The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15
MANY FROZEN TO DEATH
The Backbone of the Blizzard Is
Broken.
COOLEST EVER KNOWN
Intense Suffering Followed In the WAX
OF the Cold Wave-The Orange
Crop Destroyed in Florida.
Railroads Tied Up.
EVER KNOW N

New York, Feb. 14.-With clear skies
and warmer weather New York start
ed to dig itself out of the snow this
morning. By noon the mercury had
reached 25 degrees above zero and there
was not a cloud in the sky. After Sat-
urday's half holiday and the suspension
of business on Sunday and Monday to-
days street traffic was tremendous,
with the result of blockades every
where.
The snow contractor estimated that
upwards of $4,000 loads of snow were
removed from the streets up to 6
o'clock tonight. At o'clock a night
force of about 1900 men started to
work with between 800 and 1000 carts.
All the night force was practically
concentrated on Broadway and it was
expected this thoroughfare would be
cleared by the time of opening Of busi-
ness tomorrow from Forty-second
street to the Battery. The thermome-
ter tonight ON Lower Broadway re-
corded II degrees above zero and the
temperature was rising rapidly.
The railroads running into the Grand
Central station did not make much
progress to-day in restoring order from
the chaos into which the blizzard had
plunged them. While their officials
were very hopeful that they would be
able to establish some kind of train
service tomorrow they We're obliged
to admit that no through trains had
passed over their lines since Monday.
Five hundred men We're struggling with
the great drifts in the Grand Central
yards all day and late tonight it was
announced that all the tracks were
clear. The New York Central contin-
ued to be tied up all day as far as in
coming trains were concerned. The
great drifts 80 miles south of Pough-
keepsie were too much for snow plows
and trains were massed at both sides
of this point in large numbers At /
p. m.'tWo trains for western points were
sent out. 1t was announced that other
trains were to be started later.
The railroads which have terminals
in Jersey City are much crippled. The
Pennsylvania did nearly all the busi-
ness that was done. No train arrived
from the west or south during the day
At the Jersey Central depot tonight it
was announced that the road was open
this side of Mauch Chunk The off
cials said the road would be open on
all divisions tomorrow. The Lehigh
Valley road dispatched and received no
trains.
The first through out-of-town mali
to reach the postoffice since Monday
morning arrived at 4:30 o'clock this af-
ternoon 1t was the through mail from
Boston, which should tlave reached this
city at 7:50 o'clock Monday evening.
Shortly after noon mail was received
from Philadelphia.
At 3:42 o'clock mail from Philadelphia
and way stations were dispatched The
first mail for the West over the New
York Central was sent out at 9:15
O'Clock tonight, and at the same hour
the first mail for the South was sent
out over the Pennsylvania. The 3
o'clock train on the Pennsylvania took
out the first mail over that route for
the West.
More than 1000 persons were fed at
the Salvation Army headquarters on
Fourteenth street to-day. About 5000
persons were fed at the various halls
of the army in the city. The headquar-
ters hall and all of the army halls in
the city were thrown open to the poor
tonight