River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-03-22
RSsusalNe BUSINESS

| RGSOfIlNG BUSINESS
sew Nork Getting Hack to Her orm-r
consli ioh-Ci izsn> Turn Their AtteB-
lon e. CLEANING the ; reets-Reports of
| L1ss "a Life c ming t..
NEW York. March 1.-THE sight of the
is.ng sUn yesterday made glad the he rus
II countless POOR many of whom were
Without food and almost q wi out fuel.
/ ( 81 sTdoY's nm 2 70 mlds the later un-
access ~. AID hundfeds OF atsics n tene-
nen, windows wers thrown opea TO the
/ of air
During the night the ilroad employees
lad aot ieen Idle. TIL Es.e was frst
o WA Y .stezday morning a. 5:45 the
/ Chicago thrcr.'l express rolled mo the
I irpot o. - roads followed, ami mail
ia ms lelt Cie ~ on schedule time.
/ On the JeF General no trains are run
hing above Bound Brook, wIere 2, 800 men
are working Wy through a de p cut
Central trims are now running nearly
/ Ipon sche.luls s4me. The New York, On
/ iariO * Western is clear aud has brought
n 5000 cans OF mix, ending the milk
/ famine
| One OF the incidents Of the blockade
/ downtown was the Luilding of immense
Dontires in the midd OF snow-drif.s
5tore-keepers literally contributed their
Uaste-bOxes, and The big heaps were thus
melted rapidly away. The sun did more
good work than an the efTOr.s OF the labor
srs combined From every snow-heap ran
title riIls which in turn went into
/ he piles of snow and undsrm ned them.
The streets in many places were ankle
/ deep in slush Business Is resumed, but I'M
/ Ter great diff sultiea The 5000
surface-road labJrers cleared the
tricks on the avenues tut LIT
the snow at the sides of the road in great
noun is. Trucks nd caIs were b ocked n
all the ;. reefs in N apparently fnextr ca
BILE mass Only about naif OF tbs telephone
w,re are working, and the res viii not lie
in order Lefore Saturday
The shipping arrivals gave the first de-
tailed accounts of the s.orm at sea The
pios fleet has suffer, terribly One at
lest has gone down with several men
This was the William H. Starbuck, No q,
hich collided with the Steamship
J. panese Ice in the bay still clogs n2yI-
gauon.
One Of the surprises OF the blizzard was
the form. alton OF AN immense ice-Lr dye on
the East river and thousands of people
crossed during the three hours 1t .sted
Meat has gone up two cents a pound and
most OF The large dealers have refused TO
sell TO any but regular custom RS.
The mayor hi S issued a proclamation
calling upon the citizens o aid II the work
of re moving snow from the reefs nd sug-
gesting TO roprie, ors of steam bel ers the
feIsib y OF turning Their steam upon tAe
snow-pues in mont of their places OF busi-
ness
Loss or LIFE
How many lives have been lost in the
storm in this v.cnity vii not be known
for days 1t is known that many farmers
sJ@rted for this city with milk and produce
and have not me- Leen heard from. Sew
era, teams have been discovered in snow
drifts in tue suburbs. 4 he horses were
deod apd the drivers nd dis ppeared
Repor of extensive loss OF life are COM
Ing in from all sections covered ~ Ihe
storm. 1t is fe; rel that over twrnty-
i've lives have been lost n Essex
County, n j., alone. The following are
known 10 have persisted: Y .vier ZwInge,
OF Livingston, John Murphy, of Newark,
John DOyer, OF Brookdale, an unknown
man called the -crazy fisherman" OF
Newark, an unknown man in Newark,
John Koran Hattlerow, OF Orange, an un-
known man in lrv ngton, one man nd two
Children in Hackensack, Alexander Ben
nett, of Staten Island, an unknown man of
Staten Island, and three mikmen OF Or
ange six Others ale missing.
NEWARK, N j.. March 16-The body OF
John Ros has been found buried in a dri
in the meadows At Snow Hill, near Cam
den, Edward Sheppard, an tged colored
man, has been found frozen 10 death in his
sbanty.
NEW BRUNSWICK, n. j., March LEON
Mond john Herman left Midtown to
walk 20 X .ritan He has not been heard of
sinca Neig hboTs found his wife dead in
bed and his children starving
srREwN WITH WIRE cxs
lEwEs, Del. March 16-Ihe story of the
shipwrecks and loss of life between ndy
Hook and Cape Charles between Sunday
af -ernoon and Monday noon can not Be tod
in full for many days, if ever.
The b rbor is filled with WI .cks of un.
knowA vessels, in some cases bottom up
W I'd The probabilities are that the crews
of many of these craft have persisted TO
man Am ng the vessels lost was the
barge II zeltine, Captain Van X TX, and
crew of five men TIE bark Briminga had
a crew of twenty-three all told, twenty. wO
of whom were lost A number of bodies
were was ed ashore. The tug Simpson il
sunk in the harboE A corrected list Of the
vessels ashore includes two bar 6entines,
sevee cen schooners, two pilot-boats and
two tugs Tree men are known to have
been lost from thes. vessels.
PHILADELPHIA, March l6 A Cam
bridge (id.) letter reports the S4venia
North Fps zsd off Hill Point and the only
two n en- on board drowned Several yes
sells were ashore in Creamery bay The
Julia Cook, of Cambridge. is reported lost
W th ali on GARD Tue General Lo gan Is
reported wrecked at CasIie Haven. and
Captain c. r Eaton and crew of six were
drowned
TRACK CLEARERs KILLED
EAsToN. Pa, March 16-A horr BILE acoi-
denu by which three men lost their lives oc-
ourred Wednesday afternoon on the New
J rsey division of the Lahigh Valley road
at Three Bt.dgss, n. ]. Four engines with
two wreck cars, containing 100
men, left here in the morning
TO open up the road Nearly
100 snow-drifts were plowed when
they arr we'd at large drift on a short
curve below Three Bridges Their speed
W. s increased and the four eng mes dashad
in o the drift with gre t force. The first
engine left he rails and in less than a min
ute three of the engines were wrecked and
two of them over -urned Three inen were
killed