New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-03-21
BLIZZARD OF BILLIARDS..
New York Carries Off the Pennani
for the Worst R,.zzard on Rec.
ord.
The Northwest Discounted by the
Atlantic States, Where Distress
Held High Carnival.
The Storm Lasted from Saturday,
the 10th Inst. Until Wednes-
day the 18th Inst.

day the 18th Inst.
New York City has been buried in snow,
the mercury has been down to zero, the
wind has been blowing gale, and degree
OF dullness prevails that was never surpass.
ed even in the sparsely settled prairie
States of the west. All travel in the city has
been suspended; horse cars, steam cars, and
even elevated cars stopped running for sew
eral days, and even the fire engines could
notmake their way through the snow drifts
that filled the streets. big confiagration
would burn the city down, as engines can.
con move rapidly. One fire to-day made
twenty families homeless. A policeman
picked a man out of snowdrift. He was
insane from suffering and begged to be kill
ed. People are sleeping in cots in the down
town hotels. Cabmen are charging $50 for
couple OF miles. Tramps have taken
refuge in stranded street cars. The
saloons are short of supplies, there
being no deliveries. The main
avenues OF traffic are full OF aband oned
street cars, mail wagons and all kinds OF
vehicles. The actual snow fall is over
three feet. There has been only partial
resumption OF traffic in the city. Elevat-
but they are wholly inadequate for the re-
quirements. Most business men who came
down were forced to walk. Sleighs and
carriages were in great demand The wind
blew furiously and the snow was bad.
~ drifted, being piled in many places six
and eight feet high. Communicat ton with
Washington and all points south of New
York was entirely cut off, No surface
cars are running and snow is frozen so hard
that plows cannot be used. The East
river was frozen hard and many Brook.
lynites walked across to New York side.
Few trains, if any, have reached the diff
ferent termini in New York and Jersey
City. Many trains were stalled between
stations on the Hudson River and Har-
lem roads. Officials said that forty trains
were showed in. Not p train reached the
depot for one day. Most OF the roads
report similar condition of affairs. Pas
sengers suffered great discomfort. Ferry
boats were only run at long intervals. All
eastern wires were down. Communication
from Philadelphia by long distance tele-
phone said that the storm there was the
greatest in over thirty years. No trains
were running. Many were snow bound near
the city.
The mercury marked zero and below. The
gale swept with fearful velocity. Railroad
traffic on Long Island was entirely blockad-
ed. President Austin Corbin was snow
bound at Jamaica. George D. Barrymore,
the well importer and dealer in hops,
was found frozen stiff in snow bank in
Smith avenue. Barrymore lived with his
wife and family at Fifty-f first street and
Broadway. He started for his Office down
town and it is supposed he became ex-
hausted and dropped by the way unno-
=. The body OF Annie Ha1pin Fisher,
agen lirty, was found frozen stiff in a
hallway in West Thirty.ninth street, where
she lived.f
Not a surface railroad company made
any attempt to run cars. Elevated rail
way trains ran with irregularity, and
with the few sleighs out, were the only
means OF conveyance. Broadway and
other greatnorth and south thorough fares
were we'll nigh impossible with noun tains
OF snow shoveled from the sidewalks. The
majority OF the CT oss streets were quagmires
OF soft snow, one to three feet deep.
No milk received in New York or the
neighboring cities Of Brooklyn and Jersey
City for thirty-six hours. All provisions
were delivered by hand, men houndering
painfully through drifts. Coal was being
carried in a thousand places by bag, bas-
ket and bucketful, and, in the poor quar-.
ters on the East side, the price was nearly
doubled. A number OF restaurants were
compelled to close their doors, being I'm.
able to get either fuel or provisions.
Hotels were compelled to get most OF their
fresh meats and vegetables carried by
hand. Gangs OF boys and men have been
making their own terms for relieving
householders imprisoned behind snow
drifts, 1t was impossible to get a New
York paper throughout a large portion OF
Brooklyn and Jersey City. The public
schools were closed. Preparations were
being made to mount the fire engines on
bobsleds.
Reports from the interior OF the Hudson
river counties show the country roads ter
ribly blockaded. In some instances drifts
were twenty five feet deep. Stock OF every
description is suffering
Telegraphic communication with Phila
delphia, Baltimore. Washington and other
points South was totally cut off ex-
cept over precarious lines by way OF Pitts
burg. The lines to New England points
were utterly Frustrated. A train with 800
passengers from Jamaica L. l.. after be-
ing III snowdrifts thirty six hours arrived
at Long Island City, and 500 persons
walked into Jamaica after passing the
night in stalled trains. Drifts in the
streets OF Jamaica were thirty feet high.
-Four passenger trains on the Flushing di-
vision OF the Long Island road were snow
bound near Garden City.
The list OF casualties caused by the
storms, as reported by the police is al
| ready long. That it is not longer is prob
ably due, in a measure, to the instructions
given to the police to arrest all persons
not able to take care of themselves The
hospitals are full OF victims, and hundreds
OF persons have been more or less frozet
while deaths are numerous in localities
where the police officers have not penetra
ted.
THE SITUATION IN PHILADELPHIA.
Philadelphia also suffered severely, bu
| not as much SO as New York, but TIT
Herculean efforts OF railway officials
| were Ruthless in getting the various lines
into successful operatio The wind hac
blown savagely and thousands of labor
ers who had been digging at the mount
| aims OF snow and ice on lines leading
| into the city have had dishe artening tasks
Many cuts would fill almost as fast as
the drifts were removed The loss to the
commercial interests OF Philadelphia can.
| not be estimated and the time which will
be required to put the railroad and tele
| graphic traffic in its normal condi.
ton is uncertain. The railroad officials
made but little effort to operate theil
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