The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-28
Long List of Victims I'm New York and
Loss OF Life Along the Coast
May BE Heavy.
LIKE DAKOTA WINTERS TALE
STORY OF BLOCKED TRAFFIC AND
SUFFERING In BIG CITIES.
A Dozen Barges and SchOOners
Many Lives Lost-TraiDs stopped.

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, seety snow on
Saturday at noon, increased greatly as the
day wore on, with heavier snowfall, the
wind blowing a gale at midnight. There
was a slight abatement of the wind this
morning, but the snow still fell and drifted
high and the temperature dropped rapidly.
1t looked this morning as if the blizzard
would continue all day, but at 10 o'clock
there was a breaking away in the west,
and finally the storm ceased altogether, and
the severest blizzard since the memorable
one of March, 1858, came to an end. The
wind blew at the rate or fifty-nine to sixty
miles an hour during the height Of the
storm.
Snow fell throughout New York State.
The fall in New York city, the weather
bureau reports, was about ten inches in
Philadelphia, nine inches; Boston, six
inches; Portland, Me-. four inches; Albany,
a little over an inch. The lowest tempera-
lures reported were: New York city, 20;
Albany, is.
With the frightening of the skies in this
city this morning came an increase in the
velocity of the wind, and the loose, dry
snow was sent swirling and eddying every
where. Nearly foot of snow had fallen,
but in places it had drifted to four and
fve-feet. The popularity Of the storm was
the encrusting OF nearly every window, the
sides of buildings and the trees, and when
the storm cleared away the great city was
transformed into a spectacle of glistening
white, of SURPRISING beauty. Broadway and
the great thoroughfares of the city pre-
sented a fantastic appearance. In the
greatest artery of business activity of tho
country there were drifts on the sidewalks
through which the early morning wayfarer
plowed to his waist. In 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 railroads
for the transforming of the motive power
from cable to electricity. AS soon as there
were signs of abatement in the fall of snow
the street-cleaning department went to
work, but little progress was made.
ALI. TRAFFIC BLOCKED.
Suburban traffic was blocked for several
hours in the morning, and afternoon 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 postoffice reported that the mail
trains from Boston due at a. m. had not
been heard from nor had the mails been re-
ceived up to 0 o'clock tonight The incom-
ing 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 to-day arrived on
time
The terrific blow Of Saturday night did
much damage to the small shipping in New
York harbor. 1t is reported tonight that
several tug boats belonging to the Kingston
Towing Company, together with large
number Of canal boats. were sunk up the
river by the force of the gale. The shores
of the Hudson are Uttered with wreckage.
The large fleet Of outward-bound vessels,
which were obliged to anchor in the upper
bay yesterday afternoon, owing to the pre-
vailing heavy snowstorm, got under way
this forenoon and early afternoon and pro-
ceeded to sea- Business at the quarantine
boarding station was at a standstill. The
only vessels to reach port up to p. m. were
the Mallory line steamer Comal, from Cal
weston; the Leitrim, from London, and the
Old Dominion liner Jamestown. The French
liner La Touraine, from Havre, anchored
outside the bar at 5:55 p. m. Among the
steamers due are the Maasdam, from Rot
terdam; the Francisco, from Hull, and the
Thingvala, from Christiansand.
An order was sent out from police head
quarters to the various precinct command
ers to have arrested all persons found alone
in condition that would raise even the sus-
picion of intoxication. AS a result, the po-
lice courts to-day were crowded with emi-
nently respectable looking persons, who
were let go with a small fine and an adj
monition to get in out of the snow. Not
withstanding this admonition on the part of
the police, there were a number of casual
ties. including several deaths from expos
ure John Martin fifty-five years old,
former insurance agent, was found in the
park at Tenth street and Avenue B. and
taken to Bellevue Hospital. Both his legs
and hands were badly frozen. He had lain
down on a bench to die, he said He had
had nothing TO eat for several days.
DYING IN THE SNOW.
An unknown woman was found uncon-
scious in a snowdrift at Seventy-eighth
street and Avenue A. She was removed to
the Presbyterian Hospital, where her con-
dition was said to be serious.
An aged German, Frank Schneider. OF
Dutch Kills, 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 trans
ferrcd to the Bellevue Hospital.
An unknown man, discovered in a base
ment on the Bowery. was removed to Hud
son-street Hospital, and died there from al
coholism ard exposure
A policeman rescued Dennis Quinn a let
ter carrier, who had fallen helpless in the
snow early this morning, badly frozen.
In Jersey City the body of Rosanna Cum
ningham forty-two years of age, was found