The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-28

New York, Nov. 27.-When the people
of New York awoke this morning, they
found the blizzard that ragged when
they retired was still in progress. The
storm, which began with a soft, sleet
snow on Saturday at noon. increased
greatly as the day wore on, with
heavier snowfall. the wind blowing
gale at midnight. ,
There was a slight abatement Of the |
wind this morning, but the snow stu |
fell and drifted badly. and the temper |
ature dropped rapidly. 1t looked TINS /
morning as though the blizzard would |
continue ali day, but at TO o CLOCK there /
was q breaking-away IN the west ana I
finally the storm ceased altogether, and /
1.-THE severest blizzard since the memor- |
able blizzard Of March, 1855, came to !
an end.
The wind blew at the rate of fifty !
nine TO sixty miles an hour during the
height Of the storm. Snow fell through |
ont New York state. The fall in New
York City, the weather bureau reports, !
was about ten inches; Philadelphia,
nine inches; Boston, six inches; Port
land, Me-, four inches; Albany, little
over an inch.
The lowest temperatures reported
We're: New York City, Is; Albany, IL.
With the Frightening of the skies in
this city this morning came an in
crease in the velocity of the wind. and
the loose, dry snow was sent whirling
and eddying everywhere. Nearly foot
of snow had fallen, but in places 1t
had drifted to four or five feet. The
popularity of the storm was the en-
crusting of nearly every window and
the sides of buildings, and when the
storm cleared away the great city was
transformed into a spectacle of glisten-
ing white, of surprising beauty. Broad
V an ThnrOI
city presented a fantastic appearance.
In the greatest artery of business ac-
tivity of the country there were drifts
on the sidewalks through which the
early-morning wayfarer ploughed 10
his waist. On some of the streets great
drifts formed barriers across them, and
in many instances filled up the trenches
that had been dug by the street rail-
roads for the Transforming of the mo-
tive power from cable to electricity.
CLEARING THE STREETS.
AS soon as there were signs of abate-
ment in the fall of the snow, the street
cleaning department went to work, but
little progress was made. Suburban
traffic was blocked for several hours IN
the morning, and after that trains ran
at long intervals. All trains were de-
layed. Some that were due in the early
& morning hours had not been heard
&from at night. The superintendent Of
mails in the general postofice reported
the mail train from Boston, due at
a. m, had not been heard from, nor
had the mails been received up to 9
o'clock tonight The incoming mails
from other parts he said, were from
two hours to an unknown number of
hours behind time. Few trains due at
the Grand Central station today ar
rived on time.
The terrific blow of Saturday night
did much damage tc the small shipping
in New York haTbor. 1t is reported to-
night that several tug-boats belonging
TO the Kingston Towing company, to-
gether with a large number of canal
boats, We're sunk up the river by the
force of the gale. The shores of the
Hudson are Uttered with wreckage.
PROTECTION FOR DRUNKs.
An order was sent out from police
headquarters to the various precinct
commanders to have arrested all per
Sons found alone in a condition that
would raise even the suspicion of in
tOXication. As a result, the police courts
today were crowded with eminently re-
spectacle looking persons, who were
let go with a small fine and an admo-
milton to get in out of the snow. Not
withstanding this .precaution on the
part of the police, there We're a num-
ber of casualties, including several
deaths from exposure. John Martin,
55 years old, a former insurance agent,
was found in the park at One Hundred
and Eighth street and avenue B, and
taken to Bellevue hospital Both his
legs and hands We're badly frozen. He
had lain down on a bench TO die, he
said. He had had nothing to eat for
several days.
N-An unknown woman was found un-
fG0nscious in a snow drift at Seventy
&.eighth street and avenue A. She was
removed to the Presbyterian hospital,
where her condition was said TO be ser
ious.
An aged German, Frank Schneider of
Dutchkills. Long Island City, was found
late Saturday night at Seventeen street
and Second avenue. He was lying on
a snow-bank, almost unconscious, and
was transferred to the Bellevue hos
0ital.
An unknown woman, discovered in a
basement on the Bowery, was removed
to Hudson street hospital, and died
there from alcoholism and exposure.
A policeman rescued Dennis Quinn a
letter-carrier who had fallen HELPLESS
in the snow early this morning, badly
frozen.
Ia Jersey City the body of Rosanna
Cunningham, AZ years Of age, was
found on the sidewalk on VanVorest
street early this morning. Her skull
was fractured. The body was almost
covered with snow. 1t is believed she
received her injuries from a. fall.
At a. N. policeman found Charles
Schopp unconscious in the snow in
Jersey City. Before he could be car
ried into house he died. Schopp mad
started for q butcher shop, where he
was employed, and his death is at
tributed TO exposure and exhaustion
from his struggle through the binding
storm
George Beck, 42 years of age, and
William Allen were also found in Jer-
sey City by the police badly frozen.
The former had been drinking. He was
unconscious and is likely to die.
, John Bohan, while on a street car,
became benumbed by the cold at Ave
nue. and Third street, and fell from
y the platform of the car. He laid in the
lsnow for a considerable time, but was
finally discovered by a passer-by and
sent TO the Bellevue hospital in an
ambulance.
Julius Hcosberg, a homeless man,
who sought shelter in a barn at Sta
pleton, Staten Island, was found frozen
this morning, and died shortly after
wards.
The storm played havoc with the tele-
graph wires along the coast of New
Jersey. The Western Union and other
wires in Long Island are nearly all
down, and beyond Jamaica there is
practically no connection.
Latr +nni0ht the wires were getting