New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-07

turned and banked up the ice. river and haroor nav
igaton became difficult and slow
The ferryboat South Brooklyn on her noon trip
from NewYork. got caught In the Ice OH Governor
Island. and for half an hour was unable 10 make
any headway. With the assistance OF the tide she
finally broke through and made her trip in safety.
The ferryboat Susquehanna got into trouble by
the forming OF ice about her rudder and was half
hour getting in good order again All ferry
boats had a hard time OF 1t until the afternoon
and the flood tide came with a milder temperature
While struggling through the heavy field OF Ice
one of the Mcrse Towing Companys tugs. having
in tow a coal barge. got caught in foe. and the
barge. swinging around grounded on the south side
OF Governors Island. After the Morse got her lines
straghte9ed out she succeeded In pulling the barge
off without serious damage.
The barge Oakland. in tow OF the steamer Orion.
came into port covered with ice. The waves had
dashed her and frozen that the accumula-
ton OF ice nearly sunk her She bound from
Newport News to Boston. but was glad to set Into
that port for safety from the wintry
The Justin and other steamers which had come In
the day before lay their piers yesterday with the
ice which had formed them the UNI
melted and making them look like ships from
Nova Zembla. There only foreign arrival
at Quarantine between sunrise and sunset This
was the little Jamaica fr1Iitcr Argonaut, which
crossed the bar at a. IN. She was badly iced
up and sope fears were expressed lest her cargo
OF bananas had been touched by the frost. Cap
vain McCivray said ne ran into the cold weather
and northwest gales just south OF Hatteras. There
is large list steamers due. including the White
Star flyer Teutonlc. and 1t is evident that the
heavy weather is causing the delay. There was
much ice in the Narrows and the Lower Bay and
the tugs having the garbage scows in tow had
n hard time OF It, The Mutual with Two
bumpers I'm tow went to sea Tuesday night but
returned yesterday morning. the garbage having
frozen so hard that IL was impossible to dump IT,
Other tugs had equally hard experiences. At 4;+S
D. M the Old Dominion Company's steamer Guy
antotte passed UP with only thin line OF black
palnt showing near the water-ne. the upper part
OF her sides being coated with white Ice
The record OF sunstrokes which are reported at
the close OF a hot day in summer Is something wnich
avery one expects TO read In the papers the next
day but a record Of people Frustrated from cold
in the streets of New-York Is rather an unusual
ching n read There was such record, however.
turned in by the police yesterday. Edward Bar
stowe thirty years old, Of Rutherford n: J.,
was found In front OF NO z.t Hreenwicn,st a. so
cold His ears hands and feet were severely FROST
hilton and the Church-st. station policeman who
hin ha g s f Hospa Another se ase
tent suffering from frost bite had been received
into the hospital half an hour before. He was
Patrick King Of No loS Hanson lace, brookyn: i:
had discovered him lying on a pile Of lumber near
the tbe ferry Slip He had evidently been drinking.
and had fallen over the lumber, as he had deep
scalp wound his head. His hands and feet were
severely frost-hitten and he remained In the hos
Shortly before midnight last night an unknown
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