Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-03-14
THE STORM UNlBlTED
Many Lives are Reported Last, Tie
Peer srs SsR<risg and Basinsss
b Practically ssspssded.

western Cnion Telegraph Company.
which we're completely demolished be.
tween Chicago and eastern points by
yesterdays Storm are still in vary bad
shspe. The locsi officials have as yet
no means Of knowing the extent Of tte
trooble. There is bos one duplex wire
70 New York that can he used. vhiis
Nash!DatoH, Baltimore and Philadsl.
pkis are completely cot CT from direct
communication with tue west. The
s:rorm, II 10 reported. has subsiied .ais
n1rniuQ.
The weather report OF the signal ser
vice otlcs Indicates tne stern. 20 be very
violent along tie north Atlantic coast,
sweeping over the states OF New York.
Pennsylvania asd Ohio. Very e3ld
weather 10 reported al Easoy points. A.
Albany the mercury last night marked
four degrees above z.fo. end at New
York, ten above. At Albany and Pitts.
6osR tee snow fail 10 reported to be very
heavy. There vas no interruption cn
the telegraph lines either souta or west.
BUsnKss coMPLHrsLY PARALyzKp.
PITnBgxo, March l3.- Business On
tie Pesusyivaais railroad between this
city and Psyiadelpaia Is compiets,y
pafalyssd. No trains hsvs arrived
from the east since last night. Every
thipg il biockaded With snow. All
trains are snowboupa. and there is Lit.
t!e prospect Of their getting ent for -
hours. Al some places the snow drift
ed ss biGh a. six feet and there are
miles and niiss Of freight trains wait
ING TO get through. Never before 10
the history OF railroads has there been
such q biockAde. The cold weather
viii be very severe On the train mep
and passengers, as the Thermometer al
most places is below zero. No mails
have arrived frem the east since six
e'cl0ck last evening aud il is estimates
that 90 0g0 letters are snow bound be-
tween PittsburR and Philadeiphia.
Teiegraphic Communication is still cos
almost entirely of, There is no
troable sect.
kTILL BLOWING fURioCsLH.
NV YORK. March 13.-There has been
only a partial resumption Of traffic in
this city. The elevated road trains are
only at intervals, but they are
wholly inadequate for the requirements.
The wind is still biovire furiously end
the snow is badly drifting, icing piled
in many places from six to nine feet
high.
Several persons, il is reported, per
ished In the city last night. Commu-
u.oatiou Wiih Washington and all
points south of New York is still en-
tifely out eff. No surface cars sre run
ming. The snow is frogsn 50 hard that
the ploUs cannot be used and gangs Of
men With shoyels and picks are endeav-
oriug TO clear the roads. East river
was frozen hard this morning and
many Brooklypites walked across to New
YORK. Few trains, IL any, have reached
the differeut terminals in New York
and Jersey city. Many trains are
stalled between stations.
The New York Central officials said
yesterday. that forty trains we're snow
cd in. Not train reached the Central
depot during the day. Passengers have
saderred great discomfort. Ferry |
boats are only run ct long intervals. |
All eastern wires were down. A com
from Philadelphia lsst
night, said that the storm there was the |
wors; In over forty years. No trains |
are runpipg, many are snow bound
near the city. The east bound Chicago
isni.ed 90 the Penrsy ivsnis is showed
10 seventeen miles from thst city.
Most people who got 10 business yes
terday we're unable TO get home last
night. Tie hotels we're strained 30
heir utmost capacity. Stores and C I'll |
,es we're converted into sleeping apart |
nents for the benefit Of employees
Many girls we're compelled TO accept
such quarters. The majority OF the
theatres we're closed last night. A milk
famine Ia threatened IL the blockade IL
aos soon cleared.
A tenement house cn West Forty
Itird street, burned early this morning
and twenty families had 70 ran for
heir lives. Most of them we're scantily
dressed. They were given shelter iD
.Se neiehborine saloons. The build |
Ing was entirely burned.