The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-19
Bridges Washed Away Telegraph Wires Torn
Down and Trains Delayed.
Freshets in Trenton, Newark and
Other Places.
TERRIFIC WEATHER IN THE NORTHWEST.
A Freshet Expected on the Lower Hudson
River, in the Neighborhood of Yonkers.


yesterday morning came the rain, and the fog Just
previously had been rOtting the snow heaps and
seriously decomposing the particles of congelated
water that have encountered the municipal
CUTTERS AND CLASSY SIDEWALKS
Yesterday morning people travelled over the
municipal sidewalks at peril Of breaking their
legs, arms or ankles. Ashes in some instances
were plentiiuy spread over stOOps and sidewalks
leading to private residences. Heads OF families
were astonished, they proceeded to business, to
find their persons sprawllng all over the walks, and
their shins or elbows severely barked by collision
with the transparent surfaces of the flags.
At Fulton street and Broadway, at Canal street
and Broadway, at Fourteenthstreet and Broadway,
and at all the intersections of the main arteries of
the CITY traffic of the city there greater blocks
OF teams and vehicles than even on the previous
day. The dull,
MISTY, DRIZZLING RAIN
that filed the air chilled those who were compelled
to walk in the street to the bone and marrow. The
vilan0us smoothly -planed iron coal-hole covers
that are allowed to disfgure our sidewalks 'front.'
ing private residences yesterday the cause of
many broken arm and many a sprained ankle
dislocated wrist. Perhaps in no other city in the
world would these mantraps be permitted to exist
as they do in New York without hindrance from
the authorities. They are unsafe, and measures
thousands of dollars are paid to keep
the streets clean, and yet the principal
thoroughfares OF the metropolis are worse
than mOrasses or quagmircs The laborers en-
gagged by Captain ThOrne, of the Street Cleaning
Bureau have been engaged for days In pitching
the frozen snow and mud from the vicinity Of the
cutters into the middle of the streets. In par tcu
lar, this work has been done in the streets in
which the tracks Of the city railroads are laid
down. These thoroughfares have been
CHoKED UP WITH
and slush until the horse cars have been stopped
at almost every crossing. The wretched horses
have been made miserable by the extra labor per-
formed by them and the drivers and conductors
are 0verWorked and are as unhappy as the horses
themselves. 1t seems as the taxes rise and as the
city grows greater that personal travel of the
citizens becomes more and more difiicult. There
Is no comfort any more In New York for those who
nave 70 M, travel after ter the frost snow has fallen
weather come, there are
uILLoCKs ICE TO TRAVEL
over and impossible ruts to bridge. Should great
thaw come, then the snow is reduced to ice cream
ana 1t is like travelling through poughed field to
ford Broadway or escape from the horses feet.
All over the Eastern and Middle States yesterday
there was partial suspension OF Geographic COM
municatlon. The storm had damaged the wires
almost generally and operators were asking OF
each other vainly on the main and connecting
lines for information which they could not receive
owing to the break in the connections At diff
ferent places in the city there were spots where
HUNDREDS OF YARDS OF TELEGRAPH WIRE
bent and broken, and were lying on the
ground in great, confused coils. The damage
loss OF a great many thousand dollars. The
coils of wire that were displaced were covered
with sleet and snow, and were like lot of Slip
perry tape worms reduced to icy insensibility.
The fear OF a great 1reshet on the Hudson, owing
to the floods on the upper tributaries OF that
stream caused by the recent storm, and owing adj
ditonaly to the discharge and gorging OF the ice,
was very
IMMINENT AMONG SHIPPING,
masters. High water reached It's Roadway yester-
day morning, about halfpast eleven O'Clock, at
Governors Island. It was then expected that the
flush tide from Sandy Hook would drive up the
Hudson as far as YOnkers, where, it was said that
large masses Of ice were wedged, the field Of ice
reaching as far Albany, and that the ebb would
carry down miles of ice past the wharves in the
city, doing great damage to the vessels and steam
boats IN the slips Precautions were taken at the
docks where some of the ocean steamers were
mOOred, in order to prevent the
SLIPPING OF THEIR HAwsERs,
and the crews were kept busy making everything
Up to a late hour last night however, the freshet
Should it come, aud come at an early hour as the
HERALD goes to press, great damage may be done
to marine interests. Most Of the piers and docks
are rotten old structures and were the ice fields
to come down with q rush these decaying and
crumblng masses OF woodwork would be carried
away like fabrics of gossamer by the floating river
Of ice
THE RATS HAD A BAD TIME
Of it In Water, south and West streets. Myriads Of
thousands OF them had to swim for their lives.
Among the sailors boarding houses in Water
some of these miserable habitations had three to
six inches OF water in their cellars
A SNOW STORM CAME
last night at about eight o'clock, and fell through
out the city for two hours The storm Of snow,
which thawed as fast as it fell, ended about ten
O'Clock
The Police and Fire Department telegraph wires
in this city were somewhat interrupted last night,
but no serious damage was done to them. The ice
on the wires thawed early during the day, and the
Clerk of the Weather did his duty by removing the
loads of ice from
THE ELECTRIC THREADS
which govern the news ganglions OF the Republic.
There was a very serious interruption to railway
culverts on the Harlem, Hudson River and New
York Central Railroads the milk train on the
Harlem road, due at half-past twelve A. NJ, having
met with many very serious Instructions on its
way down, did not get in until four A. NJ, and the
NEW HAVEN FREIGHT TRAIN,
due at midnight Of Thursday, did not arrive until
four O'Clock on Friday morning. The Hudson
River "owl train, due at six A. Nj. did not arrive
until nine O'Clock OF yesterday morning. Last
night the trains were delayed as many Of the
damaged places on the roads had not yet been
heavy overflow in the Mohawk Valley is ex
pected, and, as the stream which through tits
valley is tributary to the Hudson, 1t is expected
that
THE MASSES OF ICE,
when broken loose from their fasenings, Will cause
serious danger to the up-river towns.
The storm i'm HOboken.
No serious ravages were created in the Hamburg
OF New Jersey yesterday, save the demolition Of
numerous pitchers Of milk and beer in the hands of
Juveniles who were unable to keep the line OF gravi-
taton between their heels. The trees which for
tuhately line the sidewalks and absorb the exhala-
tons OF delunct quadrupcds were laden with crystal
flowers, which bent them towards the ground.
Many just men Tell more than seven times on the
CLASSY roads, The West Hoboken horse cars were
unable TO run on time, several OF them having
broken down owing TO the roughened state of the
a meadows of q
take place ere long.
The Freshet In Trenton.
The effects Of the heavy freshet in Trenton, which
originated In the violent rain storm on Thursday
night were but too palpaDle yesterday In that city
and vicinity The
AssANpINK CREEK