The record-union., 1896-12-17
STORMS IN THE EAST.
Heavy Snowfall, Accompanied by
Gales, in Several States.

NEW YORK, Dec. 16-The snow
storm which began yesterday afternoon
Still. continues.
Sandy Hook reports the wind blowing
from northnortheast at forty miles an
hour, and the weather very thick off
shore.
The telephone line connecting Sandy
Hook with the life saving stations on
the Jersey coast is down, preventing re-
ports from the life savers.
Telegraphic reports from Long
Branch and Asbury Park say nothing
has been seen of the schooner Grace K.
Green, which was abandoned yesterday
after the rescue of her crew by the
steamer Yorktown.
The thick atmosphere caused by the
snowstorm interferes materially with
river and hal'bor navigation.
Only two steamsrs reached quarantine
this morning. the Starlight from Swan
sea and the Asloun from China ports.
No vessels left port this morning.
Reports from Connecticut and Massa
chusetts and the interior of New York
show that the storm is Of great range.
Snow has fallen to a depth of three to
eight inches The temperature is well
down toward the zero mark.
Throughout New Jersey the storm
began at about $50 last night and at
noon to-day was raging in full force,
the wind being very heavy. The crews
of the life saving stations were on duty
all night, and found considerable trou
bic in patroling the beach, owing to the
fx.x g I.
mills an hour at times. At Seabright,
Atlantic City, Cape May, Long Branch,
Asbury Park, and all the towns along
the coast it was reported that the storm
was the worst in several years. AT Egg
Harbor City there were snow drifts
four feet high this morning, and the
meadows We're flooded by the high tide.
The storm in New York and vicinity is
said by some to be the most serious
since the famous blizzard of March 10,
1888. BY noon eight inches of snow had
fallen, and at o'clock snow was still
falling, with no signs of abatement. The
velocity of the wind at that hour reg
| fstered. according to the local forecast
er, SO miles an hour, and the tempera-
ture "A degrees. However, the storm
down by the bay subsided by 3 o'clock,
and some of the storm bound ships be-
gan to move. Among those passing
outward We're the Majestic for Liver
pool, Noordland for Antwerp. st. Louis
for Southampton, California for Ham
burg, and number of coasters.
Three deaths due directly or indi-
rectly to the storm have been reported.
They are: Louis Dissler, tailor, found
frozen to death in a hallway in Pell
street; James Culley, an elevated rail-
way employe, found dead on the track
Moriarto Zanano, a laborer, struck by
a Pennsylvania Railroad train while
working on the track near Waverly, N.
J.; William BeckIey. found unconscious
| in u snowdrift in Jersey City, SO badly
frozen that he cannot recover; George
w. Feres, picked up In this city uncon-
scious from cold, he cannot survive.
The same train that killed Zanano fa-
tally injured Giuseppe Callioto, a fell
| low-laborer.
~ IN PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16. - The
storm shows no signs of abating. The
suburban trolley lines, with one or two
exceptions, are snowbound. Snow to
the depth of six inches has fallen.
AT BOSTON.
| BOSTON, Dec. ia severe storm
has been raging here since shortly be-
fore midday. The wind from the north
is blowing thirty-seve miles an hour.
The temperature is eighteen degrees
| below zero
STORM IN NEW JERSEY.
| ATLANTIC CITY On. j., Dec. 49,
A fifty-mile gale has been blowing
since 3 o'clock yesterday. The old Ca
sino building is blown down. Several
carpenters employed on the building at
| the time of the collapse miraculously
escaped.