Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-28
"The beautiful" is doing some very
ugly damage in the east.
IHE EAST SWEPT BY STORM.
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perature dropped rapidly 1t looked this
morning as though the blizzard wouid
continue all day. but at 10 o'clock there
was a breaking away in the west ana
finally the storm ceased altogether and
the severest blizzard since the memoir
able one in March, 1883, came to an enc.
The wind blew at the rate of % to 6O
miles an hour during the height of the
storm.
Snow fell throughout New York State.
The fall in New York city, the weather
bureau reports. was about ten inches,
Philadelphia nine inches, Boston SIX
inches. Portland, Me-, four inches, Albany
a little over an inch.
The lowest temperatures reported were;
New York City %, Albany Is.
With the Frightening of the skies IN TINS
city this morning came an increase IN tie
velocity of the wind, and the loose. dry
snow was sent swhirling and eddyinG
everywhere Nearly foot OF snow had
fallen, but in places it had drl1ted -
four and five feet. The popularity OF tie
storm was the encrusting of nearly every
window, the sides of buildings ana tAe
trees. and when the storm cleared away
the great city was transformed into q
spectacle of glistening white, of suiFass-
ing beauty Broadway and the grea-
thoroughfares of the city presented
fantastic appearance.
In the greatest artery of business actlv-
ity 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 iorine1
! barriers across them and in many IN
| stances filled up the trenches that had
| been dug by the street railroads Tor the
transforming OF the motive power from
| cable to electricity.
| AS soon as there were signs of abato-
ment in the fall of snow, the street clean
| ing department went to work. bat little
| progress was made.
| Suburban traffic was blocked for sew
eral hours in the morning and d'ier hat
trains ran at long intervals All trains
were delayed. Some that were lue 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 fr m Boston, due at
| m had not peen heard from, nor had
| the mails been received up to o'clock
tonight The in coming mails cv3m other
| parts. he said, were from two hours to an
| unknown number OF hours behind time
| Few trains due IT the Grand Central STA
ton to-day arrived on Tine.
The terrific blow of Saturday night die
| much damage to the small shipping in
New York harbor. 1t is reported tonight
that several tugs belonging TO the Kings
ton towing Company, together with
large number of canal boats, We're sunk
I'D the river by the force of the gale
The shores of the Hudson are Uttered
with wreckage.
| An order was sent out from police head
quarters to the various precinct com
. manders to have arrested all person:
found alone in a condition that woult
raise even the suspicion of intoxication
AS a result the police courts to-day wer
crowded with eminently respectable look
ing persons who were let go with a small
fine and an admonition to get in out 0
the snow. Notwithstanding this precau
| ton on the part Of the ploce, there wer
number of casualties, including severa
) deaths from exposure. John Martin. )
: years DID, a form er insurance agent, wa
found in the park at Tenth street an
Avenue B, and taken to Bellevue hospit
al Both his legs and his hands wer
badly frozen. He had lain down on