The Dickinson press., 1888-03-24
OFFICIAL PAPER oFsTARK COUNTY
Saturday, March 81, 1855
The Story Of the Storm.

The Story Of the Storm.
The New York papers tell the story
of the storm better than the meagrc
reports sent over the wires. The fol.
lowing quotations from eastern papers
will be read with interest:
New York Herald: All business
was abandoned, and the SHOW drifted
in mountains against miles of closed
business houses. The elevated rail-
ways ceased running, and all the horse
Car lines were completely blocked up.
Huge trees i'll Twenty.third and other
streets were pulled up out of the
ground and thrown in I'LL directions
by the mighty wind which increased
women were thrown about like StrawS,
and many had to be dug out of the
vast drifts. Wall street looked like
an icy gulch in Montana. Trains on
all the railways We're showed in. The
telegraph companies refused to take
messages. a horror of darkness
deepened over the crowded city, and
the terror stricken population cow
cred ut the awful sound which came
from the. throat OF the whirlwind.
Through the wild clouds of snow that
were driven along the streets could
be seen loaded wagons given up by
their drivers. There were thousands
and thousands of these abandoned
wagons and carts.
With mel and women dying in her
ghostly streets, New York saw day
breaking through the wild clouds yes
terday "wednesday, March l4tl)
morning. Nature had overwhelmed
the metropolis, and citizens We're
found dead iii the mighty SNOW drifts.
White frozen hands sticking up out
of the billowed and furrowed wastes
testified to the %unspeakable power
that had desolated the city. Had
jules Verne written such Il story IL
week ago New York would have
laughed and pronounced it Il clever
but impossible romance. Within
'forty-eight hours the city was con-
verified into an Arctic wilderness, cut
off from all railway and telegraph
communication. The white hurricane
had strewn her busiest and gayest
thoroughfares with wreck and ruin.
courts of justice were closed, and the
vast machinery of commerce was par
alyZed. Groans of mutilated humani-
ty filled the air.
The wind blew at the rate of sixty
miles AL hour.
Doubtless hundreds of sick people
died from the want of medical aid. 1t
was almost impossible for doctors
to get along the streets.
Syracuse Courier: Snow Ten Feet
Deep.
Rochester Herald: Winters Death
Struggle.
Albany Express: Polaric Paralysis
"A Borean Blowout.
Albany Argus: Deep in Drifts
Several States Buried Beneath Snowy
Nantes.
Elizabeth Herald: The Snow Nine
Feet Deep Between This City And
Newark.
Jersey City Journal: An Old time
Bllzzard--The oldest lnhabitant Can
dag No Nlole.
Boston Daily Advertiser: Bravo
Dakota! Your blizzard experience
this winter has not frozen out YOU
sense OF humor. That dispatch offer
ing help toward food and raiment fol
the sufferers Of New York and othe1
seaboard- cities. during the. presen
blizzard week covers you with glory
Brooklyn Standard Union: Thos,
who had provisions on the snowed.il
sides were lucky, because neithe
butcher o baker nor grocerymal
made the usual rounds for orders, an,
those who had not and, were unable t,
dig themselves out suffered severely
Brooklyn Citizen: That ~ fall o
snow averaging two feet should par:
lyZe the business Of the first and thir
cities in the union and cost them hun
dreds of thousands, perhaps million,
of dollars, is the fact that needs som
sort of explanation.
New York Press: Don't knock an
more, Dakota. You can come in.
Washington Critic: Dispatche
from Dakota this morning Wnnounc
- that-the trees are budding, the graz
is greening:and the birds are singin
in the bright sunny land. If congre,
is going to insist upon March 4th
Inauguration day, would it not be
least advisable to TRANSFER the see,
of operations to Dakota!
: Pittsburgh Dispatch: With Il
wheat fields of Dokota lifting the
green acres to a melting sun, and Nc
) York and New England crawling O
OF a snow drift with blue noses AZ
) frozen toes, things do seem a tri
topsy-turyy in this blessed land of t
free.
Louisville Courier Journal: Twel
degrees below zero in Pennsylym
in the middle of March. If Oak,
has any funds to spare, let her col
to the succor of the perishing lei
%sylvaniaAs.
indianapolis Sentinel: Very II,
and highly favored with the punu,
aroma of prairie humor are the f
grams from the "banana belt" of
kota rendering relief to the blizz;
victims of New York.
Pittsburgh Dispatch: The sting h
UoiA III UiiC YET SymDatne
messages of coincidence sent to Ma
Hewitt of New York from Oak
VIII be felt by the proud metrop
tans more severely than the STING
the tail of the blizzard.
The Northern Pacific having clio.
a contract for the transportation
OF 100000 pounds of tea from
Pacific to st. Paul, it, will soon
known as the great tea route.
lie annual MEETING Of tba Mont.