Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-15
Latest Reports Regarding
the Great Storm.
SOME THRILLING EPISODES.
Food Fetching Famine Prices
Amusing Incidents of Rail-
road Travel.

but the surface roads are still impas-
sable. There is no improvement in
the condition OF telegraph wires. The
South and East are entirely cut off,
and there is little, if any commupica-
ton with the West.
Meagre reports received show that
people living in New Jersey towns
who started for New York ON Monday
had dreadful experiences. Many
trains are showed in few miles from
the city and passengers are compelled
to sleep on the trains or wade through
the snow to look for shelter In
villages. A number of persons
are reported to have
Persisted FROM COLD
And exhaustion at Elizabethport. A
dozen employees of the Singer Machine
Works started for their homes. Sew
eral of them were badly frozen. One
man named Ellis was picked up out
of the snow stiff and breathless. He
was carried into the railway station,
where he soon died. The party
walked over three miles through the
deep snow and in the face OF the ter
rible gale.
RAILROAD TRAFFIC.
By strenuous efforts the Pennsyl-
vania road got single track clear to
Newark. Trains we're kept running
all night between there and Jersey
City to keep the track open. None OF
the other roads have been able to
move trains. The New York Central
situation is unchanged. The Chicago
limited ON the Pennsylvania road
stalled for day on the New Jersey
meadows, reached Newark last night
A relief car with supplies has been
sent out with three locomotives pull
ing and three more pushing to insure
the passengers against starvation
Much of the live stock on the stalled
train is perishing with cold.
HOTELS IN DISTRESS.
The milk and coal famine is becom-
ing alarming. One hotel yesterday
paid so cents quart for the last fifty
gallons the dealer had. The mea
supply is going short and prices ad
yancing. Fifteen dollars ton is be
ing paid for coal. There is plenty o
it in the yards of New York anc
Brooklyn, but the difficulty is to de
liver it. Two thousand business mer
OF Mott Haven were showed in neal
Pelhamville, suburb OF New York
ON Monday.
A CALIFORNIAN INJURED
One OF the passengers on the Chi
cago Express, into which the Atlantic
Express ran at Dobbs' Ferry, Mon
day, was Mrs. Bell, of California, OF
the way to Europe. She was wedget
in between the seats and side of tn,
car, and was extricated with grea
difficulty. Both OF Mrs. Bells leg
were broken each in three places
Six other passengers were injured
but not seriously.
ESTIMATE OF THE LOSSES.
The papers estimate the bushes
loss, contingent loss and actual pc
cuniary outlay which the storm viii
occasion in New York City at no les
than $7,OOO,0 900 and the loss to tn
State at about 100000
TRAVEL BADLY DELAYED.
Several hundred passengers VIII
reached Long Island City this morn
ing were forty-eight hours Ell rout
from Rockaway to Long Island City
The streets are still blockaded
Twenty funerals en- route to Calvar.
Cemetery are stuck in drifts on Bor
den avenue. The corpses had to b
taken into houses near by over night
Some mourners, drivers and horses
had to be dug out, nearly frozen t
death.
FIRE IN TENEMENT HOUSE.
Antonia Marino was aroused fror
sleep this morning in room on th
first floor in the rear of tenemen
house in Mulberry street by flame
rising from the cellar. He succeeds
with difficulty in awakening severs
men sleeping in the room, who wer
already partly overcome with tn
smoke. Their cries aroused the in
mates Of the upper floors and of ad
Joining houses and in a few minute
nearly one hundred families wer
standing In the cold and snow of th
streets. Immense banks of snow pre-
vented the fire engines from reachin
the house, but alter much exertion
line of hose got to it and the fire wa
subdued.
THE STORM AT SEA.
OF the 30 staunch boats that MAX
up the harbor feet Of New York, tw
are safe in port, having outridden tt
storm. Nine were wrecked on MOI
day and Is, which were out in ope
sea, remain utterly unheard of. Tt
experiences of the men on the boa
wrecked were something terrible.
seems almost miraculous that thel
should have been no loss of life.
TELEGRAPH POLES FRUSTRATED.
At the Western Union office it
said that 700 telegraph poles a
down along the Pennsylvania RAJ
road between this city and Washin
ton and it is not expected that thin
will be running as usual before q Wet
at least. No through mails ha,
been received since Sunday. II
Fourth Avenue Horse Car Line b.
bOuic Cdxp AuAAAA6s
THE SITUATION IMPROVING.
Steady progress toward ultima
release from the effects of the gre
storm have been made to-day. Lar
gangs of laborers worked all day. Ty
or three lines Of surface cars began.
run this afternoon, and others W
follow more rapidly. It must be son
days before all of the side streets, {
pecially in the poorer quarters, can
plies Of fuel and provisions be tax
in. Fortunately the temperature b
risen and the suffering from lack
coal will b much lessened. Trul
line railroads have renewed their bi
Tie against drifts with better measu