Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-15
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
How the Twenty-Five Boats Of the
New York harbor Fleet Wealth
cred the Great Storm.
The Blockaded Northern Cities Are
Beginning to Miss Some Of the
Necs5saries Of Life.
| reIeKraphis and Postal Communication
Being Resumed PartialIy-Busineas
stiIl at q standstnl In New York.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPES.


Still at q stAndstill In New York.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPES.
NEW YORK, March 14-Of Twenty-Five
staunch boats that make the harbor feet
Of New York, two are safe in port, hsv-
ing outridden the storm. Nine were
wrecked Monday and eighteen, which
were out in the open SEES, remain utterly
unheard Of. The experience of the men
on the boats wrecked was some
thing terrible. It seems almost
miraculous that there should have been no
10 IS Of lie. There was positively no rest
for the crews from the ime the gale be-
gan. Added to the ordinary dangers OF
heavy wind were the difficulties caused
by the rain and sleet which troze the sails
into solid sheets. These had to be con-
stautly looked sitter to prevent them from
cracking into pieces. All the wrecked
crews land3d In yawls near Sandy Hook,
a1d were given food and shelter in the
house of Mrs. M. NJ. Stewart.
OPENING THE HIGHWAYS.
NEW YORK, March 1.-THE sun is
shining brightly this morning and the
weather is moderatirg. Travel on the
blockaded roads is fully resumed. The
surface roads are still impossible. There
is no Improvement in the condition of the
telegraph wires. Meagre reports
received show that the people living
in New Jersey towns who started for New
| York Monday, had dreadful experiences.
A number Of persons, 1t is reported, per-
ished from cold and exhaustion. at
E zlbethport dozen employees of Sing
er's Sewing Machine WORKS, started for
their homes. Several OF them were badly
frozen. One man named Ellis, WAS pick
ed up out Of the snow stiff and breath
less. He was carried into railway sta
ton, where he soon died.
ATWENTY-MILLIoN DOLLAR LOSS.
New YORK, March Il An afternoon
paper estimates the business loss, con-
tingent loss and actual pecuniary outlay
which the storm will occasion in New
Ygrk city at not less than $1,000, 900, and
the loss to the states involved is $40, 200,
600.
FAMINE IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, March IA The Chicago
limited vestibule train on the Pennsyl-
yania r lsd, which was stalled for day
near Harrison on the Nav Jersey
meadows, reached Newark last night A
relief car Of supplies had been sent out in
the morning with three locomotives pull
ing and three more pushing. at SouEh
Elizabeth stock train is blocked on the
siding and may sheep and cattle are
frozen 10 death. In the Pennsylvania
freight yard csrload Of sheep persisted.
The milk famine Is becoming
alarming, and it Is almost i'm
possible to get anything but con-
densed milk. One hoIel yesterday
paid fifty cents quart for the last fry
gallons, d dealer had. The meat supply
is getting short g. prices are adYsuc ng
Fifteen dollars per ton is psld for coal:
There is plenty CT it IN the yards in New
York and Brooklyn, but the difficulty Is
TO deliver it. Two thousand business
men from New Haven were showed IN
near PelhamVille, suburb Of New York,
since Monday moruiz
STORM OVER.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE storm in
this vicinity seems to De over. The tenn
peratare is rising, the wind dying out and
the snow melting rapidly. The tele-
graphic situation is improving as far as
the western service is concerned, but
Philadelphia and w York are still cut
of Mails from Pnilads lphia are coming
in slowly, papers Ct Tuesday being re-
ceiVed here to-day.
SEVERE IN Pennsylvania.
READING, Pa, March l4.-Trains south
of here have been blockaded since Sun
day light. Fifteen trains are sEowbouud
between here and Bridgeport. The E ast
Pennsylvania branch is entirely blocked
as is the Schuylkill and Lsnigh branch
The bridge at albany station on the Lamar
branch Is entirely demolished by the
storm. Several wrecks are reported on
The Reading and Columbia branch. Dis
patches from Allentown, Bethlehem,
Mauch Chunk, Esston, Shamokep, Potts.
vile, YORK and Lancaster report the
storm unusually severe. Trains are snow
bound in all directions and telegraph |
wires all down. Snow drifts are from
five TO fifteen feet deep throughout Le- !
bsnnon, Dauphin, Lehigh, Bucks, Chester |
and Busk counties.
COLD DAY FOR POLITICIANS.
JERSEY Cry, N. j March II -Yester-
day was the day set for holding the spr1ug |
elections N many towns in New Jersey. |
The roads being impossible but very few
to get to the polls. It is said in
SOmC 1upSahSCo VIC pO!4s NcLd uOt Oucneu
st su. Plsc-s In which the polls were
opened presented remarkable scenes. Pol
lticians who brsved the storm wrapped
In furs and rode to the polls
In sleighs. Those who came from any
distance were nearly over
come by the cold, and several voters had
had to be relieved with stimulates. The
vote wss the lightess ever polled in New
Jersey.
THE GREATEST STORM.
PATERSON, N J., March II The snow
storm which set in Sunday night was the
greatest ever known here. The fearful
gale piled up enormous drifts and did
great damage. Drifts in the streets are
itteen 10 twenty feet high. No news from
The outside world has been received since
Monday morning. New York papers got
shrough last night after journey of
shIrty-six hours from Jersey City. Hun
1reds Of people who left here for n W
Yor K Monday morning were snow bound
n cars two days q few miles away and
could not get either way or communicate
uffh THAR families Rad