The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-03-21
TRAFFIC is PARALYZED
Snow and Sleet Cover the Streets
Of New York and
BrOokiyn

New York. March 16.-Nine inches of
snow and sect cover the streets of New
York today, and 1000 men are battling
with it III Manhattan. Three thousand
more are at work in Brooklyn. Traffic
has been partially paralyZed in some sec
tons of the city since early morning
during the early hours the Brooklyn
bridge traffic was practically blocked. The
sieet on the third rail supplying electric
power to the bridge cars cut off the
current and a general blockade was the
result. The trolley lines over the bridge
were not much better, and thousands OF
persons were forced to walk across the
structure III the face OF a cutting wind
and sleet. Surface traffic was, of course,
everywhere delayed and the Fifth avenue
elevated road, which uses the tbird-raa
electric system i'll Brooklyn, was almost
completely tied up after midnight. In
the crowded streets downtown fallen
horses and stalled drays and trucks
greatly lmpeded business, causing many
DlOckadeS. In the outlying dis
trlcts OF the boroughs of Manhattan and
the Bronx, similar conditions prevailed.
The mails Were several hours behind in
their delivery. On many of the suburban
lines III Jersey the trolley wires broke I'M
der the weight of their coating of sleet
and ice, tying MP several lines complete
~. a number of horses were killed bv
contact with the live wires No fatalities
from cold are reported i'll the city. The
station houses and charitable institutions
were crowded with the homeless.
Supt White of the general delivery de-
partment OF the postoffice said the North
ern and Eastern mails are between one
and two hours late, the Western from
an hour and half to three hours late.
while the Southern mails are not DELAYED
10 any great extent.
n Blockade of Snow.
Shamollin. Pa, March 16-Over GOOO
men and boys residing between here and
Mount Carmel and employed at the va
rious collieries are idle owing TO the snow
blockade. In this city the ground is COW
cred to depth of IL inches and in a
number of mountain passes traversed by
trains snow drifted from FIVE to fifteen
feet
Heavy Loss to Fruit Growers.
Chattanooga, Tenn, March 16.-The
worst to be feared by fruit growers of
Eastern Tennessee and North Georgia
was realized in the cold wave of last
night. Reports show that the mercury
dropped y degrees and everything is
frozen over in this entire section. Fruit
growers will lose heavily. Johnson City
reports nine inches of snow, which, by its
weight, has damaged large tracts of tim
Der.
Ira the Cotton Belt.
Atlanta Ga, March 16.-Freezing
temperature was reported this morning
as far south as line running east and
west through the center Of the cotton
belt killing frost is reported at Fort
Smith, Ark, near Mobile, and at Macon.
The rain and snow Of yesterday in many
parts of the SoHth was followed by much
colder weather. The most decided falls
in temperature arc noticed in southern
Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia. New
Orleans reports fall Of rs, Mobile "a.
Montgomery %, Macon IS, Augusta %,
in the past twenty four hours. 1t is i'm
possible to say to what extent if any the
fruit trees have been injured, but fruit
men say the trees cannot stand a continu-
alton of cold. The warm weather of
the past few days had advanced the trees
ra n1lv