The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-03-23
BLIZZARD OF BLIzzARDs.
Now York Carries OH tho Pennant
for the Worst Blizzard on Roo.
ord.
tho Northwest Discounted by the
Atlantic States, Whore Distress
Aeld high Carnival.
The Storm Lasted from Saturday,
the 10th Inst. Until Wednes.
day tho 18th Inst.

the mercury has been down to zero, the
wind has been blowing a gale, and degree
OF dullness prevails that was never surpass.
ed even in the sparsely settled prairie
States Of the west. Alltravel in the city has
been suspended; horse cars. steam cars, and
even elevated cars stopped running for sew.
eral days. and even the fire engines could
not make their way through the snow drifts
that filled tho streets. A big confaeration
would burn tho city down, as engines can.
con move rapidly. One fro to-day made
twenty families homeless. A policeman
picked man out Of q snowdrift. He was
insane from suffering and begged to be kill.
Ell. People are sleeping in cotsim the down.
town hotels. Cnbmem IRE charging $50 for
a couple OF miles. Tramps have taken
refuge in stranded street cars. The
being no deliveries. The main
avenues Of traffic nre full Of abandoned
street cars. mail wagons and all kinds OF
vehicles. The actual snow fall il over
three feet. There has been only partial
resumption OF traffic in the city. Eevat.
cd railroad trains are running atintervals,
but they are wholly inadequate for the re-
quirements. Most business men who came
down were forced to walk. Sle,ghs and
blew iuriousiy and the snow was bad.
" drifted. being piled in many places six
and eight feet high. Communication with
Washington and all points south Of New
York was entirely cut off. No surface
cars are running and snow isfrozen 80 hard
that plows cannot he used. The East
river WAS fIOacn hard and many Brook.
iynites walked across to New York side.
Few trains, il any, have reached the diff.
ierent termini il New York and Jersey
City. Many trains were stalled between
lem roads. Officials said that forty trains
we're showed in. Not IL train reached the
depot for one day. Most OF the roads
report similar condition OF affairs. Pas.
sengers suffered great discomfort. Ferry
boats were only run ut long intervals. All
eastern wires were down. Communication
from Philadelphia by long distance telc-
phone said that the storm there was the
greatest in over thirty years. No trains
were running Many were snow bound near
the city.
The mercury marked zero and below. The
gale swept with fearful velocity. Railroad
traffic on Long Island was entirely blockad.
ed. President Austin Corbin was snow.
hound Mt Jamaica. George ID. Barrymore,
the well wellknownimportera and dealer in hops,
was found frozen stiff in SNOW bank in
Smith avenue. Barrymore lived with his
wife and family at Fifty-iirst street and
broadway. f!e started for his Office down
town and it is supposed he became OK.
hnustca and dropped by the way unnn.
'ticed. The body Of Annie Aalpin Fisher,
aged thirty, wns found frozen stiff in u
hallway in West Thirty.ninth street, where
she lived.
Not a surface railroad company made
any attempt to run cars. Elevated rail.
way trains ran with irregularity, and
with the few sleighs out, were the only
means OF conveyance. Broadway and
other greatno and south thorough fares
of snow shoveled from the sidewalks. Tue
majority of the CT oss st reefs were q,iagmircs
oil soft snow, one to three feet deep.
No milk received in New York or tho
neighboring cities of Brooklyn and Jersey
City for thirty.fix hours. All provisions
were delivered hy hand. men fi0nn,loring
painfully through drifts. Coal WAS being
carried in n thousand places by bag has.
ket and buckctful. and. in the poor quar-.
ters on the East eide, the price was nearly
doubled. A number Of restaurants were
compelled to close their doors. bein, un.
able to get either fuel or provisions.
Hotels were compelled to get most of their
fresh meats and vegetables carried by
hand. Gangs of boys and men have been
making their own terms Tor relieving
llonseholders imprisoned behind snow
drifts. 1t was impossible to got u New
York paper throughout large portion of
Brooklyn and Jersey City. The public
schools were closed. Preparations werc
being mado to mount the fire engines on
bobsleds.
Reports from the interior of the Hudson
river counties show the country roads ter
ribly blockaded. In some instances drifts
were twenty-five feet deep. Stock OF every
description is suffering.
Telegraphic communication with Phia-
delphia, Baltimore. Washington and other
points South was totally cut off en-
cept over precarious lines by way Of Pitts
burg The lines to New England points
were utterly FRUSTRATED. a train with 300
passengers from .J:lmaic;.. l.. l., after b q.
ing in snowdriits tl.irty.six hours, arrived
at Long Island City. and 500 person.
walked into jamaica after passing the
night in stalled trains. britt. in the
streets OF .]amacia were thirty feet high.
vision oi the Long Island road wcrc sno W.
bound near Garden City.
The list OF casualties caused by the
storms. as reported by the police. is al.
ready long That it is not longer is prob
ably due, in II measure. to the instructions
given to the police to arrest all persons
not able to take care of themselves. The
hospitals are full Of victims, and hundreds
of persons have been more or cas frozen
while deaths are numerous in localities
where the police officers have not penetra.
ted.