The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-12-16
BIG BABY BLIZZARD
A Heavy Snow Storm and
a HoWling Gale Visit
This Vicinity.
ALL TRAFFIC DELAYED



The storm which swept over the city
last might and today reminded one of the
great blizzard of 1883. The wind heaped
the snow in drifts which varied from one
TO six feet in depth, and the. fine cutting
flakes into ones face with force which
was binding.
All day yesterday It looked like a
storm and all the weather wise people
predicted snow, but as the day passed
and not a single fsalsa fali the neonlS
"cie put uoWn as Iaise prophets. Al
ten O'Clock, however, they began to say,
II told Won 30 3, for . st,rn, was 1usl1 ~
der Wa, asa,, sst. :. - " =. 80,
which soon turned to snow, and it has
kepf mn steadiIv ax,a,. si,,,es
VIZ - s ~ s4'lse
they found the ground white with here
and tb.ra ) r,a+cl .,g -
msnt uv wbers p@,e's - iaa - pare EARN or pave
snow, and carrying it off mad dropped If
600; ;,,s.t ,.-,,,s - : Z = = =
&c ssislse = ience or Duiioing. Inose VINO
started to their place of business early in
the tlav exnerie7,caa ,.,r,six71,-atl lssAs
a,,1., SoA' :, aAie u.iii-
curly Inc walks nad not yet been brok-
traverse tba s;aexya d ,,,,,,, x,-,,ial, ~
e"aiA upoii "lAcA Inc
snow mad dPlfted were willing to make
any number Of affadavits that the storm
was fa,. 1.,o,sa 49,, ~. ,,,,.,r., seos. a.
o-eo e'lan eiis piizzafu q 1908.
AT that time the tFoileys We're running
with no sort Of regularity. In fact. the
only line which ssa,,e,s ! ,, ..4,. 80
saas saa. .'ne Mnlcn seemed 70 work with any
1sSf - - saeisl<ac ton was the hnes run
nlng down Grand street, and even those
did not run on regular schedule time.
There was muct, d,fsseultv M tna %
10 SNA'S oii eiie ( q
~ atAS q e.ue a! ana court House line, and
. ca,,y+ une eills y was haif hour before
The Hohossen ~ al = passen tne Junction. q
horses and Il nansase fo kear up On sne
bat blsti,ce ol rsguiarity. The sweepers of
roav;ng we're out early anu kept
fnfarv3is En sIttous t1s =; iines At lrequent
ille,l; iili.eryafs- Even fnis did not succeed in
~ ateepins tns tracks clear OF SNOW, and
a. ab, eh5sa asss, al uay tne cars mad consider
The Pennsviyy,ar,ia ~ niah,ns pnas 5cneouie time.
r,,nn;ns ni ee ~; " sne Storm Inc delay m
connan9v,s sraS trn,,hies me me ieast OF tne
south were from ona t nns ,,s ~ Sni lias
quarters of an hour tate and nd airnest
every train was five or far, r,1ins,tss II stls
This the officials expiained Vas due -
the binding nature Of the storm yvE5sch
would not permit the engineers to run
at all times as fast as usual. The com
pany also had considerable trouble in
drilling the trains. At times departing
iidlnS were not IN the sheds when the
time for them to leave arrived, and at
lrequeht intervals every track for in
The snow grst qtecup1sd aa one time
=, it5 siiow urietea thfougn tne openings
~ ~ llie rouA V soi the lralnshed and the
PiatlofIn II tns nprthern half OF the shed
~ = - ss. eoesrea s Win snow a large force
the platforms clear. Almost everyone who
applied to the superintendent was given
work shoyelling snow somewhere in the
vicinity of the station The F,ria road
had I1a 90 - =
The snow storm ali but but naT.,Ivzed IsaI traf-
fic In the Old Fourth District fIsbe troil
ley cars ran on anything but sehednIe
time and the track swesnine ,e,ss,i,,a IS
were constantlv q =
Line through Oakland and E paiisaaa dstat Delt
nues suffered the most. one frin aIone
taking nearly three-auarters Of ar, Tc,sIr
to complete, when it Should have been
done in fifteen minutes.
new York and vicinity are today in the
center OF tAe severest snowstorm of the
winter 1t is accompanied by winds of
great velocity. The storm started in the
lower mississippi Valley last Monday,
switched TO the Atlantic coast over Flor
lda and passed up the coast, increasing in
ses,verlty until early today it reached a
climax. At TWO o'clock this morning the
wind had reached the maximum It was
tnen blowing at the rate of As miles per
nour. BY eight o'clock, however the wind
qad 1sa,1a,l;a aaiien To- q miles an hour BY nine
1allen: The temperature here at eight
O'Clock was 22 degrees. In the next hour
It rose one degree. The barometer in the
Weather " % Bureau early today. registered
~ inches, the lowest reported from eny
or the coast stations, making this ci4y the
center of the storm.
Weather Forecaster Dunn said today
and high winds viii continue all Day,
together toward night Traffic is mate
rally iIp,eaed BY the snowfall but 10