Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-13
STORM IS GENERAL
Blizzard Prevails All Along the North
Atlantic Coast.
TRAINS AND STEAMERS DELAYED
Pennsylvania Coal Fields Snow
bound, Fuel Famine imminent,
YEMEN IN WEST

NEW YORK, February 13.-The fearful
storm which prevailed all day yesterday
and last night along the shores of Staten
Island assumed blizzard proportions this
morning. The wind blows with increased
violence, and together with the snow,
which has drifted in many places, has al
most paralyzed traffic. Surface cars are
almost entirely stalled, the elevated trains
are running without regard to schedule,
and ferry boats make a few trips as best
they can. The upper and lower bay is one
mass of ice, and several coastwise schoon-
ers are reported frozen in off quarantine.
The city has the appearance in the side
streets of some large village, SO far as
snow drifts are concerned. There are very
few people on the streets, and it being a
holiday, even the main streets of New
York look like those of little town. There
is a drift of snow in front of st. Paufs
Church nearly three feet in depth. This is
duplicated in front of several other large
buildings on Broadway. The delay in ferry
travel sent large crowds to the Brooklyn
bridge, and that structure was taxed to its
utmost capacity.
Suburbanites showed In.
The people living in the suburbs, in
Brooklyn Queens, Richmond and the
Bronx, have in some instances been unable
the surface cars The snow in the suburbs
of Brooklyn is piled up in some places in
drifts five feet in height
Trains on all tie steam railroads from
the north, east and west are late. There is
no attempt to run trains. ON schedule time.
Many have been delayed four or five hours
by the storm.
AT the Pennsylvania railroad depot in Jer-
sey city 1t was said that the through trains
hn uaC t.,,,Dy ,ir.r frny I To .
hours behind time. Local trains also
being operated, but the schedule does not
figure in their running.
1t has been announced by the Hamburg
American line that the steamer Fuerst Bis
marck, which was to have sailed today for
Mediterranean ports, will not sail till IL
am. tomorrow, owing to the storm.
Blizzard at Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, February 13-The
storm in this vicinity has at last assumed
the proportions of a blizzard. A bowling
snow storm prevails today. This is not ex-
acty new condition, as snow began fall
ing afresh at o clock on Saturday night
and continued all day yesterday and last
night During the night however, the wind
increased in velocity until 1t reached a
speed OF forty miles an hour today. This
had the effect of ping the light, dry snow
up in drifts until some streets and roads in
the suburbs became impossible to trolley
cars, teams and pedestrans In the sur
with a few EXCEPTIONS all abandoned
The weather has moderated considerably,
the of1cial record being s degrees above
zero today.
AT the Delaware breakwater everything
Is at standstill. No vessels have de-
parted for five days and those that arrive
remain anchored in the harbor of refuge.
This morning at 0 o'clock the observer re-
ported a northeaster. the velocity of the
wind being forty-eight miles an hour and
increasing, with heavy snow falling.
Trains Considerably Delayed.
Trains on the railroads are late and in
some instances schedules have been aban-
doned.
Shipping remains at a standsti1 on the
Delaware river. The ice is getting heavier
and there is no prospect of any arrivals at
during this week. coal famine is i'm
minent in ports that depend on Philadel-
phia for supply Of anthracite. Not a
single barge or other coal-carrying vessel
has passed out of the Delaware since the
middle of last week and none can possibly
get out while the river Is filed with ice.
The same is likely to be said of localities
that get their coal by rail if the snow con-
tinues to block the tracks in the coal re-
gion.
High Winds Along the Coast.
LEWES, Del, February 13-A terrible
blizzard is raging all along the coast. At
Cape Henry the velocity of the wind is
sixty miles an hour. Here at noon IL was
forty-five miles an hour The breakwater
harbor is full Of heavy ice, blown in by