The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-02-14
The Worst Storm in Many Years.


4th, continued to Thursday night with
varying conditions, and proved in some re-
spects the worst storm in many years.
Never before was there so long time in
which no mail stages arrived. The Sears
port and Stockton Springs stage arrived
Tuesday forenoon, about hours late, made
several attempts to return, but did not sue
ceed in getting through until Friday. No
other stages arrived from Monday to Fri
day. The milk teams made their reg
ular trips with one exception, and in this
case the proprietor was sick. The steamer
Penobscot left here Monday afternoon for
Boston, but remained in Rockland until
Thursday morning at 4 o'clock. The NJ. &
M. between Bucksport and Camden and the
Silver Star on the Belfast, IslesborO and
Castine route made their regular trips.
John E. Lancasters express from Stockton
Springs arrived Friday noon. The city
schools were suspended Tuesday and We'd
nesday and the attendance was small Thurs
day. No pupils from the outside districts
came in after the storm began, as the teams
were unable to get through. Road Commits
sioner Levi L. Robbins had his crew, with
six horses on the triangle, and a force
of shovels at work constantly, and kept the
streets fairly well cleared. The sidewalk
crews found their walks filled in about as
Fast as they could shovel them out Two at
temptS were made, on Monday and Thurs
day evenings, to hold City Government
meetings, but failed for lack of quorum.
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blizzard which set in about d O'Clock Thurs
day evening and continued well into the
night. Roads and paths which had been
cleared during the day were filled up, and
travelling even on foot during the evening
was very difficult on account of the high
wind and drifting snow -
The county mails began to arrive Friday,
although Boynton was obliged to make a
part of his trip from Liberty on snow shoes
and Freeman found a snow drift near Little
River which obliged him to put up his team
and walk some distance. He borrowed a
team on the avenue to finish the trip. This
is the first time in twenty years that Mr..
Freeman has missed more than one day be-
cause of any one storm.
The Maine Central r. K. Co. cancelled its
freight trains and put the crews and engines
at work with the snow plows. The freight
came over the branch Friday and Saturday
and made an extra trip Sunday to work up
accumulated freight. In coming down Sun
day the engine broke when little below
Unity and it was necessary to send to Water
vile for another. The train arrived here
about O'Clock p. m. The agent of the Sun
day papers came on this train, instead of by
team as usual, but failed to notify the local
agents of his coming and many customers
went home before the papers arrived up
town.
Although no snow fell after Thursday
morning the high wind continued and the
roads and sidewalks continued to drift.
Sunday night drifts which would bear a
mans weight formed in The highways and
on the walks that were perfectly clean in
the evening
There were some unusually large snow
drifts. One house in Knox was completely
buried, and there is drift near the June
tion of the Patterson hill and Robbins roads
more than u feet high. These are but sam
Piles of drifts to be found all through the
country.
The temperature during the present month
| has been very low, the average but IA
above zero, and the wind blowing steadily
from the north to northwest and much of
the time blowing gale. Down to the pres
| ent writing, Wednesday forenoon, the roads
have filled up as fast as they could be
shoveled out. Tuesday, eight days after
the beginning of the storm, was the first
day in which all the stages made full trips
The gale renewed itself yesterday with
some snowfall and high northerly wind
filling iii the roads SO badly that but one
stage, that from Stockton Springs, arrived