The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-03-14
NEW YORK SHOWED In
Communication With Almost all Outside
Points Cut of BY the Storm.
Elevated Trains Compelled to StOp-TeIe-
phone, Telegraph and Police De-
partment Lines Down-The
Worst Blizzard in Years.

| Worst Blizzard in Years.
NEW YORK, March 12.-The STERN to-day
has virtually stopped business in the East,
for 1t is general throughout this section.
Reports are coming in Of the ssverest
storm in years. Wind has drifted the
snow, stopping all traffic. Passengers were
blocked on the elevated road and street
cars were unable to run. Two Third ave.
nue. elevated trains collided at Seventy
sixth street this morning, causing bad
wreck, bat no one was hurt. The wreck
was caused by train running nto ons
stalled by the snow. An accident
also occurred on the Brooklyn ele-
waited road, but there we're no casualties.
Business is at a standstill. Only two mails
/ came in to-day and carriers made but two
deliveries. All the telegraph and tele-
phone wires are in bad working order aud
hundreds are down. FerTyboats are run
ming but once an hour, and the wind on
the river at one time attained a velocity of
sixty-three miles an hour. The embargo
en- telegrsphic service is complete. The
South has been entirely cut off. Police
authorities say the storm is the worst
since 1885. Many police dispatches had
to be carried, the wires being down.
Early in the day Chief Shay, of the
Fire Department, held consultation with
Superintendent Murray regarding extra
| precautions to be taken in promptly sound
ing fire alarms. Orders have been issued
to all policemen to notify the occupants OF
the nearest engine house of the fire imme.
diately after sounding the alarm. A full
force of fremen have been kept en- duty
all day, and as many extra horses as could
be procured are quartered at the various
engine houses.
Owing TO the tremendous gale and terri.
bic storm there have been no arrivals or
departures from this port. Navigation has
been almost wholly abandoned in rivers
and harbor and even boats on the different
| ferries made only infrequent trips.
There has been no abatement in
the storm tonight. The thermometer
has fallen to 1 degrees, and frozen ears
and feet were never before so numer-
Gus. The drug stores have been filed with
patients all the day and evening. A woman
| actually froZe to death tonight at the cor
ner of Broadway and Fulton street. popu-
lArly supposed TO be the busiest four cor
| ners on the earth. In hundreds of streets
| loaded wagons were abandoned and horses
taken to the nearest stables. There have
been countless accidents from slipping.
The Astor House alone turned away three
hundred would-be guests. The other hotels
have had similar experiences.
The State of New York is absolutely
showed under. The oldest persons never
saw its equal. Not one train was dis
| patched by either the Erie or Central
railroads to-dav, something which is un-
| precedented. kilograms from distances
| OF 200 miles have the same story to tell,
namely; ITS the worst snow storm ever
known here"
, Weather stripped the courts of Jurors
and witnesses in important cases who
were unable to arrive. Every street car
sey City and the elevated trains
stopped. Brooklyn bridge and the
ferries were almost abandoned. TIE
down town hotels are crammed with
suburbanites. The elevated railroads
usually run 5000 trains daily, to-day
scarcely dozen. Westerners declare that
Dakota never furnished an equal to New
York's blizzard Of to-day. OF forty mails
due between and noon only two had ar
rived by 2 this afternoon.
The Iews from Europe, where aso
tremendous gales and snow storms are
occurring, is uLimportsnt and uninterest.
ing, mainly relating to the coming obse-
quies Of the late Emperor.
/ MIDEIGHT-The storm is unabated. The
wind is as furious as ever but the snow has
! stopped falling. Snow drifts in the busi-
ness streets are as deep as In country dis
| tricts. Grown persons here never saw the
like. But me8ger reports are received
from uptown districts, but in the lower
| portions where reporters managed to
struggle through the snow and against the
wind more than one hundred fractures OF
| limbs and contusions of the skull were
| reported. The ambulance horses Of the
different hospitals were completely worn
out early in the night and calls in many
cases could not be responded to.
The well known correspondent, Howard
Carroll. of the Times, fell and broke his
| leg tonight. at 1 q. m, the wind has
SLIGHTLY moderated. but the effects of the
storm will not be fully felt for
week. Every commercial and public
electric light in the city was ordered
shut of early in the night for fear the
| wires would break and harm be done to
pedestrians. Traffic on elevated roads was
not resumed till late at night, and then
intervals. Several fires occurred
! to day, and in some cases coal
| supply wagons OF the fire department failed
to reach the fire and fremen bad to chop
| down signs, shutters and all available
wood work for fuel. One engine was
dred men with ropes and three horses
occupied two hours getting it out.
Hospitals all had a busy time of 1t, and
almost numberless ambulance calls were
received. The majority of casualties we're
not OF q very serious nature, though q few
deaths were reported. Old river men say
no such night has been known on the river
| since 1854. Waves are running high and the
| wind forces the water in many instances
| over docks. Several canal boats sunk at
! their moorings at North river piers. From
| four to six feet of snow lay fallen on the
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company's
] read, and drifted much higher. At 2 q. m.
the wind is as high as aver