The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28
WINTER ON IN FULL SWING
The Whole North Swept by a Heavy
Snow Storm.

A High Sea In the Upper and Lower
New York Bay With High Tide on
Staten Island-Telsgrsph Wires Pros
trated in Every Direotion-Raiiroads
and Street Car Lines BIookaded by
Snow in Many Cities and states-The
Streets Of Washington Almost I'm
passable.
Washington. Dec. 27.-Last nights storm
prevailed with varying intensity over the
entire country east Of the Rocky Noun
tains. 1t was most severe along the North
Atlantic coast, and the region OF the great
lakes. From eighteen inches to two feet
of snow is reported from Northern Penn
sylvania and Central and Northern New
York
At York, Pa, the storm is described as
a blizzard. and one man was found frozen
to death this morning.
At Lock Haven, Pa, with twenty inches
Of snow on level, drifts OF four to seven
feet are found. and travel OF all kinds is
practically suspended.
At Hazleton, Pa, freight traffic on the
railroads has been abandoned and pas
senger trains are much delayed. All the
collleries have suspended. throwing 10000
men out.
A passenger train on the Lehigh Valley
road this morning ran into a snow bank
at Penn Haven Junction, derailing the
train and wrecking the engine.
Auburn. N. Y. reports several passenger
trains stalled in snow drifts and the pas
sengers fed by farmers until released. The
country highways are lmpassable.
Oswego and Watertown, N. Y. report
the storm a blizzard with the wind at 50
miles an hour. 20 inches Of snow on a level
is practically suspended.
Portland. Me-. reports a gale with snow
and hail. and no vessels arriving or de-
parting.
At Boston six inches Of snow fell and
the wind blew 50 miles, but with the
temperature scarcely above freezing and
the snow turning to rain.
In Montreal the street car tracks arc
blocked and traffic suspended.
Along the eastern part of New Jersey,
about six inches of snow fell. mixed with
rain, and greatly impeded travel
Nearly every town along the Jersey
coast reports vessels in distress along the
shore.
At Cape May the schooner Rodman r.
Nickerson is ashore. Seven Of the crew
were rescued by the life savers and the
cook was drowned.
At Atlantic city nearly all the bathing
houses were destroyed and much other
| damage done.
At Far Rockaway an unknown bark is
ashore with the life savers unable TO
| reach her.
! North Adams Mass, Dec. 27.-Forty-five
feet of the 105 foot chimney OF the Briggs
| vile wooden mill was blown down this
morning just before O'Clock. The bricks
| crashed through the roof Of the boiler
! house, striking and killing John A. Adams,
| the fireman, who was working about the
| boiler. When found he was terribly
scalded but death was probably instan-
/ taneous.
Sioux City, Ia, Dec. 27.-Intense cold
has prevailed here since yesterday morn
! ing, the mercury dropping from so degrees
above to u degrees below zero.
St. Paul, Mimi, Dec. 27.--This was the
| coolest day of the winter in Minnesota,
| the temperature ranging from IA degrees
| below zero at a. m. to 4 degrees below
zero at 9 p. m. Out in the state the range
] Was lIOll I'd hGSitcS DGlOW at 1Iailu nap
| ids to 20 degrees below at Saltwater,
where it is moderating fast.
Storm signals were ordered dis
| played on the Atlantic coast from Jack
sonville to East Port, ana at Chicagc Mil
| waukee, Grand Haven, Manistee and I1ud-
| ington. The storm which developed in the
! Gulf states, has moved rapidly northeast
ward along the Atlantic coast with in
| creasing energy. 1t has been at
tended by snow in New England and the
| Middle states, and by rain or snow in the
| Middle Atlantic and Gulf states. High
northeasterly gales have occurred on the
coast north of Hatteras, shifting to high
northwesterly winds south Of Atlantic
! City.
| The streets of Washington are almost
/ impossible to-day. No such severe tenn
pestuous weather has been known here
| for many years. The heavy snow fall of
! yesterday afternoon was followed by
! cold rain and then by biting winds and
keen frost, and consequently the streets
and sidewalks are laid off in ridges of
| corrugated ice, which render locomotion
| extremely difficult. Slight hurries of snow
prevailed during this morning, but not
| enough to smooth over the rock ribbed
surface of the streets. OF 81 Western I'm
ion wires extending from Washington to
New York, only two were in fair working
! order this morning at 10 o'clock.
New York, Dec. 27.-The severe storm
which overlook this city early last even
ing and continued until this afternoon
will leave it's marks for many days to
come. From the Battery to the Harlem
river the avenues of traffic were heavily
covered with snow, followed by a steady
downpour of rain, the whole resulting in
miniature rivers and lakes, in wading
through which .goloshes were Of little or
no protection.
When the sun, which throughout the
day only scarcely appeared, went down,
the mercury followed suit, falling rapid
". The lakes and rivulets became coat
ed with ice and the slush of the pave
ment gave place to hard, compact masses
of SNOW, which made difficult the work
of cleaning the streets. The cable cars,
despite frequent use of snow ploughs,
were often stalled and on all horse car
lines the teams were doubled Especially
along South and West streets was the
effect of the storm most apparent. The
streets leading to the various freight de-
pots were jammed with numberless carts
ana trucks The shipment of freight was
in consequence heavily delayed The tenn
perature at midnight was IA degrees and
the wind was blowing from the northwest