The Portland daily press., 1899-02-15

Much Troublcd BY lee
BY O'Clock last night the railroads.
both steam and electric, had recovered
from the effects Of the big storm Of Mon
day, and trains and oars on nearly every
road were once more moving on sohsd-
ule time. Thsre are points along the
lines Of these roads In the vicinity of
Portland where 1t was necessary to cut
through enormous dirtts, but the warm
sun aided greatly in firmly packing
down the light snow. and unless another
heavy gale o~surs BY tonight all delay
to traffic from the storm win be over.
come.
day Monday and Monday night piled IS
inches of snow In Portland's streets.
Drifting As 1t came 1t lay yesterday morn
ing In huge banks some Of them six
feet high. One side Of the street would
be blown bare Of snow and the other side
would DO deeply buried In drifts. Yes
terdAy morning all traffic BY car or
teams with the outside world was sus-
pended. People had to do without milk
for breakfast In many cases, for no milk
men could reach the city. The electric
cars all stopped running late Monday
night and yesterday morning the tracks
were buried In snow.
The steam cars were not running yes.
terday morning, though an attempt was
made at an early hour to open the trucks.
The morning trains were sent out with
snowplow ahead and made slow progress
into the country. None of the morning
trains came in on time. The Portland
and Rochester got a car through. arriving
here from Gorham at O'Clock. The
steam railroads worked under diffioul-
ties, for the high northwest wind out
In the open country drifted the tracks
under almost a. fast rs they could be
broken out.
The Portland Railroad company showed
great energy yesterday morning In get
ting ct the work Of breaking out their
lines. At daylight they began opera
tions. Snow plows with one or two cars
behind, were run out In several direo-
lions and pushed their way through the
drifts very slowly. Near City hall q
snow pillow went of the strack and 1t
the rails. During the forenoon NO regular
cars were run anywhere. Snow plows
cleared the Congress street and Spring
street lines, but the Stroudwater tracks
were not uncovered. No attempt was
made to dig out the North Deering
lines, but snow pillow and several cars
got through to Morrill's Corner. The Riv-
erton line was not broken out until late
yesterday afternoon. The work Of open
ing the Westbrook tracks was begun
yesterday morning from the Westhrook
end, put 1t was we'll along in the ate
noon before the first oar from Westbrook
got through. Out on this line the snow
Ing. Yesterday afternoon cars were
running ON the city lines on regular
schedule time. Cars did not begin to
run on the branch lines on time until
late last evening.
The Cape road got snow plow and
several cars through from the power
house to the Rochester depot yesterday
forenoon and men were at work on the
Willard and Pleassntdale tracks. No
cars ran to the cape yesterday morning,
but by night nearly the whole length Of
the Cape line was In operation.
The Yarmouth line had not been broken
out at noon yesterday and it is doubt
full II cars begin to run there until to-
day 1t has drifted badly out on the ex-
posed portions Of that line. The big
snow pillow OF the Yarmouth road Was
slowl cutting its way into Portland,
and at o'clock last night had reached
a point some two miles from Tukey's
bridge. 1t was expected that tho road
would be cleared by today noon for
traf1ic.
THE STEAM RAILROADS.
The steam railroads were all badly de-
moralissd. On the Maine Central yester
day morning the local trains got In dur
ing the forenoon, and the morning
trains, with one or two cars, made many
attempts to get through eastward. The
noon trains did not show up and did
not get in until late yesterday afternoon.
Over the Mountain division q train
worked its way In during the forenoon.
A train from Boston got in about 10 80
yesterday morning, having Go or 70 pas
sengers. This train lett Boston Monday
and should have arrived here Monday
night The Maine Central yesterday af-
ternoon started short trains out east
ward on both branches.
A train started from here for Boston
Yesterday afternoon and was expected to
reach that city late last night. The train
due here from Boston at noon did not
arrive until O'Clock. The other trains
from Boston were correspondingly de.
layed up to late hour last night. To.
day they win be running on schedule
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