New-York tribune., 1900-11-16
NOW PREPARE FOR WINTER
THEY HAD THREE FEET OF SNOW UP
THE STATE YESTERDAY
BLOCKED AND BUSINESS AT A STAND
sTILL-IT WAS ALMOST A BLIZZARD.

sTILL-1T WAS ALMOST A BLIZZARD.
Euna1o n Y. Nov 15-Snow fell in South
Buffalo during the night to the depth Of ten
inches and is still falling. North, East and
| West Buffalo were not affected by the storm,
! and I'D to $50 a. M not more than an inch of
| snow had fallen in these districts BetWeen
| Buffalo and Dunkirk the fall of snow has been
| heavy East Aurora reports Is inches, ana busi-
| ness at a standstill. Orchard Park reports
feet and Dunkirk 1S inches. At the postofice
| in this city the fast mail from the East was
reported thirty minutes late The mail train
of the Pennsylvania Railroad from Pittsburg,
arrived one hour and forty minutes late, coming
in over the Lake Shore tracks. Trains NOS. Is
and 90, from the West. the Lake Shore, are
reported thirty minutes late.
The snow did not drift in South Buffalo last
night and consequently there has been little
delay to streetcar traffic.
The greatest amount of SLOW accompanying
the storm has fallen in a belt extending from
West Seneca to Silver Creek along the Lake
Shore and for many miles inland. The snow at
Farnham and Angula was three feet on the
level at noon to-day. and the tracks OF the
Nickel Plate and Pennsylvania railroads We're
blocked.
The Nickel Plate has five freight trains stalled
between Silver Creek and Buffalo, and the
Pennsylvania has one freight train in the same
predicament.
Watertown, n. Y, Nov. 15.-Watertown is in
the grasp of a big blizzard. The storm began
late yesterday afternoon with a few furres of
snow AS the night came on the wind came up
and with the gale came an increase in the fall
of snow. All night long the snow fell and is
stin falling heavily. At 10 o'clock this morning
thirty inches of snow covered what was bare
ground yesterday afternoon.
The street car service is paralyzed, no cars
having been operated this forenoon On the
Rome, Wate~town and Ogdensburg branch Of the
New-York Central ploughs are hard at work
opening up the tracks. The trains are having
a hard pull all being from twenty minutes to
hour late Freight trains have been WITH
drawn from the service. Grocery sielghs nave
been abandoned in drifts of snow in the prin-
cipal streets of this city 1t is impossible for
ruralists to get to town with produce or to do
trading.
At 80 o'clock this afternoon. after the storm
had ragged for twenty hours, the snow ceased
falling Up to that time it had reached depth
Of three feet on the level Drifts Of snow from
six to ten feet in height line the business streets
Men are at work breaking roads in the business
districts Up to O'Clock this afternoon not a
car had been moved the street railway line
The trains on the railroad were reported from
one to two hours late. At o'clock snow began
falling again.
Oswego N Y Nov. ia blizzard struck
Oswego this afternoon and ragged for an hour.
Several inches of snow fell. and the temperature
dropped rapidly All trains on the Rome, Water
town and Ogdensburg Railroad from the east
are half an hour or more late and ploughs have
been sen out. large number OF vessels are
storm bound at this port.