The New York herald., 1845-02-05

1 TREMENDOUS Snow SToRM.-One of the greatest
and severest storms that has visited this city
| for years, opened upon about four O'Clock yes
ierday morning. The extreme cold weather Of the
previous three days had prepared the ground for il
so that every fake that fell was of use in filling up
the streets.
| The snow accompanied by gale OF wind
from the L. N. E., which blew up plenty of drifts,
and made the walking horribly disagreeable.-
Throughout the entire day the snow filled the air
80 completely that no one could see to the distance
of two rods. Broadway was pretty well blocked
up with snow banks TO the depth of three and
| four feet in some places, and the omnibuses, on
wheels, had hard work to move; two horses could
scarcely start them, and four were, therefore,
necessary. The pedestrians kept shy of
the streets and window blinds, and umbrellas
were mostly wrong side out. Snow spouts, in
contradistnction to water spouts, would start from
| the Battery and make "clean run" 10 Union
Park. The eyes OF the public were continually in
danger of running agaiDs. the ends of umbrellas in
| the hands of some of the people occupied in bra.
cling DRIFT of wind Altogether, the whole city
presented ragnlfcently stormy appearance. To
make it more SO, the Park Fountain sent up its
stream of ice water" in opposition to the storm
from above. Every one had us much as he could
do TO manage himself and umbrella
This storm must have spread over greater par,
of this section Of the country No mails having
arrived late last evening, we are led to believe
that il reached to some distance. All North East
erly storms begins at the South West, and Philade
phia, Baltimore, &C., have therefore, had a slice
of it equally with us. II has gone to Bostsn also
and probably reached there about seven or eight
o'clock yesterday morning. We shall soon hear,
however, how far the storm has extended and
| what damage it has done.
1t is stated that on Long Island, snow has fallen
to the depth of two feet, and drifted very much
In this city it was about eighteen inches deep, on
level, at nine o'clock last night. If snow con-
tinued to fall all night, the people will find two
feet on the ground this morning 1t is needless to
say that we shall have excellent sleighing, unless
ram storm sets in.
In the midst of this re nendous storm we thought
Of two classes, whs really deserve a thought in
such weather. Those were the sailors on the
coast, and the poor in the cellars. The sailors, in
such storm, deserve to be thought of the most,
because no aid can reach them; they must live or
perish as it may happen. The poor are to be
pited; but they compared to the Sailors are in a
comfortable situation, for aid can reach them
Let those, therefore, who have the means. see
that they are provided for. We shall, probably,
never hear Of their starving to death, although they
may suffer considerably; bu; we expect to hear of
numerous disasters at sea, and on our coast. We
cannot believe that such storm would be SO kind
to our poor sailors as not to wreck some of them.
Owing to the snow and wind no steamboat for
the East left yesterday afternoon.
The Broadway omAibuses disappeared from the
street soon after sundown, the men and horses ac-
tually tired out
| PosTscRrPr.-At the time of our going to press,
(three o'clock) the storm continued, but with di
minished violence.