St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-13
Horse Cars, Elevated Rail-
ways and Mail Carriers
Abandon Their Trips.
All Kinds Of Business Com
pletely Paralyzed by the
Raging Storm.
Even the Great Brooklyn
Bridge Is Almost En-
tirely Abandoned.


NEW YORK, March 12.-New Workers
are paralyzed. The hardest storm OF
the year is raging in the city to-day. 1t
began early this morning, and at s
O'clock the snow was foot deep on the
ground. The high wind caused drifts,
which, in the upper part OF the city,
were three and four feet high. Traffic
was almost suspended. Thousands OF
passengers were blocked on the elevated
roads. Horse cars were entirely un-
able to move. People who left up town
by elevated roads were unable to get
further than Eighth street by the roads.
MANY of the more ventureS0me de-
cended to the street by ladders and
walked the rest of the way down town.
People in suburban towns found it al
most impossible to reach the city, so Sc
we're were the drifts. At the postOffice
only two trains arrived with mails in the
morning, and they were three hours
late. They came from the South and
West. The letter carriers made two de-
liveries of mails, but the greater part of
it had to be brought back at 10 O'Clock
on account of business offices being
closed. Postmaster Pearson said he had
not seen such blockade in many years.
The newspaper mail from this city was
detained several hours.
NO MAIL WAS RECEIVED
by the Erie road, but the Pennsylvania
and New York Central brought mail at
noon. In this city the present storm is
the most severe that has ever been re-
corded. The records date back for sew
enteen years and do not in any case
shOWthat New York was ever before
visited by such blizzard. The wind at
IL o'clock this morning was blowing
forty miles an hour, and at q. m. had
subsidized very little. The snow began
to fall at 1910 this morning, and by II
m. fall of two feet was recorded. The
telegraphic connection between this
city and Sandy Hook was lost at an
early hour and the officer could not tell
at what velocity the wind was blowing
at that'pOnt. The thermometer regis
tered "a deg. above zero at New York,
Boston Sc above. OsWegO IA above and
Rockcliffe. Canada, IA below zero. The
Signal officer said he thought that the
storm would be exhausted by tonight.
About fifteen inches of snow has fallen
at Troy. All trains are late. AT Albany
there is the worst storm OF the season,
and the same may be said of Syracuse,
Rome, and almost all points IN the state.
LATER.
At o'clock this evening the storm is
increasing. Absolutely unprecedented.
All business has been paralyzed. At
the stock exchange less than 5000
shares were sold. This is the smallest
on record. Produce markets were all
nominal. Steamers City of Berlin and
Lachampagne arrived out. The weather
stopped the courts; jurors and witnesses
even in murder cases were unable to
reach the city. Every street car in New
York, Brooklyn and Jersey City,and ele-
waited trains all stopped. The Brooklyn
bridge and ferries were almost aban-
doned. Downtown hotels are crammed
with suburbanites. The elevated roads,
which run 5000 trains daily, usually,
were stopped for the first time on rec
ord. WeSterners declare that Dakota
never furnished New Y0rk'S blizzard of
to-day. OF forty mails that are due be-
tween o'clock a. IN. and noon, only two
have arrived by 2 this afternoon. News
from Europe, where there have also
been tremendous gales and snow storms,
is unimportant and uninteresting,
mainly relating to the coming obsequies
of the late emperor.
THE LATEST.
Ten o'Clock-New York Is absolutely
snow-bound. The oldest persons never
saw its equal. Not one train was dis
patched by either the Erie or the Cen
tral to-day, something unprecedented.
kilograms from a distance of 200 miles
have the same story to tell, namely: "It
is the worst storm ever known here"
Police authorities say the storm has not
been equaled since 1855. Most of the
police telegraph wires broke down early
in the morning, and policemen are
obliged to tramp many miles carrying
important dispatches. Early in the day
Chief Shay, of the fire department, held
consultation with Supt. Murray, re-
garding extra precautions to be taken
in promptly sounding fire alarms. AS
result orders were issued to all police
men to notify occupants of the nearest
engine house of a fire Immediately after
sounding the alarm. The full force of
firemen was kept on duty all day, and
as many extra horses as could be pro-
cured and quartered at the various
engine houses.
MIDNIGHT.
The storm is unabated; the wind as
furious as ever. The SnOwdriftS in the
business streets are as deep as in coun-
try districts. Grown persons here never
saw the like. But meager reports have
come from uptown districts, but in the
lower precincts, where reporters man
aged to struggle through the snow and
against the wind, more than 100 frac-
lures of limbs and contusions of skulls
were reported. The ambulance horses
at the different hospitals were COM
pletely tagged out early in the night
and calls in many cases could not be
responded to.
AT WASHINGTON.