Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-16

ices we're converted int6 sleeping apart
msnts for the bent fit Of employees. Man
girls were compelled to accept such
quarters. a majority Of thesters Hert
closed last night. A milk famine Il
threatened II the blsckade is not sool
! cleared.
Tenement houses in West Borty-shirC
street burned early this morning. Invent,
families had TO run for their lives. Mos
of them were scantily dressed. They
were given shelter In 8 sighboring ss-
loon. The building was entirely con-
sumed.
TROY, N. Y, March Is 1t has beer
showing here for forty hours and the
ground is covered to the depth of four
feet.
! AT ALBANY.
ALBANY, N. Y, March l3.-The storm
is still raging. Its equal has never been
seen In this vicinity. The streets are
out Of 100 members of the Legislature
were present, snd 1t will probably be
Thursday before the session will be
called. No trains are running.
NOT MUCH IMPROVEMENT.
Nbsn AOhhf 40 -
things assumed q slightly better aspect,
but Inc majority of business houses are
either closed or practically go. Rot q
surface railroad made any attempt to run
cars. The elevated railway trains ran
with irregularity during the afternoon
and with q few sleighs out we're the only
means Of conveyance. Broadway
and the other great north and
south thoroughfares are web nigh
impossible with mountains Of s5o1
shoveled from the sidewalks. d ms
jority Of the cross streets are qusgInires
OF soft SNOW one to three feet deep. At
8 O'Clock this evening fine penetrating
snow is still falling. No milk has been
received In this or the Ieighboring cities
Of Brooklyn and Jersey City for thirty
Fix hours, or il received, cannot be
distributed on account Of the impossible
condition Of the streets. No butchers,
milkmen, grocers, or other carts are visi-
bic. All provisions are delivered by
hand, the men laundering painfully
through the drifts. Coal even is
being carried in a thousand
places by bsg, basket and bucket
and In the poor quarters on the outside
the price is nearly double. A number OF
restaurants were compelled to close
their doors, being unable to get either
fuel or provisions. The hotels are COM
PEELED to get most of their refreshments
and vegetables
CARRIED BY HAND
and some are arranging for relsys Of men
to bring coal from abe docks in bsgs. 1t
is lAborious process for horses to pull a
cart with half ton of coal. Hackmen
asked from $50 to $50 for a comparatively
short drive and gangs Of boys and men
have been making their own terms for re-
laying househoIders imprisoned behind
snow drifts. 1t was Impossible
to get New York paper to.
day throughout a large portion
of Brooklyn and Jersey City. Public
places are practically closed. The fire
department warns psopie to be careful,
IS 1t Is almost impossible to get the en-
gines out. Preparations are being, made
to mount them On bob-sleds.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPES.
NEW YORK, March l4.--Of twenty nine
stsunch boats that make the hsrbor feet
Of New York, two are sste In port, bsv-
ing outridden the storm. Nine were
wrecked Monday and eighteen, which
were out in the open sea, remsin utterly
OF. The experience Of the men
on the oosts wre cked was some,
thing terrible. 1t seems almost
that there should have been no
10 SIS of life There wss positively no rest
for The crews from the ime the gale be-
gan. Added to the ordinary dangers of
heavy wind were the difficulties caused
by the rain and sleet which frcze the sails
into solid sheets. These had to be con-
stsntly looked after to prevent them from
cracking into pieces. All the wrecked
crews landed in yaWls near Sandy Hook,
and were given food and shelter in the
house of Mrs. NJ. NJ. Stewart.
OPENING THE HIGHWAYS.
NEW YORK, March 1.-THE sun is
brightly this morning and the
weather is moderatiDg. Travel on the
roads is fully resumed. The
surface roads are still impossible. There
ls no lmprovem in the condition Of the
telegraph wires. Meagre reports
received show that the people living
In New Jersey towns who started FOR New
York Monday, had dreadful experiences.
A number OF persons, it is reported, per-
Ished from cold and exhaustion. At
3 zaoethport dozen employees Of Sing
er's Sewing Machine WORKS, started for
their homes. Several OF them were badly
irozen. One man named ELLIS, was pick |
ID up out Of the snow stiff and breath
ess. He was carried into railway sta
ion, where he soon died
A T~ENTY-MILLIoN DOLLAR LOSS.
NEW YORK, March II An afternoon
,aper estimates the business loss, con-
ingent loss and actual pecuniary outlay |
which the storm will occasion in New
York city st not less than 81 eco, 900, and |
he less to the states involved is 500, 0e0,- !
100.
FAMINE IN NEw YORK.
NEW YORK, March 1.-THE Ciicsgo |
United vestioule train on the Pennsyl- |
'anis Road, which Was stalled for day
lear Harrison on the New jersey |
meadows, reached Newark last night. A
elief car Of supplies had been sent out in
he morning with three locomotives pull
og and three more pushing. At South
stock train is blocked on the
iding and many sheep and cattle are
rozen TO death. In the Pennsylys1is
reIght yare carload OF sheep persisted.
he milk fsmine Is becoming
farming, and it is almost i'm
ossiole to get anything but con-
ensed mik. One hotel yesterday
aid Afty cents quart for the last fifty
allons, dealer hs6. The nest supply
getting short and prices are advancing
fifteen dollars per ton is paid for coal.
here is plenty of 1t IN the ysr6s In New
ork end Brooklyn, but the difficulty Is
deliver 1t. Two thousand business