The evening world., 1889-03-12
BLIZZARD ECHOES.
A Retrospect Of How We Fared in
Last Years Big Storm.
Incidents Of The Storm and the Storm
Beaten.
Phases OF Metropolitan Life Under King
Blizzard's Scourge.

The incidents we're many. New Workers
had probably never witnessed such u sight
as the streets presented during the day.
Everything was abandoned. Street cars,
beer wagons loaded with filed kegs, slaugh-
ter-house wagons piled high with the car.
casses Of beef, broken-down hacks, broken
down delivery wagons and overturned milk
wagons formed part of the distractions in the
streets. Snow had drifted around them
mountains high
Overhead were stalled elevated trains with
loads Of joking, growing. cursing and all
other kinds Of passengers.
Haokmen reaped 0 harvest. They charged
enormous prices and got them. One man re-
ceived ESQ for transporting Q gentleman from
the Hoffman House to Christopher street
ferry.
Only six trains were run on the Sixth ave-
nue. l. road from One Hundred and Fifty
fifth street. and only four on the Ninth ave-
nue. line below Fifty-ninth street. Bowen
Twenty-third and Twenty eighth stre-ts on
the sixth avenue L." a train was blocked.
Finalf Rss y eognls 81 ~" in,a s1iSesea v S1a .n T al. a.
business appeared in the street below with
long ladder which they placed against the
structure. They announced that for 10 cents
passengers could climb down.
ANo oaO Ah4Na W AAiuAO ~ uCuOCh IL tuo
fierce storm, until finally one young man
| went and the others followed. One woman
also went down, presenting an edifying
spectacle of flying skirts and ribbed stock
places where trims were stalled. passengers
- rushed the growler " by lowering a can into
the street. This was extensively practised.
On the east side, business was entirely sus-
spended. In one OF the stalled trains the
passengers began to smoke: the guard pro-
tested.
Faith n you can't put us out" yentured
a bright young lrishman. whereat the guard
gave it up. A poker game. Ascent limit.
was also started on this train.
No one was allowed to cross Brooklyn
Bridge during the storm. Ferry-boais ran
on irregular time and at long intervals. But
as no trains were running in jersey or Long
Island, the thousands who came 10 the city
on early trains had 10 remain over night.
Neither could they send any messages to
their homes for the wires were all down. One
old man offered 800 to have q message sent
to Harlem. 1t was an impossihility.
of its boxes were out Of order. Opposite the
Aston House a boy was pushed into n snow
bank. When he came out, he pulled with
him an unconscious man who had been en-
Not a vessel left or entered port on that
day. WORLD reporters gathered news by
means of snowshoes.
In Wall stree business was also suspended.
The exchanges were practically deserted,
there being but seven member at the Pro-
duce Exchange.
The crush at the downtown hotels was i'm
mense. Three and four people were crowded
into one room. and were mighty glad to
do that. Hospitals were crowded with peo-
pie suffering from frost bite and various diRa-
bled portions of their anatomy.
The East River was frozen over, and hun
dreds of people wa ked across on the ice
bridge. The Pennsylvania Railroads wires
were all down, and messages TO and from
them were sent by The WORLD over its long
distance telephone wires. Brooklyn Bridge
trains ran regularly.
Hundreds of bodies were kept for days,
funerals beng prevented by the impossible
drifts of snow in the streets.
A famine set in and many poor people were
badly in want. Provisions could not be
transported. and grocery and meat stores
were completely denuded of edibles.
One thousand seven hundred and forty
three new men were taken to work at clean
ing the streets by Commissioner Coleman.
TruCkmen volunteered, and hundreds of
trucks loaded with snow could be seen wend-
ing their way to the r.vers.
Mishaps to pedestrians were legion, and
many narrow escapes were noted. As the
blizzard gradually melted away before the
sun scores of dead horses came to light.
Florisls Jared badly. Mr.. Fred Gordon
sent this polite note 10 THR WORLD "All
gone. Ru ned! Glass all broken"
Pascal T.. Bnrquet and j. b. Clarke walked
from Mount Vernon to secure their stock Of
newspapers Their TIP was a perilouS one.
but they were rewarded by receiving fabulous
prices Tor their papers. The snow drifts in
and drifts fifteen feet high were common