The morning call., 1893-01-12
JAMMED WITH ICE.
Blockade i'm New York
Harb0r.
ALL THE FERRIES STOPPED.
Not Since the Great Blizzard of 1887
Has There Been Such a Sight
In the Bay.
Special TO THE MORNING CALL

New YORK, Jan. 11.-Not in many years
has there been such a suspension of navi-
CATION in the harbor as to-day. The cold
has been intense all day. Coming down the
North River around the Battery and eX-
tending up East River was one solid mass
Of ice stretching over the bay, and down
through the Narrows into the lower bay
was the same glacial surface, dotted here
and there with hillocks OF sn0w-capped
pieces Of lee that had been rushed up by
one foe rubbing against another. The Ice
extended into the Kills and around the
shores of Staten Island. There was little
stretch OF open water around Bedloe's
Island, and this was all that could be seen
In the harbor at O'Clock. The Staten
Island ferry-boats were greatly crippled.
The ordinary passage is twenty minutes,
but in many cases the boats were two hours
making the trip and then were unable to
enter the piers on account of the accumua-
tion of ice. The ferry to South Brooklyn
stopped entirely.
At II o'clock there were ffty-three vessels
in hopeless tangle ia the ice, all within a
radius of mile. At that hour the Fall
River steamboat Providence came down,
erusted with ice, it being then five hours
behind time. The path forced by the Provi-
dence gave some OF the incoming and few
minor boats a chance TO push through and
slightly relieved the blockade at the barge
Office.
At noon there were 500 passengers in the
Staten Island ferry house waiting trans
portation.
No such jam of floating ice has been seen
In this h3rbor since the great blizzard of
1887. The ferry boats are unable to get to
the piers at may points and the ferries,
steamers aud tugs are fast in the ice in the
bay and will be unable TO get out till the
tide turns this afternoon, carrying the ice
toward the Narrows, then many Of them are
likely to be smashed and driven ashore.
Flushing Bay is frozen over out to the
East River for the first time in many years.
A number of schooners are fast TO ice-foes
upon the Sound, and reports from various
points in the State show a temperature
ranging from below zero near the city to
80 below in Clinton County.
1t was the coldest day known in Central
New Jersey for years, the thermometer fall
ing to zero. The Delaware River is frozen
solid between Lambertville, n. j., and New
Hope, Pa
From Pennsylvania come reports of con-
tinued cold. Passenger trains Of the Down.
ing and Lancaster Railroad stuck in drift
last night for several hours and the passen-
gers suffered severely. The extreme cold
weather is having serious effects in the
vicinity Of HaZelton. Pa, and the work of
coaEshipping was suspended to-day. At
Philadelphia. as far as the eye can see, both
up and down the Delaware River in front
of the city, the river Is packed with ice.
Navigation, SO far as sea-going and coast
wise vessels are concerned, Is at stand
still.
Reports from New England tell of extreme
cold.
At Winston, N. c.. the Thermometer
registered zero to-day, the coolest for fifteen
years.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, Jan. 1.-THE worst
storm known in many years has been raging
for twenty hours past in the mountains
near Ebensburg. Last night the passengers
on the branch train, which was showed In
near Ebensburg, as mentioned in these
dispatches, we're held all night in the open
country and suffered severely. The train
was stalled through the careless work of a
switchman, who ran ii on a siding where 1t
stuck fast.
The storm ragged all night. and with the
Thermometer u degrees below zero it was a
trying time. To-day the engineer. who was
badly frozen. was removed tofhe nearest
farmhouse and is reported in a serious con-
dtion. The train has been abandoned and
and the passengers during the day were
got to the main line.
PTTTsBURG, Jan. 11.-Last night was the
coldest known here for six years. the ther-
mometer registering from to degrees be-
low zero. All the rivers were frozen solid
from bank to bank. Many of the schools
were forced to close on account of the short
age of natural gas.
HURON, S. d., Jan. ia binding snow
storm is in progrsss here. The wind is
blowing forty miles an hour. The ther-
mometer is degrees below zero, and ii is
growing colder The storm is more serious
in the northwestern portion Of the State
ALI lrais.G are from three TO FIVE hours late,
and the telegraphic s. ice is interrupted.
CRIsFIELD, Nd, Jan. 1.-THE Chesa-
peake Bay and all its tributaries are covered
with from twelve to eighteen inches OF ice,
and the oyster industry is at standstIl.
Stock that is almost worthless brings from
81 so to 81 70 bushel. All the packing
houses are closed. The ice embargo is the
heaviest for seventeen years. and 1t is feared
that many dredgers who were frozen In
miles from shore have perished in their
frail boats.
HAMBURG, Jan. II. = Ten steamships
were sighted off Cuxhaven to-day as they
drifted eastward in the midst of enormous
ice-foes. All had steam up. but were ap-
parently helpless. Only the German tank
steamship Paula, Captain Hinch. was recog-
niZed.