, 1888-03-14
THE GREAT STORM.
The Blizzard Still Raging in
New York.
Trains Stalled and Passengers
Suffer from Hunger.
Pittsburg Reports the Worst
Storm Ever Known.
The Great Blizzard.

CASIldhSC VIII dulOuIu az uUOu IO-uaV and
the loan market at 2. 30 pm.
Several persons, it is reported, per-
ished IN the city last night. Communi.
cation with Washington and all points
south Of New York is entirely cut off.
No surface cars are running. The snow
was frozen so hard that plOws cannot be
used and gangs OF men with shovels and
picks are endeavoring to clear the roads.
The East river lis frozen hard this morn
ing and many Brooklynites walked across
to New York.
Few trains, if any, have reached the
different terminals in New York and Jer-
sey City. Many trains are stalled be-
tween stations on the New York Central.
The officials said yesterday that forty
trains were showed in. Not a train has
reached the Central depot during the day.
Most of the roads report a similar CON
dition of affairs. Passengers suffered
great discomfort.
Ferry boats are only run at long inter
walls. All eastern wires are down and
communication from Philadelphia last
night said the STORM there was the worst
in over thirty years. O No trains are run
ming and many are snow bound near the
city. The east bound Chicago limited on
the Pennsylvania is showed in seventeen
miles from this city. Business is suspen-
ded and all telegraph wires are down.
The produce, coffee and cotton ex-
changes all adjourned for the day. Last
night was the worst ever experienced
along the banks of the Hudson and along
the West Chester Shore on the sound.
The mercury at 2 o'clock this morning at
Dobbs Ferry on the Hudson and Port
Chester on the Sound, marked zero. The
gale swept with fearful velocity. Railroad
traffic on Long Island is entirely blocked,
and thousands of men are at work dig
ging out the track. Snowplows cannot
be used. President Corbin is snowbound
at Jamaica. He left on the train for
Brooklyn Yesterday morning.
George ID. ~Barrymore,a well known i'm
porter and dealer in hops at No. 3 Water
street, was found frozen stiff in a snow
bank on Seventh avenue. Barrymore
lived with his wife and family in Osborn
fats, Fifty first street and Broadway. He
started Tor his Office down town Yesterday
and it is supposed that he became ex-
hausted and dropped by the way unno
ticed. The body of Annie Halpin Fis-
her, aged about 80 years, was found last
night frozen stiff in a hallway.
Most people who got to business yes
terday were unable to get home last
night. The hotels we're strained to their
utmost, and stores and offices were con-
verted into sleeping apartments for the
benefit of employees, many girls being
compelled TO accept such quarters. The
majority of the theatres we're closed last
night. A milk famine is threatened if
the blockade is not soon cleared.
A tenement house on West Forty-third
street burned early this morning.
Twenty families had to run for their
lives, most OF them s~cantily dressed.
They were given shelter in a neighboring
saloon. The building was e%nterely
burned.
SCHENECTADY, N. Y. March 13.-The
train which lett Rochester yesterday
morning is stalled four miles east of here.
About fifty members and senator's were
on board. No provisions could be OBJ
tanned for the s%nowbound party until this
evening, and then they feasted on ham
and potatoes. A Rochester millionaire
and a Buffalo statesman cooked for the
hungry passengers until all were provided
for this evening. A relief train brought
the passengers to Schenectady, where five
trains.a are stalled with no prospects of get
ting out to day. A stock train is showed
in neal the Rochester train. The stock
were all frozen to death last night.
JERSEY CITY, N. j., March I3.-Six
heavy engines were sent from the Penn
sylvania railroad depot this morning to
clear the snowdrift from the track. They
managed to get half a mile from the de-
pot when the rear engine encountered a
heavy bank and was thrown from the
track into the street. Thomas Whelan,
IAN extra fireman, and Jno. Mullins, a
yardmaster, were seriously injured. 1t is
believed that Whelan will die. The en-
CINE was badly wrecked.
PITTSBURd, March l3.-Business on
the Pennsylvania railroad between this
city and Philadelphia is completely par
alyzed. No trains arrived from the East
since last night. Everything is blockaded
with snow; all trains are s%nowbound and
but little prospect of their getting out for
twenty four hours. At some places the
snow drifted as high as six feet and there
are miles and miles of freight trains wait
ing to get through. Never before in the
history of railroads has there been such a
blockade. The cold weather will be very
severe on traInmen and passengers, as the
thermometer at most places is below zero.
No mails have arrived from the East
since 6 o'clock last evening and it is esti-
mated hat GO, 900 letters are snowbound
between Pittsburg and Philadelphia. Tel
egraphic communication is still almost cut
e~ntiraly off.