The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-03-22
STORM ECHOES.
Reports of Unparalleled Suffering
and Loss Of Life.
scores Of Vessels Lost and Their Crews
Drowned-Numcrous Persons Frozen
in New York and New Jersey-Mn.
lions Of Dollars OF Damage
Done to Property In the
Eastern states.

NEW YORK, March 14.-Yesterudy tno
blizzard was funny to New Workers., but
to-day many u smile was checked as the
hand went into the pocket to pay the de-
mand made for food and fuel supplies.
The seriousness Of the situation becomes
more apparent hour by hour as the wires
are being picked up nnd send in
tales Of suffering and death from
outlying points. Ths incoming tide
brings on its surface bits Of wreckage
that are anxiously scanned by shipping
agents whose vessels are missing. The
railway situation continues hopeless. The
New York Central is hopelessly blocked,
and relief parties have gone out In an en-
deavor by some means to feed and water
the unfortunate live stock in the stalled
trains. On the New York and New
Haven Road five trains are
lost and can not be located Tor
want of telegraph facilities. The Erie Is
doing nothing. Owing to no arrivals OF
trains famine threatens this city. There
is no milk in the city and condensed milk,
which was in good supply on Monday, Is
hard to be had at any price. Vegetables
have quadrupled in prices. Eggs jumped
from eighteen to thirty cents per dozen.
Meager reports show that people living In
New Jersey towns who started for New
York Monday had dreadful experiences.
Many trains were showed In q
few miles from the city, and passen-
gers were compelled to sleep
on them or wade through the snow to look
for shelter in the villages. A number OF
persons, It is reported, perished from cold
and exhaustion. At Elizabethport doz.
en- employees of Singers sewing machine
works started for their homes. Several OF
them were badly frozen. One man named
Ellis was picked out Of the snow stiff and
breathlcss. He was carried into the rail-
way station, where he soon died. An after
noon paper estimates the business loss, con-
tingent loss and actual pecuniary out
lay which the storm will occasion in New
York City at not less than ,O0O, and
the loss to the State involved at S2O, 600, 600.
OF the twenty-nine stanch boats that make
up the harbor feet Of New York, two are
safe in port, having outridden the storm
nine were wrecked Monday, and eighteen
which were out in the open sea remain ut
terly unheard Of The experience Of the
men on boats wrecked was something ter
rible. Twenty funerals en- route to Cal
vary Cemetery are stuck in snow-drifts on
Borden avenue. The corpses had to be
taken into houses near by over night.
Some of the mourners, drivers and horses
had to be dug out, nearly frozen to death.
PATERSON, N. j., March 14.-The snow.
storm which set in Sunday night was the
greatest ever known here. A fearful gale
piled up enormous drifts and did great
damage. The drifts in the streets are If
teen and twenty feet high. The inmates
of many dwellings wore completely shut
in. Business and traffic is completely at q
standstill. No news from the outside
world has been received since Monday
morning.
NEWARK, N. J., March 14.-Three persons
in this vicinity are now known to have
frozen to death in Mondays blizzard. A
milk, meal and coal famine is threatened,
BosroN, MASS, March IA, via LONDON
The storm has now ragged necessarily fol
two days all over New England, SO far al
our scanty communications reach. Ever.
railroad out Of the city is blockaded com
pletely, and the only telegraphic commun
cation is by the Commercial Cable Com
pany's line to Rockport, Me-, and theme
by cable to London. Never was ther
such a complete prostration Of bus
ness, and the damage to property mus
amount to an enormous sum. 1t Is NIT
years since Boston has been so affected b.
q storm.
SCRANTON, PA, March 14.-Snow-drift
In many places on the Delaware, Lacka
wanna and Western railroad over the Pt
como Mountains are forty feet in height
Three passenger trains are lying at VAST
ington, N. j. Two more ore at Strouds
burg. The passengers are cared for j
hotels at the company's expense. 81
hundred men are trying to clear the tract