The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-03-17
A Fearful Storm.

A Fearful Storm.
New YORK, March 12.-The hard
est snow storm of the year by far is
raging in New York City. 1t began
early this morning and at O'Clock
was foot or over on the ground. A
high WING caused drifts which, in the
upper part of the CITY, were three and
four feet high. Traffic was almost
suspended. Thousands of passengers
were blocked on the elevated roads.
The people who left uptown by the
elevated roads were unable to get
further than Eighth street by the
road. Many of the more venture
some descended to the street by lad
der and walked the rest of the way
down town. People in suburban
towns found it almost impossible to
reach the city.
An Albany dispatch says: The
snow storm in this vicinity is the
seyerest of the season, Horse cars
are blocked and trains are hours be-
hind. If the storm continues, of
which there is every prospect, there
will he a general train blockade be-
fore night.
A dispatch from Troy says: About
fifteen inches of snow has fallen here
and still falling seventeen inches
reported at Saratoga. Railroad men
believe that they have not seen the
worst of the storm, however, and
predict very serious time if the
wind increases.
Business is virtually at q stand.
still. Downtown houses are almost
deserted. Only two trains arrived
with the mails this morning and
work at the pOstoffi ice was paralyzed.
The carriers made two trips, but in
many cases had to bring the mail
back, owing to business offices being
closed. Postmaster Harrison said he
had not seen such blockade for a
number of years. All the telegraph
and telephone wires in the city are
in bad working order, Hundreds of
wires are down, having been broken
by the mass of ice and snow. The
ferry boats between New York and
Brooklyn and New Jersey are run
ming once in an hour or less.
The storm is increasing and is un-
precedented. All business has been
paralyzed at Stock Exchange,
The weather has stopped the courts,
jurors and witnesses in murder case
being unable to arrive.
Every street car in New York,
Brooklyn, Jersey City and the ele-
waited trains are stopped. The Brook
lyn bridge and ferries have been al
most abandoned. Down town hotels
are crammed with suburbanites. The
The elevated roads run three thous-
and trains daily usually, and have
never been obliged to stop. OF forty
mails due between four O'Clock and
noon only two arrived by two in the
afternoon.
A Canajahorie dispatch says: Snow
has fallen in the Mohawk Valley for
tWenty-fOur hours and high winds
have banked it in the highways,
Railroad trains are greatly delayed,
MIDNIGHT-Storm undated and
as furious as ever, but the snow has
stopped falling. Snow drifts in the
business streets are as deep as in the
country districts. Grown persons
here never saw the like. But meagre
reports are received from uptown
districts, but in the lower precincts
where reporters managed to struggle
through the snow against the wind,
more than one hundred fractures of
the limbs and conclusions of the
skull were reported. The ambulance
horses and different hospitals were
completely tagged early in the night
and calls in many cases could not be
responded to.