The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-03-16
TERRIFIC STORM.
The Heaviest There Has Been in New York
z For SO Years.
It Breaks the Record and Discounts Dakota
Billiards.

49, Bl1Zzafo8.
NEW YORK, March 12.-The storm is gen.
eral in New York State, Connecticut and
points south. From all the surrounding
country reports ome of the severest snow
and wind storm in years. Business is virtu-
ally 1t . standstill. Downtown houses are
almost deserted. Hundreds of telegraph
wires are down. The ferry boats between
New York, Brooklyn and jersey City are
running once an hour or less. The wind
attained q velocity of sixty four miles an
hour.
Troy, n. T., March 12.-The snow in
Western New York is about fifteen inches
deep and still falling. Traffic is greatly i'm
peded.
NEW YORK, March ~, 10 p. m.-The
storm is increasing and absolutely unprece-
dented. All business has been paralyzed.
At the Stock Exchange less than $1,000
shares were sold, the smallest or record.
The produce markets are all nominal. The
steamers City of Berlin and La Champagne
arrived out. The weather has stopped the
courts. Every street in New York, Brook
lyn and Jersey City is blocked and elevated
trains are stopped. Brooklyn bridge and the
ferries are almost abandoned. The dow
town hotels are crammed with suburbanites.
The elevated roads run 5000 trains daily
usually, and have never before stopped.
Westerners declare Dakota never furnished
New York's blizzard of to-day. Of forty
mails due between 4 O'Clock and loon only
two arrived by 2 O'Clock this afternoon. The
news from Europe, where also tremendous
gales aud snow storms are occurring, is un-
important and uninteresting, mainly relating
to the coming obsequies of the late Emperor.
At 9 this evening there is no abatement in
the storm. Frozen ears and feet were never
so numerous. Drug stores ave filed with
patients all day and evening. A woman
absolutely froze to death tonight at the cor
ner of Broadway and Fulton streets, popu-
larly supposed to be the busiest four corners
on earth. In hundreds of streets loaded
wagons are abandoned and the horses taken
to the nearest stables. The wind has blown
the snow into immense drifts. Countless
accidents occurred to shipping. The Astor
House alone turned away three hundred
would-be guests. Other hotels have similar
experiences. At 10 o'clock New York is
absolutely snow bound. The Oldest inhab.
itants never saw its equal. Not one train
has been dispatched by either the Erie OF
Central to-day, something unprecedented.
kilograms from distances of two hundred
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 equalled since 1855. Most of the pc.
lice telegraph wires were broken down early
in the morning and policemen obliged to
tramp many miles to carry important dis
patches.
WASHINGTON, March 12.-The storm that
visited Washington yesterday was one Of the
most remarkable known for years. In fact,
the capital seemed to be in the center of an
initiative cyclone that brought with it a
binding succession of rain, snow, wind and
cold. In the early hours of the day the
cutters ran high, and in many low places
the sewers were blocked, thus flooding the
streets. The heavy rain continued until
about 8 O'Clock in the afternoon, when il
turned to binding snow, which stuck to
everything it touched ard turned to ice.
AS night fell the heavily laden telegraph
wires began to come down, and in many
places the streets were blocked by them.
The police wires were out of order, and, tc
add to the discomforts of the night, the cleo
trio lights began to fail. By midnight the
city was almost in darkness, save a few
feeble gas jets. At the Signal Office to day
it was learned the storm was the result oil
the splitting of a storm trough that on the
day before yesterday extended south from
Michigan. Saturday night it divid ed, form.
ing two storm centres, n over Lake Erie
and one in Georgia. The southern center
then began climbing up the coast, striking
Washington yesterday norning. The center
itself did not reach here until about 3 O'Clock
in the afternoon. This took until nearly
midnight to pass. The total rainfall
amounted to Il inches. OFF Cape Henry the
wind was blowing ifty-fve miles an hour
yesterday. Railroads leading into Washing.
ton have been blockaded by snow, fallen
trees, telegraph wires and poles, so that the
movement of trains has been seriously i'm.
peded if not abandoned. At the Western
Union Office it is learned that the effect upon
the wires is the worst ever known here.
Washington has been almost completely
isolated since II o'clock Sunday evening.
The morning and evening papers of to-day
appeared without telegraphic information.
The wind kept up a high velocity all day
and at 8 O'Clock tonight it had not changed,
The sky is now clear and it is growing
colder.
AFTER THE STORM.
Many Lives and Vessels Lost, and Twenty
Million Dollars Damages.
PHILADELPHIA, March 13.-Reports by