The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-03-15
TERRIBLE SUFFERING.
The Awful Effect of the Blizzard
Coming to Light.
THE BLOCKADE IN NEW YORK.
A Neutrality-suspicious. Train Since
Sunday started Last Night-nfr.
conIdIns's Expesienee-The
Storm ut Other Points.

brightly this morningand the weather
moderating. Travel on the elevate'
roads is fully resumed, hut the surtac
roads are still impassable. There is n
improvement in the condition OF tele
graph wires. The South and east is still
entirely cut off and there is little ii an
communication with the West.
Meagrc reports received show that tn
people in New Jersey towns who starte'
for New York Monday, hnd dreadful ex
pcricnces. Many trains were showed ii
Il few miles from the city and passenger
were compelled to sleep on themOr wad
through the snow to look for shelter il
the villages. A number Of persons, it /
reported, persisted from cold and ex
haustion.
At Elizabethport dozen employees o
the Singer Sewing Machine Works start
ed for their homes. Several OF then
were badly frozen. One man nance
Ellis was picked up out Of the snow stif
and breathless. He was carried into thu
railway station, where he soon died.
By strenuous efforts the Pennsylvania
road last night got Il single track clear tC
Newark. Trains were kept running al
night between there and Jersey City tC
keep the track open. None OF the othel
roads have been able to move trains
Above New York, on the roads OF the
New York Central system, the situation
is unimproved.
The Chicago Limited Yestibule train
on the Pennsylvania road, which was
stalled for day near Harrison, on the
New Jersey Meadows, reached Newarl!
last night. A relief car Of supplies had
been sent out in the morning with three
pulling and three more
pushing. At South Elizabeth stock
train is blocked on siding and many
sheep and cattle are frozen to death. In
the Pennsylvania freight yard cur load
of sheep persisted.
A MILK AND COAL FAMINE.
The milk famine is becoming alarm.
ing. 1t is almost impossible to get any
thing but condensed milk. One hotel
Yesterday paid fifty cents a quartifor the
last fifty gallons a dealer had. The meat
supply is getting short and prices are I'd
vancing. Fifteen dollars IL ton being
paid for coal. There is plenty OF it in
the yards in New York and Brooklyn,
but the difficulty is to deliver 1t. t
Two thousand. business men .from
Mott Haven were showed in near Pei
hamville, u suburb OF New York, since
Monday morning.
One OF the passengers on the Chicago
Express, into which the Atlantic Ex-
press ran ut Dobbs Ferry during Mon
days storm, was L. q. Mabie, dry goods
merchant, on the way from Chicago.
He reached New York yesterday. His
left side and head are cut, right leg
bruised and he is otherwise injured. He
was in the sleeping ear Aberdeen, into
which the Atlantic engine crashed and
created great havoc. Nlrs. Bell, OF Cali
fornia. on her way to Europe, was
wedged in between the seats and side Of
the car. She was extricatcd with great
difficulty. Both Mrs. Felrs legs are
broken, each in three places. Five other
passengers were injured, but not serl'
ously.
ISQUIRING ron MISSING FRIENDS.
Fifty-eight people inquired ut the
Brooklyn police headquarters lastnight
for missing friends. None OF the miss
ing could bp found in the station houses
md Il il feared that many of them have
been lost. Among those reported miss
ing 'are several school children. q -
The Signal officer in the Equitable
Building told n reporter this morning
that the indications for to-day were
''Fair, followed by rain or snow"
Snow began falling again at lO.a. m
The wind is moderate, blowing thirteen
miles an hour north northwest. The
thermometer registers 22o, and the baro'
meter indicates 1914, twas impossible
for the officer to say whether the present
storm is n lingering part OF the old one
that failed to expend itself, or whetherl'
is n new one which has been moving VI
the coast. The wire Communicating
with Washington and the South is still
cut of, and no word can be gained from
the East. 1t is expected that snow will
fall all day, 1t may possibly turn lntc
rain, but there are no Indications Oh .
higher temperature now.
Il is showing ut Halifax and Montreal
and us far west as Cleveland. West o.
Cleveland it is clear, with higher tenn
perature. 1t is slightly colder in the
lake region, where the thermometer
ranges from twelve to twenty degrees
above zero. At Chicago it is 20 degrees
Cincinnati, 20 degrees; st. Louis, 20 dc
rrces; and at Marquette, Mich, zero
the coolest place OF which any recorC
Inns been received to-day. West OF the
mississippi river 1t is generally warnel
than east OF it. si-s
~ business LOOKING UP.N ~
Fire early this morning almost com
pletely Quilted the tenement house No
80 Mulberry street. The inmates, owe
100 in number had great difficulty il
reaching the streets, i'll provided for tn,
Arctic weather, where they stood shiver
ine until given shelter by neighbors
The firemen experienced much trouble
in reaching the scene OF the contiagra
tiob. The loss isnot known.
The city dug itself out oJ the snow sui
ficiently this morning to permit q gen
eral resumption OF business, although
there are many business men living II
thc suburbs who have not yet succeeded
in getting into. town. The stock ant
othe exchange business was taken III
again with vigor ut the regular hour
The gallery OF the Stock Exchange wa
crowded with spectators when the Pres
ident's gavel fell at 10 o'clock. Their,
WAS mn almost immediate advance in tn
prices OF stocks, said to be In sympath.
with an advance in London;
Attn o'clock I'LL was hustle and activ
iy In the various exchanges. Simila
activity was visible in the banks an'
business houses. The ferries leading 4
the city from Brooklyn, Jersey City ant
other points are once more running reg
ularly, and each arriving boat is crowde'
with passengers.
Only one Of the surface roads, tn
Fourth Avenue, has yet begun TO ru
cars over their tracks. Wagons, truck
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