The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-02

Storm Severe Ia New York city.
Buildings lneased In Ice-Ssreess I'M
passtble-Many Casualries-Havoe In
Pennsylv2nia Wrecks I'm Boston
Harbor

New York. November 2I.-Sundsy.-
When the people OF New York awoke
this morning they found the blizzard
that ragged when they retired. still ir
progress. The storm. which began with
a soft, sleety snow on Saturday al
noon, increased greatly as the day wore
on, with heavier snow fall. the wind
blowing a gale at midnight There
was a slight abatement OF this wind
this morning. but the snow still fell
and drifted high, and the temperature
dropped rapidly. It looked this morn
ing as though the blizzard would con-
tinue all day, but at 10 o'clock there
was a breaking away an the west, \
brights ming OF the light, and finally
the storm ceased altogether, and the
severest blizzard since the memorable
one OF March. 1855, came TO an end-Tne
wind blew at the rate OF nfty-nine 10
sixty miles an hour during the height
OF the storm.
Snow fell throughout New York
state. The fall in New York city, the
weathe bureau reports, was abou ten
inches, Philadelphia Iii inches. Bos-
ton six inches, Portland, Me, four in
ches, Albany a little over an inch. The
lowest temperatures reported were:
New York City. %; Albany. IS.
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 swirling
and eddying everywhere. Nearly a
cot Of snow had fallen, but in places
it had drifted TO four and five feet. The
popularity of the storm was the en-
crusting of nearly every window, the
sides of buildings. and the trees, and
| r-baD rha storm n1na rod a Nxa 4 Z ha iran
city was transformed into a spectacle
of glistening white, of surprising beau
ty. Broadway and the great thorough
fares of the city presented a fantas-
tic appearance.
In the creates artery Of business ac-
tivity of the 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
renches that had been dug by the
street railroads for the transforming
of the motive power from cable to cleo
tricity. This caused many an unfortu-
nate person to suddenly disappear
from view as he essayed a passage
across a street.
Today the cable roads We're mora
fortunate than the trolly lines. Nearly
every underground trolley line in the
city was imperative all day. owing to
the filling up Of the slot by freezing
sleet and the filling of the conduit with
snow and frozen sleet.
Hundreds of men were employed by
the trolley companies to put them in
condition, but their efforts were flu
| tile.
Suburban traffic was blocked for
several hours in the morning, and af-
ter that trains ran at long in
tervals. All rains were delayed. 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 train from Boston, due at 6 a. m.,
had not been heard from, nor had the
mails been received up to 9 o'clock to-
night. The incoming mails from other
parts, he said, were from two hours
TO an unknown number of hours behind
time.
POLICE ARRESTED EVERYBODY.
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
tOXIcatlon. AS a result. the police
courts today were crowded with emf
nently respectable looking persons. who
were let go with a small fine and an
ouiiioillioH ~ get III out OF the snow.
notwithstanding his on
the part of the police there were a
number of casualties, including several
| deaths from exposure. John Martin.
90 years old, a former insurance agent.
was found in the park at Tenth stree.
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. An unknown
woman was found unconscious in a
snOW-drift at Seventy-eighth stree.
and Avenue A. She was removed to
the Presbyterian hospital, where her
condition was said to be serious. An
aged German, Frank Schneider. Of
Dutch Kills, Long Island City. was
lound late Saturday night at Seven
uetn street and Second avenue. He
was lying on a snow bank. almost I'M
conscious, and was transferred to the
bellevue hospital. An unknown man.
discovered in a basement on the Bow
cry, and removed to Hudson street
hospital. 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.
In Jersey City, the body Of Rosanna
Cunningham, AZ years of age. was
found IN the sidewalk in Van Worst
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.
SEVERE IN NEW ENGLAND.
Boston, November 27.-Sunday.-A
record-breaking November blizzard
swept over the greater portion of New
England last night and today, COM
pletely demoraliZing traffic OF every
description, and wellnigh paralyzing
Geographic and telephone communica-
ton, while the northeast gale, coming
on a nigh course of tides, drove the
sea far beyond the usual limits. and
made a mark along shore exceeded
only by the memorable hurricane of
1851.
While the storm was heaviest in the
southeastern part OF New England. the
whole district was affected. and expert
enced a snowfall Of from eight to TWEEN
ty-four inches, and as the center OF thu
disturbance moved down the Maine
coast, that section and the provinces
VIII probably receive a similar taste of
winter weather tonight.