The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-02-06
Heaviest Storm
of Winter in N. Il.
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along the Atlantic coast from Mary
land to Maine was forcasted today
by the weather bureau. The peak
of the storm is now in New England
where the heaviest fall of snow og
the winter, 20 inches, was recorded
in places. The fall was general from
the Canadian border to Virginia, and
covered path west to the upper
Ohio valley.
TRAIN 10 HOURS LATE
With a snowfall in st. Johnsbuly
and vicinity of 13 inches this section
fortunately escaped the great blizzard
which has visited other parts of New
England and aside from the incon-
venience of removing the snow rail
road traffic in this section has not
been effected and most of the trains
except for the south have been run
ming on time. The Fairbanks Museum
reports that this storm had much
water in it, their records showing LA
inches of water in the - inch snow
fall This will make it less liable to
drift than if the snow has less mois-
ture.
The trains on the Maine Ce1tral
road have been practically on time
and the St. j. & l.. C.l1ailroad which
used to furnish the records in other
winters is hardly effected by the
storm. In fact the evening train from
the west came into st. Johnsbury
Thursday night nearer on time than
any other night this winter. The
big snow-plow started west early this
morning and the trainmen report lit
tie snow west of Greensboro.
The trains from the north Thurs
day night were each about an hour
late and the mail Friday morning was
only eight minutes behind its sche-
dule when it pulled INTO st. Johns
bury.
The tale of the trains from the
South is much different one. The
mail train from the South, due here
at 4.30, was two hours late, while
the night mail from the South was
seven hours behind its schedule. The
night "air line" did rot reach St.
Johnsbury unit Friday afternoon, be-
ing 10 hours late.
BOSTON HARD HIT
BOSTON, Feb. 6-The blizzard
which swept New England for "A
hours isolating many communities,
narrowing thousands Of commuters
and crippling virtually all activities
passed out to sea today, leaving IN
it's wake conditions which offered
little prospect of return to normal
conditions for days. With arteries
of travel everywhere checked,
heavy rain set in this morning and a
freeze up on top of it was forcasted.
1t was the most complete storm
prostration experienced in this sec
ton since the gale of 1898. Unlike
that storm little of the effects OF the
.iizzard was felt at sea.
The story of this storm was that
of passengers stalled in trains over
night, others spending sleepless hours
in the confusion of railroad stations,
night in which every hotel room,
corridor. billiard room and bar was
utilized to place cots and lay Dian
kets. Some trains caught IN snow
drifts yesterday were still held last
with the passengers today.
At South Braintree four trans
which started out yesterday or last
night were stalled this morning. Sub
urban service on the New Haven
railroad was stopped entirely. The
midnight trains for New York had
,1ortly before noon today |
Officials sent special trains out with
food and coffee for stranded pas
sengers. The B. e. NJ. was somewhat
better off than the New Haven. It's
Western division was almost clear
but its Eastern division which runs
along the coast was exposed to the |
full weight of the storm.
The B. & NJ. operated about p per
cent of its trains today taking OFT
many during the midday period to
conserve its resources FOR the nome /
going crowds, many Of whom spent
last night at their Offices or else
where in the city. Boston turned 10
dig itself out of its snow cover that
varied from IL to 20 inches today;
Street cars were stalled here ana
there were automobiles upside down |
ON the side of snowbanks abandoned |
nv their drivers. To get the clty
out from under the snow, city OH
Gals turned an army of 1900 men
lose with shovels and snowploughs
and offered 90 cents an hour Tor