Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-12-01

the trolley companies I" put them in con-
ditiou but their efforts We're futile
Suburban traiiic was blocked for several
hours i'm the morning and after that trains
ran at long intervals. All trains were de-
lqycd. Some that were due in the early
mornings hours had not been heard from
at night. The superintendent of mails in
the general postoiiiCe reported that tn"
mail from Boston. due at Il. m, had
not been heard from nor had the mails
been received up to O'Clock tonight. The
incoming mails from other parts, he said.
were from two hours to an unknown num-
Der of hours behind time
DAMAGE TO SHIPPING.
Tho terrific blow of Saturday night DID
much damage to the small shipping N
New York harbor. \ number of schoon-
crs were damaged: the two master Will
liam Blakely of Tompkins' Cove. New
York, brick laden, was driven into Il svow
ana hole stove in her bow. She sank.
The two mastcd schooner Ellen r. King
with 1850 bricks aboard, was also sunk,
her crew of three having narrow escape
from drowning. Several lighters, one be-
longing to the Pennsylvania Railroad com
pany, were also so badly damaged by the
force OF the waves that they went to the
bottom. 4V-fout yacht. name unknown.
driitcd into a cove in the North River
near l3lth street bottom up. 1t is report
Kingston Towing company, together with
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.
2 o'clock this morning a fleet of 30
ocean going steamships were anchored in
the bay from the Statue Of Liberty as far
ont as the Horse Shoe inside Sandy Hook.
The Cunardcr Lucana, more than n
hours behind her schedule. was the first
of the liners to weigh anchor and put TO
sea. The others bound east ana south fol-
lowed soon after one by one.
An order was sent out from police head
quarters to the various precinct comman-
dcrs To have arrested all persons found
alone in Il condition that would raise even
the suspicion of .ntoXication. As Il result.
the police courts to-day We're crowded
with eminently respectable looking per-
sons who We're let 20 with small fine
ana an admonition to get in out of the
snow. Notwithstanding this precaut'on
on the part of the police, there Were Il
number of casualties, including several
deaths from exposure. An unknown man
was found In the park at Tenth street ana
Avenue Il, and taken to Bellevue huspi-
tai Both his legs and hands were badly
frozen. He had lain down on a bench to
die, he sad. An unknown woman WIS
found unconscious in Il snow drift at 18th
street and Avenue ID. She was removed
to the Presbyterian hospital, where her
condition was said to be serious. An aged
German who gave his name and addr, IS
as Dutch Kills. Long Island City, was
found late Saturday night at 70th street
and Second avenue He was lying on Il
snow bank almost unconscious, and was
transferred to Bellevue. An unknown
man .was discovered in the basement at
IL i}owery, unconscious. He was removed
To the Hudson street hospital. and died
there from alcoholism and exposure" a
policeman rescued Dennis Quinn. a letter
carrier attached to station q. at Broad
way and West DIST street, who had fallen
helpless in the snow early this morning.
The man was quite badly frozen. Under
Il shed at the foot of jOth street John
Martin, an aged and helpless man, WAS
picked up suffering from frozen hands
and feet and taken to Bellevue hospital.
In Jersey City the body of Rusauuil
Cunningham, ~ years of age, was found
on the sidewalk in Van Nerst street
early this morning. Her skull was frac-
tuScd il front. The body was almost COW
cred with snow. IT. is believed she Teceiv-
ed her injuries from a fall.
At a. m. Il policeman found Charles
Shopp unconscious in the snow at Bran
nan and jackson avenues, Jersey city.
Before he could DO carried into a house
Shopp died He had started for butch
er shop in Ocean avenue, where he was
employed, and his death Is attributed to
exposure and exhaustion from his strug-
gle through the binding storm. George
Beck, A. years old and William Allen were
also found in Jersey city by the police
badly frozen. The former had been drink
Ing and was unconscious and is likely to
die.
The man found at 10th street and Ave-
nue. Il was taken to Bellevue, where after
NJ revived sufficiently II was learned he
was n former insurance solicitor. John
Martin by name, 30 years of age. lie had
had nothing to eat for several days was
without money and had failed to get Ell
ther work or shelter. He was very much
emaciatod and is believed to be sober and
industrious. lie is now in ii very serious
condition.
John Bohan while on a street car he
came bonumbed by the cold and fell from
the platform of the car. He lay in the
snow Tor considerable time but was finally
discovered by passerby and sent to
Bellevue in an ambulance.
Few trains due at the Grand Central to-
day arrived on time. During the greater
portion of the day the black boards there
contained the information that the Bos-
ton and New Haven trains had not been
heard from These trains were due mt $50
a. m ana i;oo "A. IN. respectively, They
had not even been heard from late as
O'Clock In the afternoon. The officials Of
the New York and New Haven railroad
believed that the trains were showed in
somewhere In New England. AS the wires
are down, the information concerning
them was confined to conjecture merely.
on the New York and Hudson River
railroad all the local trains coming In
were late, train from Chicago due in
New York at 1880 O'Clock did not arrive
until 3l5 O'Clock. The conductor of this
train had story of a ''shipwreck" %
tell, At Stockport he took on 73 persons
taken from the Albany night boat Drew.
The captain of the boat stated that when