New-York tribune., 1900-03-17
MIsHAPs DUE TO THE STORM
DELAYS IN TRAFFIC AND ACCIDENTS TO
INDIVIDUALS AND VEHICLES

The aftermath of Thursdays storm came in yes
terday in the shape of reports delays in traffic
and accidents. humorous and otherwise. caused by
wind snow.
combination corruga ted iron and awning
In front of Charles Weisbecker's market. Nos. 26s
go West One-hundred- twenty -ffth-st COL
lapsed under the weight snow at 2:So O'Clock
yesterday morning and buried two who were
passing beneath it. They James Moore. thirty
years old of No so East One e-hundred-a twenty-
second-st, and Edward Gallinger. a lawyer who
lives at No. 2.142 Seventh-ave. Moore sustained a
few slight bruises. and Gallinger's head cut
and ne otherwise slightly injured.
Patrick J. Neary, forty-three years old, of Kear
ney. n. J.. while standing at Cedar-st. and Broad
way yesterday afternoon struck the head
by falling and ice and received compound
fracture of the skull He taken the Hudson
Street Hospital.
An automobile hack full tilt into big snow
mound made by the street cleaning force in Park
Row close to the Postoffice yesterday morning
The automobile stopped and several dug
it out The operator forgot 10 shut off the power
and when released the vehicle shot forward and
became imbedded in another mound. This
time the power shut off. The passenger got
out Just after the first collision and walked his
destination.
One of a team of horses drawing Third-ave
mail car from back of the PostofTice yesterday
morning slipped in the slush and fell into a tri-
angular hole 10 feet on side and feet deep
The hole made weeks for changing the
The hole was left uncovered and the horse fell in
The other animal pulled away and saved himself
A derrick was procured after futile attempts had
been made by other get the animal
The horse was pulled out by means Of the derrick
and ropes which workman put around the ami
mails body The animal was not injured. The ac-
cdent stopped the traffic the Third Avenue
electric line for several hours.
Superintendent White Of the general delivery de-
partment of the Postofice said yesterday morning
that owing 10 the storm the Northern and Eastern
mails between and hours late and
the Western mails from hour and a half to
three hours late, while the Southern mails were
only slightly delayed There only train
late the Grand Central according report there
yesterday morning. This the Montreal ex-
press which comes through the Adirondack Noun
tains. II only half hour behind time. being
due S55 a m. All the Central. New York New
Haven and Hartford and New-York and Harlem
trains time.
The principal damage done telegraph wires
/ Long Island near Jamaica, where twenty
six of the hundred wires down. The service
interfered with to a certain extent, though
messages could be sent along the remaining wires
and by roundabout ways.
On the long distance telephone system there were
number of wires down between Philadelphia and
Washington Superintendent Brooks said yester-
day morning that the worst damage done TO tele-
phone wires was in the neighborhood of Freehold,
n. j. where considerable interruption OF the regu-
lar traffic caused by wires down, In the mean
time any point on the system could be reached by
roundabout wires.