New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-09


showed there at all, while on the other side were
great banks of snow. At Twenty-third-st. ana
Sixth-ave, as was the case at the time or the
bzza rd it was almost impossible to stand beside
the Masonic Temple. and the place was deserted
cxceptNby those who were obliged to take the
trains on the elevated roads.
Lawyers whose cases had to go over because
witnesses were delayed or nad telegraphed their
inability to get downtown sat in the high office
buildings and looked out upon the wlnd-whpped
surface Of the harbor. with its jostling ice foes
and ferryboats. down into the empty streets,
blurred with the flying snow. Half Of those who
did get downtown appeared without the Gus
tomary shining morning face. for the reason that
the waterpipes at home were frozen. They had
tested Florence Nghtingae's statement that
neat person can wash in pint OF water. ana
found It false. kilograms and letters were de-
layed for hours and the de livery OF goods by
express or private truck was almost an impossi-
bty
GREAT SUFFERING CAUSED.
The resultant suffering of man and beast was
great No amount of research could collect all
the statistics Of death and disease 1olIo"ihs
mediately or immed ately upon exposure to the
biting cold The police and hospital records sho"
4 score of cases Of extreme suffering and mar
!
house on tie East Side caught fire early In the
morning and the frightened inmates had TO
climb down iron fre-escapes that were so cold
that the hare flesh adhered to the frosty surface
Of the metal When safe on the ground they
stood about the street In scarty night-ciothihs
till taken in b. their awakening heishpo'S.
Many fires resulted by the breaking uowh Vi
over-drven heating apparatus, or from the iieeN-
ing Of water pipes, which cut OH the supply ~
boilers and resulted in explosions. one over
worked heater on the pay car or the Ne"-ioiN
Central road blew up as the car stood III 'he
ward opposite Forty-seventh-st The pay cierN
had his face singed, and the dwellers III roi'!
seventh-st were awakened by a shower Oh cast
iron fragments dropping through their TOOLS
The big Fall River steamer Pilgrim was sup
posed to be drifting about Long Island Souhd
all day. but she put into Newport NO
ocean steamer came in at Sandy Hook, nor Will
there he any probably while the wind continues
a. seventy miles an hour and the flying snow
renders vision impossible.
VICTIMS OF THE STORMS FURY.
t,o,oxinp are some Of the sufferers from the
storm
No Is West Ffteenthsi found in front of No No
iS5 West Twenty ninth st. at 9cocf faken ss TO
the New-York Hospital
LEWIS Robert. bookkeeper twentyioSnr yearSs anS
old OF No. go Bo~ssy found at ba i, gers % Of
both hands frozen: sent 70 Gouverneur Hospital
,.rJ.oLA. stephen. thir,y-one wears Old OF 20.
S3 East Twenty-first-st.. found In front o. 40
AK East Twpnty-first-st. at a. M SUR '"e
from ''@ Exposure: removed to Bellevue Hospital
GARRISON christopher, waiter ,orty -fonr @ yea,s ~,
old Of No 23l East and
broadway. shortly after a m'' win MS ha"'S
and feet frozen
zALRO Antonio. aged twenty nnss ana 90nn wander
drcco aged twenty-eght two homeless xSosurn at
ers :ound slnerins greatly from eSPosufs m taken
Thirty-nntn-st. and ThirdaNe'' Al d. me- ~
| to Bellevue Hospital
KING Nathan W.. policeman, of the West Thirty,
scventhst. station fell at Thirty ana ana
rhTnsGay o nSRt SRcoseVe He Hospital
HARRIS. Hattie. compositor. twenty-five years
Old OF No 10 South Second-st Bro9Ksn R nt ,o1'ty ~
STa - t,as. Fourteenth-st. yesterday morning;
| taken to 81. Vincent's Hospital.
,oa Sacond.,t was found wandering around In
| tho storm shortly after midnight actns u1i,b ~
demcrtcd manner He was taken 70 the rial- tI
Siia: siii :'"''0'' anu HUN .uon,x
ras Tound Thursday night lying unconscious IN
Tho snow IN East Thlrty-iirst-st she was sun
e" the staii6n.house o Vigorous treatment was re re-
gured restore the girl to oGr Yesterday
sent her to the Island tor two months lo' III
toxication. ,.ou.
| HUGHES. Frank. a iaboret. wents t, ,' ~ Harlem
! Hospital from his home yesterday morning suiie'-
| Ing from frozen feet 10,
Frstave fe at Madisonaye and
St yesterday, and sustained a p sca,p m" onh vsnt
was attended by an ambulance sufseo" anu "s.''
! home -
PEABODY. Lawrence r.. of No, 20. West Forty
siXth.st succumbed to the cold on the twenty
! third.st station of the SXth-ave. elevated cary
| yesterday. and was taken to the New-iorA iios-
,,r.Dpuv William. tuenty-nlne years o:d. of No.
| Ilg West-st was taken to Hudson Stree, hos JOS,
Fl1ai Frozen. IN '"' '''''' ,.,
HAYES. Thomas of No. % watts-st.. was found found
At Sxcen5h; nrsi @h aRf Ssnis and nose frozen
! w,rI,Cr william of No 2lS West Seventeenth
", VAS found AT Twenty-ninth-st and SiXth-ave.
| unconscious from cola 49,,
| cpTtc charles Of No l69 Bleecker-st. was found
AZ Twen,y-second-st and Ni1thave badly frozen.
TIERNEY Bridget homeless oman h SI was ioand and
! at Broome and Essex sts.' with her hahuS anu
feet frozen. .,,s
HALL. Nelson. of No Il cornea,st had his n hanbs S.
and ears frozen while shoveiihs sno" III '"'
lakewood. John p. OF No IS West Thrty,,hf,h; ,tl;
St. bookkecper. forty-'w9 y'a,s ira,Swav p%, and
Thirty y-afth-st. lie was removed to the New orK
Uosplai where he was with difficuity revived
| uTnrRRANDT. Frank. thrty-seven years OF age.
IA nasterer by trade. who lives at No iSS East
Eighty -fourth-st. was found at Eighty seventns.;
an1 Fast End-ave. early last evening IN a stupH
condition He taken to the East Eisft Eishty-
eghths station and from tnsre nISd 70 n ,h1 hob ears
were badly frozen.
| There was just one compensation Tor all the
suffering and discomfort Of the day. and that was
that the chronic grumbler who is always COM
menting on the dcgeneracy of modern times ana
modern winters will be estopped hereafter from
airing his views upon this point.
The Weather Bureau last night predicted from
the Washington dispatches which they mad re-
ceyed that it would be Gear and slightly warmer
to-day.
THE ELEVATED ROAD SERVICE
GREAT DELAYS IN GETTING THE 'ho"D'
DOWNTOWN IN THE MoRNiNG-TRAlNs
FEW AND IRREGULAR
The officers of the Manhattan Elevated nai
=, ......,.,. ,hat there was delay on tle