The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-03-16
NOTHING Ike III.
Numerous Deaths Reported In the Heart
Of New York City.

NEW York, March 10.-The railways
centering in New York are utterly demon
allied. President Depew, of the New
York Central, said: at is terrible. Old
men on the road say that there has not
been such an experience since 1854 There
are now eighteen trains stalled between
here and Yonkors. The snow has drifted
into the cuts and settled down into solid
icy banks six and eight feet deep. have
been directing all my endeavors to get
ting food to the people who may have re
manned on the cars" Old river men say
that the storm on the river last night was
the worst since 1854 Several canal boats
sunk at their mooriugs in the North river.
From our to six feet of now has fallen
on the Delaware & Hudson canal COM
pany's road and it has drifted much
higher. Many reports of death and acct
dents are being received. George ID. Bar
ramer, a we'll known importer and dealer
IL hops, was frozen stiff in a snow bank
iast night. He started for the Office yes
terday and it is supposed he became ex-
hausted and dropped by the wayside un-
noticed. The body of Annie Halpin
Fisher, aged thirty years, was found last
night frozen stiff in a hallway of 429
West Thirty-ninth street where she lived.
Not a train left the Grand Central depot
yesterday and but one came in. The wait
ing rooms were crowded with travellers
anxious to depart and persons waiting to
hear from friends who were enroute to
this city. None of the officials could give
the slightest satisfaction. Hundreds of
trains are blocked within a few miles of
the city unable to move. All the theaters
are closed. The stock exchange met this
morning only to adjourn until tomorrow
on account of the storm.
FAMrsHING FOR NECESSITIES.
No milk has been received in this or
the n%eighboring cities of Brooklyn or Jer-
sey City for t~hirty-six hours. No butch
er's, milkmen's, grocer's or other carts
are visible. All provisions are delivered
by hand, the men Laundering painfully
through the drifts. Coal even is being
carried in a thousand places by the bag,
basket and bucketful and in poor quar-
tiers on the east side the price is aearly
doubled. A number of restaurants were
compelled to close doors, being unable to
get either food or provisions. Hackmen
ask $50 to $50 for a comparatively short
drive and gangs of boys and men are
making their own terms for relieving
householders imprisoned behind snow
drifts.
AT ALBANY.
ALBANY, March i3.--The stern that
commenced on Sunday Is still raging. Its
equal has never been seen in this vicinity.
Pedestrians are seen plodding through
snow banks that reach anywhere from the
knees up to the shoulders. There have
been no trains on any roads since Sunday.
The public schools are closed.
DRIFTS TWENTY-FIVE FEET DEEP.
PouaHKEErsrE, N. Y, March 13.-In
some instancesthe drifts are twenty-five
feet deep. Stock OF every description is
suffering.
no MAILS.
NEW YoRK, March 18.-Not a single
out Of town mail has been receiyepor dis.
patched for thirty-six hours,
-FOUR TRAINS BURIED.
Long ISLAND Cry, N. ", March 13.-
The drifts in the streets of Jamaica are
thirty feet high. Four passenger trains
on the Long island road have not been
heard from.
In Pennsylvania.
PrrrsBuRo, March 13.-Business IN the
Pennsylvania, between this city and Phil
adelphia, is completely paralyzed. All the
freight trains are snow bound. AT some
places the snow has drifted as high as FIVE
feet and there are miles and miles OF
freight trains waiting TO get through.
CARRYING PROVISIONS TO THE BIocKADED
PHrLADELPH1A, March ia party Of
railway men and passengers have been
stuck IL a big drift at Dudley on the Am
bow division in New jersey since yester-
day morning, and hearing that they were
suffering for food the train dispatcher or
ganized a relief party, taking a big four
horse sleigh with provisions. They en-
deavored to force their way through the
country roads. but their success has not
vet been learned. There are about TWEEN
fy-eight men in the snowbound party.
THE 8 OF LIFE WILL BE FR1GHTFuLe
PHILADELPHIA, March 1s.-Reports BY
special messenger from Wilmington,
Delaware, say word has been received
from Lewes by a raiIread wire chat a
number of vessels and tugs have been
sunk at the Delaware breakwater and
twenty-five lives lost. Two bodies have
already been recovered and 1t IS believed
that the loss Of life along the coast will be
terrible.
DOES NOT IMPROVE.
PHILADELPHIA, March 13.-There is
but little improvement today. Tie stag
nation Of business caused BY the storm
continues and very little effort Is being
made to run trains over any Of the roads
centering here.
STILL RACES.
Philadelphia March 1s.-The severe
storm which commenced in this vicinity
sunday evening still RACES. All the roads
are badly blocked. Efforts 10 clear the
tracks are more ~unavaillng, the cuts I'LL
Ing up again rapidly.