Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-18
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NV telegraph 10 the Dlapatch1

NTw fORK, December 1.-THE top OF
Daly's Theatre at Ihirtieth street and
Broadway, and two lamps in front Of the
Theatre were blown down by the high
wind TODAY. One man was injured and
taken 10 the hospital. One of the iron
smoke-stacks on the post-oflice building
connecting with the bOIler-chlmney was
blown down this afternoon and went
crashing through the glass ceiling over the
mailing-rOOm. iniuring quite severely John
j. Mahony. a lettcr-caTrler. One other en-
ploye was slightly hurt.
SERIOUS IETERFEEEHCE WITH BUSINESS.
The storm to-day has seriously interfered
with river and harbOr business. Several
canal and smaller boats sank at the piers
on both the North and East rivers, and the
hi0h tide and gale have combined to make
II difficult for the fcrry-bOats TO run into
their slips safely. The LibertS-Isl8nd boat
is not running to-day. Many of the out
going passenger steamers which were 10
have sailed to-day are at anchor III the
lower harbOr
DESPERATE SITUATION ~ P1rTsBURGH.
PrTT-BURGH. PA, December 1.-THE
snowfall to-day Is the heaviest in several
years. The wires are down all over Pitts
burgh, Allegheny, and birmingham.
Horses were killed and several men badly
injured this morning by contact with elec-
perate that the Department of Public Safety
has ordered all the electric street-car lines
TO stop running for the present.
TREMENDOUS SNOWFALL.
There has been a tremendous snowfall
in the Allegheny mountains. At Bedford
IL is one and a half feet deep on level.
The railroad wires are down and there IS
much anxiety for fear of accidents. The
Pittsburgh and Western Is showed up COM
pletely No freight trains whatever were
running on any roads, and the passenger
trains that struggled through were late
from one 70 SIX hours.
BUSINESS IN PITTSBURGH sUsPENDED.
Business in the city il almost entirely
suspended, an example being the feet that
no quotations were posted n, the Petro-
leum Exchange during the day owing 70
the lack of telegTaphic communication.
The police-patrol and fre-alarm systems Of
wires are badly crippled, and the switch
board at the CITY Hall was burned out
this morning The cloCtUc-llght wires
were prostrated early in the day, and those
dependent on them are without light. All
the street-car lines IN South Pittsburgh are
tied up and the inclined planes were not
running.
DAMAGE TO NEW jerseys SUMMER RESORTS.
WASHINGTON, u. c., December 1.-THE
GALE last night and to-day has done and
continues to do much damage 20 summer
resorts on the New Jersey coast. The surf
has torn big gaps in the bluffs at Long
Branch along Ocean avenue. AT AsbuTy
Park IL is tearing up the ocean board walk
and ripping the timbers from the hshlng
piers.
HOUSES WASHED TO SEA.
At Atlantic City the meadows back Of
fbe town are OyertiOwed for miles and
Baltic avenue is submerged at several
points. the houses on both sides being sur
rounded by water. William Bowker's
inlet-house and pavilion have been COM
pletely demolished and washed out TO sea.
The high tide ls washing the ocean-tront,
but no damage has been reported.
TENNEssHE's S MANTLE OF SNOW.
KNOXVILLE. 1RNN., December 1.-The
snow which began falling III tins section
Yesterday has continued TO fall with more
or less consistency ever since. Upper East
Tennessee has from four to eight inches on
the ground The mountains thirty miles
north of here are covered TO about the
same depth, and the mountains along the
Tennessee and North Carolina border have
from six inches to two feet OF snow.
THE NORFOLK AND WESTERN ROAD BURIED.
None of the Norfolk and Western trans
reached Bristol on time to-day, and reports
received here state that that road is buried
IN from one 10 three feet of snow.
IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA.
In Southwest Virginia the snow has
drifted badly and is said 20 be very heavy
about Marion. Va. There Is very little
snow on the ground here. but IT was stllI
falling tonight. Snow has iallen to-uay
south ard west of Knoxville, but has melt
ed. as the ground was not frozen and the
weather Is very warm.
BLIZZARD At BRISTOL.
KNOXVILLE. lynn, December IA spe-
cial TO the Journal from Bristol. Tenn,
dated al . p. NJ, states that a blizzard Is
raging there tonight. The snow is one
foot deep on a level and in places IS driftedd
four feet deep. Snow is still falling and
trains are having trouble to get through.