Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-03-14
Bu~iness utterly Paralyzed. Car Lines
HIoc h AIDED and streets ImpassabIe.

region. Dakota people In New York say no North
western BLIZZARD was ever hall as bad. Most O.
the streets are impossible from great masses OF
ice and STOW; ali surface cars have been aban-
d0ned; the elevated roads only succeed In run
ming trains 1t long Intervals. and then at great
risi, and VIII immense difficulty; the rivers being
ful OF he, the ferry boats make their trips very
trregulaTiy, wheeled vehicles Of all kinds md Il
Impossible to set through the deep snow and
sluSh on the streets. and as a consequence
i..G91hl, ol people ar suffering because they
Cthh't ~ lresh supplies OF coal There Is already
nil. famine Ia the city. Nearly all provision,
nave % he delivered by hand. and some u the
h'tel7 arr Organizing relay5 Uf men 20 bring them
coai IN bag lots from the wharves. Nearly al
stores we're clos d and al kinds OF business was
practically q. a ,tandStin Most people VINO got
u business Monday We're unahls. to GET nome. az
night Hotel accommodations were str.,iaei 10
their utmost: storpS ami offices were converted
lhtO stepping apartments Tor the Lenent Of en-
plOSeS- Many girls We're compelled TO accept such
Quarters Nlny accidents frJm falls anu broken
signs were reported 10 the police bIt n1ne 80 far
Is learned. were OF a serious nature.
FROZEN TO DEATH N THE STREET.
George ID. Barrymore, the weIl-knOwn importer
and dealer in hops at No. 3 Water street, was
frozen sim In a snow DRIFT in 9Th avenue Barry
more lived with his wife and family In the Osborn
Hats. at 5lst street and Broadway. He started for
MS Office down town MOndsy, and II is supposed
he became exhausted and dropped by the way I'M
The body OF Annie Halpln Fisher. aged about
thirty, was found Monday night frozen stiff I'm "A
utilNdy IN W street, Wtlert she lNeI she
was once well known In the social world but had
fallen into bad habits.
Business wa again suspended on all the ex-
changes yesterday and 10 was agreed 10 let de-
hverirs gO over until to-day. The cuStOm-hOuSe
was open but 10 WORK done. The nited
States court Judge did not put In IN appearance
YESTERDAY Jurors and witnesses In murder case
were unable % arrive.
TRAINS STALLED on ALL ROtDS.
The East River is almost entirely blocked with
ice. A huge Zoe formed natural bridge early in
from shore 20 shore. Not train has come into
New YORK Oyer any road since last night. The
railroads are impossible and hundreds OF trains.
both express and local. are blocked within a few
miles OF the city absolutely unable TO move
There are thirty trains stalled between the Grand
Central depot and Spuyten DuyviL SnOw-plows
Will not work and the work OF excavation has TO
De done by hand. "All trains are abandoned
until further notice" was sign on the walls OF
the ferry house OF the Jersey Central at the foot
az Liberty street. Boats had run nearly as
possible eyery three-quaIters OF an hour. Travel
across the whitehall, Wall street and Fulton
street ferries was the nghtest known in years
BroOHlyntes preferriDg 10 stay IN New York. Rail-
road trai1c ON Long Island Is entirely blocked
Thousands Of men are at work, digging out the
tracks: snOw-plOughS cannot be used. In fact,
all roads running out OF New York are blOckaded.
The lines TO New England points are utterly
FRUSTRATED, ana no inreligenceis obtainable from
that quarter beyond the fact that the storm has
broken oSerthat section with great violence.
Up 20 last night no mails had been received at
the New \ DIRK pOsi-Oiiice since l.: 80 on Monday.
OF forty mails due between clock and noon
-
halls were collected and delivered on time.
THE STORM GROWS WORSE AGAIN
AT nightfan last night the storm began TO grow
worse again, and at midnight the outlook was
more gloomy than ever. Snow was falling heavily
again, making it probable that the railroads
would ind IL impossible TO resume operations for
from twenty-GOur 10 IOTty-e' ght hours The losses
10 business mel will be immense.
1t was said yesterday that the Western Union
Telegraph CO. had only four wires available
These are between New York and Buffalo and
chicago There Is no Information whatever tn be
lad at the weather Office, the clerk In charges
being, as he expresses II. entirely cut OF from the
outer world TeIegraphic communication with
Boston has been lost since an early hour Monday
m0rning. The last news from that city was 10 the
effect that business was at a standstin and the
streets were nlled with telegraph poles and wires
In Brooklyn business was generally suspended.
