The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-28
IN THE EMPIRE STATE
Not So Bad as New England, Though
Storm PLAYED High links.

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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. Inc
storm, which had begun with a soft
heecy snow on Saturday at noon, had
increased greatly and with the heavier
snowfall the wind blew a gale at mid
night. There was a slight abatement
of the wind this morning, but the snow
still fell and drifted high, and the tenn
perature dropped rapidly. 1t looked
this morning as though the blizzard
would continue all day, but at 10 o'clock
there was a break away in the west
and finally the storm ceased altogether
The weather bureau in this city in
its report on the storm this evening
says that the storm centre was over
the lower lake regions on Saturday,
and last night moved from the lower
! lake regions to the New Jersey coast
attended throughout the entire course
| by snow, the largest snowfall being on
! the immediate coast. The wind blew at
the rate of SO to 60 miles an hour This
morning lue SlOlII w eto central ONSl tiiC
! New England coast. Snow had fallen
throughout New York state and the
New England states.
The fall in New York city, the
weather bureau reports, was about ten
| inches; Philadelphia nine inches, Bos-
ton six inches, Portland, Me, four
| inches, Albany a little over an inch
The lowest temperatures reported We're
! New York city 25, Albany is. With the
I l. TO-,
| this morning came an increased velocity
! of wind and the loose dry snow was
| sent swrling and eddying everywhere
| Nearly a foot of snow had fallen, but in
places it had drifted to 4 and feet
The popularity of the storm was the
encrustng 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 all the great thor
oughfares of the city presented a fan
tastic appearance. In the greatest
artery of business activity in the coun-
try, there were drifts on the sidewalk
through which the early morning way
farer ploWed to his waist In some of
the streets great drifts formed barriers
across them, and in many instances
the street railroads for the transform
ing of the motive power from cable to
electricity.
This caused many an unfortunate
person to suddenly disappear from view
as he assayed a passage across
street.
The terrific blow of Saturday night
did much damage to small shipping in
New York harbor. A number Of
schooners were damaged; the two-mas-
ter William Blakely of Tompkins Cove.
New York brick laden. was driven into
a scoW and a hole stove in her bow.
She sank. The tWO-masted schooner
Ellen !, King with 10000 bricks aboard,
was also sunk, her crew of three having
a narrow escape from drowning. Sew
eral lighters, one belonging to the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. were
so badly damaged that they went to
the bottom. A forty-foot yacht. name
unknown, drifted into a cove in the
North river near 134th street, bottom
up.
1t is reported tonight that several
tug boats 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
Ihe shores of the Hudson are Uttered
with Wreckage.
~ ilIIt y ClOCh lul6 morning q fleet of
Y ocean going steamships were auCh-
ored in the bay from the statue of Lib
erty as far out as the Horshoel inside
Sandy Hook. The Cunarder Lucania.
more than q hours behind her sched-
ule, was the first of the liners to
weigh anchor and put 10 sea. The
others bound east and south followed
soon after one by one.
Few trains due at Grand Central
station arrived on time. During the
greater portion of the day, the black
boards there contained the information
that the Boston and New Haven trains
had not been beard from. These trains
were due at $50 a. m. and $50 a. m.
respectively. They had not even been
heard from as late as o'clock in the
afternoon The officials of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail
read believed that the trains were
showed in somewhere in New Eng
land
On the N. Y. Central all the local
trains We're late.