Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-02-04
COLD WAVE FOLLOWS
Some Trains Nine Hours Late
Pittsburg Partly under Water
business Near Standstill at
a Few POints-DOminiOn
Snowfall Worst in Years.

| is general from the middle West to the
middle Atlantic States, New England and
| throughout Canada. Rain. sleet, snow
and wind have all contributed their quota
| to the disrupting of railway traffic. the
| hampcring of wire communication and,
in some sections, to the raising of rivers
to the food point with considerable dam
age resulting.
There have been heavy snowstorms
| in the northern tier of States from
east to west in some sections several
feet Of snow having fallen. As a re-
suit, railway traffic either has been al
most suspended or greatly retarded.
1 AS as example of conditions might be
cited the plight of Chicago and
! Northwestern train filled with pas
| senEers which was held in a huge bank
of snow near Married. Wis. from ten
o'clock Sunday night until Tuesday af-
ternoon. No train reached Green Bay
Wis. over the Northwestern line for
a period of fourteen hours. Western
| Missouri, Kansas and southern Ne
braska report that heavy snow storm
has set in.
| WIRES ARE DOWN.
| In the Middle West many telephone
and telegraph wires have been carried
down by seet and ice. and a fall IN
temperature is causing additional trou-
BILE. The Increasing cold has contract
ed the lines, heavily coated with Ice.
and large numbers of wires are breaking
as a result. Wire communication from
Chicago to many points was difficult for
a time and in some instances entirely
cut off This traffic has now been re-
stored to all points in the West. how
ever. although in many cases It has been
found necessary to resort to indirect
routing.
Northern and western New York and
New England have been hit hard by a
snow storm which almost reached tn ,
proportions Of a blizzard. Traffic OF all
kinds has suffered severely, the electric
lines being the hardest hit. Ogdensburg,
N. Y, reports that business there has
been almost entirely suspended as a re-
suit of the northerly gale and drifting
snow. Slcet and snow borne into the
section about Rochester by a So-milc
northeaster caused one OF the worst
te-ups in the history of interurban traf-
tic there. Massachusetts and Connect
cut points reported similar tying-up of
traffic on electric lines by the snow
storm.
RIVERS OVERFLOW.
The Monongahela and Allegheny rivers
have reached the flood stage as the result
of the snow and rain At the point where
they Join to form the Ohio considerable
damage has been done. The low lying
sections of Pittsburg are inundated and
trolley and railroad traffic there were at
Il standstill Tuesday night. Hundreds OF
families have left their homes in this Sec
ton and at points up the Allegheny.
Many manufacturing plants located along
the three rivers have been forced to cease
operations temporarily. AT Martin S
/, Ferry. Ohio. 1000 men have been forced to
quit work and at East Liverpool the mu'
nicipal pumping station and four potter
les have been isolated However, the rair
having ceased and the temperature hav
ing fallen. the weather bureau expresses
the hope that the foods's crest will not
reach 80 feet.
The Rarltan river in New Jersey alst
is out OF it's banks and at New Brunswicl
two manufacturing plants have beer
forced to close. Considerable damage
, has been done there as a result OF cellars
} being flooded.
CANADA HARD HIT.
What the Canadian railway authoritie
characterized as the most severe snow
: storm to visit the Dominion in years ha
partially demoralized railway traffic oil
the main lines throughout the countr.
.. and has tied up operations completed!
on branch lines. All trains are arriving
In Toronto from four to nine hours lat
and some are still held up by drifts
Telegraph and telephone companies stat
that wire communication has not beel
seriously hamrered.
New York city has not been a sever
sufferer from the storm, although for
time traffic was considerably affected b.
sleet and snow which froze to track
and trolley wires. The street cleaning
: department has set TO work Its vas
army OF men to remove the two inche
or more Of frozen slush and ice fror
the streets
h Seabright. n. j., again suffered con
siderable from the seas which cause
destructive washouts at several points
. A number of buildings along the waite
front have been undermined II wa
expected they would go to pieces