The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-01-28
DEATH IN IT.
Aged Man Expires
in the Snow.
Slater Was on His WAY
to Work WhenEndCam
ExertiOn Induced an Attack
of Heart Failure.
Storm the Heaviest Experienced
During the Winter.
Storm the Heaviest Experienced
During the Winter.
Street Car and Steam Traffic Inter
rupted and Steamers Delayed.

There was death in the storm this
morning and the victim was Robert
| Slater, so years old who has been an en-
| pIoye at the Gorhsm works for the past
| 10 years.
The old man left his home on the
Auburn Plateau, near Fepner's Hotel, in
company with his daug hter and begsn
hard walk through the heavy and deep
snow. The old mans strength was Sc
verely taxed and it was with great effort
he reached the corner of Park avenue and
Pontiac street to take q Car for the Cor
ham works. At this point without the
least warning the old man fell upon the
street car tracks dead. His terrified
daughter called for assistance but her
father was beyond help. The exertion OF
that walk through the snow proved too
much for the aged man and his heart
failed. The remains were viewed by the
medical examiner and then they were
taken to the home which father and
daughter had left so happily but q few
minutes before.
This Is the only serious result of the
heavy snow fall thus far reported. The
street car service is about the same as
parslyzed epd nearly ell sorts of street
traffic is at q standstill. Trains are de-
lsyed on all the roads from one to three
hours an d the harbor shows no signs of
life. Nothing can be done in the blanket
OF snow enveloping earth and ar.
The storm began in an insinuating
way and the weatherwise predicted
record breaker. They have the satisfac-
tion Of being right today. Tiny specss
OF snow began falling at S:15 o'clock last
night. Those persons having due regard
for health began to find fault with them
selves for veuturing out without over
shoes, but the snow did not begin to show
it's real disposition until 10 O'clock when
the ground had thin coating of white.
After this hour the weather began demon
strsting what 1t could do without making
much noise. Silently the specks tum-
bled over each other until day break and
then the wind began to make merry with
the hurrying flakes. The temperature
began falling and the snow began to
melt.
1t settled with determi nation to stay
put consequently there has been very little
drifting in exposed places. The people
obliged to be out of doors early in the
morning waoed through six inches of
snow. six-tenths of an inch of which
was water at z O'Clock. Those who faced
the storm an hour later had another inch
OF thickness to contend with, and so on
all the morning hours. AT IL O'Clock
the ground was topped with IL inches
and the snow fakes were being driven
about with a wind travelling %: miles an
hour. At noon the temperature was "a
and .he snow was piling up energetically.
Shortly after the noon hour the snow
stopped a little but the wind kept up its
speed and out door work and travelling
was disagreeable. 1t was the record
storm of the season.
The Sound steamers had O rough time. |
The Nashua ought to have arrived here at |
q O'Clock, but she was not in sight until |
/ O'Clock. She ives several hours at |
anchor OF LAIRD Point. She made her |
wharf ell right at ! 80 o'clock. Steamer |
General simmons OF the Baltimore line, |
showed up SIX hours late aud got to her \
wharf at / 80 o'clock. The captains re-
ported that IL was a fearful night. The |
steamer Pilgrim OF the Fall River line,
inward bound, is at anchor at Beaver
Tail,it being safer TO be there than nearer
Fall River. The tugs of the Providence
low Boat Company are ell tied up at
{ tneir docks snd everything along the river
front seems to be snug.
Edward G. Field OF the Municipal Court
had quite storm experience this incoming,
aud be hardly knows now whether Il 10
today or tomorrow. He left his home at
80 o'clock and waited for some consider
a BILE time for q street car at the corner of |
Park street aud Beacon avenue. No car
came that way but one bound In the
other direction showed up ana being OF
the opinion that the longest way round
was the shortest way TO court in q big
snow storm, he took the outward bound
car. Two hours after he was at the car
harm or Thurber's avenue. Here he ives
Informed that no cars were going down
street. This didn's phsss him for he went
10 q neigb boring emporium ana equipped