Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-21
REsuMiNG BUSINESS.

Condition-C Citizens Turn Their Alton.
ton to Cleaning the streets-Reports Of
Loss of Life Coming In.
New YORK, March 16-The sight of tho
rising sun yesterday made glad the hearts
OF countless poor. many Of whom were
without food and almost all without fuel
Yesterdays warm light made the latter I'M
necessary, and hundreds of attic and tene-
ment windows were thrown open to the
soft air.
During the night the railroad employees
had not been idle The Erie was the first
to win Yesterday morning at $40 the
Chicago through express rolled into the
depot Other roads followed, and mail
trains left the city on schedule time.
On the Jersey Central no trains are run
ming above Bound Brook, where $500 men
are working a way through deep cut
Central trains are now running nearly
upon schedule time. The New York, On
tario & Western is clear and has brought
in 5000 cans of milk, ending the milk
famine
One of the incidents of the blockade
downtown was the building OF immense
bontires in the middle of snow-drifta
store-keepers literally contributed their
waste-boxes, and the big heaps were thus
melted rapidly away. The sun did more
SOo~ "OAA uAuA Oh VIC OuO4 10 VI VuV AAUOAs
ers combined. From every snow-heap ran
little rills, which in turn went into
the piles of snow and undermined them.
The streets in many places were ankle
deep In slush. business is resumed, but I'M
der great difficulties The 5000
surface-rOad laborers cleared the
tracks on the avenues, but left
the snow at the sides of the road in great
mounds. Trucks ind cars were blocked in
all the streets in an apparently inextrica-
BILE mass Only about half OF the telephone
wires are working. and the rest will not be
in order before Saturday.
The shipping arrivals gave the first de-
tailed accounts of the storm at sea- The
pilot fleet has suffered terribly. One at
least has gone down with several men
which collided with the steamship
japanese. Ice in the bay still clogs navi-
CATION.
One OF the surprises of the blizzard was
the formation of an immense ice-britlge ON
the East river, and thousands of people
crossed during the three hours it lasted
Meat has gone up two cents a pound and
most of the large dealers have refused to
sell to any but regular customers
The mayor has issued a proclamation
calling upon the citizens to aid in the work
of removing snow from the reefs and sug-
costing to proprietors of steam boilers the
feasibility of turning their steam upon the
snow-piles in front of their places of bust
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LOSS OF LIFE
How many lives have been lost in the
storm in this vicinity will not be known
for days It is known that many farmers
started for this city with milk and produce
and have not since been heard from. Sew
eral teams have been discovered in snow
drifts in the suburbs The horses were
dead and the drivers had disappeared
Reports of extensive loss of life are com
ing in from all sections covered by the
storm 1t is feared that over twenty
five lives have been lost in Essex
County, N. J., alone The following are
known to have persisted: Xavier Zwinge,
of Livingston, John Murphy, of Newark,
John Doyer, of Brookdale, an unknown
man called the *crazy fisherman" Of
Newark, an unknown man in Newark,
John Koran Hattlerow, OF Orange. an I'M
known man in rvington, one man and two
children in Hackensack, Alexander Ben
nett, of Staten Island, an unknown man of
Staten Island, and three milkmen of Or
ange. Six others are missing
NEWARK, n. J.. March 16-The body Of
John Roe has been found buried in drift
in the meadows At Snow Hill near Cam
den, Edward Sheppard, an aged colored
man. has been found frozen to death in his
shanty.
NEW BRUNSWICK, n j., March 16-On
Monday John Herman left Midtown to
walk to Raritan. He has not been heard of
since Neighbors found his wife dead in
bed and his children starving
srREwN WITH WRECKS
lEwEs, Del, March 16.-The story of the
shipwrecks and loss of life between Sandy
Hook and Cape Charles between Sunday
afternoon and Monday noon can not be told
in full for many days, if ever.
The harbor is filed with wrecks of I'M
known vessels in some cases bottom up
ward. The probabilities are that the crews
of many of these craft have persisted to
a man Among the. vessels lost was the
barge Hazeltine, Captain Van Kirk, and
crew of five men. The bark Briminga had
a crew of twenty three all told, twenty-five
of whom were lost A number of bodies
were washed ashore The tug Simpson is
sunk in the harboE A corrected list of the
vessels ashore includes two barkentines,
seveeteen schooners, two pilot-boats and
two tugs. Three men are known to have
been lost from these vessels
PHILADELPHIA, March 16t A Cam
bridge (Md) letter reports the Savenia
North caps:zed off Hill Point and the only
two men on board drowned Several YES
sells were ashore in Creamery bay: The
Julia Cook, of Camb bridge. is reported lost
with all on board The General Logan Is
reported wrecked at Castle Haven. and
Captain c. R Eaton and crew Of six were
drowned
TRACK-CLEARERs KILLED.
EAsToN, Pa, March 16.-A horrible acct
dent by which three men lost their lives oc-
CURED Wednesday afternoon on the New
Jersey division of the Lehigh Valley road
at Three Bridges, N. j. -Four engines with
two wreck cars, containing 100
men, left here in the morning
to open up the road Nearly
100 snow-drifts were plowed when
they arrived at large drift on short
curve below Three Bridges Their speed
was increased and the four engines dashed
into the drift with great force. The first
engine left the rails and in less than min
ute three of the engines were wrecked and
two of them overturned Three men were
killed.
William Shields, general agent of the
Morris l. Essex railroad at Washington,
n j., started east Wednesday with four en-