The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-12-28
The Great Snow Storm.
NO such snow In New YORK In 20
HeaTs.-TrHTel RRd BusIHess block.
ed IN The AeIToPOlis--DeIention
oi Mails, Trains Hud Vessels.

oi Mails, Trains aud Vessels.
! NEw Y0EK. December 81 7.-Morning -
snyw B5Eaa falling IN heavy tlkes again
this mC4niD;, 81 about eight O'Clock. with
s..gaI wind !Tyn the northwest The
streets today are banked with STOW. No
s1Ch snpw storm has been witnessed IN
this section for upwards 0I twenty years.
Las. night the streets were deserted from
an early hour in the evening. Business
was ior tue mos, part suspended, and no
perOas yelllrei out except from a5s0.
late necessity Thousands stayed down
town at hotels q, hotels OF their Offices
owing 70 their Inability 10 reach their
A3me IN the upper part %. the city The
classes tcpendeu, upon their days eArn.
lugs iJf the following nights shelter,
suffered immensely Thousands OF them
wondered ab0u. the streets, not knowing
where 70 90,
Some OF the principal street cans atc
running tDIay with double teams, and
are heavily overloaded. Pedestrians Ou
Broadway make their way through the
snow In single flc. A few stages con.
tinue running on the great thorUughiares,
but II is only a. rare intervals that carts
oI other vehicles are 10 be seen
The Stree! Cleaning Bureau yesterday
ordered It's force O.! liborers at work TO-
day in cleaning the cToss walks and up,
proacHes TO tue ferries, aud they are
engaged IN shoyeling ol the snow
Special attention will be given to
the cleaning OF Broadway, Oa which
II ia estimated the snow lies loot deep
On the level The entire cost Of cleaning
this stree: iDr a diShuCeo Of seventy blocks
will reach 10000. Along the wafer
lrOA,age the snow is piled up in huge
masses. The thermometer TO day stands
about on IN average with that OF yesicr.
day, nearly 10 degrees above zero. In
many places In the city the ground is
covered to 0 depth Of Gs much AS three
feet. The storm told heavily upon bust.
ness, especially by the delay OF the mails
No mails lett the city yesterday except
those which were sent Al an early hour.
The North river Is filed with floating ice.
The postmaster this morning reports that
no mails have arrived hQrC since yester-
day. In Brooklyn and the suburbs nearly
all travel and business is suspended.
Daring tho height OF the storm yester.
day afternoon, a large meteor was seen at
Hunters Point, Long Island. Al travel
on Long Island has ceasCi.
The steamships llalSatia and City Of
Limerick, for Europe, aud Columbia, Tor
Havana, besides several coasling steam.
ships, which were 10 leave yesterday, are
detained by the storm. There were no
arrivals from sea yesterday.
The storm winch commenced this
morning ceased after q slight fall.
TRAVEL BLOCKED AT BOSTON.
A special from Boston, dated midnight
last night, states that all business was
suspended in the evening. No trains
Whatever had arrived or departed Over
10000 people were compelled to stay in
Boston over night, being unable to reach
their homes il the suburbs,
4 FOOT OF SNOW AT SCRANTON.
SCRANTON, Pa, December27.-Twelyc
inches OF snow fell yesterday.
NEW York, December 27-Ailcrnoon
The weather is clearing. A few local
trains IRON the immediate vicinity in
New York, arrived since ten o'clock but
only by the aid OF several extra lOCOmO-
tivCs. There Is considerable suffering
among the poor people, by reason Of the
absence Of the usual supplies of milk and
bread, none being received Of the former
by trains, and locOmotion by the baker
teams on the streets almost impossible
A large force OF laborcrs are clearing
Broadway Of snow.
LEwEs, DEL, December 21.-The har.
Dor is frozen over. Vessels are slowly
drifting out to sea in the ice,
PoUGHKEErsIE, n. Y, December e.
The Montreal Express, which lett New
York at 400 I, ", yesterday, arrived
here at $50 this morning with four loco.
motives, and at 7:ij proceeded nOTthward
The locomotives went south this morning
to help get the trains between here and
New York out The New York special
train which reached here yesterday even.
ing with western passengers from New
York, will leave for the south at 1000 A.
NJ. Over seven hundred passengers
arc snow bound between here and PeCks.
kill, but it is thought all will get through
some time to-day.
AUGUSTA, Me, December PA severe
snow storm continues here with no signs
OF abating.
CoScoRD, n. L., December 27.-EiCht
inches Of snow has fallen here, The
trains are more or less delayed.
BOsTON, December 21.--Fosier has
arrived from Montreal, committed Tor
forgery.
The storm clsed before midnight
PHILADELPHIA, December 27-The
streets are banked up with snow. The
railroad companies are running the street
cars with dOuble.trippiG teams.
New York, December 27.-The only
mail that arrived to-day is that from
Washington. None from Boston or from
points north and west have reached here.
No trains have been sent out to-day on
the New Haven and Hudson River Rail.
roads.
The monthly sale Of Scranton coal is
postponed till the third Of January.
WAsuEGToE, December 27,-Ihe New
York train due last night, arrived at
o'clock this morning, The Potomac is
frozen over.
CoID SrRISG, n. y, December 81
The Chicago express, which left New
York at eight o'clock this morning, is
now five hours behind, and nothing can
be heard from it,
PHILADELPHIA, December 27-Snow
has blockaded all the highways and ten.
porarily suspended the receipt and deliv.
cry Ol merchandise.
WASHINGTON, December 27.-Tho ice
in the river here is about six inches
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