Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-13
L Big SNOW STORM.
Nsw York and the New England States
Visited by the Worst Gale and
Snow Storm of the Season.
The Various Exchanges in New York
City Suspend Operations and BusI-
ness Is ST 8 StAndstiII.
Street and Elevated Railways Unable to
Run Their Oars-People Housed Up
Like in n Dakota Bnzz ard.
FARDEsr SNOW OF THE YEAR.

HARDEST SNOW OF THE YEAR.
NEW YORK, March IL The hardest
snowstorm OF the year by far is raging In
New YORK City. 1t began esrly this
morning and st O'Clock there was foot
or over on the ground.
TELEGRAPaIG EMBARGO.
NEW YORK, March 12.-Tne embargo
on telegrSphic communication is almost
complete, the south being entirely cut of.
The Stock Exchange has Just unanimously
adopted the following:
Resolved, that it is the sense of the
members present that 81 dealings, so fAc
as possible, be suspended, and deliveries
go over till tomorrow, March 13.
AT NEW HAVEN.
NEW HAVEN, Conn March 2-The
storm IN this vicinity IL Verv bad. No
trsin has arrived from New YORK. The
snow packs hard and is drifting badly.
WRECK IN THE STORM.
PoUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y, March IA
about s O'Clock this morning, during the
binding snow storm, the Atlantic express
train, bound south on the New YORK Can
trail and Hudson River r siIroAd, ran iuto
another Atlantic express at Dobbs' Ferry,
demolishiDg several cars. Four persons
were badly irjured and both tracks OBJ
structed. ALI south-bound trains are held
st TarrJtoWn.
BUSINESS SUSPENDED.
NEW YORK, March l2-Businsss is
virtually az q standstill. Down town
houses are almost deserted. Olly two
trains arrived with mails this morning,
and work st the postofics was partially
suspended. Carriers msde two trips but
in many cases had 10 bring mail back,
ow ng to business offices being closed.
Postmaster Pierson said he had not
seen sucn blockade for q num-
Der of yesrs. All telegraph aud telephone
wires in the city are in bad working Or
der. Hundreds CT wires ere dowD, hav-
ing been broken By the weight OF ice and
snow. Ferry boats between New YORK
and Brooklyn snd New Jersey are running
once an hour or less. The wind at II 3.
IN. attained 3 velocity Of sixsY-three miles
an hour. IL WAS so fierce up town that
people on elevated trains were fearful
lest the train should be blown from the
track.
SIMPLY UNPRECEDENTED.
NEW YORK, March III M.-The
storm Is increasing and Is absolutely IN
lived at the stock exchange. Less than
10 600 shsres sold, the smallest on record.
The produce markets we're all nominal.
The steamers City Of Berlin and La Cnam-
pSgne arrived out. The weather stopped
the courts. Jurors aud witnesses in q
number OF csses were unable to arrive.
Every street csr in New York, BIO oklyr
and Jersey City and the elevated trains
stopped The Brooklyn Bridge and ferry
were almost abandoned. Tne doWa-towl
hotels were crsmmed With eu5urbanites.
The elevated roads run 5000 trains daily
usually SID never before stopped. West
erners declare that Dakota never fur
nished the New York blizzard of to-day.
OF forty mails due between O'Clock and
noon only two arrived by 2 this after
noon. The news from Europe, where
also trem -ndous gales ana snowstorm5
are occurring, is unimportant and uRin-
teresting, mainly relating TO the coming
obsequles OF the late Emperor.
A COLLISION.
NEW YORK, March l2-At 7:IO this
morning two trains on the Third avenue
elevated railroad Collided at The Seventy
sixth street station. Oas train was at
the station unloading and taking in pas-
sepgers, with which It was already over
crowded. Owing to the snow on the
track the train was unable to stsrt.
After it had been standing ebout
twenty minutes, to the horror
of all, = train came rushing down
the incline from SeVenty-fourth street
aud dashed into the rear car. The scene
that followed was indescrib,ble. Toe
engine reared up on the end Of the last
car and the steam escaped in crest
volumes, but fortunately rushed upwards
thus saving the hemmed in crowd on the
forward train as we'll as those on that end
ut the platform.
AT WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Msrch l2-Tde storm
that visited Washington yesterday was
one of the most remarkable known for
years; in fact the capitol seemed to have
been the center of miniature cyclone
that brought with it q binding success
sion Of rain, snow, wind and cUId. In the
early hours OF the day cutters ran high
and in many places sewers were blocked,
thus flooding the streets. the heavy
rain continued uutll about O'Clock
In the afternoon when it turned
TO binding snow which
SbuSh W SfSIJtuIuS ID IOuCnGQ d1u LQEQSu
TO ice. AS night fell the heavily laden
telegraph wires began to come down, and
in many places the streets wele blocxaded
by them SO that the street cars had to
turn around and make partial trips. Po-
lice wires were out of order, and to add
TO the discomfort OF the night the electric
lights began to fail. Ay midnight the
city was almost IN darkness, save for
feeble gas It's that had fckered through
the storm. At the signal Office
to-day 1t was learned that the
storm was the result of splitting
Of storm that on the day before yester-
day extended south from Michigan. Sat-
urdsy night it divided, forsing two storm
centers, one ovsr Lake Erie aud one in
Georgia. The southern center then beg2n
climbing up the coast, striking Washing
ton yesterday morning. The center itself
did not reach here until about O'Clock
in the afternoon, when the rain changed
to snow. This took until nearly mid
night to pass, the total rainfall