Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-03-05
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OUGHkEEPsIE CUT
OFF FROM WORLD

pUughkcepse y. Y, March 2.-For 80
hours, commencing Sunday afternoon,
Poughkeepsie was cut off from COmmu-
ncation with the outside world because
Of the worst wind and snow storm since
March T., 1855. Great damage was done
By the wind and wet, heavy snow
scores of telegraph and telephone poles
being carried down, roofs giving way UNI
der weight of the tremendous load and
fruit trees being crushed to earth as if
they were feather busters
The storm started Sunday morning with
a light fall of heavy snow and by late
afternoon the snowfall Increased, accom-
panied by 72-mile-an-hour gale. Along
the hudson rivers banks telegraph and
telephone poles We're snapped off like
pipe stems, carrying a mass of tangled
wires with them. In the city the electr-
, cal power was shut Off, except on Main
street. and the city was practically in
darkness, this action being taken because
of the ENHANCEMENT of telephone wires
falling over electric light wires their
ends dangling on the walks.
All communication with the outside
world failed at half past two o'clock Sun
| day afternoon, the Daily Eagles AS
! ISOLATED Press wire being the last wire to
go dead" Telephone communication
| had failed earlier in the day and neither
| of the telegraph companies or the tele-
| phone company had Il wire outside the
city limits.
| SHOVELS Stow, DROPS DEAD.
John r, Bayer, a prominent resident
| here, shovelled his walk late Sunday
| afternoon, walked into his home and
! dropped dead from exhaustion.
| Frank Smith. Hudson State hospital
| attendant, walked across the Hudson on
| the ice and when in the middle of the
| river a huge icice dropped from the
| PouGhkeepsc bridge a few feet in front
Of him, tore away the ice and dropped
Smith into the water. He was rescued
with difficulty.
Several funerals had to be postponed
because undertakers found it impossible
to order Baskets from New York,
The Hudson valley fruit belt felt the
ravages of the storm and the loss to the
fruit crop will be enormous
All railroad traffic was paralyzed and
several trains on the Central New Eng
land railroad due in Poughkeepse sun
day evening were not even located until
late this afternoon.
Many roofs about town collapsed be-
cause of the weight Of the wet snow and
lgreen houses suffered greatly. Much dam
age was also done by the wind. the tower
OF one factory being carried away.
Scores of teams have been pressed into
service in order that traffic on the mar
streets might be resumed.
Tonight the storm has abated and tn,
mercury is dropping rapidly.
PENNSYLVANIA RECEIVERS,
! Philadelphia, March 2.-Eastern Penn
. sylvania, Delaware and southern New
Jersey are gradually recovering from th'
effects of the blizzard which ragged from
, early Yesterday until nearly nightfall to
day. Wire communication between thi
city and New York as well as points OF
the New Jersey coast, remains virtual!
= at a standstil, but railroad traffic to anC
, from New York has been re-established
althouRh on an uncertain scale.
Thirteen deaths due to the storm wer
reported from this city and nearby sec
q tons
Vice President Marshall arrived her,
2 at eight o'clock tonight after beinl
, marooned for IA hours near New
, Brunswick on the way from New York
The vice-presldent left for Washing
n ton shortly afterward apparently nom
& the worse for his experience.
|. STORM GOES OUT TO SEA.
Washington, March 1.-The storm
which gripped the entire east durini
the last "a hours, paralyzing traffic
y demolishng telegraph and telephon
J. lines and causing tremendous losse
n to property and business generally. wa
n reported tonight to be off Boston
e Mass, and rapidly passing out to sea
e. Moderate temperatures with abate
# winds, were promised by the weathe
} bureau for tomorrow.