Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-03-23

town. did not think there was
any danger, so | went down on an
elevated train to Wall street TO
look after my work. A little after
6 o'clock | started TO go home
There was not a cab or carriage in
sight. Once during the day | had
declined an offer to ride up town in
a carriage, because the driver
wanted $50. SO | started up
Broadway on my pins. 1t was
dark and useless to try and pick
ont a path, 80 went soldering
along through snow.drifts and
headed for the north. | had no
serious trouble until got to Union
Square, where, in the middle OF the
square, | got confused from wiping
the snow from my eyes. Trying
to make out my way, found it
impossible to keep in the path, so
| plunged right through on as
straight a line as | could. When |
got little beyond the middle of
the park | was up to my arms in
snow. pulled the ice and snow
from my eyes, held up my hands
until everything was melted off so
that could see, but it was too
dark. For nearly twenty minutes
| stuck there. | came as near
giving up and sinking down there
to die as any man could and not
do it. Somehow | got out and
reached the New York Club. b.hOuse.
1t had taken me three hours to
make the trip, which Ialways walk
in twenty minutes
SUFFERING IN NEW JERs Ely.
Meagre reports received show
that the people living in New
Jersey towns who started for New
York Monday had dreadful ex-
periences. Many trains were
showed in a few miles from the
city, and passengers were COMPEL
ed to sleep on them or wade
through the snow to look for shelter
| in viii 5es. A number of persons,
it is asserted, perished from cold
and exhaustion. At Elizabethport
a dozen employees of the Singer
| Machine Works started for their
homes. Several of them were
badly frozen. One man named
Ellis was picked up out of the
snow, stiff and breathless. He
was carried into the railway station,
where he soon died.
BOSTON HEARD FROM.
The steamer Bristol, of the Fall
River Line, arrived from Boston at
. o'clock this afternoon. The
rnmor that there was a large fire
in Boston was denied by the officers.
They said that the steamer left
Fall river at o'clock this morn
ing, and there had been no fire up
to that time. AS the fire was said
to have begun yesterday afternoon
there is probably no truth in the
report. The steamer carried the
Boston mail, and her officers say
that the storm was very light, and
the eastern roads are not blocked.
The Providence left New York for
Boston at ) o'clock this evening.
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.
Immigrants who have been de-
tained on shipboard in the rivers
and harbors since Sunday last
we're landed at Castle Garden to-
day. They number over 1000, and
comprised steerage passengers OF
the La Gascogne, from Iavre
Bohemia, of Hamburg; Edam, oI
Amsterdam, and Maskell, from
Liverpool. The steamer La Hu
from Bremen, did not sail today
owing to heavy ice foes in the
harbor and inability of severa
passengers registered to sail on the
vessel to reach her.
Alexander Bennett, John Lee
; and another employee of the Singer
4 Machine Company left Elizabeth
, port Monday in small rOwboal
for Staten Island. The boat wa'
, found in the ice empty far on
of it's conrse. 1t is is thought tina
the men reached the Staten lslan'
shore, but perlshed crossing the
+ meadow.
One of the passengers OF th'
Chicago express, into which th
Atlantic express ran at DObb'
Ferry Monday, was f. G.. Mable
His left side and head are cut, rlgh
leg bruised, and he is otherwise in
iured. He was in the sleeping.ca
, Aberdeen, which the Atlantic ell
zine crushed into and created grea
, havoc. Mrs. Bell, of California
on her way to Europe, was wedges
, between the seats and the side O
r the car. She was extracted VIII
q great difficulty. Both of NJ RS
Bells legs are broken, each in thre
, places. Five other passenger
: we're injured, but not seriously.
OF Oftwenty.nine staunch boats tha
Y make up the harbor fleet of Ne'
q York two are safe in port, havin
' outridden the storm nine wer
@ wrecked Monday, and eighteer
8 which are at sea, have NOT bee
2 heard from. Those on the wreck
a ed boats had terrible experiences
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