Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-13
THE WORST YET KNOWN.
Business Paralyzed in New York - A
Woman Frozen to Death.


New YORK, March 12th-7 P. M.-Tht
storm is increasing, and is absolutely un
precedented. All business has been para
lyzed. AT the Stock Exchange less thar
$1,000 shares were sold, the smallest or
record.
The steamers City of Berlin and Ii
Champagne have arrived out The weather
has stopped the Courts.
Every street-car in New York and Brook
, Iyn and Jersey City, and the elevated train.
have stopped. The Brooklyn bridge anc
ferries are almost abandoned.
Down town hotels are crammed with
suburbanites. The elevated roads rur
5000 trains daily, usually, and never before
were stopped.
Westerners declare that Dakota never
furnished New York's blizzard of to-day
OF forty mails due between o'clock and
noon, only two had arrived by this after.
noon.
NO ABATEMENT.
Al o'clock this evening there was NO
abatement in the storm. Frozen ears and
feet were never so numerous. The drug
stores were filled with patients all day and
e ening.
FROZEN TO DEATH ON THE STREET.
A woman was absolutely frozen to death
tonight at the corner of Broadway and
Fulton streets, popularly 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 i'm
mense drifts, and countless accidents have
occurred from slipping.
The Astor House alone turned away 800
d-ha nd ntho a1e |, 4
similar experiences.
ABSOLUTELY sNowBoUND.
10 O'CLOCK P M.-New York is abso-
lutely snowbound. The Oldest inhabitants
never saw its equal. Not one train was
dispatched by either the Erie or Central to-
day-something unprecedented.
Telegrams from distances of 200 miles
have the same story to tell, namely-it is
the worst storm ever known here. The
police authorities say the storm has not
been equaied since 1855. Most of the police
telegraph wires were broken down early in
the morning, and policemen are obliged to
tramp many miles carrying important dis
patches.
CHICAGO NEARLY CUT OFF.
CHICAGO, 1870 P. M.-Our communica-
ton with the East has been partially re-
stored, but is so uncertain that we will not
be able to carry much Eastern news to-
night.
THE STORM RAGING AT MIDNIGHT.
NEW YoRK.-MIDNIGHT- to the
tremendous gale and terrible snow-storm
there have been no arrivals nor departures
from this port. Navigation has been
almost wholly abandoned in the rivers and
harbor, and even the boats on the different
ferries made only infrequent trips.
THE STORM Is UNABATED,
And the wind as furious as ever. but the
snow has stopped falling.
The snowdrifts in the business streets
are as deep as in the country districts,
Grown persons here never saw the like.
But meager reports are received from up-
town districts, but in the lower precincts.
where the reporters managed to struggle
through the snow and against the wind.
more than one hundred fractures of limbs
and contusions of skulls were reported.
MANY CASUALTIES.
The ambulance horses at the different
hospitals were completely tagged out early
IN the night, and calls in many cases could
not be attended to.