The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-16
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New York Covered With Mantle
of Snow and Ice.
Depth of Nine Inches Attained
by the Fall.
BRIDGE BLOCKADED.
Rail Connection With Brooklyn
Shut Off.
Thousands of Men Engaged in
Digging Out the City.

New York March 16.-Nine inches of
snow and sleet cover the streets of New
York today, and four thousand men are
battling with it in Manhattan. Three
thousand more are at work in Brook
lyn. Traffic has been partially paralyz-
ed in some sections of the city since
early morning. During the early hours
the Brooklyn bridge traffic was practi-
cally blocked. The sleet on the third
rail supplying electric power to the
bridge cars cut off the current and
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 in
the face of a cutting wind and sleet.
Surface traffic was, of course, every
where delayed and the Fifth Avenue
Elevated road, which uses the third
rail electric system in Brooklyn, was
almost completely tied up after mid
night. In the crowded streets down
town, fallen horses and stalled drays
and trucks greatly impeded business,
causing many blockades. In the out
lying districts of the boroughs of Man
mattan and the Bronx, similar condi-
tiOnS prevailed.
The fall of snow in jersey was heav-
Ter than in the city. Mail trains were
delayed by the storm and the mails
were several hours behind in their de-
livery. On many of the suburban lines
in Jersey, the trolley wires broke under
the weight of their coating of sleet and
ice, tying up several lines completely.
A number of horses were killed by
contact with the live wires. No fatal
tiles from the cold are reported in the
city. The station houses and charita-
| BILE institutions were crowded with
homeless.
II INCHES IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Shamokin, Pa, March 16.-Snow be-
gan falling Thursday morning and
when the storm ceased at o'clock this
morning the ground was covered to a
depth of IL inches, and this place is now
completely snowbound.
Over 5000 men and boys between here
and Mount Carmel and employed at the
various collieries are idle owing to the
blockade.
The storm was especially severe in
the coal regions the snow fall being
the heaviest of the season.
EVERYTHING FROZE.
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 this morning show that
the mercury dropped to "a and every
thing is frozen over this entire section.
Fruit growers will lose heavily. John
son City reports nine inches of snow
which by its weight has damaged large
tracts of timber.
FREEZING IN COTTON BELT
Atlanta, Ga, March 16-Freezing
temperature was reported today 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
clearing and colder weather. Fruit men
say the trees cannot stand a continual
of a0I6 ~
had advanced the trees rapidly.
ICE IN LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, March 16.-The weather
in this city and throughout the state
continues cold. and the local bureau
sends out a prediction of frost for to-
night Snow fell and ice formed gen
orally last night not only in northern
Louisiana but in the southern section
as well.
Some damage to fruits and vegetables
is reported. Here the temperature went
down to 80 at p. m. The maximum
yesterday was 66.