The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-14
Blizzard N The EAST.
Traffic Almost Paralyzed by Snow
in New York and Other
Big Cities.
BELOW ZERO IN TIE SOUTHERN STATES
All Records for wintry weather
Broken at Washington, baltimore
and Atlantn-Railroads Blockaded
and behind Time in ID delaware ana
Pennsylvania.

New York, Feb. 13. - The fearful
storm which prevailed all day Sunday
and Sunday night has increased in vio-
lence, and together with the snow
which has drifted in many places has
almost entirely paralyzed traffic. Sur
face cars are almost entirely stalled,
the elevated trains are running with
out regard to schedule, and ferry boats
make few trips as best they can. The
upper and lower bay is one mass of ice.
Mary Goodwin, of Brooklyn, aged 81
years, was frozen to death on Sunday.
An unidentified woman was found
frozen to death in a hallway on Forty
seventh street in this city Sunday
morning. She was thinly clad and had
evidently sought shelter from the
storm.
Philadelphia Trolley Cars Tied Up.
Philadelphia, Feb. 13. ~ The storm
in this vicinity has assumed the pro-
portions of blizzard. This has had
the effect of piling the light, dry snow
up in drifts until some streets becoms;
impossible to trolley cars.
Abandon Train Service.
Philadelphia, Feb. 13.-The Reading
railroad at noon Monday issued official
announcements of the entire abandon
ment of it's train service until furthkr
notice. The Pennsylvania railroad is
moving about half Of it's regular
scheduled passenger trains, but has
abandoned freight and coal trains.
Snow In the Coal Regions.
Pottsville, Pa, Feb. The coal re-
gions are snow bound to the depth Of
several feet. The snow drifted In q
manner never equaled before. Rail-
road traffic is suspended, except for
a few mail trains, which are being
forced through the. drifts hours be-
hind time.
Boston Traffic Delayed.
Boston, Feb. 13. - The heavy snow.
storm which began here on Saturday
increased in force during the night
and Monday morning high northeast
wind was driving the snow into big
drifts and covering the railroad tracks
with mass of snow that soon began to
delay traffic in spite of all efforts to
keep open the lines. Thermometer
was IL degrees below zero.
binding storm In Connecticut.
New Haven, Conn.,, Feb. 13.-During
Saturday night the snowstorm which
prevailed intermittently Saturday night
and Sunday developed into one which
had many of the characteristics OF
a blizzard, and Monday practically the
whole state of Connecticut was suf-
fering from binding snowstorm.
All Records Broken I'm Washington.
Washington, Feb. 13.-The phenom-
email weather of the past week culmi-
mated in a blizzard-like snowstorm
Monday which broke all records and
left no room for the oldest inhabitant
to say the winters were no longer SO
severe as when he was boy. The
temperature record was smashed last
week when the thermometer went to
Is degrees below zero and snow rec
ord was established when to the heavy
fall of the past week Is inches was
added from Saturday night mp to ten
o'clock Monday. At the hour when
the weather bureau made this Observa-
ton the snow was falling as fast and
heavily as at any time since it began
and a high wind was piling itin huge
drifts.
Baltimore Gets Her share.
Baltimore, Md, Feb. 13.-Snow has.
been falling in this city without inter-
mission since nine o'clock Saturday
night and the wind has been blowing
a gale from the northwest, with the
result that the street car lines and all
the steamboat lines leading into the
city are at q standstill. Reports from
all parts of the state show the same
condition of things and much suffer-
ing both among the farmers and the
poor. All trains are behind, owing to
snowdrifts on all lines.
Situation In Atlanta and the South.
Atlanta, Ca, Feb. 13-The south
shivered Monday in a temperature Of
unprecedented severity. From the
Gulf of Mexico northwartI and from
the Atlantic coast to the west bound-
aries of Texas, the cold wave has set
! tied heavily on the. country and pro,
duced the lowest temperature ever
known. Admission, Ala, reported the
lowest temperature-15 below at seven
! o'clock in the morning.