New-York tribune., 1886-01-10
A STORM OF WIND AND SNOW.
THE RACE OF A BLIZZARD AND A CYCLONE.

older 1t grew harder and uglier and after midnight it
became howling roaring fury. The wisd cold
andcuttng, tho snow thick and binding Belated
pedestrians caught in Icy whrlpoos Of snow and
sleet and did not have breath enough left to
crate the luck Which sent them out such vllanous
night. The snow did not to be coming down, but
to be hanging in the air. vast cloud swept hither
and hither by irresistible hurricanes The wled
over the roofs OF the houses and shook tho chmneys
1t roared down the ues and tried its best put out the
fires which people kept burning keep the bitter
cold Of the stormy night The began to
double teams and then they struggled through the
stormy night away behind time with drivers chilled and
blinded and conductors who spent all the time they
could in collecting fares in the comparatively comfora-
| BILE interiors.
The morning. after one two unsuccessful attempts,
finally broke snowbound city and the light srug
glcd dmly through the snOwladen air. The sodnd OF
the festive shovel heard the sidewalk, sweepers
drawn by six horses with tails done up Ia Grecqe went
caeerng and down the sreecar tracks, and the city
finally got up its courage and resumed business. Allday
| the horse-cars crowded. and with double teams
struggled along. some OF them hours behind time Some
the streets well cleared but the cast side hcJ
scarcely cleared at ALL and ocomoton OF any kind
in that region was peculiar and uncertain
According the Signal Service who roosts top
of the Equitable Building. the storm southern
storm. which left Its native wilds at the time
that Manitoba blizzard set out on It's travels from tho
Northwest. They both this city, the
southern esion got in ahead and did itself proud"
There twelve inches OF w-fall and 43O
yesterday the wind blowing forty-four miles
hour At this point the cups OF the unused
TO such rapid revolutions flew of tacr handles and
dered further registration impossible The storm was
central over Philadelphia yesterday and 1t showing
In the Eastern and Middle States the Ohio Valley aud
the Lake region. II the coolest known In the
South the thermometer registering temperature OF 80
below zero Memphis and 90 above at Atlanta At IL
H. yesterday the mercury stood at l5o above on tho
Equitable Building. All day yesterday it showed by fits
and starts but toward night stopped and the weather
grew colder Then the signal Service sergeant said the
Manitoba blizzard coming. aud ran up the wbite
flag with blue square.
Superintendent Martin made a minute inspection OF
the Bridge at carly hour yesterday and found broken
patformstay at the New-York aDchOrsge-a three inch
cable fastened to steel the stoneyOrk end
and TO the side OF the Bridge at the other Ii was re-
paired lu Everything else was found TO be
all right
At 10 o'clock last night the temperature at Indian
apos was G9 below zero; at Cincinnati. 90 below 50
Louis zero Nashville Tenn. 10 above. As far South
as Jacksonville Fla the mercury stood tie freezing
point The temperature had risen in Michigan. At
Grand Haven the record ITO, so that Michigan was
considerably warmer than Tennessee. Cleveland was
favored with temperature OF l6'. Tho COLI was
central IN Tennessee and the Ohio Valley Fair and
colder weather is predicted Tor this vicinity to-day with
the probability OF the temperature running down TO the
ne ghbOrhOod OF by tomorrow morning when 1t Is
expected that the will be fairly upon the city,
No large OF occurred in any part OF the country
yesterday afternoon.
The street Cleaning Department made preparations to
clear the away rapidly possible in the prn-
cpal business Commissioner Coleman said that
lie would begin first with Broadway. At p. m, $50
horses set to work. and double that num-
Der of laoorers. The snow was carted
to the nearest available bulkhead on either
river and dumped In The contractors OF the First
and second cleaning districts used all their avail
able force Broadway will be cleaned from the Battery
to Thirty -fouIth-st. Tnen Wall, Fulton, Chambers,
Roosevelt Liberty Conrtlandt and Desbrosses-sts viii
he taken in hand. Fourteenth and Twenty-thrdsts.
will come next
II not expected that Ffhave. will be cleaned be-
fore the snow begins melt. AS there no stages
running now the avenue will be up quickly as
formerly IL probable that Tor several days there VIII
be gool Ching in Ffh-sve aud the street Cleaning
Department does not wisn to interfere wltE THIS.
