New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-06
SWEPT BY WIND AND SNOW
FIERCE STORM VISITS THE CITY.
PEDESTRIANS BUFfETED BY THE HEAVY GUSTS
THERE NAY BE BIG DROP IN
TEMPERATURE.

THERE NAY BE A BIG DROP IN
TEMPERATURE.
From the pine forests and the plains Oh ue i"'
Northwest there came sweeping yesterday before day
break great snow storm. IL covered deeply all the
Northern cities and counties and States and whtened
this city before New-Yorkers awoke. They went
home on Wednesday night through prosac streets oil
sombre coorlng and conventional appearance. They
awoke to find a new town, built by daring and
errntic architect. Distances were made p)euc vis'a'
were softened and made mysterious by the snow ana
every roof and spire each projection on Duluihe'
each pole and street lamp, was changed to some
fantastic thing with all harsh outlines beautifed In
the fresh atmosphere there seemed TO unger Hiht
blush tinge, and New-York City, surrounded BY the
gray mysterious waters and the snowy heights beyond
them presented a beautiful winter picture yester-
day. The snow unlike previous snowfalls was light
and dry, and the air was cold and crisp IL dd
not melt and the city retained her dress OF wmte
all day. The heavy snowfall which began at o
O'Clock in the morning stopped shortly after noon
yesterday, but It showed on and Of until evening"
coming down heavily ut times.
At D. m there came what looked at first like q
blizzard: but It was only furious wind The
Weather Bureau said IL blew Mt the rate OF twenty
two miles an hour. but II 1t didn't blow through some
streets at least at the rate OF fifty miles then he
people who staggered around In II are no judges. IL
drove the which came down heavily tneh
through the streets In white avalanchcs which not only
blinded but knocked the breath out OF people who
were forced to be abroad And 1t was not only tle
snow that became the prey OF the wind. Tearing
madly through the city, the gale caught the dnfted
masses from housetOps and window stills, whrlcd
through the mounds the streets, and sent them
all flying In great white clouds, I'LL te aVenues
looked as II n big sandstorm sweeping over the
city. The wind from the northeast and made
the bot OF poor cardrvers bound uptown miserable
t.t.
they bad gone many blocks, and many times when
fierce gusts tore tho men had to
stop the car and turn their backs ID the wind.
Despite the stormy riot, however, the weather Bu'
officials last night insisted looking beyond the
clouds and snid that to-day would be clear but they
added that II would be the c)dest day OF the season
also. and prophesied that the thermometer would
diop rs TO 90 degrees before p. m, bringing the
temperature down near Zero
mrdseye view OF the United States west OF the
Mississippi River yesterday morning would have
shown big territory under deep snow, for yester
days snow storm was remarkably great IN extent.
North OF Tennessee and eastward from the Mississippi
along the Ohio valley and all the Middle Atlantic
and New England States the snow fell heavily. When
the snow first began falling there slight Increase
in temperature the entire section OF the United
states tat was in the track Of the storm. But
the weather became decidedly colder under the In
fuence OF which moved eastward from the
Northwest. There was enough cold up there ye>ter-
day to furnish skating FOR all the rest of the world
for ST. Vincent Mimi, had II degrees below zero
in the morning. II sudden drop Of from 10
to 20 degrees throughout the entire Vest which caused
this great cold. The Weather Bureau report yester-
day WAS that to-day the weather would be clearing
and decidedly colder. with still more frigid wave
due at night The coolest place in the United states
YESTERDAY had g degrees below zero. Along the
Atlantic Coast the winds were high al day, blowing
on shore the OF seventeen to thirty miles
an hour. To-day accOriing TO the predictions OF the
Weather Bureau, the winds will be high from the
northwest.
a. rn II was Z degrees above zero, and 1t gradually
roe until II registered 20 degrees before the noon hour