhct that the train was caught in a
A'snow drift on the New York, New
,Ea Haven II Hartford railroad short dis
|l|tance east Of New Haven, Conn. The
gdrift in which the train was stuck was
M 25 feet in height and extended for
several hundred feet. 1t required the
worl1 of four engines to remove the in
4&bedded engine and car which had
the drift.
1& The storm affected the telephone SER
mice to some extent, crossed wires put
Ming a number of telephones into
The weight of the snow and
the wires broke "a telegraph pole at
9Frcnt and Madison, and an electric
l light pole was blown down at Thirteenth
Wind Thatcher. The two telegraph com
Ranies experienced little difficulty to
ecure outside communication.
5ome milkmen did not come to. town
Bfhday morning. They weressnowed
tfH In, the peculiar way it has the
wind shifted the snow around until it
Ind the country roads filled up, and
Linen the farmers found that it was
Ieasier to drive across fields than along
&the usual routes. But is some cases
4he milkmen found too much snow fo-
W[Aween them and good travelling and re-
<pained at home ~
}* Deputy United States Marshal James
Wxtlark, who lives at Delaware City,
ihted on Monday that the roads in
Nat vicinity were almost impassible,
fAe drifts in some places being seven
Jeet high. Many milkmen used farm
wagons drawn by four horses instead
Qf ordinary milk wagons to move their
Mxairy products about.
In the afternoon, the wind lifted the
roof from Noah Craig's house, No. 407
XScott street. The family was fright
WPned but no one was hurt and the dam
Nbge will be small.
W 1t was great day for sleighing, even
83f the wind interfered with full en-
Wjoyment of the sport. Many rigs were
Yfput, and persons who had no sleighs
Xbnvied those who had.
A horse attached to n sleigh from
Harry j. Everson's livery stable, ran
Naway Sunday afternoon. 1t dashed
Ndown French street and was checked
My the safety gates at Water street, u
Urain having Just pulled into the
Htation. Officers Purcell and w. J.
Massey, captured the horse. The shafts
Eere broken. &
Sundays blizzard and the heavy
bow which preceded it were s'terror''
b the Delaware Bay and River. In
he experience of the Oldest navigator
bere is no recollection of trip so full
IN peril as was the comparatively short
Rn Of 100 miles from the Breakwater
Philadelphia.
MAlthough the snow was very thick
Wpring Saturday afternoon, steamers
nd vessels in tow were able to make
Pdway against it and there was no
Emanent interruption to navigation
d1htil after sunset. Then, augmented
the high wind, which drove the
hthery flakes in binding sheets di-
city down the channel, the storm as
ned proportions which no skipper Oh
II pt had the hardihood TO face h
Your vessels ventured out Sunday.
he reports brought in by arriving
gs gave anything but indications d
pleasant voyage, and in the face OF
bvious difficulties the captains pre-
Rrred to lie at their anchorage grounds
I'd the crews to hug the galley fire.
The greatest sufferers from the uii-
fecedented cold were the United
tates government officers. Inspector
}auch took trip Sunday morning
"a the revenue cutter Washington as
ftr as the Horseshoe and described the
Einging wind as terrible inits severity.
lr. Rsuch said on Sunday that the few
igboats that were out were so covered
18th ice and snow that their names
build not be distinguished. ~
The schooner William M. Wilson,
pm Philadelphia for Norfolk, with a
rgo of coal, sprung leak four miles
1uth Of Metomkin Life Saving Station
unday. Her signals were promptly
f answered, and the guards took off her
ew of six men. The schooner is an.
Pored milo and u half off shore. A
lmber of vessels off the capes were
bable to get into The harbor Sunday,
hd it is feared that there have been
eavy losses. 3Gf
The steamer Republics pier at Cape
= lny Point was almost entirely de
t olished Sunday by the wind and
j eavy sea.
! The winter now begun, promises tc
long and cold, according to the