The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-14

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OF the road that it was closed until the storm
ceased. At the Cortlandt street ferry the
same story was told.
No trains are running over the Pennsyl-
vania road.
At noon the Chicago limited and Florida
special trains were stopped by 5 feet of snow
IN the meadows and cannot be released until
the storm abates.
ALL TRAINS ABANDONED.
"All trains are abandoned until further
notice" was the sign on the walls Of the
ferry house of the Jersey Central road at
the foot of Liberty street. Boats were run
as nearly as possible every three-quarters
of an hour. The ferry house was thronged
with passengers. Travel across the White
hall, Wall street and Fulton street ferries
was the lightest known in years, Brooklyn
ties preferring to stay in New York.
Several persons persisted in the snow last
night.
Communications with Washington and
all points south of New York is still en-
tirely cut off,
snow is frozen SO hard that plows cannot be
used. Gangs of mon with shovels and picks
are endeavoring to clear the roads
1t is reported to-day that the Western
Union Telegraph Company has only four
wires available. These are between this
city and Buffalo and Chicago. The city
business is being disposed Of by tube.
There is no information whatever to be
had at the weather Office, the clerk in
charge being, as be expressed it, entirely
cut off from the outer world. Telegraphic
communication with Boston has been lost
since an early hour yesterday morning.
The last news from that city was to the
effect that business was at standstill, and
that the streets we're filled with telegraph
poles and wires.
BUSINESS SUSPENDED.
This afternoon things assumed slightly
better aspect, but a ma orlty of the bust
ness houses were either closed or practically
SO. No surface railroad company made
any attempt TO run cars. The elevated
railroad trains ran with irregularity during
the afternoon, and a few Sleighs that
were out were the only means of
conveyance. Broadway and the other great
north and south thorOughfares are we'll
nigh impossible with the mountains of
snow shoveed from the sidewalks A ma
jority of the cross streets are Quagmires of
soft snow one to three feet deep. At s
O'Clock this evening a fine, penetrating
snow was falling. No milk has been re-
ceived in this or the neighboring cities of
Brook YIN and Jersey City for thirty-six
hours, or if received it cannot be distribu-
ted on account of the impossible condition
of the streets.
NO CARTS MOVING.
No butcher, milkmen, grocer or other
carts are visible. All provisions are de-
livered by hand, the men laundering pain
fully through the drifts Coal even is being
carried in thousands of places by the bag,
basket and bucketful and in the poor quar-
ters on the east side the price is nearly
doubled. A number of restaurants were
b. Il i
to get either fuel or provisions. The hotels
are compelled to get most of their fresh
meats and vegetables carried by hand, and
some are arranging for relays of men to
bring coal from the docks in bags. 1t is a
laboliouS process for horses to pull cart
with half ton of coal.
Hackmen ask $50 to $50 for a compare
lively short drive, and gangs of boys and
men have been making their own teams for
relieving householders imprisoned behind
snow dl fits.
1t was impossible to get a New York
paper to-day throughout a large portion of
Brooklyn and Jersey City.
The public schools are practically closed.
The department warns people to be
careful as it is almost impossible to get the
engines out. Preparations are being made
to mount them on bob sleds.
MIDNIGHT GLOOM.
New YORK, March IA, 1910 A. M-The sit
uation at this hour is less promising To-
ward evening the clouds thickened, and now
the snow is falling heavy again. The rail-
roads centering i'll this city from every di-
rection made no perceptible progress
toward resumption of travel,
though the managers of some lines
expressed hope of being able to get some
trains through tomorrow. If the snowfall
continues, however, as seems probable, the
situation will be worse than it was yester-
day, and a prolongation of the blockade for
twenty-four or forty-eight hours will bring
untold privation and suffering and financial
loss. Telegraphic communication with
Philadelphia, Baltimore. Washington and
other points south continues totally
cut off, except over precarious lines by
way of Pittsburg. The lines to New Eng
land points are utterly Frustrated, and no
intelligence is obtainable from that quarter
beyond the fact that the storm which ragged
here yesterday has broken over that section
with great violence. Many ferry boats on
the Hudson and East rivers have ceased
running. being unable to get coal for the
furnaces.
Reports are received of five pilot boats
ashore and full of water at Sandy Hook
and three at Bay Ridge, together with a
number of schooners and fishing smacRs in
the Horseshoe. All were driven ashore in
last nights gale Fifteen pilot boats are
now at sea, and the pilots ashore fear for
their safety.
AN IMPROVEMENT AT WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, March 13.-The tele-
graphic situation tonight has vastly i'm
proved over that of last night. The
weather was bitterly and continuously cold
until late this afternoon, when the wind
abated some, making the cold appear less
intense No trains have arrived to-day
from any point north of Baltimore, but the
clearing of the Baltimore and Potomac road
gave the Pennsylvania road clear outlet to
the West and North over its Northern Cen
trial road, via Harrisburg. The Pennsyl-
vania road was, however, blocked on its
main line between Harrisburg and Phila-
delphia. Up to o'clock tonight no per-
son has reached Washington from New
York. who started after midnight Sunday.
The last to come through left New York at
midnight Sunday. and they reached here at
II o'clock Monday night along with the
Philadelphia papers of Monday morning.
The latest Northern newspapers TO reach
Washington are the New York papers Of
Sunday morning, and the Philadelphia
papers Of Monday morning.
BALTIMORE ACCESSIBLE.
Communication by rail with Baltimore is
prompt, notwithstanding that the railroad
company has no telegraph wires with which
20 direct trains The railroad company is
selling no tickets over its New York and
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