The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-02-14
COLD is INTENSE
All The National Capital All Business Is
at StaHdStiil,
BIG SNOW DRIFTS REPORTED
Street Travel Interrupted and Mail
Trains All Behind.
GREAT SUFFERING AMONG THE POOR
Thousands In New York Driven Out Of Work
BY the Blizzard.
CONTINUATION OF THE STORM PREDICTED
Traffic on Railways Leading Out OF
New York VIII he stoppcd-.Ail
Cold Records Broken.
Il Is
GREAT SUFFERING AMONG THE POOR
Thousands In New York Driven Out Of Work
BY the Blizzard.
CONTINUATION OF THE STORM PREDICTED
rrnfnc ON Railways Leading out Of
New York VIII BE stoppcd--Aii M
cold Records Broken.
-lspeclal pispateh Is rhe Post B

Washington. February 1S.--'rhe Capital
City OF the Nation is in the grip of gen.
une Dakota blizzard today. It's the worst
storm in tho history of the city and 1t Ia
positively understandable. Thirty inches OF
snow on tho level. still showing and n wind
blowing forty miles an hour, piling It into
drifts ten feet deep and the Thermometer
nj zero, everything NJ standst'll, III traffic
abandoned and haokinen charge s. to haul
i passenger i've blocks. Tho Post curre-S5
spondent has walked thirty blocks in 1t
today and wants no such experience ngaiu.
When thaw comes the lower portion OF
the city will be Hooded.
Washington. February iS.--With two
inches less than three feet OF snow on
level and the mercury lowering inccnstHnt-
ly near zero the capital Is In the grasp
Of the most severe blizzard in It's history.
The snowfall which begun on Saturday
evening has continued without CESSATION,
the official measurement IN MY hours he
ing twenty inches on top Of tho heavy fall
Of tho few days preceding. Driven by
hish northwest WIND 1t has drifted In banks
oil from five To eight feet In depth, slis i
pending all traffic tioing up the street
ear lines cutting off the city from all outs
side communication by rail and causing un-
told surering among the poor.
At the capitol neither house OF congress
had a quorum and only a handful OF clerks
put in an appearance at the various exec.
utiye departments, all OF which closed
carly Diminishing their forces. At the city
hall the same conditions prevailed and no
courts were held. while public schools made
| no attenipt To hold sessions. Towards at
ternoon. when the railroad companies were
| forced TO admit that their traffic was prac-
| tically abandoncd the city was forced 10
| the realization that famine OF coal anu
provisions was impending. The price OF
everything in the eating line was soaring
| skyward.
While discomfort is general, even In The
homes OF the well-to -do, the police report
that the condition Of the really poor, par
tlcularly the large colored population, Is
pitIful In the extreme.
Every effort Is being made by the au-
leviate the suiferiugs but owing to tho
terrible weather conditions. but little can
be accomplished. There has not been dur
| Ing The day II moments cessation OF tho
| snowfall and with the gale prevailing to-
! night II is dangerous for any one but
! strong man TO venture out.
Many persons have been overcome by the
| cold. but no fatalities have been reported
| within the city limits.
| The Potomac river Is frozen from its
source to Point Lookout, where u cDpties
into the Chesapeake