The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-03-16
THE EAST IT.


Raging in the East.
NEW YORK, March 12.-The hardest
snow storm ever known here is low rag
ing. 1t began early this morning and at
8 o'clock the snow was a foot deep on the
ground. The high wind caused drifts
which in the upper part CT the city were
three and four feet high. Traffic was al
most suspended. Thousands of passen-
gers were blocked on the elevated roads
and horse cars were entirely unable to
move. Few trains have arrived. The
city is completely snow bound. Travel
has been suspended and business places
that are usually opened at s o'clock in the
morning were not opened until late in the
day. The United States signal service
officer SAYS that the wires are all down
east and south of Pittsburg and that he
has been unable TO get any report from
Washington or any southern stations to-
day. The records date back for seventeen
years and do not in any case show that
New York was ever before visited by such
a blizzard. The wind at II o'clock this
morning was blowing forty miles an hour.
- HOLY TERROR"
New YORK, March 12.-The evening
shows no abatement in the storm. Frozen
ears and feet were never 50 numerous and
the drug stores have been filed with pa
tients all the day ana evening. A woman
absolutely frOze to death at the COrne of
Broadway and Fulton street, popularity
supposed to be the busiest four corners on
earth. In a hundred streets loaded wag-
ons were abandoned and the horses taken
to the nearest stables. The Aston house
alone turned away three hundred wOul1-
be guests and other hotels have similar
experience. At ten o'clock New York
was absolutely snOwbOund. Oldest per
sons never saw its equal. Not one train
was dispatched by the Erie or Central to-
day, something unprecedented. Teie-
grams from a distance of two hundred
miles have the same story to tell, viz: Its
the worst storm ever known here. Police
authorities say the storm has not been
equaIled since 1865. Most of the police
telegraph wires broke down early in the
morning and the policemen are Obliged to
tramp many miles carrying important dis
patches.
STORM INCREASING.
NEW YORK, March 12.-At Z o'clock
this evening the storm is increasing and
is absolutely unprecedented. All bust
ness has been paralyzed. At the stock
exchange less than $4,000 shares were sold
the smallest on record. The produce
markets were all nominal. The steamers,
CITY of Berlin and Lachampagne, arrived,
but the weather stopped the courts. The
Jurors and witnesses eyen In murder
cases were unable TO reach the city.
Every street car in New York, Brooklyn
and Jersey City and elevated trains all
stopped. The Brooklyn bridge and fer
ries were almost abandoned. Down town
hotels are crammed with s~uburbanites.
The elevated roads, which run three
thousand trains daily usually, were stop
ped, the first time on record. Westerners
declare that Dakota never furnished the
New York blizzard of today. Of forty
mails that are due between four o'clock
and noon, only two arrived by 2 p. m,
News from Europe, where there have also
been tremendous gales and snow storms,
Is unimportant and nninteresting, mainly
relating to the coming obsequies OF the
late emperor.
MORE THAN n HUNDRED INJURED.
New YORK, March 10, midnight-The
storm is undated, More than n hun.
bred fractured limbs. and Commissions d
the skull were reported. The ambulance
horses at the different hospitals were
completely tagged out early in the nigh
and calls In many cases could not be re
sponded to.