Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1888-03-17
A TERRIBLE CLIMATE
The Festive Blizzard at Work
in the East.
People Frozen to Death in the
Streets Of Gotham.
Travel and Business in Total
Suspension.
Houses, Trees and Fences
Blown Down.
The Worst Storm and Blockade
in Thirty Years.

LA @AAAAVJ AVesA0'
New York, March l3.-Tlloro has
boen liitlc resumption of traffic in this
city. Elevated railroad trains are run
ming at intervals but are inadequate for
the requirements. Most business mon
who haye come down this morning were
forced to walk. Sleighs and carriages
We're in great demand. The wind is still
blowing iuriously and the snow is badly
drifted, being piled in many places six
and eight feot high. Sevaral persons
are reported to have persisted in the city
last night. Communications with WASH
ingtsn and all points south of New York
10 still cut off. No surface cars arc run
ming. The snow is frozen 90 hard that
plows cannot be used, and gangs Of men
with shovels and picks aro ]sndeavoring
TO clear the roads.
The East river was frozen hard this
morning and many Brooklynites walked
across it to the New York side. Few
trains, II any,, have reached differcnt
termini in New York and Jersey CITY.
Many trains are stalled between stations
OH the Hudson river and Harlem rail-
roads. Officials said Yesterday that 40
trains were showed in. Efforts TO break
through the snow drifts had completely
failed. All Eastern wires are down.
Communication from Philadelphia last
night by long distance telephone said
that the storm there is the greatest In
over go years. No trains running; many
nov bound near tho city. The cast
bound Chicago limited EXPRESS on the
Pennsylvania is showed in II miles from
tho city. business is entirely Suspended.
FROZEN TO DEATH.
This hospitals report u great number
W pstients who were severely bruised
and overcome by yesterdays storm.
Fifteen of the sufferers, among whom Is
Editor Bauman, of the News, are in a
painful condition. The bodies Of two
men and women, found on the streets,
were taken to the morgue.
FUNERALs POSTPONED.
BROOKLYN, n. Y. March ls.-Nono of
the steam roads which terminate at
Greenwood cemetery attempted 70 run
trains yesterday. Tho funeral OF a man
named Hillyer took place Yesterday
afternoon. The procession was blocked
with snow, and in depositing the re-
m aims in a vault the undertaken and the
son Of the deceased were overcome by
tho oal1 A ftar cor-orol Io,,.
they were revived and taken to their
homes.
NILES OF TRAINS BLocKADED.,
PITTSBURGH, Pa, March l3.-Business
on the Pennsylvania railroad between
this city and Philadelphia is completely
paralyzed. No trains have arrived from
the east since last night. Everything Is
blockaded with SNOW. All the freighl
trains srs showed in and there is little
nr no prospect of their getting out for Il
least "A hours. At some places the snoN
has drifted as high az Ave !eet and ther,
are miles and miles ct freight trains
waiting to get through. Never befor,
in the history OF the railroads has Their
S0A SNSu a. = ! IlN GOlV w oAtIlS1
will be very severe on the freight brake
men, as most oil them are snow boun,
several miles'from any station or habita
ton: Thppassengers on the trains viii
also havsso suffer, az tho thermomete
ut most places is below zero. No MALL
have arrived from tho east since 6o'clocl
last evening, and it is estimated that 60,
900 letters alone are snowbound betwee,
Pittsburg and Philadelphia. Telegraph
ic communication is still almost eltircl,
cut Of and all messages are taken sub
ject to delay. There il no trouble west
and trains are arriving and departing or
time.
BLINDING DLIzzARp.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 13,-Eoi
several years there has not been such al
absolute dearth OF tclegraphic communi
cation with the East. Eastward til,
blizzard rolled down the mountain sid,
and through Juniata valley. scatterin,
fences. breaking telegraph wires, up
setting small frame buildings and caus
ing great loss in various ways. II wa
y bad night for the Pennsylvania train
men,. Many freight trains were con
PEELED to take to tho sidinYs and wal
until this morning. A short distanc,
east of here a brakeman was blown from
the top of car, but WAS moi seriousl,
injured. Trainmen pronounced. it tn,
worst storm eyer. known in these regions
One traininan reports: "Betwesn Phila
delphia and Downington the wind al
most blew the cars of the track; the al
was piercing cold and the beating wint
made it almost impossible to stand on
in the storm. The o so very heav,
and SO thick that you could not see thre'
feet in front of you. Telegraph poles
trees, fences and other things wer'
blown across the tracks and our ,raii
made very little Roadway. For mile
east Of Downington every telegraph
pole on the road has been blown dow
and the wires scattered all over tn,
tracks. One Of the poles blew down q
the train was moving aleng slowly ane
knocked the smokestack off the engine
The latter ran into n network of wires
which were twisted around it, and W,
had to stop for = long time to get re
leased. We suffered terribly trying t
get away from the wires and were al
most frozen.''
STOCK FROZEN 10 DEATH
New YonK, March l4.-Tho Chicago
limited vestibule train on the Pennsyl
vania road which was stalled for a day
near Harrison on the Jersey meadow