The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-15
How other cities Suffered.
ALL NEW YORK CITY RAILROADS BLOCi
Kn-AN INCIDENT Oh me ELENAIED.

ALL NEW YORK CITY RAILROADS BLOCH
Kp-AN INCIDENT Oh The ELEVATED.
The stoIm in New York city caused
immense discomfort ard delay to all
SORTS of business. The rain which had
been falling Sunday afternoon and eve
ming turued 10 snow during the mig II,
and AT o'clock Monday morning foot
had fallen. TIE wind caused drifts
hich in the upper part OF the city were
3 aud feet high Railroad traiiic was
almost suspended, aud thousands OF pas
seDGers weIe blocked Oh the elevated
roads The horse cars were utterly un-
able 10 move. People who left uptown
bv the elevated roads were unable to get
farther than Eighth street by the road 4,
and many of the more yentuIesOme de
scended 10 the street by ladder and
walked the rest OF the way down town.
People in suburban FOWLS found II al
most impossible 10 reach the CITY, 80 Sc
we're were the drifts.
The storm caused very bad accident
on the Third Avenue Elevated railroad
Yesterday morning. train ran into the
rear of another that was standing nj the
Seventy sixth street station, and the rear
car of The front train partly ielescoped
the car preceding it. The engine of the
rear train was wholly demolished and
the engineer instantly killed. The pas
sen GERS. so far as learned, escaped with
only few bruises. The binding snow
storm made il impossible 10 see any dis
lance ahead.
The engineer, who was instantly kill
ed. was Samuel FOwle, Of Ninety sixth
street and Lexington avenue. The me.
man. Martin ByIne, escaped ~ most
miraculous manner. Traffic was entirely
suspended.
An Albany dispatch says; The snow
storm ia this vicinity IS tho seveTest Of
the season Horse cars are blocked and
trains are hours behind time. II tho
storm continues, of which there Is every
prospect, there will be a general tram
blockade.
A dispatch from Troy says About 10
inches Of rnow has fallen here and is still
falling Il inches reported al Saratoga.
The FitchbuIg train came IN about HI
hour late Bennington and Rutland train
is stalled in the drifts near lloosic juno
ton. The morning mail on the Hudson
River track from New York was two
hours late.
IN THE WEST.
A dispatch from Negrunee, Mich,
March 18th, says: The two days bllz
zard lost ending has been the worst Of
the wear for railroad men. The Chicago
and Northwestern train due here at
o'clock Yesterday left Escanaba at 3;l0
and got stuck az Mason. IL is still there
in the drifts, with the engine dead. The
southbound train is at Brampton, hav-
ing been shovelled out two or three
times. On the Duluth, South Shore, and
Atlantic the Houghtou division train
pulled through, but the Machiuaw di-
vision is closed 70 traffic, with the west
bound express and the snow plows all
showed In on the eastern half Of the dl-
vision. No ea,tbonnd trains were start
ed from Marquette yesterday.
Says dispatch from Oakland, III,
March u: While Calvin Fisher, his wife
and child, Frank Armstrong, his wife
and brother-in-law, and Grant Shyrock,
were sitting in the house of the latter,
near West Liberty, south Of this city,
Yesterday, they heard roaring noise,
which caused one of them to shut the
door quickly. Almost immediately the
building was lifted from it's foundation
and borne forward Q distance Of IL feet