The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-20

! running IN deSultOry manner
! Farmers are at q loss what to do with their
! milk. Some loads that managed to get to
/ town last night to be shipped on the railroads,
I were peddlod for two cents per quart about
the streets All agree that this storm beats
Twenty funerals en- route to Calvary oeme-
terry are stuck in snow drifts on Borden avenue.
The corpses had 10 be taken into houses near
/ by over n ght. Some Of the mourners, drivers
and horses had to be dug ont nearly frozen TO
death.
An afternoon paper estimates the business
loss, contingent loss ana actual pccuniary OUT
lay which the storm viii occasion III New York
CITY at moi less than seven millions and the
loss to thestatcs involved at twenty millions.
immigrants who have been detained on
sAipboards in the rivers and harbors since Sun
day last were landed at Castle Garden today.
| They numbered over 200.
Efforts Of the newspapers 10 obtain news
during the temporary interruption have been
remarkable and unequaled Every possible
avenue has teen used for intelligence, and as
an illustration of the means employed, it may
be stated that a dispatch from Boston, which
was received by way Of the Great Britain and
Atlantic cables at New York, and thence tele-
graphed to Philadelphia, was published this
morning.
OF twenty-nnc station pilot boats that made
up the harbor feet of New York. two are safe
in port HAY ing outrdden the storm. Nine were
wrecked Monday and eighteen, which were
out ON the open sea, remain utterly unheaId
Of The experience Of men On boats was some
thing terrible. 1t seems almost miraculous
that there should have been no loss of life
Hundreds Of commuters who left Paterson
for New y ork Monday morning were snow
bouna in cars for two days few miles away
and could not get there, and could not commu-
nifatc with their families. Hundreds had
narrow escapes from perishing in the streets
Monday night. The police rescued scores Of
men. women aud children, who had to sleep in
stationhouses Many buildings were damaged
by the wind. Market Street Methodist church
spre is bent and twisted Mills were unroofcd
and trees were blown down. Several persons
are reported as missing, and perhaps are lost
in the snow There are fears of a loss of life
i'll the country districts. Coal and milk are
scarce, and the poor people are suffering for
the necessaries Of life.
On the Wilmington and Northern railroad
there is a train in a snow drift twenty-five feet
deep near Dupont which has been there with
six passengers on board since II o'clock Mon
day night. Their suffering from hunger and
cold can be better imagined than described.
Two more trains on the same road are showed
in a bank near Joanna.
Tho engine of the first has its tender off the
track, and the other has one of its driving
wheels, broken; 4 train, "a, the Reading and
Ephrata, with the snow as high as the smoke
stack. The fires are out, and the passengers
and crew have taken shelter in the neighbor-
ing farmhouses. Some terrible stories of sjlf-
terday in opening the railroads. The wind
blew with the velocity Of sixty and siXty-live
miles an hour with the temperature ranging
from degrees below zero to 10 degrees above.
At Mohnsvillc, five miles southwest OF
Reading, the mercury was twelve degrees be-
low zero at IL a. III. yesterday, and by 10 p.
m. there had only been change of two de-
grees. 1t took special messenger from that
place three hours to reach this city on horse
back, and mail carrier who passed through
the place was ten hours in coming ten miles
with single sleigh and one passenger having
been compelled to open fences and drive
through the fields and many persons engaged
i'll opening roads yesterday We're overcome by
the cold.
The dead bodies OF three men, one of an
elderly person, are reported to have been
found between Reading and Pottstown, and
cattle have persisted from the cold in all parts
of the country, and teams had to be abandoned
ON the roads. Farmers are still unable TO
reach Reading. Milk and country produce
command premium. Barns were unroofed,
fences blown down, and forest trees leveled
by the storm. 1t will take weeks to repair
the damages. Passengers on q train on the
East Pennsylvania railroad, after having
been snow bound for twenty-four hours, were
rescued half starved and nearly frozen to
death. Among them were three ladies. r.
The gentlemen after etfecting their escape
from the train procured two sleighs and re-
turning placed the ladies in them They then
Mertztown. distance of about mile reach
ing that place last night thoroughly exhausteda
The ladies suffered dreadfully from the ex-
posture to the storm
Another passenger train on the main line of
the Reading road was snow bound twelve
hours at Meronsdan. Somesof the shop hands,
sent out TO release the trains, returned today al
ter having shoveled snow fifteen hours without
food. A number had their feet and arms
badly frozen.
NEW YORK, March 15.--The weather his
morning Is again warm and bright The pros
pect is that there will be much thawing. Great
banks Of dirty snow are piled on either side of
Broadway and all other avenues and streets.
Gangs of men are still hard at work shoVeling
and carting, but their task is a stupendous one,
Railroads leading into the city are all moving,
and business men i'll New Jersey, Long Island
and the upper part of the state reached New
York this morning for the first time since Sat
urday. Some of the surface cars are running.
PHILADELPHIA, March f5.--The block be-
tween this city and New York, on the New
York division of the Pennsylvania road, was
opened this morning. A train consisting of an
engine and six mail cars which left here yes
terday, arrived at Jersey City at I o'clock this
morning and the mail matter was Immediately
sent across the ferry to the metropolis. This
is the first train which has reached New Nork
from here since Monday morning and the
PENNSYLVANIA officials claim the credit of talk
ing into the metropolis the first mail matter
from the south and west since the great block.
Three train loads of belated passengers, which
arrived here from the south and west during
the past few days were sent ON to New York
this morning.
PIrTsBuRG, March 15.-The first through
train from Philadelphia over the Pennsylvania
reached here this morning, 1t carried only
thirty pounds of mail matter from Philadel-
pha and not pound from New York. An
other train is expected this evening from New
York, but railroad officials can give no definite
information. Passengers who had been On the
delayed trains tell of the sufferings of the
passengers. AT points between Harrisburg and
Philadelphia the snow had drifted TO the
depth of fifty feet, Many houses were com
pletely covered, and the only signs of habita-
ton was smoke curling from the chimneys. In
many places the occupants of houses had not
even attempted to dig their way out.
1t is impossible at this writing TO estimate
the loss of life. y great many people are
missing and the snow will have TO he cleared
away before all the missing ones can be ac-
counted for. Almost hourly reports are COM
ing III from the surrounding country of fatali-
ties resulting from the storm, 1t is feared
that over twenty lives have been lost in Is
sex county, \. J., alone \ list of fourteen
dead from the cold is published in
New Jersey in the vicinity of New York, and
O,n IN Staten Island Five .TprspNp,ap ara