The morning call., 1894-12-28
BLOCKED BY SNOW
Traffic Very Seriously
Impeded.
SEVERE EASTERN STORMS.
Damage Is Done by the Raging
Billiards.
EXTREMELY COLD WEATHER.
Apprehension Caused Over Floods
That Will Follow the Melting
of the Snow.
EXTREMELY COLD WEATHER.

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-News from Bos-
ton is that travel is impeded by the
storm, streetcar travel being much de-
layed. Railroad trains are much behind
time. In South Boston the wind carried
away the roof of the First Baptist Church
this morning. and blew down the big
chimney of the Dawson Safe and Iron
Works. but only slight damage by the
gale is reported in other sections.
New Haven reports the harbor full of
storm-bound craft.
Hartford reports traffic badly delayed.
From points throughout New England
there is news of delayed travel and i'm
peded rraffic, but no serious casualties.
In New York State the snowfall is
heavy. and trains are blocked, country
roads impossible and streetcar lines
stopped in the cit les. No accidents are
reported.
There is no direct telegraphic commune
cation between this city and Sandy Hook,
owing to the storm. All messages are re-
ceved by way of Long Branch. At Sandy
Hook the wind is blowing a moderate
gale from the easi-nOrtheast aud the rain
continues. The water along Staten Island
shore Is unusually high, and in many
places the waves made clean breach over
the docks. At Quarantine the waves are
breaking over the stone wall built to pro-
tect The shore. Reports from the interior
Indicate more or less serirus interruption
to railway traffic, Central New York show
ing the most general disturbance.
Lone ISLAND CITY, L. l., Dec. 27.-The
northern shore of Long Island felt the full
force of the storm. The gale blew across
the sound and several wrecks and ground
ings were reported. A number of Isolated
places on the island are cut off from COM
munication on account of the wires being
down. The south side did not suffer so
badly. In the interior the snowfall was
not heavy, rain pre- vailing there to-day.
| A Norwegian bark which was sighted
this morning in distress off Far Rockaway
| was later in the day taken in tow by tug,
| At Eatons Neck the schooner Isetta, CAP
tain Rollins, bound from Bangor, Me-, to
New York. went ashore during the driving
sn owstorm. The crew of six were taken
off by the life-saving crew. The vessel
will be hauled off as soon as possible.
The freighter Tuckahoe, of Providence,
went ashore at Port Washington. east Of
Sands Point lighthouse. but the captain
| and crew were taken off in sa fety. The
vessel was badly strained. but eau be
| pull ed off.
at many other points there Is consid-
erabe damage reported, but nothing so far
of serious nature.
| AMSTERDAM, n. Y, Dec. 27.-The worst
snowstorm since the famous blizzard Of
1883 struck the Mohawk Valley last night,
1t ragged all night and all day to-day with
increasing fury. Snow TO the depth of a
foot has fallen and has been blown by the
wind into drifts from six to ten feet in
depth. TIE New York Central and West
Shore roads have been blocked. No efforts
have been made TO run freight trains, and
they are stalled all along the tracks. Pas
senger trains have been from three toeight
hours late, and two of them were to-day
abandoned on the Mohawk division of the
New York Central The wind is blowing
a gale tonight and the snow is being badly
drifted.
| ATLANTIC CITY. n. j.. Dec 27.-The
coast storm is raging here with no signs of
abating. A forty-mile gale is blowing
from the southwest, piling up the surf
along the ocean 'front.' Meadows are like
a big bay with no sign of land for seven
miles. The railway tracks are submerged,
and the mails are an hour late. Along
| Baltic avenue the water is on a level with
the first floors. Over at Brigantine much
damage is being done. This is by far the
worst storm this year.
ALBANY. N. Y, Dec. 27.-The snow fall
here amounts to IA Inches.
| SARATOGA. Dec. 27.-The Adirondack
region is being swept by blizzard. A
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