New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-05
A STORM OF DRIFTING SNOW
MUCH SUFFERING FROM THE COLD.


whole world kin to Greenland was experienced By New
York yesterday The mercury sUlked down among tue
smaller digits OF the scale. and all said " " hew,
what = blizzard :" whenever they managed 10
catch their breath in protected corner
When the ceased falling there was
enough OF 1t floating up and down the lstrees TO make
coating OF five six inches II evenly distributed The
bitter wind roared around corners the life
Of the pedestrian of unallOyed misery The fine
particles of harsh many grains Of sand In the
low temperature. hurled IN the faces OF those e1-
posed TO the wind, and ung Ike needles. The storm
up from Alabama until its centre right over
New York, and then stopped to rest. The cold wave
from the West and Joined forces
with the in the effort give the city grand
combination benefit" performance. The effort was
entirely successful.
The temperature registered the Signal ser
vice Station, the Equitable Building was 80 above
Hudnuts thermometer wavered between % and
- throughout the day. 1t the Of admir-
ing crowd all hours The effect of distance on the
reading OF tue instrument curious While the man
the that the red column
stood 70 above, the man AZ the
outskirts Of the crowd away firmly convinced
that 1t 100 below The absence OF the street cars
from the streets freed them usual bockades,
and the allowed to pack down hard undis-
turbed by snow poughs The lines on which ears con-
tnued to had double and double loads, with
two drivers each The failure II the usual means
have been II every haGn't improved the
opportunity to stay at home when possible The
cabdrivers reaped harvest, but their rel
frosted whskers steued fingers showed that
they every dollar they got The surface OF
and hArbOr OF floating ice and snow
through which ferryDoats and tugs fought their way
with difficulty Hawsers and rigging were coated Win
ice and the position OF deck-hand by no means
People fought their way about Tie street,
with their coat collars up aud their heads down. gave
the fullest expression OF their opinions on the weather
The sweet-vOCed street vendors retired their STOCK OF
fifteen cent suspeuders and blOssonnd out with new
stock and a new song Keep your ears warm, here
ten cents pair"
The half torpid passer-by. who had lost all sensation
and other eXtremites might have been will
ing TO sell ten cents pair but II was too
sold Maggie bargain. The snow Kept blowing
III roofs all day, bat the policeman went his rounds
laggard householder that hs sidewalk must
be cleared and after him came the shovel brigade
The Government weather prophets predict clear ana
cold weather to-day with rising temperature Tomorrow
The cold having deserted the West that region re
joces 10 d general Of 40 IN temperature. though
Duluth still hbernstes in the condition marked by 24'
below zero. Albany was D warmer than New York.
Boston and Buffalo were and - below respect
lively.
All mails delayed from to three hours and II
took time straghten matters out At the Post
Office and get everything running according to
schedule.
The owestitemperature recorded tie Bridge yester
day was 80 twenty persons cared for
In the police shelters the frUstbitteu
The toll collectors a. tnr entrances to the
,nt ics,tiT clad I'm eIanrr tb intense colo weather
lett n BrOOeyn. but street travel de
iayed by the SNOW on some OF the surface railroads
wReTr tie tracks extended To the su6urD..
Charles Fish, a-e twenty -four. of souia second and
pItaL
.Johu Broly. twenty hve. overcome by the
cold wbAe driving ash ART IA Cour-' near uunlns
ton--i and was taken to -. Tier Hospital ,o,u,
1be stree Cleaning department OF thus city iouhu
Itself unable to do yhng during the early houIs OF
clearipes away the snow, A. u usual directly AFTER
snOWfsl hurried call l. made by tue department on
tie benz" N Mu,nrrry-s Tor assiHauce. Generally
400 OF lie children Oi Rome And Naples are mus
tered armed witl IRON els and put 10 work Oh
Broadway al nflecu cents al hour About 100 came
forward yesterday morning IN response Ia the sumnons
this number before they cot fairly 10
Too colda! and started back like
herd of deer FOR the arm cellars 81 he bend" II wac
offices OF The department that by this morn
Ing Brraaway would b. cleaned from the battery 10
Twenty tuird-s sthe Italians would all be on duty
through night About 600 men 10 all will be en-
Poyed with an equal number ~ carta Ahon, sryrniI
cleaning Broadway and the streets adinS To the irinci
IN. snow storm was severe In westcheser County
there many Drift he roads, IN some places seven
" - IN o,rr ,,a, lonEsd k, tran,p va. found
stif from the cold In the morning, NJ
night In new house. lie was removed TO the 20
lice station. effort made TO thaU him out
liz badly frozen.
The weather the coidest experienced in R0ckland
Cotrtv FOR many year. the smtcruturr ranging from
AZ below at Nyack 20 I4o below a; Palisades. The
was again frozen The sHOwd1fr throughout the
county made travel Ia some directions Impossible.
The seriously interfrrred with raNr. on the
Long Island Railroad. The midnight trN. which LEFT
Long Island CIty Wednesday night did not reach It's
destination ninth yesterday morning The trnin-
Yesterday all delayed. Last 81
PulchOgue the MOutauk Division the snow n4rd
able 10 get through until
midday. Last night superintendent Barton started out
ON sturI.-tran seventy ana "a LARGE sloCE OF
provisions relieve the OF the freight trains
win a re- hloclaicd.
The steamships KhGtia. Albano, Seneca, 81. Simon,
STATE OF Nebraska and COMO we're anchored IN the
Lower Bay night. waiting for favorable weather.
They could tn harhOr account % the snow
fog Tho fierce Storm OF wind and snow mad"
NAVIGATION more than usually hazardous % the Bay.
nOrth~rly gale down great qua ttler oI tcf
from the udson East and the entire
surfacr Of the bay covered, eudangerng vessels
that towing toward the city. Some 0f hem were
badly The staten Island TerryhOats were ahie 10
make their regular trips with Only few N nutes delay
large numbrr VI vessels OF the coast yesterday
bound In, elayed by the storm. Not "A single
vessel entered the port during the day
The canal Captain Ben Fager. owned by Orville
Carpenter. OF King and Van Brunt STA. BROOK yn was
suna by the brtwesn Piers Nos ~ and 30 North
River. yesterday atetnOO The cargo cOpsiSiNS OF
900 bushels oi valued at 5000, aud the boat
valued al 81 800, arc a total loss.
THE BIG SNOWSTORM.
TWO FEET DEP IN INDIAN Neutrality-suspicious.
AMONG PEOPLE AND CATTLE.
PARSONS, Kan, Feb. 1.-The late fall of snow