The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-01-02
Heavy Storm at the East.
NO SUCH EoB TWENTY, YEARS IN
NEW Y02K.
THE srhEETs PILED WITH srou
4heusands Unable to I Reach Their
Homes. -
All Travel Suspended.
Over @ao,o Country People Stay ii
80 Boston Overnight.

i'll'ng 10 heavy fakes again this morn.
ing At about eight e'clook, with sliehi
northwest wind. Tho streets tc.dav
are banked with snow. No such snow
storm has been witnessed 10 this section
in upwards Of twenty years. Last nigh,
the 'trssts' we're deserted from an early
hour in the evening. Business vse
tor the most part Suspended, and no
persons veatured out except from abso.
lote necessity. Thousands slept down
town at hotels or in their Offices, owing
to their insbility to reach their homes
in the upper parts of the city. The
classes dependent upon their DAYS
eatnisgs for the following nights shell.
tor suffered !. seriously. Thousands
wandered about the streets, not know.
ing whore to go.
Some efthe principal line, of street
cars are*running to-day With double
teams, and are heavily over loaded.
Pedestrians on Broadway make their
way through. tho snow in single file.
A few stages continue running on the
great thoroughfare, but it is only At
rare intervals that carts or other vah;.
cles arc seen.
The street cleaning bureau ordered ,
tsssss (fs 5s5ss 4asfse vt fek ia e5.a
es to the ferries and in general shovel.
ing Of the snow, special attention being
given to the cleaning Of Broadway, on
| which it is estimated the snow lies q
loot deep on the level. The entire cos,
or cleaning this street for distance ot
seventy blocks will reach $4,000.
Along the water frontage the sno. Is
| piled Up in huge masses. The ther:
mometer to-day stands on about an
average with that of yesterday, namely,
ten degrees above ztro. In manJ
places in tho city the ground is GOV.
cred to the depth of as much as three
feet.
The storm told heavily upon busi.
ness, especially by the delay Of mails.
No mails left the city yesterday ex-
cept those which were sent at an early
hour. The North river is filled with
floating ice. The postmaster report,
that no mail has arrived here since yes
terday noon.
Three persons were badly frozen in
Brooklyn last night-two fatally.
There is considerable suferia1
among poor people, by reassn of th'
absence Of the usual supplies of mill
and bread, none being received ofsth.
former by trains, and locomotica o
baker wagons on the streets being al
most impossible.
| In Brooklyo and suburbs nearly al
travel and business Is suspended. Dur
ling the height of the storm yesterda,
afternoon a large meteor was seen a
Hunters Point, L. I. All railwa,
travel on Long Island has ce.ssd.
The steamships Halsatia and Cit,
Of Limerick, for Europe, and the Co.
lumbis, for Havana, besides severa
coasting steamships, which were tt
leave yesterday, are detained by tn
storm.
! Scranton, Pa, Dec. 27.-Twelv
inches of snow fell yesterday.
Botton, Dec. 27.-All travel va
suspended last evening. No train
whatever arrived or left. Over 20, ,00(
persons were compelled to stay in tn
city over night, being unable to reac]
their homes in the suburbs.
| Lewis, DEL, Dec. 27.-The harbo
| is frozen over aud vessels are slowl,
drifting out to sea.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Dec. 27-
The Montreal Express which left at
p. NJ, yesterday, arrived here at 5:s(
this forenoon, with four locomotives
and at7:15 proceeded northyard. Their
arc over seven hundred passengers SNOW
bound between here and PeekskiA, bu
it ia thought all will get through
! New York some time to-day.
| Augusta, Me-, Dec. 27.-The sever
snow storm continues here with no sign
Of abafting.
| Concord, N. H., De. 27.-Eiel
inches Of snow fell here. Trains n.1
OF less delayed.
Philadelphia, Dec. 27.-The street
are banked up with snow. The rail
road companies are rurning street cal
With double and triple teams.
Cold Spriog, N. Y, Dec. 27.-Tt
. Chicago ex press, which lett New Yor
It 8 o'clock this morning, is now 6s
. hour. behind, time, aud nothing can