Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-27
A MANTLE OF SNOW
Buries the North and the East
From One to Four Feet
Deep on a Level
NEW YORK WAS THE CENTER
From Norfolk SGuthward the Storm
Was Replaced by Heavy Rain.
PENNSYLVANIA WAS In 1T, TOO.
Sunny Manitoba and the Balmy Northwest
Evidently Escaped.
FULL REPORTS FROM MANY POINTS

NEW YORK, Dec. 2G.-To-day's storm on
the water was much worse FOR navigation
than the heaviest fog. Everything in the
line Of steam craft was interrupted, and the
movement of vessels propelled by sail was
suspended altogether. The snow iell so
rapidly on the upper bay that even those
trusty guardians of the customs service, the
revenue cutters, hung close to their wharf
adjoining the Staten Island ferry house, and
did not venture out.
4 peculiar feature Of the storm was that,
while the wind was unusually violent on the
land. there was scarcely any on the water.
The sea, too, was as smooth as the upper
Hudson in midsummer, aud the snow was
let in complete possession.
A dispatch from Point Pleasant, n. j.,
saws heavy storm OF binding snow is rag
ing along the entire coast from Sandy Hook
10 Cane Nav. The air is so thick with snow
that it is difficult to look any distance out to
sea. Telegraph and telephone wires are
down. and it is feared there are wrecks along
the coast which have not yet been reported.
On this account Superintendent Havens
has ordered the entire lie saving service
along the coast to patrol their beaches and
look on: for wrecks
Il
The name OF the schooner ashore on Deal
Beach is Yale. She wants no assistance
from the men of the lie saving station. The
sea is very high, and fears are entertained
for the vessels safety.
Reports continue to be received from all
parts of New York State, showing a heavy
1all of snow and consequent interruption OF
traffic In the Mohawk Valley the storm is
unusually severe. At o'clock this even
ing more than eight inches of snow had
fallen 1t Amsterdam, and 1t was still showing
hard Eailroad travel is greatly delayed,
some OF the through trains being from two
10 three house late. West Shore freight
trains have been stalled in the snow this
afternoon, and the fangers have been started
out.
AT Lockport the fail of snow has been con-
tinuous throughout the day. but is not
heavy The snow is not drifting badly.
Temperature IN the morning was reported at
100 above zero, and at o'clock it had risen
to 80.
a Ithaca the storm continued throughout
the day, with street car traffic suspended.
At Watertown snow has been falling rap
idlv, accompanied by mild hreezes. The
thermometer last night was 80 below. and
tins morning 40 above zero.
At Concord, \. H., snow began falling
early TINS morning, ana lulS alue noon was
several inches deep. The indications are
ihat the storm will be the heaviest of the
winter. The storm is heavy throughout the
State.
The Coolest of the Season.
At Bangor, Me-, and vicinity, this morn
ing was the coldes: of the season, the mer-
curry ranging from 12O below in Bangor to
2JO in the surrounding towns. The tenn
pcraturc is rising, with indications OF
SNOW.
At New Brunswic6. \. J., a heavy North
cast bl zzdrG, accompanied by steady fall of
snow, has prevailed since 4 o'clock this
morning. The snow drifts arg increasing
gradually.
Reports this afternoon show that nearly
the whole country is enveloped in the storm.
Il rages from Maine 10 Texas, and from
Manitoba TO Georgia. From Norfolk south
west it is a rain storm; from there north and
northwest, snow storm. Northern New
York seems to be about the center of the
disturbance
At > o'clock this afternoon the weather
clark was unable to give any encourage
ncnt. lie said that there was every indica-
ton that the two storms would meet tonight
somewhere a little north OF this city, and
that the general storm is rapidly developing
into immense proportions. In conclusion
the clerk said: There is every likelihood
that the railways Will be generally blocked
ncr5h ami west, and that a serious and dis
asyrous condition of things is to result from
from he storm -