New-York tribune., 1898-11-28
THE GRIP OF THE STORM.
CITY UNDER NEARLY TEN
INCHES OF SNOW.
THE WHOLE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC
COAST AFFECTED - TRAFFIC M
PEDED AND MUCH DAMAGE TO
SHIPPING FEARED.


When win.er laid his hand with premature
and exceptional severity upon New-York on
Saturday morning. he made up his mind that ne
would give the town taste of his quality that
would be long remembered There resulted the
severest and heaviest snowstorm that has VS.
tied New-York since the memorable storm OK
March H. 1883 known in the municipal his
tory as the blizzard" The storm Of saturday
and yesterday not a blizzard The fall was
not heavy enough nor the temperature low
enough nor the wind high enough. But. Tor
all that it was sufficient TO make people search
their memories to find its superior and that
they could not find nearer than ten years ago.
WIDESPREAD N ITS EFFECTS.
The storm was Widespread in .ts effects It,
fury was vented upon the territory between
WASHINGTON and Boston ana as far west as
Pittsburg South of Washington 1t was CONF
parativcly light. The telegraph companies re-
ported great damage to their wires on Long
Island and between New-York and Boston.
Along the New-England coast and on the Jer-
sev coas, as well the service was badly crippled.
and hundreds Of wires We're down. Last night
only few wires were working between New
York and Boston Elsewhere the wires were
not apprecably affected Tho city service Of the
the suburban districts the wires felt the storm
severely. and many OF them gave way. There
have been storms Of sleet, however, within the
last few years that have far more severely
affected the wires than the snowfall Of Satur-
day and Sunday.
The storm was apparently severer in New
England along the coast than in this city pis-
patches from Boston reported the sinking OF
thirty barges In Boston harbor and the attend
ant loss Of twelve lives. and grave fears are
felt for what shipping was off the New-Ens-
land coast Saturday night.
A SAVAGE SATURDAY NIGHT
When that part Of the city which Is In tho
habit Of sleeping at night went TO bed on satur-
day night the snow was still falling in binding
gusts and the wind was whistEg around every
corner with vicious energy pillng up the snow
in drifts and eddies most uncomfortable for
pedestrians most paralyzng TO all forms Of
TRANSFORMATION and all avenues and methods Il
| travel Late on Saturday night the street.
| corners in the theatre district populated
/ by little knots OF late wayfarers gazing eagerly
/ through the binding snow for the lights OF ap-
preaching cars that were uniformly dilatory in
approaching Cabs were nj premium, and to
! one man who asked n cabman at Lexington ave.
| and Forty-second-st. what he wanted 70 take
him 70 Park-ave. and Eighty-frst-st came the
indignant reply: II don't want nawthin' at
all don't want TO go" And there were
| others many OF them.
Commuters whose misfortune il is to live in
/ New Jersey or in Long Island had tough time
Of it getting home from town after the middle
Of tho evening. Trains were invariably any
where from half an hour 10 two hours late in
starting and the theatre train over the Penn
sylvana road did not reach Newark until Is
o'clock yesterday morning. on the New-York
Central road trains were from one TO three
hours late. while no New-York New-Haven and
Hartford trains arrived at the Grand Central
| Station yesterday
Long Island practically snowbound all
day Yesterday. No attempt was made TO move
trains scheduled to go out fIom come into
Long Island city. Brooklyn shared the fate OF
the rest Of the island 10 a marked degree.
! Nearly all the trolley lines retired from busi-
ness excepting two or three in the older parts
of the city.