Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-03-20

Snow and Sleet Cover the Streets
of New York and
BROOKLYN

New York. March 16.--Nine inches of
snow and sect cover the streets of New
York today, and 1000 men are battling
with it in Manhattan. Three thousand
more are at work III 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 10 the bridge cars cut off the
current and 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 cutting wind
and Sleet. Surface traffic was, Of course
everywhere delayed and the Fifth avenue
elevated road, which uses the third-rail
electric system in Brooklyn, was almost
completely tied up after midnight. Ia
the crowded streets downtown fallen
horses and stalled drays and trucks
greatly lmpeded business, causing many
blGckadeS. In the outlying dis
tricts of the boroughs of Manhattan and
the Bronx, similar conditions prevailed
The mails were several hours behind i'll
their delivery. On many of the suburban
lines in Jersey the trolley wires broke un,
der the weight of their coating of sleet
and ice. tying up several lines completes
~. y number of horses were killed by
contact with the live wires. No fatalities
from cold are reported in the city The
station houses and charitable institutions
were crowded with the homeless.
Supt. White of the general delivery de-
partlnent of the postotfice said the North
crn 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.
a blockade of Snow.
Shamokin, Pa, March 16-Over 5000
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 a depth of II inches and in Il
number of mountain passes traversed by
trains snow drifted from FIVE to fifteen
feet.
Heavy Loss to Fruit Growers.
Chattanooga. Tenn, March 1G.--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 q degrees and everything is
frozen over in this entire Secrion. Fruit
growers will lose heavily. Johnson City
reports nine inches of snow, which, by its
weight, has damaged large tracts of TIM
Der.
I'm the Cotton Belt.
Atlanta. Ga, March 16.-Freezing
temperature was reported this morning
as far south as a 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 South was followed by much
colder weather. The most decided falls
in temperature are noticed in southern
Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia. New
Orleans reports a fall of 26, Mobile "a.
Montgomery %, Macon Is, Augusta D,
in the past twenty-fCur 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 continu-
alton of cold. The warm weather of
the past few days had advanced the trees