New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-15
THE DEAD CA MOT BE BURIED.
FUNERALS BLOCKED By SNOWDRIFTS.
THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT BADLY cRIpPLhD-


THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT BADLY cRIpPLED-
TROUBLE IN MOVING sMALLP X PATIENTS
One sad result Of the storm that It made
burlals impossible Many funerals were postponed
and up last evening the undertskers here did not
know wher they could bury the dead committed to
their care. few bodies were placed In receiving
vaults but after Mondays experience few attempts at
burlals were made by the undertakers hero. Officers
of the cemeteries had heard yesterday from their
ccmetcrles telephone communication OF course being
cut OF. Some of tho .underakcrs have corpses I'm
thor establishments. One has five bodies. Several
have two and three awaiting burial In some cases
the bodies have been left al home, the funeral ser
wees have been said over Them II is expected that
Woodlawn Cemetery be reached to day, but that
IS uncertain.
Edward Merritt, Of stephen Merritts establish
mont, said yesterday that he had used up one day
and a good horse in postponing funerals Yesterday
he managed send OFF body to Evergrcens Cemetery
and one Greenwood In one case he had to carry
the body in sloigh. The hearse In the later In
stance dragged by four horses. He had heard
that a downtown wholesale colin establishment had
sent out two teams on Monday to carry collins TO
Harlem for undertakers there. The teams have nut
been heard from.
The undertakers who attempted to make burials
or to place bodies in receiving vaults at the large
Cemeteries Monday, Tuesday and yesterday, had
a rough time of It. On Monday procession Of
hsafSe ana TOUR cOarncS started nom lhls cry lor
Greenwood The undertaken got back yesterday, but
they left the hearso, coaches and mournors there.
Two OF the badly frozen and had to be put
to bed there. twenty-five men dug path to the
cemeiery's receiving vault. Another undertaken
went TO the Lutheran Cemetery Tuesday. He had
four horses TO drag sleigh on which he carried
chld's body. lie managed to get back yesterday
morning An undertaken In Fourthave. said yester-
day that he could not bury body in Trinity bury
ing ground, but had to put the body IN receiving
vault In Second-st.
LEAVING THE CORPSE IN STRANGE HOUSE.
An officer of the Health Department told Of an
undertaken who had TO unhch his horses by the road
side and leave hearsc, coffin and all for the time
being lie was not fuTtunate the undertaken who
gave up trying to get to the cemetery he
was bound for and took the coffin into neighboring
house, leaving IT there in spite Of the protest the
family In the house made. Besides all this trouble,
there are many undertakcrs who have funerals ON
hand that they cannot attend to. Stephen Merritt
has twenty. Another man reports eight g There
Is teLliDie stagnation In the business" sighed an
undertaken yesterday.
Many undertahels who went TO the Bureau OF Vital
Statistics with death certificates yesterday had reason
to complain Of the crippled condition Of the deparmen
the cemeteries while the blockade continued
could 10 kept ice few days Dr. Nage's sub
ordinates did not have power to grant such cxten-
sions and President Bsyes 100 far away TO
be consulted the underalers were told TO do the best
they could 1t not possible to obey the law about
many undertakcrs were placing bodies In the Marble
Cemetery in Second ST. and in other vaults, tempo
rarv. expecting to them to cemeteries as soon
as the snow melted.
HEALTH OFFICIALS DETAINED.
Scarcely any business has been transacted by tho
Health Department this week. President Baylcs has
not been SAM airy Headquarters. and It IS under
he has been detained at his home in Orange
n. j., by the storm Chief Clerk ColdeIman has been
unable TO get away from his home at Fordhsm Heights.
and Or; Magic, Deputy Regstrar Of Vital Statistics
cos Of r TIE d1GG Who I've outside the city have
not been heard from since the storm The young
her ds r ha pT been snowbdund on
train from Connect cut since Monday morning.
ccpon Hospital In East sixecnth-st The am
to pcc S Tor G tn r USE a Of DR. Pes
Who i3ea aT the Pse ms crazy physician
VOID 10 Dr. Ire,i Oh Monday that two persons far |
wont through the blizzard to search for them. After
being nearly overcome by the cold Or. Priest found
smallpox Then he found the ply slcsn who ey evil
was ns9ne. II as said yesterday that the physician
thou i' Mr. bayes a has feon absent from tho
Heal Department several days, his subordinatcs !
formation to feportes The few olcisis at San isry
Headquarters DID not dare to give any Information
opinions regarding the mix famine In the city.
TN aEETAKERs AT THEIR WITS END.
One Of the greatest difficulties In Brooklyn has been
the burial OF the dead Tho average death rate In
Brooklyn IL about forty day, and no burials havo
been made since Monday. The undertakers at
their wits end to the demands made upon them
and the lvcrymen whose chief income is from the |
rental Of funeral coaches offered to aid the city author
ties in making the roads passable hearsc carrying |
the body of J. II. ard, of No 43 West Thirty fifth
St. New York followed by two carriages, went to |
Greenwood on Monday morning and after getting into
the cemetery. showed In Just inside the gates ard
unable to get further. The horses cut loose
and driven to the Fifth Avenue stables and the |
people In the carriage which got to the cemetery,
wont back In the which stopped outside the ceme-
terry, leaving tho coffin in the hearse which
buried In snow Yesterday force Of men dug out tho
hear So and the body carried 10 The receiving vault
ant, from No Willow st. to the Holy Cross Gene
terry and carriages with friends, stuck in |
the snow in Flabnsh. and the body was taken to
livery stNhle and cOnd not be buried un yesterday.
Tho time within which burlals must take place was
extended by the Brooklyn Health Department yestor
day except in the of cont agiOus diseases. A |
few funerals have taken place with hcarses runners
and friends I'm seghs, hut then bodies have had
TO be placed in receiving cults Ambulance surgeons
have had TO hire sleighs.
ELEVATED ROADS RUNNING ALL RIGHT
The Elevated railways yesterday in greatly i'm
Jr0vd shape and maintained their prestige Of the two
pecedn DAYS the only Of transportation in the
city be depended upon From the carly hours OF the
morning Colonel Hahn aid his best TO mako his road
conform 10 the schedule time owing 70 the condition
OF the track 1t deemed nexpedent the usual
trains OF but three and fou-car run,
and before the COMM on hours