The record-union., 1898-11-28
BLIZZARD IN NEW YORK.
ALL TRAINS DELAYED AND
TRAFFIC oBSTRUCTED.
a Large Number OF Persons Were
Frozen to Death OF Badly
Frozen.

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-When the
people of New York awoke this morn
ing they found the blizzard that ragged
when they retired was still in progress.
The storm, which began with soft,
sleet snow on Saturday at noon, in
creased as the day wore on, with heav-
Ter snow fall, the wind blowing gale
at midnight.
There was a slight abatement of the
wind this morning, but the snow still
fell and drifted badly and the temper.
ature dropped rapidly. 1t looked this
morning as though 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 memor-
able one of March, 1888, came 10 an
end. The wind blew at the rate of
sixty miles an hour during the hight of
the storm. Snow fell throughout New
York State. The fall in New York City,
the Weather Bureau reports, was about
10 inches, Philadelphia 8 inches, Bos-
ton 6 inches, Portland (Me.) 4 inches,
Albany a little over an inch.
The lowest temperatures reported
were: New York %, Albany IS.
With the Frightening of the skies in
this city this morning came an increase
in the velocity in the wind, and loose
dry snow was sent swirling and eddy
ing everywhere. Nearly a foot of snow
had fallen, but in places it had drifted
TO four or five feet. The popularity of
the storm was the encrusting of nearly
every window and the sides of build
ings, and when the storm cleared away
the great city was transformed into a
spectacle of glistening white of sur
passing beauty Broadway and the
great thoroughfares of the city pre-
sented fantastic appearance. In the
greatest artery of business of the coun-
try there were drifts on the sidewalks
through which the morning wayfarer
travelled to his waist
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 delayed Some that
were due in the early morning hours
had not been heard from all night The
Superintendent of mails in the Postof-
f1ce reported the mail train from Bos-
ton, due at q a. M, had not been heard
from, nor had the mails been received
up to y 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 Sta
ton to-day arrived on time. The ter
rlflc blow of Saturday night did much
damage TO the small shipping in New
York harbor. 1t is reported tonight
that several tugboats belonging to the
Kingston Towing Company, together
With 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. An order was
sent out from police headquarters to
the various precinct commanders to
have arrested all persons found alone
in condition that would raise even
the suspicion of intoxication AS a re-
suit the police courts to-day were
crowded with eminently respectable
looking persons who were let go with
a small fine and an admonition to get
in out Of the snow. Notwithstanding
this precaution on the part of the police
cluding several deaths from exposure.
John Martin, 80 years old, a former
insurance agent, was found in the park
at One Hundred and Eighth street and
Avenue B, and taken to Bellevue Hos
pital Both his legs and hands were
badly frozen. He had lain down on
bench to die, he said. He had had moth
Ing to eat for several days
An unknown woman was found un-
conscious 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
serious
An aged German, Frank Schneider
of Dutchkills. Long Island City, was
found late Saturday night at SEVENTEEN
street and Second avenue. He was Iy-
ing on a snow bank almost unconscious
and was transferred to the Bellevue
Hospital.
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 help
less in the snow early this morning
badly frozen.
In Jersey City the body of Rosanna