The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-13
An Unprecedented Storm of
Wind and Snow.
IMPEDED ALL OVER.
Casualties In the Big Cities-The Tele
graph DemOralizsd-SadH Havoc
Everywhere-Eic.
The Storm.


ing countries come reports of the Sc
verest snow and windstorm in years.
There was similar accident to that on
Third Avenue on the Brooklyn elevated
road this morning, but fortunately at
tended by no casualties. Business is
virtually at a standstill. Down town
houses are almost deserted. Only two
trains arrived with mails this morning
and the work of the postoffice is
partially suspended. A hundred tel
graph wires are down. Ferry boats
between New York, Brooklyn and New
Jersey are running once an hour or
less. The wind attained velocity Of
sixty-four miles an hour.
PoUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y, March 12-
About this morning, in a binding
snowstorm, an express train bound
south on the New York Central ran
into another express at Dobbs Ferry.
demoIishing several cars. Four persons
were badly injured. Both tracks are
INSTRUCTED.
New HAVEN, Conn, March 12.-The
storm in this vicinity is very bad. At
| II o'clock no trains had arrived from
New York.
Troy, March 12.-The storm in ives :
tern New York is about fifteen inches
deep. and is still falling. Traffic is
greatly impeded.
New YORK, March ~ p. m.-The
storm is increasing. 1t is absolutely
unprecedented. All business has been
paralyzed. At the Stock Exchange less
than Is 900 shares were sold, the small
lest on record. The produce markets
are all nominal. The steamers City of
Berlin and La Champagne have arrived
out. The weather stopped the courts.
Every street car in New York, and the
Brooklyn and Jersey City elevated
trains are stopped. Brooklyn bridge
and the ferries are almost abandoned.
Down town hotels are crammed with
suburbanites. The elevated roads run
3, 600 trains daily usually. They never
before stopped. Westerners declare
that Dakota never furnished New
York's blizzard Of to-day. OF the
forty mails due between and noon
only two arrived by 3 this afternoon.
The news from Europe, where also
tremendous gales and snow storms are
occurring, is unimportant and I'M
interesting, mainly relating to the OBJ
sequIes of the late Emperor.
Ate o'clock this evening there was
III III LAO E4OACa
ears and feet were never so numerous
The drug stores were filled with
patients all day and evening. A
woman absolutely froze to death to-
night at the corner of Broadway and
Fulton Street, popularity supposed to
be the busiest four corners on the
earth. In hundreds of streets loaded
wagons were abandoned and the horses
taken to the nearest stables. The wind
has blown the snow into immense
drifts. Countless accidents have oc-
Cured from slipping. The Astor House
alone turned away 300 would-be guests.
Other hotels have similar experiences.
10 o'clock-New York is absolutely
snowbound. The oldest inhabitants
never saw it's equal. Not one train was
dispatched by either the Erie or
Central to-day, something unpreoe-
dented. kilograms from distances OF 200
miles have the same story to tell,
namely, that lit is the worst storm ever
known here" The police authorities
say the storm has not been eQualed
since 1856. Most of the police telegraph
wires wer5 broken down early in the
morning, and the policemen are obliged
to tramp many miles carrying impor-
tent dispatches.
CHICAGO, March 12.-10.30 p. m.-Our
Communication with the east has been
partially restored, but is so uncertain
We will not be able to carry the eastern
markets or stock lists tonight. There
were no important doings in the mar
kets.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE storm
that visited Washington yesterday was
one of the most remarkable known for
years. In fact, the capital seemed to
have been the centre of miniature
cyclone, that brought with it a binding
succession of rain, snow, wind and
the cutters ran high. and in many low
Il oding the streets. A heavy rain con-
tinued until about 3 o'clock in the
afternoon, when it turned 10 binding
snow, which stuck to everything II
touched and turned to ice. AS night
fell the heavily laden telegraph wires
began to come down, and in many
places the streets were blockaded by
them. The police wires were out of
order, and to add to the discomforts of
the night the electric lights began to
fail. By midnight the city was almost
in darkness, save for the feeble gas jets.
At the signal office, to-day, it was
learned that the storm was the result Of
the splitting of the storm trough that,
on the day before yesterday, extended |
south from Michigan. Saturday night |
it divided, forming two storm centres,
one over Lake Erie and one
in Georgia. The southern centre |
then began climbing up the coast, strik-
ing Washington yesterday morning.
The centre itself did not reach here
until about o'clock in the afternoon.
This took until nearly midnight to pass.
The total rainfall amounted to one and |
three quarters inches. Off Cape Henry |
the wind was blowing fifty-fiv miles
an hour, yesterday. The railroads
leading into Washington have been
blockaded by snow, fallen trees, tele
graph wires and poles, so that the |
movement of trains has been seriously |
impeded, if rot abandoned. At the |
Western Union Office it is learned that
the effect upon the wires by the storm
was one of the worst ever known here.
Washington has been almost completely