The San Francisco call., 1898-11-28

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 heaY- fer 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 badly and the tempera- ture dropped rapidly. It looked this morning as though the blizzard would continue all day, but at 10 o'clock there was breaking away in the west and finally the storm ceased altogether and the severest blizzard since the memor- able one of March, 1888, 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 fhroughout New York State. The fall in New York city, the Weather Bureau reports, was about ten inches; Phila- delphia, nine inches; Boston, six inches; Portland, Me, four inches; Albany, lit tie over an inch. The lowest tempera- lures reported were: New York city, %; Albany IS.
 " llu the DIISulSIllII5 OA IA4C oEA4Co III this city this morning came an increase in the velocity of the wind and the loose, dry snow was sent sWirling and eddying everywhere. Nearly a foot of snow had fallen, but in places it had drifted to four or five feet. The pecu- liarity of the storm was the encrusting of nearly every window and the sides of buildings, and when the storm cleared away the great city was trans formed into a spectacle of glstening white, of surpassing beauty. Broad way and the great thOTOughfares of the city presented a fantastic appearance. In the greates- artery of business ac JlVity of the country there were drifts on the sidewalks through which the early morning Waytarer pIOWed to 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- ways for the transforming of the mo- tive power from cable to electricity.
 As soon as there was signs of abate- 1nent 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 u tendent of Mails in the general Post office reported the mail train from Bos- ton due at a. nl, had not been heard from nor had the mails been received up to 9 o'clock tonight. The in COmin~ 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 oh time. The terrific blow of Saturday night did much dam o1rat t2 he small ChiUv,jYur In New York harbor.
 It is reported tonight that several tugbOats belonging to the Kingston TOwing Company, together with a 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.
 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 . toXlcation. As result the police courts to-day were crowded with eni- nently respectable looking persons who were let go with small fine and an admonitiOn to get in out of the snow NOtwithstandin~ this precaution on the part of the police th-re were a number of casl--lties, including several deaths from exposure. John Martin. 55 years old, 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 were badly frozen. He had lain down on a E%nCh to die, he said He had nothing 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 ser ious. L- aged German Frank Schnei- der of Dutchkills, Long Island City, was found later Saturday night at Seventieth street and Second avenue. He was lying on a snOWbank almost unconscious and was transferred to the Bellevue Hospital
 An unknown woman discovered in a basemen- on the Bowery was removed to HudsOn-street. Hospital and died there from alcoholism and 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 Cunningham, 42 years of age, was found on the sidewalk on Van Vorest street early this morning. Her skull was fractured The body was almost covered with snow. It is believed she received her injuries from fail.
 At a. m. policeman found Charles Schopp unconscious in the snow in Jersey City. Before he could be car ried into d house he died Schopp had strated for 8 butcher shop, where he was employed and his death is attrib- uted to exposure and exhaustion from his struggle through the binding storm. ::
 George Beck, 42 years of age, and William Allen were also found in ter sey City by the police badly frozen. The former had been drinking. He was un- conscious and is likely to die.
 John Bohan, while on d street car. be- came benumbed by the cold at Avenue B and Third street and fell from the platform of the car. He lay in the snow for a, considerable time before he was finally discovered by a passer-by and sent to- the Bellevue in an ambu- lance.
 Julius Hoosberg, a homeless, who sought shelter in a barn at Stapleton, Staten Island, was found frozen this morning and died shortly afterward. The st@rm played havoc with the tele- graph wires along the coast of New Jersey The Western Union and other