St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-14
The ICE-BOUND EAST.
Terrible Suffering and Loss
Of Life in New York
City.
Provisions Running Scarce
and Hotels and Restaurants
Closing.
Great Loss Of Life Reported
All Along the Atlantic
Coast.
Generous Dakota Sends Sym
pathy and Promises
Of Aid.


Special to the Globe.
New YORK, March 13.-There is
gloomy scene in the streets OF this city
to-day. The storm has parayzed busl-
ness, and the streets are almost de-
serted. 1t is with the greatest difficulty
that communication is obtained from
one part of the city to another. There
has been only partial resumption OF
traffic in this city. Elevated railroad
trains are running at intervals, but they
are wholly inadequate for the require
ments. Most business men who have
come down this morning were forced
TO walk. Sleighs and carriages were in
great demand Wind still blowing
furiously and snow badly drifted, being
piled in many places six and eight feet
high. Several persons are reported to
have perished in the city last night.
Communication with Washington and
all points south of New York is still
entirely cut off. No surface cars are
running, and the snow is frozen so hard
that plows cannot be used, and gangs
of men with Shovels and picks are en-
deavoring to clear the roads. The
East river was frozen hard this morn
ing, and many Brooklynites walked
across it to New York side. Few trains,
if any, have reached different termini
in New York and Jersey City. Many
trains stalled between stations on the
Hudson river and Harlem roads. Of
ficials said yesterday that
FORTY TRAINS WERE SHOWED IN.
Efforts to break through the snow
drifts had completely failed. Not
train reached the depot during the day.
Most of the roads report similar cOndi-
tiOns of affairs. Passengers suffered
great discomfort. FerrybOats are only
run at long intervals. All Eastern
wires are down. Communication from
Philadelphia last night by long distance
telephone said that the storm there was
the greatest in over thirty years. No
trains running, many snow-bound near
the city. The east-bOund Chicago lin
tied express on the Pennsylvania is
showed in seventeen miles from the
city. Business is suspended and all
telegraph wires are down. Most people
who got to business yesterday were un-
able to get home last night. Hotel ac-
commodations were strained to their ut
most. Stores and offices were converted
into sleeping apartments for the benefit
of employees. Many girls were COM
PEELED to accept such quarters. A ma
jOrity of the theaters were closed last
night. A milk famine is threatened if
the blockade is not soon cleared. Sev-
eral tenement houses on East Forty
third street burned early this morning
and twenty families had to run for their
lives, most of them scanthy dressed,
They were given shelter in neighbor-
ing saloon. The buildings were entirely
consumed. Loss S25, 900. Last night
was the worst ever experienced along
the banks of the Hudson and along the
Westchester shore of the sound. The
mercury at 2 o'clock this morning at
Dobbs' Ferry, on the Hudson, and Port
Chester, on the sound, marked zero.
The gale swept with fearful velocity.
Railroad traffic on Long Island is ell
tirely blocked. Thousands of men are
at work digging ont the tracks. Snow
plOwS can't be used. President Austin
Corbin is now SnOW-bOund at Jamaica.
He left on the train for Brooklyn yes
terday morning.
MIDNIGHT.
T, The situation at this hour is less
promising. During the afternoon
occasional light spitS of snow clouds
Wereuthinned with occasional bits of
sunshine. Toward evening the clouds
thickened and now snow is falling
again. Railroads centering in this city
from every direction, made no percept-
ible progress toward resumption of
travel, though managers of some lines
expressed the hope of being able to get
some trains through tomorrow. If the
snowfall continues, however, as seems
probable. the situation will be worse
than it was yesterday, and prolonga-
tion of the blockade for twenty-four or
fOrty-eight hours will bring untold pri-
walton and suffering and financial loss.
Telegraphic communication with Phila-
deIphia, Baltimore, Washington and
other points south continues totally cut
off except over precarious lines by way
of Pittsburg. The lines to New Eng
land points are utterly Frustrated, and
no intelligence is obtainable from that
quarter beyond the fact that the storm
which ragged here yesterday has broken
over that section with great violence.
Many ferry boats on the Hudson and
East rivers have ceased running, being
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