Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-14
UNEQUALLED SINCE 1855.
New York Business at q Standstill and the
Streets Blocked-Other Cities in the
Same COndition-The Streets Impassa-
BILE From Fallen Telegraph Wires,

New YORK, March 12.-The storm is gen.
eral in New York state, Connecticut and
points south. From all the surrounding
country reports come OF the severe st snow
and wind storm in years. There was a
similar accident to that on the Third ave-
nue. on the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad this
morning but fortunately attended by no
casualties. Business is virtually at stand
still. Downtown houses are almost de-
serted. Only two trains arrived with mails
| this morning, and he work of the Dos6office
lis partially suspended. Hundreds of tele-
graph wires are down. The ferry boats be-
tween New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City
are running once an hour or less. The wind
attained a velocity of sixty.four miles an
| hour.
PoUGHKEEPslE, March 12.-About 8
n''Inrk This morning a binding snow
storm set in. An express train bound south
| on the New York Central ran into another
| express a. Dnble's Ferry, demolishing sew
| err Cars -Four persons are badly il jured.
B. h tracks are obstructed.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, March 12.-The
storm in this vicinity is very bad. At II
o'clock no trains had arrived from New
York.
IR.,, N. Y. March 12.-The snow in
W. stern New York is about fifteen inches
&C.,. /: still falling. Traffic is greatly
imi'etled.
WORSE THAN DAKOTA.
New YORK. March ~, 2,1Op.m.-The storm
is cr. asng absolutely unprecedented. All
business has been iaraly zed. At the
ob
~ere Sold the smallest on record The
pr"hure markets are all nominal. The
st r,s City of Berlin aud La Champagne
arr've'i ont. the weather has stopped the
u'ts. Every street in New York, Brook
lyn aud Jersey City is blocked and elevated
trai"' ar" st"pped. Brooklyn bridge and
the /, rries are almost abandoned, The
downtown hotels are cramnled with
suburbanites The elevated roads run
5000 trains daily usually, and have never
before stopped. Westerners declare Dakota
never furnished New York's blizzard OF to-
day. OF forty mails due between 1 O'Clock
and noon only two arrived by 2 this after
noon. The news from Europe, where also
tremendous gales and snow storms are oc-
curing is unimportant and uninteresting,
mainly relating to the coming obsequies OF
the late Emperor. At 9 this evening there
is no abatement in the storm. Frozen ea rs
and feet were never 50 numerous. Drug
stores are filled with patients all day and
evening. A woman
ABSOLUTELY FROZE TO DEATH
tonight at the corner OF Broadway and
Fulton streets, popularly supposed to be
the busiest four corners on earth. In hun
dreds OF streets loaded wagons are aban-
doned and horses taken to the nearest sta
bles The wind has blown the Snow into
immense drifts. Countless accidents oc-
Cured from shipping. The Astor House
alone turned away three hundred would be
guests. Other hotels have similar expert
ences. At 10 o'clock New York is abso-
lutely snowbound. The observation-disclosures
never saw it's equal. Not one train has
been dispatched by either the Erie or Cen
trail to-day, something unprecedented.
kilograms from distances of two hundred
lilies ndve the asnu :.lory to tell, nancy,
it is the worst storm ever known here. The
police authorities say the storm has not
been equalled since 1855. Most of the po-
lice telegraph wires were broken down
early in the morning. and policemen obliged
to tramp many miles to carry important
dispatches.