Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-16
AFTER THE BLIZZARD.
Most Disastrous Storm That Has Oc-
Cured In Years.
sWE IT THE WHOLE COUNTRY
Was Most Severe Along the Atinh''c
sencoast - Railroad TrnH'c wa"
Practically Suspended - M"ch
namare Done to shipping.

| washington, Feb l5.--The great Al"
antic coast storm has passed on 10 t"e
Nova Scotia coast with rapid velocity
and almost unprecedented deFe'op-
ments. At Woods Hole Mass, on MOL
lay night at s p. m, the barometer
read Is. Sc inches, a fall of an men III IL
hours; at Nantucket at midnight the
reading was 1856 inches and this morn
ing at Halifax 1892 inches. Owing TO
the extent and extreme destructivehess
this storm will always be remembered
az the greatest storm in the history Vi
the Atlantic coast states and was MOST
remarkable for the perfect combination
OF conditions necessary to produce such
results. An abnormally high baromet-
rio area, accompanied by severe
cold wave was moving southeastWaro
to the gulf states, and disturbance
was developing on its southeastern
edge. The result was inevitable, ana as
RAPIDLY as possible widespread warn
ings were distributed on Saturday in
the west gulf states Of impending Sc
we're freezing weather on the coasts.
Saturday night the warnings were
extended to Florida, and both were fur-
Their supplemented on Sunday morning
by additional and more positive warm
ings Other warnings We're also sent on
Monday to Havana and the bahamas.
While the immense loss of property is
to be greatly deplored, 1t Is gratifying
to learn that as much as possible was
saved by the timeliness of the warn
ings. Nearly all temperature RECORDS
were broken in the gulf and south At
lantic states. The temperature AT New
Orleans reached degrees, 9 degrees
lower than any previous record; at
Vicksburg, ! degree below zero, de-
grees below the record; at Jacksonville
10 degrees, or 4 degrees below the rec
ord, with heavy snow and sleet, and at
Jupiter minimum of IS degrees was
reached Tuesday morning.
The Course Of the storm.
Az the storm moved northward from
Florida the character of the destructive
element changed. While the cold con-
tinued. the snowfall became the pre-
dominating and, as it afterward proved,
a very serious factor in the situation.
Snow was general from Florida north
ward and was heavy as far south as
South Carolina. From Virginia north
ward the amount ranged from 10 to 80
inches, hut was not well distributed
The greatest fall. q inches, was report
ed from northern Virginia. At Wash
ington the fall was q inches, or a total
Of 81 inches during the past eight days
by far the greatest snowfall for at least
65 years. as shown by the records. On
Sunday morning 1t became evident that
heavy snow would fall in the Atlantic
and New England states, and warnings
to this effect We're at once issued.
The northward movement of the storm
also necesstated the hosting OF storm
signals along the entire Atlantic coast
by p. IN. Sunday. BY Monday morn
ing It became apparent that the storm
would prove one Of extreme severity OH
account of the high winds and heavy
drifting snow. and hurricane warnings
were thereupon ordered along the en-
tire coast from Delaware Breakwater to
Eastport. The hosting Of this extreme
danger signal was fully justified by the
resultant events as winds of as high as
= miles an hour were reported, with
binding snow.