All the llnemen in the employ OF the Metrog Jitan Tel-
ephone Company sent out at daybreak TO rectiy
troubles and were kept busy all day climbing poles
and housetops But W. H. Eckert the general superiu-
tendent said that the company had been siugularly
fortunate and that there far fewer troubles than
he had anticipated. These wsre due TO "erosses."
No wires had been broken poles bOwp down. In
previous storms apparently less severity tho impeii
ments mad been much more severe. lie expected TO
have all the lines cleared to-day.
At the Western Union Office similar report was made.
The wires had suffered little in tue city and
there WAS little delay IN the trdnsmlsson
messages IN the lmmedtte neiSnpSrnoCi' Ir me- % ann
was dry and therefore did no; Interfere with tho
electrical current Had the heavy gale been accom-
paned by rain instead OF snow, the electricity woald
have been drawn from the wires anu tue senllhg OF
messages greatly hGmpered. lie sad that the heavy
FOG which settled down the city the day after Mr.
Vdnderbllrs death caused. FOR few few hours much
greater trouble than was caused by the present STORM
The greatest interruption to the Telegraph business was
experenced in he Southern states aud west OF Omaha
The storm caused delay 20 the mas rom ~ parts os
the country. The Hudson River MAJ. trans and somo or
those ON other rOltes were deayea ot an no oI
but some important mails we're delayed several hours
The mail BY OF Providence due at I;io a. M,
same time nearly three hours :atc: The southern
mails due at $40 and 7:Os a. n, were Tour hours ate
The Western mails by way OF FIttsburg were delayed
several hours the train due at 1:ll M arriving at
the middle of the afternoon. The noticeable
for ts extent that 1t affected the incoming mails from
oil directions nearly equal degree. The work OF the
Post ofice was made somewhat irregular by these do
The storm did considerable dsmage along the river
front In Brooklyn, hut not OF serious Character Al an
early hour in tho morning tho bark HaVaha ani the
three mas ted schooner olanhe. lying on traits OH
Works at North Twefth-st torn from their moor
ings aud drifted with wind and tide down tue ril er
elevator AdamssJ, and the schooner was there made
fast after considerable difficulty put the 0a,S Is sup
posed have drfted out to sea Tue steamer Mehza,
lying the Mediterranean stores had her sIe stovo
wing near her had her foretop sail and her mantop
gallant sail blown TO pieces by the wind 4, .
terIny All hands we're kept busy clearing away tho
snow aud moving the merchandlse as Tar away as pos
sble from tho water in anticipation OF an unusually
hi gh tide The various streetcar limos were mucn do
iayed. Enough snow fell to make excellent sleighing
had it been evenly distributed over the ground Few
owners of seighs the weather ana drove down
the Ocean PARKWAY where the sleIghag was fairly
good The owners OF tho various road houses between
Prospect Park and Coney Island expected rush, pas
were disappointed. ~ 80. w., vi, o.,
on regular midnight trip Friday night
with about sixty passengers had az exceedingly roush
trip she reached Tompkinsville about l a. m.,
hnt the lights on the pier could not be on account
az the snow and bell could net be heard Tor some
time The boat finally run INTO the dock ana ses.
ernl nj emps we're made make her fast, but the lines
would not hold and only few OF the passengers were
able TO reach the shore; those that did had 10
iump from the boat the pierhead. The Passengers
became greatly alarmed, but Captain Catamonr assured
them that there danger and that they could re-
main comfortably on the boat until morning. An at
4ha lcnf In fha