The Sun

PLOUGHING THROUGH SNOW DRIFTS
Trains in New Jersey and on Long Island Delayed by Tuesday's Storm.

Long Branch, Dec. 22.-The great snow storm of yesterday, after lasting fifteen hours, cleared at midnight. The snow fell nearly twenty inches deep on a level, and some of the drifts are ten feet high. Mr. Hoey's large greenhouses at West End Station are buried out of sight, and unless a thaw sets in it will take weeks to clear the glass. It is feared that many of the choice collections of cacti in the tropical house will perish. The snow-bound locomotives at Branchport were freed at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The pay-train on the New Jersey Southern Railroad arrived at Red Bank at 3 o'clock this morning, having taken nineteen hours to run from Manchester. The train consisted only of a locomotive and tender and one car. Conductor Mason and the crew were almost famished with hunger, and they had suffered from the cold.

The estimated damage to the iron pier is fixed by engineers competent to judge at $25,000. The Lelands say $10,000 will cover the damage. The deck of the pier on the north side was carried away by the waves, and the remaining portion of the outer fifty-foot section careen over. It is held by a few of the iron columns.

The washing up of a yawl boat at Green Island started the rumor of a wreck at Seabright. A bark is reported ashore at Oceanville, but the Government wires along the coast are down, and no information can be obtained.

The storm was very severe on Long Island, over a foot of snow falling in many places along the main line of the Long Island Railroad, as well as along the Southern division. The heavy wind drifted the snow very rapidly and considerable obstruction to railroad travel resulted.

The snow ceased to fall about 2 A. M., but it continued to drift all night and yesterday morning. Snow ploughs were sent out from Long Island City and from the eastern terminus of the railroad during the night, and a large force of laborers was kept shovelling out the drifts. The wind blew with great violence across the Hempstead Plains. It was reported yesterday that up to 1 o'clock no trains from the east had arrived at Babylon, and that the last train of the day before was twelve hours late. West of Babylon, on the Montauk division, trains were running regularly. At 8:30 o'clock last evening a train arrived at Long Island City from Greenport, the eastern terminus of the main line. It left there at 2 o'clock, and was due in Long Island City at 6:25 P. M., being, therefore, about two hours and a half late. The locomotive and tender were covered with ice and frozen snow. The sides of the cars were glowing with ice. The train hands said that the road this side of Medford was well cleared of snow, but between that point and Greenport there was much snow on the tracks. The work of removing the snow was progressing rapidly along the eastern end of the road, and it is expected that to-day trains will be running again regularly. Not much trouble was experienced from the snow on the northern division, as the fall there was light as compared with that further to the south and on the main line.