, 1888-03-15
Fuller Particulars OF Its Ter
rible Effects.
Enormous Loss by the Suspen.
sion of Traffic.
MANY Lives Lost on Vessels
Wrecked at Sea.
The Storm,

the indications trains will be running this
evening. The mail train which left New
York Sunday night arrived at midnight,
and the Pacific express will reach here
about 80 this afternoon. The railway
officials think the tracks are now cleared
and that they will he able to move trains As
usual within the next twenty-four hours.
Passengers and train men on the mail last
night report an eventual trip. Expressinen
Collins, OF this city, said
I'VE left Philadelphia at o'clock Mon
day morning in a terrible snow storm. We
got along the best we Conld till about 3
O'Clock in the afternoon, when we arrived
at Lemon, a place ffty-seven miles this side
showed in. The gale blew at the rate of
Fifty miles an hour, and it was showing as
hard as IL could snow, and 1t was like hne
powder, and it soon covered the ground all
around and under the train until 1t reached
up to the door.oi my car. l. must have
stay there until clock yesterday
afternoon, when four engines pulled us out
Of the drift" Fred Michaels, young man
from Stonington, Colorado, was the only
passenger who came from New York. ne
had left there at ~ o'clock Sunday night
Michaels was ON his way to Washington.
The train left Philadel phia Monday morn
ing and soon came into terrfcsnowdrift.
IL never saw such Il blizzard" said Mi
chaels, "in my life, and haye been living
The train pulled slowly along until we
reached Chester. There were nine trains
lying all together each blockading the
others. The snow was surrounding and
partly covering them and where the drift
had been pretty strong you could not see
car at all. There was nothing to be done
but to stop. The wind blew "A hurricane,
and the snow was binding. Although the
fires in the car was red hot, yet IL seemed
almost as cold as If they had not burned
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A good many OF the passengers began to
get hungry very soon and now the COM
plants began. OF course there We're some
of us who had sandwiches and such things
but they did not last long. don't think
that any man can eat while he sees some
body else starving. Then men had to get
out and buy bread. In all onr misfortpnes
however, we retained good cheer. Through
the snow we went nearly up to our waists,
hunting up a baker. Some OF The passen
could not eat themselves A newsboy on
The train sold one loaf of bread ut ten
cents IA slice and made 80 ON the loaf.
In the afternoon at last, the broken tele-
graph poles, trees and other distractions
were got out OF the way and got to Wash
ington alright. The brakemen suffered in
tensely from the cold. Old mountainpers
say the storm was the worst known in
many years
NEW YoKK March, 1.-THE sun,
the weather is modrateing. Travel
on the elevated roads is fully
restored but the surface roads are still i'm
passible. There is no Improvement in the
condition Of the telegraph lines. The lines
south and east are entirely cut off, aud
there Is little, if any, communication with
the west. The meagre reports received,
show the people in New Jersey towns who
started for New York NJ onday had dread
iul experience. Many trains were showed
in few miles from the city and passengers
were compelled te sleep on the trains or
wade through the snow to look Tor shelter
In the villages. A number OF persons are
reported to have perished from cold and ex.
haustion. At Elizabethport dozen en-
ployees of the Singer sewing machine works
started for home and several of them were
badly frozen. One man named Ellis was
picked up out OF the snow stiff and breath
less. He was carried into railway sta.
ton, where he soon died. A party walled
over three miles through the deep snow
and in the face of terrible gale. by
strenuous efforts the Pennsylvania road
got single track clear to Newark. Trains
were kept running oil night between there
end Jersey City to keep the track open.
None of the other roads have been able to
move trains. Above New York on the New
York Central the situation is uninproved. |
The Chicago limited ON the Pennsylvania |
road, stalled for u day on the New Jersey
meadows, reached Newark last night. A
relief car with supplies was sent out this
morning with three locomotives pulling
and three more pushing to insure tile pas
sengers against starvation. Much of the
live stock on the stalled trains is perishing
with cold The milk famine is becoHing
alarming. One hotel paid fifty cents quart
for the last fifty gallons the dealer had. The
meat supply is getting short and prices are
advancing. Fifteen dollars per ton is being
paid for coal. There is plenty of it in the |
yards of New York anu Brooklyn, but the |
difficulty Is to deliver it. Two thousand
business men from New Haven are showed
IN near Pelhaniville, suburb Of New York, |
since Monday morning.
One OF the passengers OH the Chicago ex-
press into which the Atlantic express ran, |
at Dobbs Feriy, Monday, was Mrs. Bell, OF !
California, on her way to Europe. She was
wedged i'm between the seat and the side of
the car and was extracted with great diff |
Guilty. Both OF Mrs. Bells legs were broken, !
each In three places. Six other passengers !
were more or less injured but not seriously. |
The afternoon papers estimate the busi- |
ness loss contingent upon the OCCASION I'm |
New York city at not less than seven mil |
lions, and the loss " the state, involved |
fully twenty millions.
Several hundred passengers reached Long |
Island City this morning. They We're forty |
eight hours en- route from Rockaway tn |
Twenty funerals an route to |
Carvsry ceiuetery are stucs in the snow |
drifts ON Borden avenue The corpses had |
10 be taken into houses near by over night. |
Some of the mourners, drivers and horses |
had to be dug out, nearly frozen to death. |!
STUCK IN THR SNOW.
JERsEy CIrY, N. j, March 4.-Ysster- |
day was set for the holding of the spring /
In many towns, but the New
Jersey roads being impossible nut very lew |
,nanaged 10 yet 10 the polls Many in
stances are reported where the polls were |
not opanai ut all. Those who came from /
ANY distance were neaf'y oyescopps ~ the |
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