New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-13
thirty-fve miles an hour and It's greatest force
at any time was forty-two miles an hour.
BLOCKADE OF LOCAL LINES.
NO TRAINS OUT OF TIE CITY ALL DAY.

The storm shut the Grand Central Station COM
pletely out from the railroad world, not only as
regarded incoming and outgoing trains but even
the telegraph wires were OF no avail beyond
Spuyten Duyvil after noon. The piled in
upon the tracks between the Station and the
tunnel which extends from Fifty y-siXth-st. TO
| Ninety-sxthst., so that no trains could be sent
out even had there been clear space beyond.
The tunnel itself was comparatively free from
snow although the flakes flew in from the open
ings to the street, and in many places under the
openings the drifts piled up from five to eight
feet deep.
| EVERYTHING BLOCKADED BEYOND TIRE TUNNEL
Beyond the tunnel the storm had undisputed
sway. The channel through which the depressed
tracks of the New-York Central and the New
| Haven and Hartford roads run formed the BEST
possible kind of a resting place ior tne snow
| swirIing above: tho high walls at the side con-
tributed to this advantage. The result was that
the snow piled into the open cut ana nlied IL up
to the level of the walls on either side r,
President Depew and Superlntendent Ioucey
made various efforts through the day to break
through the snow covering the tracks between
the station and the tunnel BUT IL was no use
First one engine was sent steanng proudly north.
The blizzard met it square to the cow-catcher
with a solid front of snow. The engine did not
long butt at the blizzard In this form, but yielded
and returned to the station.
Mr. Depew thought that the blizzard must be
trife tougher than an aiter-dlnner Speech, so
two engines coupled together & sailed proudly st
the blizzard Their combined tail came back
between their combined legs, so to speak Mr..
Depew looked solemn, and seemed TO think thae
boom, and three engines went gavly TO the
north. their strength united, their steam In fuil
a harmless snow-bank Then the engines re-
turned together. They had buclzed' against
the blizzard and the blizzard had won.
THREE HUNDRED ITALIANS DIscoMFiTTED.
Recalling the story of the drops that wear
the rock the Grand Central powers hired them
hooi
card. To break them in gently and give them
mild taste of the Storm lest the memory of sunny
Italy should melt their ardor, they were sent TO
work in the yard. After an hours STEADY WQrk
the 300, forgctful of Leonidas, kicked agailsu agSU
the blizzard and insisted on returning 10 thelr
This event was discouragng. Mr.. Depcw and
Mr. Toucey conferred. They hit on pan. sl: MI
Depew recalled the nature, tendency ana enect
of good dinners, and he felt sure that something
of this kind would fetch 'enL" 30 30o more
Italians were enga ged later In the day, ana goou
supper was the first hard work that they were
called on to wade through. They succeeded In thls
and then tackled the BLIZZARD but as the monster
held the whip hand and used 1t vigorously, uoupo
rested on the Grand Central power as to Whelher
the Italians would weather the night.
FORTY TRAINS STUCK BELOW wooDLAWN'
ALI hone of doing anything to remove the snow
from the tunnel was abandoned until the wind
should abate its vehemence. superintendent
Toucey said late in the day that some forty trains
st. and Woodlawn Junction on the Harlem Road
and Spuyten Duyvi on the Central. lie at least
knew he said that that number of trains were
due, and that far as he could )dge .ne ~ az
had captured the trains within distance Oh ~
least thirty miles. The trouble lay between thls
city and Yonlkers. The Springfield sleeping car
train on the New-lIaven and Hartford line was
the last train to come in. and that arrived between
, II a. m and noon Not train had gone out from
the Grand Central station during the day.
LITTLE SNOW ABOVE PEEKsKILL.
ha1 iUp1
Peekslxill that there was hardly any snow there
At that point and elsewhere beyond the railroad
officials had had no idea that this city was III
the embrace of the blizzard. 1t was no ones
Z fault, he thought, that trains were sent lorI1
on their usual to this city ana thus Iorceu
TO DE piled up within short distance Oh the Guy
because no dispatcher outside the city hau aily
idea that the trains were TO be surprised WIN
This kind of reception. The blizzard had come
unannOunccd and had swoOped DOWN Oh 'he ran
roads hereabouts without warning. Inc wires
went down and nearly all communication WIN
the outside world was shut oil beyond Spuyten
telegram was received from Buffalo before
noon that the was shining In tlat clty' anu
the water from the melting snow tuiIlnS tnnnsone ne
/ the streets Even the long distance tel9phonet one
to Albany gave out, and no word could DE goC
: over It, The Stamford local got as lar as one,
hundred-and tcnth-st., and two PASSENGERS Waikea
down to the station in hopes TO take the eieN"ucu
road Their hopes were dashed'
CROWDS AT THE GRAND CENTRAL STATION.
peonle hoping to depart by rail from the Grand
Central station kept arriving at that point from
various parts of the city all day. Ihey hearu
the news, expressed themselves In warm terms
about tho bIizzard--especially after having pald
from $40 to S25 for Il cab-apd then, their cap
having already departed, they got pack 10 Ineir
hotels or houses best they cOulu.
MIR Toueev said that this was the seyerest
storm since the Grand Central station was pulIt
N I87I Several trains snowbound at
Mount Vernon. Local trains between TINS Guy
and Bridgeport We're caught ne superh.eoehId h novId
thought that after the wind dled away he couid
clear the cuts within three hours, II he couid
Get I 600 men But 1t seemed almost impossible
10 obtain that number 1t was hard WORK 70
raise the second supply OF Italians, ana therc
wasfupprehension at the railroad oiice that these
MON Would not long face the storm: AS soon
as .he storm abated Mr. Iopcey SAID t "a an rvor oc
men who could be secured Woulu w PuO "' WA"
SnII general distribution of sandwiches on tilo
delayed trains, as far as they Soula oe 'eaon'o'
: was ordered by the railroad OFFICIALS
THE JERSEY ROADS JUST AS BADLY oFN
There was to all intents and purposes complete
blockade on all tho roads connecting with North
River ferries, Early in the day the ticsetagents
of the Pennsylvania Railroad. at Courtlandt ana
Desbrosses sts., posted announcements over their
windows that no trains would be run until 1ur
ther notice. There wero crowds OF disappointed
travellers, whose sole anxiety seemed 10 pe "
got away from the CITY, Some OF tne nao bsfors
, long, and waited patiently. number Of . eA.
press companies had sent wagons TO awai1 INC
, arrival of trains which did not come, and the
Door horses stood in the bowling blast, covered @
With frosting of ice, and to all appearances oe'
meaning tho death of their benefaotor, DersI, L,
|, The train dispatcher Of tho Pennsy wanna nao
little to do but worry trains lost in tho STORM
, Ali communication with points petween NEW
1nrlr and Philadelphia was cut OIL. and IL was
imnossible to ascertain where the trains were
, blocked. The express which left Philadelphla ao
miJncht came in looking like an ice berg, Tour
hnurs behind time 4 few local trains managed
to get in early in the morning and left their pas
sorgers 70 wait in New York until another out-
sst sens % snrinq or to walk home. All the ex-
vr~sSes and mails from Philadelphia after tho
, midnight train failed to appear, nor could IL DC
learned whether they had left Philadelphia Two
f them should have made connection with trains
r. from v the south and anxious inquiries for the
, t.;,.o1s ,,,ore frpuuent at all pcnnSyl-