The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-03-24

New YopK, March 14.-Yesterday tho
blizzard was funny to New Yorkers, but
to-day many smile was checked as the
hand went into the pocket to pay the de-
mand made for food and fuel supplies.
The seriousness of the situation becomes
more apparent hour by hour as the wires
are being picked up and send in
tales of suffering and death from
outlying points. Tho incoming tide
brings on its surface bits Of wreckage
that are anxiously scanned by shipping
agents whose vessels are missing. Tho
railway situation continues hopeless The
New York Central Is hopelessly blocked,
and relief parties have gone out in an en-
dcavor by some means to feed and water
trains. On tho New York and New
Haven Road five trains are
lost and can not be located for
want Of telegraph facilities. The Erie is
doing nothing. Owing to no arrivals OF
trains famine threatens this city. There
is no milk in the city and condensed milk,
which was in good supply on Monday. is
hard to be had at any price. Vegetables
have quadrupled in prices. Eggs jumped
from eighteen to thirty cents per dozen.
Meager reports show that people living in
New Jersey towns who started for Now
York Monday had dreadful experiences.
Many trains were showed in a
few miles from the city, and passen-
gers were compelled to sleep
on them or wade through the snow to look
for shelter in the villages A number of
persons, it is reported, perished from cold
and exhaustion. At Elizabethport doz-
ell employees of Singers sewing machine
works started for their homes. Several of
them were badly frozen. One man named
Ellis was picked out of the snow stiff and
breathless. He was carried into the rail-
way station, where he soon died. An after
noon paper estimates the business loss, con-
tingent loss and actual pecuniary out
lay which the storm will occasion in New
York City at not less than $7,000,00O and
the loss to the State involved at 500, 600, 900.
OF the twenty-nine stanch boats that make
up the harbor fleet of New York, two are
safe in port, having outridden the storm
nine were wrecked Monday, and eighteen
which were out in the open sea remain ut
terly unhcard of. The experience of the
men on boats wrecked was something ter
rible. Twenty funerals en- route to Cal
vary Cemetery are stuck in snow-drifts on
Borden avenue. The corpses had to be
taken into houses near by over night
Some of the mourners drivers and horses
had to be dug out, nearly frozen to death.
PATERSON, N. j., March 14.-!The snow
storm which set in Sunday night was the
| greatest ever known hero. A fearful gale
piled up enormous drifts and did great
| damage. The drifts in the streets are tif
teen and twenty feet high. The inmates
of many dwellings were completely shut
in. Business and traffic is completely at q
standstill. No news from the outside
world has been received since Monday
morning.
NEWARK, N. j., March 14.-Three persons
in this vicinity are now known to have
frozen to death in Mondays blizzard. A
milk, meal and coal famine is threatened
Boston, MASS, March ID, via LONDON
| The storm has now ragged incessantly fol-
| two days all over New England, so far as
| our scanty communications reach. Every
| railroad out of the city is blockaded com
| pletely, and the only telegraphic communi
| cation is by the Commercial Cable Com
pany's line to Rockport, Me-, and thence
by cable to London. Never was there
such complete prostration of bust
ness, and the damage to property mus,
amount to an enormous sum. 1t is fifty
years since Boston has been so affected by
q storm.
SCRANTON, Pa, March 14-Snow-drfts
in many places on the Delaware Lacka.
wanna and Western railroad over the Po
como Mountains are forty feet in height.
Three passenger trains are lying at Wash.
ington, N. J. Two more are at Strouds.
burg. The passengers are cared for in
hotels at the company's expense. Six
hundred men are trying to clear the track.