El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-13
NINE STORMS INA WEEK
Is Washington's Record, and
Other Sections Are
Still Breaking
Records.

NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-New York Is
now in the grasp of blizzard. Since
Saturday evening snow has been falling
steadily. The high winds have drifted
it badly, and traffic today is seriously
delayed or tied up altogether.
Navigation on the North and East
rivers and in the bay is practically
suspended. The Lower bay is almost
impossible, the ice extending sfrOm
Sandy Hook to Coney Island in one
solid mass.
Four vessels lying off quarantine
were caught in an immense foe and
carried off to sea. When they were off
Coney Island change in the tide re-
leased the ships and they scurried back
into port.
Many era it are icebound.
The suffering of the poor is awful.
Two deaths from cold and eA posure are
reported by the police this morning.
The storm shows no sign of abating
zsrd of March, 1888.
The temperature has risen slightly.
HUNTSVILLE, Ohio, Feb. 13.-It was
"a degrees below zero this morning.
which beats all records here.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Nine snow
storms since February is Washing
toms record. The storm last night and
today was the heaviest of all. 1t tied
up effectually every street car line and
made traffic impossible. It is still
showing heavily. ALI incoming trains
are delayed.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 13.-Pennsyl-
vania is having an old time blizzard.
ALI day Saturday, yesterday. and last
night it showed, and it is still showing.
Railroad and street car traffic is imped-
ed by the great drifts. The storm ex-
ceeds the great blizzard of 1888 and
breaks the record of the weather bur-
eau.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 13.-New Or
leans is wrapped in mantle of white,
almost four inches of sleet having fall
en- since Saturday night.
Early yesterday morning the ther-
mometer 0registered 16 below zero,
breaking the record. Intense cold
prevails throughout the state today.
Thousands of carnival guests are |
thoroughly uncomfortable. The streets |
are literally sheets of solid ice three
inches thick. The city is full of
strangers who are sleeping on cots in
hotel and boarding house corridors.
Advices from the lower coast are to
the effect that orange groves valued
yesterday morning at millions of dol
lars are valueless today. Land which
was held at S1,5O0 an acre could be
bought today for So.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-The light
ship in Vineyard sound has been car
ried away by the ice. No relief can be
sent to the aid of the men aboard until
the storm abates,
MoRCHEs, N. Y, Feb. 13.-life saw
ers report that the barkentine Brazil,
which went ashore two miles west of
here Saturday morning, is breaking
up.
WoODSHOLL, Mass, Feb. 13.-A
feet of vessels anchored off Cape Cod.is
believed to be in serious danger from
ice fields. It is stormipg terribly:
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Feb.-The
worst blizzard in recent years is rag
ing throughout the state of Connecti-
,ut. Traffic is tied up. All harbors along
The coast are frozen solid.
STAUNTON, Va, Feb, 13,-The Che
,apeake & Ohio r r officials have
sent dining car to the relief of the
7estibule train, No 3, snow bound at
Alton on the east side of the Blue
Ridge mountains.
The valley branch of B. & o. has an
lulled all trains. One passenger train
9 snow bound at Cave Station, IA
niles from here.
RICHMOND, KY, Feb. 13.-Wm.
3rockman, an old man, was found dead
n bed this morning. It is thought he
roze to death. The thermometer