The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-15

Town-Big Force Clearing city,
Streets.
The most disastrous blizzard Connec
ticut has seen since the memorable one
of 1888 has done it's worst and nearly
| everybody in the entire New England
states, as well as people elsewhere, ara
rejoicing at it's timely ending. In spite
of all previous experiences the east is
not the place for such phenomena, and
the east will never really be prepared
for them when they come The havoc
the recent storm has wrought in its
short period of existence has not as yet
been fully reported, but cities all along
the Atlantic coast testify to a greater
or less degree of annoyance. 1t is gen
orally conceded that for the length oil
time 1T was in existence the storm has
surpassed anything Connecticut has
ever had to undergo in the memory of
| this generation. Its full force cannot be
| accurately judged from the portion of il
received in this city, as the greatest vio-
lence was not felt in this region, but
at other portions of the country ii
| was strong enough to make it seem
| more like hurricane than anything
else.
The storm was .severest in this region
from 1 to o'clock on Monday after
noon, with the wind blowing at rate
n aic oh
mum violence. AT o'clock it had mod
Grated somewhat, but in a short while
the snow began to fall heavier than
ever, keep this up steadily until 2
O'Clock yesterday morning, when the
storm began to moderate, ceasing en-
trely at o'clock. During those hours
not train was running in any of the
northern states, not a trolley car was
in motion, everything, in fact, but the
snow plows Intellectually working on the
street railroads, having ceased strug-
Cling to wait for the storms end.
1t was gladstone sight to all
to see the first rays of the sun begin to
show above the horizon yesterday morn
ing, promising help in clearing off the
immense drifts which had tied up traf-
fic. The temperature too, showed many
degrees more Of warmth and with these
helps the work of the storm was par
TALLY undone during the day and af-
fairs again began to assume their regu-
lar course.
The railroads showed the greatest ac-
tivity in clearing their lines and open
ing their roads, and early in the morn
ing the Consolidated road set as many
men as could be hired to WELD shovel
to work to extricate their lines from the
grasp of the snow king. Heroic efforts
were made during the afternoon and
evening to keep the road open, but at
o'clock last evening the system was
practically closed The last train to get
through to New York left at 1850 with
two big engines hauling it, A train
leaving one hour later was stalled, and
at 9:15 yesterday morning was only at
Greenwich on the way down.
The greatest efforts were made during
the morning to open the line through
and by o'clock they succeeded. At
that time two freight trains that had
been out under the Howard avenue
bridge for forty-eight hours, with the
help of a switch engine, were pulled into
the yard, and rapidly following them
the passenger trains from New York
began to arrive; while a pretense of
starting the regular trains for that city
was made.
The mail trains We're also handled as
speedily as possible and to-day the post
offices throughout the country will be
under the rush of long delayed
mails. Suburban mails at the local
postoffice have not been delivered at all
since the starting of the storm, and the
mails for Westville Whitneyvile, AL
lingtown. Highwood, Montowese and
East Haven were not sent out until
noon yesterday.
The New York mails due in New Fla
ven at IL o'clock Monday night did not
reach here until o'clock yesterday
noon. Mails from the south and Wash
ington were received at 9:15; also a day
late, while the mails due here at
o'clock the day before, which come by
way Of Springfield, were not received
until the same time in the morning.
From the Berkshire, Derby and Air
Line division no mails have been yet
received, and their reaching here at all
will depend entirely upon the depth of
the drifts upon these lines.
The street car roads did not begin to
their equilibrium, which had
received such an unceremonious tum-
BILE, until nearly noon. At that time
the Winchester avenue cars We're MAX
ing their regular trips from West Ha-
ven to the green, but the Woodmont |
route still presented a prmeval ex-
panse of snow. The Fair Haven and |
Westville road also began to run few !
cars through to Westville, the first |
since A o'clock on the preceding day, |
while the snow plow was diligently |
opening the State street line to Schuet- |
zen park. The Whitney avenue cars
lad begun to run as early as 9 o'clock |
out their trips did not extend beyond |
Gamer street.
The depot cars We're also running |
Early, but the other parts of the road |
we're still an unknown quantity.
At o'clock last evening, with 400
men at work during the day, the pro-
,ress made was the opening of the
State street line to Schuetzen park, the
Oixwell avenue line to Highwook, the
Whitney avenue line to the lake, and
he Chapel street line. The delay in
opening the other lines was due In
treat part to q scarcity Of men, the
ailroads having absorbed all the