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     MISCELLANEOUS 
     
    
   
   
    
     Snow Storm 1882 
     
    
   
   
    
     An 1882 diary tells that a snow storm on top of previous 
     
     storms covered trees that were more than 30 feet high. Some 
     
    
   
   
    
     people had to climb out their upstairs windows before they could 
     
     get their doors cleared. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Battle of the Drifts 
     
    
   
   
    
     In the 1923 storm, five teams of horses had been dispatched 
     
     from Charlottetown carrying the mail, and a similar number left 
     
     Borden. Weir was Postmaster in Charlottetown at this time. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Souris train was stuck solid in the drifts and another 
     
     train, a double header, was sent out to release her. Jack Hughes 
     
     was the conductor of the stranded train and Ernie Cameron was 
     
     driving. Other crew members included Jack and Art Howatt, Mike 
     
     Mooney and Alf Murphy. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The storm was named "The Battle of the Drifts" after the 
     
     daddy of all the storms which occurred in the winter of 1904 or 
     
     1905 when it took five railway engines leaving Tignish and 
     
     Charlottetown three weeks to meet. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Yankee Gale 1851 
     
    
   
   
    
     Many fishermen came from Nova Scotia and New England to 
     
     fish off the coast of Prince Edward Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
     October 3, 1851 was a warm, mild day but the sea had a 
     
     glassy look. Late in the afternoon, most of the captains became 
     
     afraid of a storm and headed out to sea, but there was no wind to 
     
     carry their ships to safety. Between 7 and 8 o'clock a breeze 
     
     blew from the north east bringing fine rain which steadily in- 
     
    
   
   
    
     creased until the wind had risen to a gale accompanied by a down— 
     
     pour. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The storm started on Friday, continued through Saturday 
     
     and until noon Sunday when it began to slacken. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The waves crashed on the beaches with a noise like thunder, 
     
     the tide flooded the fields; the water carried away bridges and 
     
     mill—dams, and the wind blew down fences and trees. 
     
    
   
   
    
     From East Point to Savage Harbour fifteen vessels were 
     
     driven ashore.