There we're no cars running on the surface roads.
Nearly all the stores were closed The morning
newspapers in The Gplying districts selling at
from . To 10 cents a copy Shortly before IL
O'Clock two Dg steel-hulled tugs broke up the
largr Hoes Of ice which had accumulated In tine
East River, which 50 many daring pedestrians had
crossed in the earlier part OF the day.
The BRIGHTON BEACH HOTEL SAID TO HAVE BEEN
SWEET AWAY.
4 New York special to the Baltimore american
says: The Brighton Beach hotel. at COney island.
was swept away by the high sea during the storm
anu Is a compete loss. The building was gigan-
IT, structure, built in an oriental style OF archi-
lecture. and was probably valued at $4,000. A
the PAST i've months in the work OF preparing TO
remove the hotel from its present site a few hun
dred yards further inland. but tO-day'S sea over
TOOK them, ana their labor was for nauCht.
NEWS FROM OTHER PLACES.
Six heavy engines were sent from the Pennsyl-
yania station in Jersey City yesterday morning TO
clear snow drifts from the tracks. They managed
20 get half n mile from the depot when the rear
engine encountered a heavy bank and was thrown
from the track. ThOs. Whelan, an extra fireman
and John Mullins, yard master, seriously Injured
10 j. believed Whelan will die. The engine was
badly wrecked NJ Elizabeth. v j., churches and
halls were opened Monday night 20 lOd-er, and
travellers who could not ma room In the hotels.
business b, plrilyzed and the schools closed
young actor named Ellis was found IN a saOwdrir
frOzea % death- several persons are missing
LITTLE IMPROVEMENT Ar PHILADELPHIA.
There was little Improvement In the condition
OF a1airs at Philadelphia yesterday, though the
business stagnation continued. street cars manage
10 get along with four horses drawing them Tine
railroads running into the city are still badly
paralyzeL but some trains arrived and were got
Baltimore and Washington during the day on
Pennsylvania road. and trains lett for those eth
al balf-pdst T. III No trains were sent out 10
New York The newspaper train which len New
YORK at nAlf-pt-t Monday morning has not yet
I-ached IN iade phla IL i reported that IT Is laid
up near Princeton. with several Others beyond H.
Prom this end, trains have gone far a. Bristol
Ia, where they still remain Large g ngs OF men
were >nt OFT last night on the different branches
OF the road 10 relieve those who worked an day
and Pennsylvania Official said tnar th, New YOrS
division "oGid probably be opened for traffic To-
day.
~ NEW YORK STATE
Through View YORK state the storm was the
Seyerrst IN years, and railroads are all more or
les bloc ed, and, IN some instances entirely
closed. y Whitehall Dispatch saws nearly SIX feet
Ci snow LII On the line VI the Delaware and Hud-
son canal Co.'S road tween ROuse'S Point and
Whitehall Drifts 10 aud 1" feet high are reported
tetWcen saratoga ana Whitehall. Al AIblIy The
stTretS arr completely blocked. Only twenty
eight Out ~ one hundred and sixty members OF
The legislature were present. ana II Will probably
lie Thursday before Session will be ctllel AZ
Troy feet Of snow had fallen up 10 last night
and the storm continued Schenectady Dispatch
says: ~ Train which LETT Rochester Yesterday
l. stalled about . miles east Of here About tiuy
IlefnOs - and senator's were ON bOart. No DrG
Visions could D. obtained for the snow hound
party until this morning, when they fea.ted on
ham ana potatoes \ Rochester millionaire and a
Buffalo statesman cooked for the hungry passrn-
gers Untll all were provided for. This morning a
tady, where i've trains ara stalled with no pros
Iect q getting out TO-DAY. A stock train Is
showed In n. ar the Rochester train: stock ali
fruIen to death" No trains were moving In any
direction at syracuse. The hotels are crowded
with Delttcd travellers. From Vermont and Can
ada come similar accounts OF the storms UMPIRE
Cci-uted severity.
Business on The Pennsylvania between Pittsburv
and Philadelphia Is completely paralyZed An
freight trains are snOwOOund. anu there Is little
CT nO prospects, % their getting out for at least
twenty -fJCr hours Never before in the history of
the rairCais has there been SUCH a blockade The
Ic--sl s-rS on the trains VIII also have 10 suffer a.
tar fA"rLlpuIeter at most places ., below zero Nc
malls have arrived from the East since u O'Clock
lf'rr- alone are snOW-OOund between PlttSDurl
aEt II.lflslulta Tels.rFaUlic communication A.