New-York tribune., 1899-02-14
STATEN ISLAND BOTTLED Up.
EVERYTHING At \ sTANDsTILL ~ THE BOROUGH
no RELIEF UNTIL THE STORM ABATEs.

NO RELIEF UNTIL THE STORM ABATEs.
Tho storm bottled up Staten Island more COM
n1atelv than any storm, not excepting tho much
tolked-of storm Of March. lSS within thirty years
Everything is at a standstill in tie borough The
staten Island trolley roads have not moved a wheel
since early yesterday morning. The steam railroad
kept one branch open until late In the afternoon.
when that also closed down. The ferry boats from
yybl.ehau-st 10 St George ran about every hour
W 10 dark last night. when orders were given TO
shut down all operations until to-day. The Police
Department directed the closing Of the steam road.
owing 10 the extreme danger 10 those who rode on
the line.
Tho North Shore Division OF the Rapid Transit
Railroad did not move a wheel during the day.
In spite Of the fact that big Baltimore and Ohio
engines wers kept running back and forth all Of
Sunday night the road was closed. Drifts twelve or
fifteen feet high piled up on the road and made
the task OF the engines hopeless almost before
dawn. and from then on conditions become worse.
On the south shore tho road was kept open uutN
evening The old line road % Tottenvil.o and Am
boy closed down IN the carly part OF the day. and
tho company announced that it was without hope
Of resumption until the storm abated.
The Staten Island and Midland electric roads
stopped about the time they first attempted 10
move a car All Sunday night the Staten Island
road kept rs tracks fairly clear with poughs and
swoepcrs but about O'Clock Yesterday morning It
gave up with several cars stalled and one car near
Ncw-Brighton almost buried out OF sight in a drltt
Ia SOuth-st.. near the ferry entrance. drft
twelve feet high formed. and after the noon hour
no wagons were able 10 gct to or from the ferry.
Engine 10. 12 OF the Rauid Transit Railroad
started apparently ~ her own accord ont Of tie
Clifton yards yesterday morning Two were
hitcEed TO her. and she waiting'tO take tho
place OF another train on the road She made n
record trip. and how she kept the rails while she
pioughed through big sn)wdriits cannot be under
stood but she did. and forced her way three miles
through Snow at times no to her headlight and
finally struck the decline beyond Fort Wadsworth.
where the wind mad swept the tracks clean. She
gathered force there. sped into tho South Beach
station at ful speed and crashed into train OF
four summer cars which were on siding The
four summer cars, the engine and The Two cars
behind her will have 10 be rebuilt.
Tho water question at tho :. II. Smith Inhrmary.
/ at New Brighton. IS serious one. On sunday ana
yesterday steam FIRE engine had to be utilized 20
force the wafer needed al the hospital.
on sunday night dinner WAS given at Bach
mans payilion. ir Clifton. When Il broke up there
were neither electric nor steam cars. orders FOR
coaches had been tisrcgardcl. Then the uncon-
nected hackmen reapod harvest. Five dollars n
head tho price charged. and the hackmen
piled six eight IN every coach. Those Nv
ing beyond St George had 90 pay double toll
panicl Muller Of -. scS East Eighty -frst-st Man
haitian. attended tho dinner As he leaving
he slipped and broke one OF his legs. lie is az tho
5. II. Smith Innunary.
About o'clock last evening there was a heavy
fall Of hail in many parts OF Staten Island Tho
haustones broke many panes Of glass.