Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-14
STILL RAGING.
Much Damage Done by the
Eastern Blizzard.
MANY MARINE DISASTERS.
Railroad Communication Severed
Between Leading Allan
tic Cities.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

The hotels were strained to their ut
most, the stores and offices being con-
verted into sleeping apartments for
the benefit OF employees. Many girls
were compelled to accept such quar-
ters.
A majority OF the theaters were
closed last night.
A milk famine is threatened ii the
blockade is not cleared soon.
Last night was the worst ever ex.
perienced along the banks Of the Hud-
son and along Westchester shore
sound. The mercury at o'clock this
morning at Dobbs' Ferry ON the Hud-
son, and Port Chester on the sound
marked zero. The gale swept with
fearful velocity.
Railroad traffic on Long Island is
entirely blocked and thousands OF
men are at work digging out the
tracks. Snow plows cannot be used
President Austin Corbin is snowbound
at Jamaica. He left on the train for
Brooklyn yesterday morning.
SAD INCIDENTS.
George D. Barrymore, the well
known importer and dealer in hops, at
No. 3 Water street, was found frozen
stiff in snow bank on Seventh ave-
nue.. Barrymore lived with his wife
and family in Osobrne flats, Fifty-frsl
street and Broadway. He started for
his office down town yesterday. 1t is
supposed that he became exhausted
and dropped by the way unnoticed.
The body of Annie Halpin Fisher,
aged about 80, was found last night
frozen stiff in hallway.
BUSINESS SUSPENDED.
The Stock Exchange will adjourn
at noon to-day, and leave the market
at ~ 80 p. NJ. Several persons, it is
reported, perished in the city last
night. Communication with Wash
ington and all points south of New
York are cut off. No surface cars are
running. The snow is frozen so hard
that no plows can be used, and gangs
of men with shovels and picks are
endeavoring to clear the roads. The
East river is frozen hard this morning
and many Brooklynites walked across
to New York. Few trains if any have
reached the different terminals in
New York and Jersey City.
THE DEPoTs DESERTED,
MANY trains are stalled between
stations on the New York Central.
Officials said yesterday that forty
trains were showed in. Not train
reached the Central depot during the
day, and most of the roads report a
similar condition OF affairs. Passen-
gers suffered great discomfort. Ferry
boats are only run at long intervals.
All eastern wires are down.
Communication from Philadelphia
last night said that the storm there
was the worst in over thirty years.
No trains are running. Many are
snowbound near the city. The east
bound Chicago limited on the Penn
sylyania is snowed-in seventeen miles
from the city. Business is suspended.
All telegraph wires are down.
MORNING SCENES.
There has been only partial resump-
ton of traffic in this city. The elevat-
ed railway trains are running only at
intervals. but they are wholly made
saate for the requirements. The wind
is still blowing furiously and the snow
badly drifting, being piled in many
places six and nine feet high.
A tenement house on West Forty
third street burned early this morn
ing and many families had to rnn for
their lives. Most of them were given
shelter in neighboring saloon. The
building was entirely burned.
The Produce, Coffee aud Cotton
Exchanges all adjourned for the day.
ON STATEN ISLAND.
The storm on Staten Island is very
severe and connection with New
York has been cut off since yesterday
morning. The pilot boat Hope drag
ged her anchors last night and went
ashore on the rocks off Fort Wads.
warth, the crew standing by her. Yes
sells in the bay had hard time, but
no other accidents are reported.
AFTERNOON REPORTS.
This afternoon things assumed q
slightly better aspect, but the majority
OF the business houses are either
closed or practically SO. Not surface
railroad company made any attempt
to run cars. The elevated railway
trains ran with irregularity during the
afternoon, and, with few sleighs,
were the only means of conveyance.
Broadway and other great north and
south thoroughfares are we'll nigh i'm.
passable with mountains of snow,
shoveled from the sidewalks. Tie ma
jority of the cross streets are quag-
mires of soft snow from one to three
feet deep.
EvENING--sNow STILL FALLING.
At 8 O'Clock this evening snow was
still falling. No milk has been re-
ceived in this Or neighboring cities of
Brooklyn and Jersey City for thirty
six hours, or if received cannot be
distributed on account of the impas-
sable condition of the streets. No
butchers, milkmen, grocels or other
carts are visible. All provisions are
delivered by hand, men foundering
painfully through the drifts. Coal
even is being carried in thousand
places by the bag, basket and bucket
full, and in the poor quarters, on the
east side, the price is nearly doubled.
A number of restaurants were
compelled to close their doors, being
unable to get either fuel or provisions.
The hotels have been compelled to
get most of their fresh meats and
vegetables carried by hand, and some
are arranging for relays of men to
bring coal from the dock in bags. 1t
is laborious process for horses to
pull cart with half ton of coal.
EXPENSIVE TRAVELLING.
Hacks asked $50 to $50 for COM
paratively short drive, and gangs of
boys and men are making their own
terms for relaying householders, inn
prisoned behind snow drifts. 1t was