The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-03-15
All Business and Mail SuspendO ed.

New York, March 13.-There
has been only partial resumption
of traffic in this city. The elevated
railway trains are running at ihter>
walls, but they are wholly inadequate
for the requirements Most of the
business men who have come down
this morning were forced to walk.
Sieighs ard carria:es are in great
demand. The wind is still blowing
furiousl, and the snow is badly
dritted, being piled in many places
six and eight feet high.
East River was frozen hard this
mcriimg and many Brooklynites
walked across to the New York side
Few trains, if any, have reached
ths different t"rInini in New York
at>,i Jersey C:;v. Many trains s:all-
ed between s,atIUns on the Hudson
River and Harlem roads. The Off
cials said yesterday that folty trains
were showed in. The efforts to
break through the enowdrifts have
completely failed. Not a train
reached the depot during the day.
Most of ;5e roads report a similar
condition Of affairs. The passengers
suffered great discomfort. The fer
rv boats are only long intervals. All
the eastern wires are down. Com
mGn;cation with P!1iladel phia last
night by long distance telephones
said that the storm there was the
greatest III over 30 wears No trains
were running. Many are snow~
bound near the city. The east
bound Chicago limited express on
the Pennsylvania road IS showed in,
seventeen miles from Philadelphia.
Business is suspended. All the
telegraph wires are down. Most of
the people who got to business
Yesterday were unable to get hons
last night. The hotel accommoda-
ti0ns We're strained 10 their utmost.
Stores and offices were converted
into sleeping apartments for the
benefit OF the employees. Many of
the girls were compelled 10 accept
such quart rs A majority of the
theaters closed last night
A milk famine is threatened If
the blockade is not soon cleared.
A tenement house in West Forty
thir,. street burned ea-ly this morn
ing. Twenty families had to run
for their lives, most of them scantily
dressed. They were given shelter
in The neighboring saloons. The
building was entirely consumed.
Geo barrymore, Il well known
importer and dealer in hogs at No.
3 Water street, was found frozen
stiff in u snow drift in Seventh
avenue. Barrymore lived with his
wife and family in Osborne flats on
Fifty-tirst street and Broadway. He
started for his office uown town yes
terday aud it is supposed he be-
came exhausted and dropped by
the wayside unnoticed.
The bUdy of Annie Halpin Fish
er, aged about 80 years, was found
last night frozen stiff in hallway
in West Thirty street, where
she lived. She was once we'll known
in the social world, but had fallen
i I bad habits.
BALTIMORE, March 13.-The tide
Yesterday was lower than ever
known in the memory of the old
wharfmen, being at least twelve
feet below the lowest of ordinary
low water, and as consequence
many deep draught vessels lying in
the different docks were grounded.
At the County dock foot of. Rroad-
way. the water was so low that the
bottom was barred and persons
could walk dry shod on the soil
thus exposed.
1t is the opinion of the old bay
captains that Sunday night was one
of the worst ever experienced on the
Chesapeake bay, and the notice oi
the storm was so short there have
doubtless been many disasters
which will be reported as soon as
! the vessels begin to arrive. No ves'
sci could live in the bay Sunday
night.
All trains North of Washington