The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-03-22
soMEsToRM AFTERMATH.
incidents Amusing, Pathetic, vex-
atious and Unprecedented Of the
Recent Blizzard in Now York.

The following extracts from the first
New York papers that have been received
since the storm will further convey to the
Northwest an idea OF how King Blizzard
stormed the Atlantic coast when he mar
shalied his two storm centers in the longi.
tude and latitude OF the metropolis. The
efforts OF the public school teachers and
scholars to reach their homes in the after
noon " ere attended with difficulty and
exciting Incidents. Some little girls, who
had evidently read the story OF the perils
through which some OF their contempora-
res in Dakota had gone were observed to
clasp hands in a row when necessity COM
PEELED them to venture into some particu.
larly serious drifts. Once in while the
blast would prove to powerful for them,
and teachers and scholars would turn
their backs to its fury and drive like leav.
es Of autumn, screaming before it.
driver, after trying vainly to decipher the
names of the streets upon the lamp posts
as he passed them. Said gentleman:
"Well, that's certainly remarkable. The
idea of a New York cab driver on Broad
way not knowing his whe reabouts at any
time. What better evidence do you want
than this OF the fearfulness OF the Storm"
81 resolved to walk down town." says
Henry Guy Carleton. IA phila nthropc
CaDNidu OilEFGu W tdk0 uI6 uOWu ZOE
barring accidents to the horse, which noble
animal had icicles a foot long on his tongue
and was already in q comatose condi-
ton. The cabman said as q guarantee Of
good faith he would request pay
ment in advance, with tho understand.
ing that il the worse came to
the worse we could both sleep in the cab
together, but I declined. / laughed q
mocking hollow laugh. and plunged on
ward through the storm. will not mar
rate the tempestuous passage, but only q
few OF the trifiing incident. At Broadway
and Eighteenth I sat down. l had no
special reasons to sit down at that point,
but I did SO. At Broadway near Seven
teenth l sat down again. and with such
violence that iolted two gold Filings from
my teeth, both OF which are dead loss.
While crossing Union Square everything
suddenly grew dark and ascertained that
had wandered into drift
SEVEN FEET DEEP,
where, rs had no pocket compass. wal
lowed for half and hour. On Broadway.
just below Fourteenth, I suddenly lay
down with dull thud and spent few
moments studying astronomy. Several
other persons took advantage OF my pros
trate condition and fell over me, becoming
more or less abusive as they did SO. A
block below this I ran into thick set OF
telegraph wires and electric light wires.'
which detained me for some time clingins
to my neck and legs and getting me in
trouble with minion OF the monopoly
who was up the pole trying to cut the
wreck loose. On Broadway, near Twelfth
street, q man was shoveling snow
off ROOT. and managed to got one ava
lanche down my neck, looked up and
caught another in the eye and then lay
down and lapsed into deep swoon while
he shovsled snow on my carly grave with
great activity and glee. The police then
rang up an ambulance"
It'll cost you 3d." said clerk OF n
messenger Office to a man who wanted
message taken from Thirty. first
street to Fifty.fifth street. The regular
messengers have not shown up to-day,
and these feiiers (pointing tosoms ten boys
in uniform) are specials and won't 60 out
for lass than So. y
One man was ready to give 800 IL the
Western Union could guarantees him the
immediate delivery Of . telegram to Har.
lem. The company could not do ~.