Saturday, July 21, 2012

The Storm In Northern Maine


A correspondent of the Boston Journal, writing from Bethel, Main, on the 28th of February, says:

“The snow in many places is higher than the tops of the cars, for thirty or forty rods in a place; and as they only cut a place through just wide enough to ‘rub and go,’ the passage through seems much like going through an underground tunnel.  In two places on the road the snow was actually drifted several feet higher than the top of the smoke-pipe of the engines.”

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 4

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