The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-27
STREETCAR TRAFFIC BLOCKED
FIERCE GALES ALSO RETARD
SHIPPING ON ATLANTIC.
New York, Boston and Philadelphia
Among the Cities Suffer
ing From Biz
card.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK. Nov. 26.-The first Sc
we're snowstorm of the winter struck
New York and vicinity early this after
noon and increased in violence until
tonight, when it assumed almost the
proportions of a blizzard. Forty miles
an hour is the rate the wind blew
through the city and on Long Island
coast it reached a velocity Of sixty
miles an hour At about IL o'clock
tonight the snow had fallen to depth
of several inches, and in some places
hld drifted as high as five feet. The
temperature had gradually fallen I'm
til at midnight it was 20 degrees.
All of the trolley cars running to the
suburbs have been forced to discon-
tinue service and the surface lines in
Manhattan and Brooklyn boroughs
have Jared almost as badly, being
forced to abandon their schedules.
All of the horse car lines are block
ed. The elevated roads have discon-
tinued their regular schedule and are
beginning to have trouble. The rail
road lines out of the city have not yet
been forced to abandon their regular
schedules, but the prospect is that they
will have to do so before morning.
The only vessels to leave New York
City We're seven steamers, and only one
of these, a freighter, was for Europe.
The rest were all bound to Southern
ports on the coast and the West Indies
The only Atlantic passenger liners to
leave their Wharves were the Cunarder
Lucania and the Atlantic transport
steamer ManitOu, both of which
dropped anchor off Staten Island,
where they remain. After the storm set
in at noon only three steamers arrived
in port, two from the West Indies and
oil mi
folk The British freight steamer
Leitrim, from London, was sighted
passing Fire Island shortly after 2
o'clock this afternoon, bound here, but
was not reported again. a number of
schooners ran in past Sandy Hook
during the afternoon for refuge in the
lower bay. A number of steamers are
due, among them being the French
liner La TOuraine. No word can be
obtained from Sandy Hook tonight as
to what may be seen In the offiing, if
anything, as shortly after o'clock to-
night the wires went down and cut off
communication.
BOSTON, Nov. 26.-Unless the north
east snoWstOrm, which began in this
city last night and which is general
throughout the State and Southern
New England, subsidies before morning,
it seems it will be record breaker for
November. Near the coast the temper
azure - just dDoNe 1IeeZiIS. ne SHOW
is damp and sticky, but in the interior
the. flakes are finer and the snow is
drifting badly.
PHILADELPHIA Nov. 26.-Over six
inches of snow fell here during the past
twelve hours up to midnight tonight
at which time the storm showed signs
of abatement. Reports from the in
terror of the State are to the effect that
snow fell heavily in all sections.
LEXINGTON, KY, Nov. 26.-The
thermometer has been dropping here
since o'clock this morning and prom
. ises to go to zero tonight The worst
blizzard known in years ragged here this
morning. 1t is almost unprecedented
weather for this time Of the year..