The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-02-14

l bearing In the northwest, sending the temperature which was 30 and 40 de-
 grees below zero on Sunday, up to 20
 and 30 degrees above. The southern
 states are now in the sweep of the cold
 wave and the temperature In Atlanta Ga, was degrees below zero yester- day. Other degrees of codness reached during the day in that region were degrees below in Montgomery, Ala, and
 only degrees above as far south as
 New Orleans.
 The present indications for this sec-
 tion of the country are that the temper
 ature to-day will continue the same as
 yesterday, with a cessation of snow,
 while tomorrow little warmer tenn
 perature may be looked for, with rain
 not unlikely.
 The only ones to whom the storm of
 yesterday was in any way welcome
 were the school children, to whom the
 sound of the fire bell at o'clock an-
 nouncing that there would be no ses-
 sion, was gladsome one. As the day
 progressed and the driving storm inter-
 fered seriously with business and traf-
 fic in general, it began to look as though
 New Haven was in for another general
 blockade.
 On the railroad the first trouble was
 experienced. The snow, gathering in
 the many gulies and being heaped into drifts by the wind, began to be a serious
 hindrance to the trains, and by twelve o'clock the trains on all the divisions were from one to two hours late. Ear ly in the morning the freight trains be- gan to get stalled and finally orders were sent out to suspend their running. In the passenger service up to noon the delays were not so serious, the biggest losses of time naturally occurring on the through trains from Boston. At noon, however, the trains were from one to two hours late and no pretense was made of following the schedule. The Colonial express, which goes through to Washington via Harlem River, due In New Haven at :30, did not come in until nearly 3 o'clock, and when it did further progress was impossible on &C., count of the drifts
 From 1 o'clock p. m. to last evening the system was practically at stand- still. One train which started for New York at o'clock got stalled in the drifts at West Haven and an engine had to be sent down to pull it out. At 7:49 last evening the line again was, in a measure, open and train started for New York, closely followed by another at 8:15.
 Transportation on the sound has been practically at standstill since Satur- day, and it was only with the greatest .Is lrl-. that the Richard Peck made her trip on Sunday. The harbor is frozen from shore to shore, and the | sound and East river is also practically | The Empire and New | England Transportation company is al- | SO a great sufferer from the ice block | lde, and many of their barges have not | been heard from at all.
 Yesterday the mails during the day were all late in coming in from all di- rections, and but two trips were made l oy the carriers.
 The telephone and telegraph compan- es are having the best fortune of any if those who generally Suffer from such | l storm, and up to late last evening none of their wires had been reported Town.
 The Southern New England Telephone company wires were in first class work ng order throughout the night.
 By those who were forced by their to be out in the storm in all ts fury it was felt the most, and num- rous cases of frozen ears and hands lmong the motormen and others were eported.
 Many of the factories gave their em- ,loyes a vacation during the storm, 'argent & Co. closing at 1 o'clock.
 Early last evening the local street ailway companies, after struggling ard all day to keep their lines open, were compelled to give up to the storm ing. By o'clock last evening it was cen that 1t would be useless to keep he tracks open and cars were run into he barns as fast as they could be { adhered in from the various points on he lines The last car on the Whitney venue line was run in from Whitney ( file shortly after o'clock The Fair l [aven and Westville road managers at g nat time had decided that 1t would be [ seless to attempt to run cars all night ( l rs were kept going over their lines l the snow was drifted over f le tracks behind them before they had t one half dozen blocks s It was therefore deemed advisable to ! Ut all the cars in the barns and clear v le road as, if cars were stalled along le line, it would be impossible to run :, le blows way through this morning. t Il o'clock last night all the cars a ere in the barns except two, which ere stalled near the corner of Grand @' venue and Bradley street. At that )int the snow was piled several feet |, ,ep over the track and large force of C. en was at work endeaVorlng to clear = em off. The blows and sweepers were ,, ,pt running over portions of the line o night, but could not keep 1t clear. n
 was impossible to say with any de- T, zee of certainty last night how long !,
 would be before the lines would be r ,ened for traffic. " An attempt was made to keep three o ITS running over the Winchester ave- F le line last night in order to help the s ows and sweepers to keep the line SC ear. These cars were. however, stall tt
 early in the evening somewhere be- s ;een the green and the office of the ad in West Haven. They did not II ach the green until after midnight, & har opo nf tbap, pou1ooa1 tp hraoly l