New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-06
TWO DEGREES BELOW ZERO,
THE CoLDEsT DAY OF THE SEASON.
HIocKApEs on THE LONG ISLAND RAILRoAD-MAr
PEOPLE FnOsTRITTFN,

BLoCKADEs on THE LONG ISLAND RAlLRoAD-MANc
PEOPLE FROsTBTTEN.
"Coldest day YETI said everybody VINO nau
TO 20 out yesterday. This statement is beginning W
have a somewhat musty flavor. and is losing l's ram
among the novelties OF the season, but it was s'ern
uncompromising truth yesterday. The little lhs' ue
IN the breezy structure on top OF INC h9ui.
able Building whose duty IT Is 10 MAJ"
the bottom figure Of the temperature record ooku
the observer straight in the eye the morning and sa
.Two degrees below zero" with an air OF tru'h ah'
innocence that froze the first suspicious OF doubt'
Down In streets people were wearing fnr caps anu
swo pairs OF gloves and extra clothing that coud
be accommodated The statement OF the weather pure"u
that the centre Of the cold wave Is now
resting over the middle Atlantic states was
universally condemned as week ana inaue-
ouate The general impression was that not
only tho CENTRE both edges Of the wave were rest
ing over this city bearing down about as hard as
they knew how. In the afternoon tho clear sunshine
raised the temperature ten degrees, ana looseheus'o
mounds and cornces Of snow awnings and buildings
40 that they could drop off when particularly shiny
silk hat came within reach Further than this. now
ever nothing was effected in the OF reforming the
weather The loose snow that had been removed from
Broadway loft the pavement coated Win
frozen film, half Ice and hau snow
that made physical uprghtness extremely
difficult of preservation. Trucks and wagons slipped
sbout and ran against one another One driver In upper
Broadway was sitting his high seat, nursing MS
wrath against the last man who had asked MN was
cold enough when truck caught his rear whee. Inc
shock threw Inn down upon the footOoard' "here he
hung until some one stopped his horse, and then ne
dropped half stunned the ground Bockades were num-
erous and the abors the policemen whose duty was
to keep things moving in West and South SIS were oy no
means light Overworked furnaces that vanly tried 10
keep the cold north wind out OF the houses rendered he
utmost vigilance OF the firemen necessary. Bursting
water pipes wrung the housewives soul with anguish
and naturally the plumber caught all the plums dis
tributed by the cold wave
The Street Cleaning Department last night continued
the Of cleaning the moro travelled thoroughares
On Thursday night large force OF Italian Ia
borers was employed i'll gathering the snow In
heaps, and extra force Of horses and carts
earted it away The cold intense but Deputy Com
seybod and superintendent Green Kept tae
laborers at until after midnight over 5000 oads
of snow taken away from Broadway anu the sne
~ sno% from tie Battery to Twenty third-st The
streets in the goods district were then attacked ana
and Duane SITS were cleared from Broadway to West
Broadway The ferry streets mere cearea ny oho % So
Fulton Broad. Beaver Chambers and Chatham sts
and Park Row well cleared III, 49, ...,..
The rivers and bay were covered with an unoroReh
field OF Ice. 1t was brought down both rivers Dy the
ebb-tide in a continuous solid mass. and was carried
down into the lower pay and past Sandy HOOK AT tne
food tide it swept back again as II there was no t 10
it. Fortunately the ice was none o. It In large blocks
but was well broken up and offered no oosru9uoI I 70
while vessels under sa haH NV me d % t
Island it reported that no open water % e1S pe
evidences Of hard experiences with cold weather
The seaspray had coated the lower rigging uecks ana
hull with and looked as If they were nclosed
IN glass. Many of the sailors we're badly fr0stetten
The brig Swisure which had anchored inside OF sandy
Hook on Wednesday night, had to slip her anchor and
seventyhve fathOms OF chain to get under way; lHe
crew suffered severely from the cold Inc steamship
INuauto from Dundee, had severe experience ia the
northeast gale and snowstorm of "Wednesday ana Ihnrs
day and was thickly covered with ice . ,
Thermometers IN Brooklyn showed a temperature OF
l below zero at ~ @ ga oR ne IN Sn B,dSS Ss1y
Yard, where the men ceased work on account OF the
intense cold The on the street railroads ol brooh-
For The first time suce 1881 the Long Island Railroad
IS seriously blocked The snowploughs and gangs OF men
The tracks but their Efforts were useless for
fast as the drifts cleared the wind blew me snow
little trouble feared But the heavy & wind ga5a
cred the snow before ana ped three so o six feet high
across the tracks. The eastern end OF Long
Gr@@Sport and Sag Harbor tIains were not
put tbrough last night Superintendent Barton thinks
10 have Il snow bound Tue road is tightly blocked be
tween Rverhead and Greenport, ana tne Iu" tai h
NOT cot through at a late yesterday No trains have
gone the Montauk DIVISION oeyOnG pa G aSher
Is S cut OGted on; Inc The Locust Valley Rockawsy and
the trains running on scnedu,e M tne; pne;
e9erson and Greenport trains and by morning is ex
pected that the blockade Will be raised
The police OF this ey reported the following cases OF
prostr,1n from the cold yesterday John Banks forty
Two years old, homeless waiter was taken 10 tue New
York Hospital with hands and feet frozen from lying
DRINK in the street at night , ~ - ,, |
Robert smith. sixty years old no home, vas found
with frozen feont of No 10 Eizabeth-sL; was
taken to the Chambers street Hospital ,.,
August Band axe hrtylye no home, was iouhu WIN mn
frozen III Westinghouse aGd was taken 70 the
Chambers street Hospital. A.,
Early yfsteaSy He%ark was fonnd lying in
bank near home, unconscious and nearly frozen 10
,arad 70 and by IL o'clock he was to
walk home with the assistance OF his brother