Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-15
The Weather Moderating in New York
business Resumed.

The Weather Moderating in New York
Business Resumed.
New YORK, March 14th.-The sun was
shining brightly this morning and the
weather moderating. Travel on the ele-
waited roads is fully restored but some roads
are still impossible. There is no improve
ment in the condition of the telegraph
wires. The South and East are entirely
cut Oft and there is little, if any, COM
munication with the West.
UNwHoLEsoME EXPERIENCES.
Reports received show that people living
IN New Jersey towns who started for New
York Monday had dreadful experience.
Many trains were showed in a few miles
from the city and the passengers compelled
to sleep on the trains or wade through the
snow to look for shelter in the villages.
A number OF persons are reported as hav-
ing suffered seriously from the cold and ex-
posure.
At Elizabethport dozen employees of the
Singer Sewing Machine Works started for
their homes, and several of them were
badly frozen The party walked over three
miles through deep snow and in the face of
terrible gale.
FROZEN TO DEATH.
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
CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN NEW JERSEY.
PATERSON On. J.), March 14th.-The
snow-storm, which set in on Sunday night,
was the greatest ever known here. The
fearful gale piled up enormous drifts and
did great damage. The drifts in the streets
are fifteen and twenty feet high. The in
mates of many dwellings are completely
shut in.
Hundreds who left here for New York
Monday morning were snow bound in the
cars for two days few miles away, and
could not get either way nor communicate
with their families
NARROW ESCAPE FROM FREEZING,
There were hundreds of narrow escapes
from perishing in the streets here on Mon
day night. The police rescued scores of
men, women and children, who had to
sleep in the station houses.
Many buildings were damaged bv the
wind. The Market-street Methodist Church
spire was bent and twisted Mills were
unroofed and huge trees blown down.
FEARS OF GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
Several passengers are reported here as
missing, and are perhaps lost in the snow.
There are fears of great loss of life in the
country districts. Coal and milk are
scarce, and poor people are suffering for
the necessaries of life.
EIGHTEEN PILoT-BoATs MISSING.
New YORK. March 14th.-Of The twenty
nine stanch pilot boats that make up the
harbor fleet of New York two are safe in
port, having outridden the storm. Nine
were wrecked on Monday, and the eighteen
which were out in the open sea remain
utterly unheard of. The experiences of the
men on the boats wrecked was something
terrible. 1t seems almost miraculous thai
there should have been no loss of life.
TELEGRAPH LINE DISASTERS
AT the Western Union Office it is said
that 700 telegraph poles are down along
the Pennsylvania Road between this city
and Washington, and it is not expected
that things will be running as usual before
a week, at least
No through mails have been received
since Sunday.
The Fourth Avenue horse-car line has
some cars running.
TWENTY-FIVE DEATHS IN NEW JERSEY.
NEW YORK, March 14th.-The deaths ir
Essex county, New Jersey, from the biz
zard, will number about twenty-five.