Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-14
BURIED DEEP IN THE DRIFTS
All Business Practically Suspended
Along the Atlantic Coast.
MANY PERISH IN THE STREETS,
A Prominent New York Importer
Found Frozen-BrakemenB Blown
From Trains, Wires Broken,
Railroads Blocked.
How Il is in New York.


city. The elevated railroad trains are run
ming only at intervals, but they are wholly
inadequate for the requirements Most bust
ness men who have come down this morning
were forced to walk Sleighs and carriages
were in great demand. The wind is still
blowing furiously and the snow is badly
drifting being piled in many places six and
eight feet high.
the city last night. Communication with
Washington and all points south of New
Yorkis still entirely cut off. No surface
cars are running. The snow is frozen
SO hard that the plows cannot
be used and gangs of men
with shovels and picks are endeavoring to
clear the road.
East river was frozen hard this morning
and many Brooklynites walked across it to
the New York side. Many trains are stalled
between stations on the Hudson River and
Harlem roads. The officials said yesterday
that forty trains were showed in. Efforts to
break through the snow drifts completely
failed. Not a train reached the depot during
the day. Most of the roads report similar
condition of affairs. Passengers suffer great
discomfort. The ferryboats are only run at
long intervals. All eastern wires are down.
Communication from Philadelphia last night
by long distance telephone, said the storm
was the greatest in over thirty years. No
trains running many being snow bound near
the city, The Chicago limited express on the
Pennsylvania road was showed in seventeen
miles from the city. Business is suspended
and all wires down.
Most people who got to business yesterday
were unable to get home last night. Hotel
accommodations were strained to their at
most. Stores and offices were converted
into sleeping apartments for the benefit of
employees. The majority Of the theaters
closed last night. A milk famine is threat
ened If the blockade is not soon cleared.
Twenty families were forced to flee for
their lives this morning by the burning of a
tenement house on West Forty Third street.
Last night was the worst ever experienced
along the banks of the Hudson and along the
Westchester shore of the sound. The mer-
curry at this morning at Dobb's ferry on
the Hudson and Port Chester on: the sound,
marked zero. A gale swept over it with
fearful velocity. Railroad traffic on Long
island is entirely blocked. Thousands of
men are at work digging out the tracks as
the snow plows cannot be used.
George d. Barrymore, a well known i'm
porter and dealer in hops, was found frozen
stiff in snow bank on Seventh avenue. He
started for his office yesterday and it is sup
posed he became exhausted and dropped by
the way unnotlced.
The body of Annie Halpin Fisher, aged
about thirty was found last night frozen
stiff in a hallway on West Thirty Ninth
street. She once stood well in society, but
had fallen low on account of bad habits.
IHe SuOTn on Staten lSlunQ was very
severe and connection with New York has
been cut Off since yesterday morning Yes
sells in the bay had hard time, but no
wrecks are reported.
This afternoon things assumed slightly
better aspect, but majority of business
houses are either closed or practically so.
Not a surface railroad company made any at
tempt to run cars. The elevated railway
trains ran with rregularity during the after
noon, and with a few sleighS were the only
m N Rrnn f1txvaI pto1 nth thar.
great north and south .thoroughfares
are well nigh impossible with
the mountains of snow shoveled from
the sidewalks A majority of the side streets
are quagmires OF soft snow from one to three
feet deep.
At s o'clock this evening the snow is still
falling No milk has been received in this or
neighboring cities of Brooklyn and Jersey
City for thirty,siX hours, or, if received, can
not be distributed on account of the impassa-
bic condition of the streets. No butchers,
milkmen, grocerS or other carts are visible.
All provisions are delivered by hand,
men foundering painfully through the drifts.
Coal, even, is being carried in a thousand
places by the bag, basket and bucketful, and
in the poor quarters on the east side, the
price is nearly doubled. A number of restau-
rants were compelled to close their doors,
being unable to get either fuel or provisions.
Hotels are 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 docks in bags. II is
a laborious process for horses to pull cart
with half a ton of coal. Hackmen asked
from $50 to $50 for comparatively short
drive, and gangs of boys and men have been
making their own terms for relieving house
holders imprisoned behind snow drifts. 1t
was impossible to get New York paper to-
day, throughout large portions of Brooklyn
and Jersey City. The public schools are
practically closed.
Reports are received that five pilot boats
are ashore and full of'water at Sandy Hook
and three at Bay Ridge, together with a
number of schooners and fishing smachs in
Horseshoe, all driven ashore in last nights
gale, Fifteen pilot boats are now at sea and
pilots ashore fear for their safety.
MIDNIGHT-IThe situation at this hour is
less promising than during the afternoon.
The snow is falling heavily again. The rail
roads. haye made no perceptible progress
toward resumption of travel. Many ferry
boats on the Hudson and East rivers ceased
running, being unable to get coal for the
furnaces.
UTICA, N. Y, March 13-The storm, has
abated; but the extraordinary fall of snow
completely blocks travel. The fast mail and
fast Atlantic express due in New York early
this morning are at the depot, where the
passengers are playing cards and otherwise
amusing themselves. No trains arrived to-
day
JERSEY CITY, N. j., March lS-Six heavy
engines were from the Pennsylvania railroad
the tracks. They managed TO get half mile
from the depot when they encountered a
heavy bank and one engine was thrown from
the track into the street. Thomas Wheelan,
an extra fireman, and John Mullins, yard
master, were seriously injured.
CAMDEN, N. j., March 13.-rhe city Is cut
of from railroad, telegraph or telephone
communication with all points by the bliz-
zard, and but for the ferry boats, which still
make Irregular trips, it would be completely
isolated. The water supply is practically
exhausted, and there is grave fear of con-
fagration, which would sweep through the
city.
ALBANY, N. Y, March 13.~-The storm is
still raging. Its equal never has been seen
in this vicinity. The streets are completely
blockaded Only twenty four'out of the 100
members of the legislature are present and
II will probably be Thursday before the ses-
sion will be called. No trains are running
SARATcGA, N. Y, March l3:--Forty inches
of snow has fallen here. The wind is blow
ins from all points of the compass.
Troy, N. Y, March BIT has been snow
ing here forty hours and the ground is COW
cred 10 depth Of four feet. ~
AMSTERDAM. N. Y, March lathe snow
is nearly five feet deep and in some places
the drifts are twelve TO fifteen feet hi sh.
The snow is still falling and the wind blow
ing hard. 80.
Syracuse, N. Y, March 1s.-No trains are
moving IN auy direction. All trains from
a