The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-15
NOW FOR THE BIG FLOOD
SIGNS OF THE END OF THE GREAT
STORM IN THE NORTH.

washington BaSRing in the Sunshine
The Railroads Leading Out of New
York Beginning to Get Trains Moving
Snow Still Falling in Some of the
Beleaguered Sections.
NEW YORK, March 1.-THE sun was
shining brightly this morning and the
weather was moderating. Travel on the
elevated roads was fully resumed but the
surface roads were still impossible. There
was still no Improvement in the condition
of the telegraph wires. The South and
East we're still entirely cut off. Meager re-
ports received show that people living in
New Jersey towns who started for New
York Monday had dreadful experiences.
Many trains were showed in miles from
towns and the passengers were compelled to
sleep on them or wade through snow to look
for shelter in the villages. A number of per-
sons, it is asser ted, perished from cold and
exhaustion.
1t is re yorted that at Elizabethport dozen
employees of Singers Machine W orks started
for their homes, and several were badly
frozen. One man, named Ellis, was picked
up out of the snow, stiff and breathless.
He was carried into the railway station
where he soon died.
BY strenuous efforts the Pennsylvania
road got a single track clear to Newark
yesterday. Trains were kept running all
night between there and Jersey City to
keep the track open.
RELIEVING BELEAGUERED TRAINS.
The Chicago limited vestibule train on
the Pennsylvania road, which was stalled
for day near Harrison, on the New Jersey
meadows, reached Newark last night. A
relief car of supplies had been sent out in
the morning with three locomotives pulling
it and three more pushing it.
At South Elizabeth stock train is blocked
on siding and many sheep and cattle are
frozen to death.
In the Pennsylvania freight yard car
load of sheep perished.
The milk famine is becoming more alarm
ing. 1t is almost impossible to get any
thing but condensed milk. One hotel yes
terday paid soc. quart for the last fifty
gallons dealer had. TIE meat supply is
getting short and prices are advancing
Fifteen dollars per ton is paid for coal.
There is plenty of it in the yards in New
York and Brooklyn, but the difficulty is to
deliver it.
Two thousand business men from Mott
Haven, have been showed in near Pelham
vile, a suburb of New York, since Monday
morning.
TRAINS IN COLLISION.
One of the passengers on the Chicago ex-
press, into which the Atlantic express ran
at DObbs' Ferry, Monday, was E. G.. Mapie,
dry goods merchant, on his way from
Chicago He reached Yew York yesterday.
His left side and head are cut, his right leg
bruised, and he is otherwise injured. He
was in the sleeping car Aberdeen, which tine
Atlantic engine crushed inte and created
great havoc. Mrs. Bell, of California, on
her way to Europe, was wedged between
her seat and the side of the car. She was
exricated with great difficulty. Both of
Mrs. Bells legs are broken, each in three
places. Five other passengers were injured,
but not seriously.
Several hundred passengers reached Long
Island City this morning, who were forty
eight hours en- route from Rockaway.
Long Island City streets are still blocked.
FUNERALS FROZEN IN
Twenty funerals en- route to the Calvary
cemetery are stuck in snow drifts on
Borden avenue The corpses had to be
taken into houses near by over night. Some
of the mourners drivers and horses had to
be dug out nearly frozen to death.
The New Jersey Central road got train
through from Bergen Point to Jersey City
this morning. They had several hundred
coal handlers from the Port Jefferson docks
at work clearing the tracks at SOC. to 75c.
an hour
The Standard Oil works and sugar houses
at Bergen Point have been idle since Mon
day
An afternoon paper estimates the bust
ness loss, contingent loss, and actual pecu-
mary outlay which the storm viii occasion
In New York city at not less than 81, ,000
600, and the loss to the States involved at
$4,000 600
The immigrants who have been detained
on shipboard in the rivers and harbors since
Sunday last were landed at Castle Garden
to-day They numbered over 1000.
The steamer Lahr for Bremen did
not sail to-day owing to heavy ice foes in
the harbor and the inability of several
passengers registered to sail on the vessel to
reach her.
CLEARING AWAY THE SNOW.
NEW YORK, March Il, 0 P. M.-Steady
4 progress toward ultimate release from the
effects of the great storm has been made to-
day. A large gang of laborers was at work
al day on the main arteries of traffic and
tne streets in which are car tracks, and
with picks and shovels removed vast
Quantities of ice and snow from the pave
ments. Two or three lines of surface
cars began to run this afternoon, and others
VIII follow more rapidly. 1t must be some
days before all the side Streets, especially in
Vhe poorer quarters, can be opened and
greatly needed supplies OF provisions taken
H. fortunately the temperature has risen
and the suffering from lack of coal will be
much lessened.
Mayor Hewitt has received kilograms
from sympathetic people in Bismarck and
huron, Oak, st. Paul, Mimi. and other
PAGES IN the West where billiards are not
uncommon, offering relief for the storm
sufferers in New York and vicinity.
EXPERIENCES OF THE PILOTS.
VI twenty-nine stanch pilot boats that
make up the harbor feet Of New York, two
ore sale in port having outridden the
s'orm, nine were wrecked on Monday
ana eighteen which were out
~, the open sea remain utterly
gwnheard Of. The experience of the men on
Ine boats wrecked was something terrible.
seems almost miraculous that there
lould have been no loss of life. There was
oNuvely no rest for the crews from the
cr .ue the gale began. All the wrecked
s"s landed in yawls near Sandy Hook,
ba, bbau We're given food and shelter in the
40'Se OF Mrs. w. w. Stewart.
SAILING WITHOUT CARGoES.
new YORK. March Ia, II so p. M-The
h at river steamer line is the only line open
me North German Lloyds steamer Lain
Ieu ' to-day for Bremen without a cargo, ,as
ro,tS "aS impossible for shippers to deliver any
osllt. She had only forty passengers on
bs.. u There were 100 others booked, but
M-Y were Snow-bolnd and could not get