New-York tribune., 1901-01-20
WIND AGGRAVATES COLD
STRONG GALES AND LOW TEMPERATURE
MAKE WALKING DIFFICULT.
ZARD, WHICH PASSES OVER IN ABOUT
FIFTEEN MINUTES

The weather Of yesterday was that OF Friday
accentuated In every particular. 1t was colder,
the wind blew harder, and when II showed It was
ike a blizzard. People were glad that the bliz-
zardllke feature did not continue beyond fifteen
minutes. The thing which most forcibly i'm
pressed itself upon those who were about the
streets was the cold. 1t was really cold, and
the low temperature would have been apparent
had there not been a wind ranging from fifty
TO seventy-f1ve miles hour to emphasize it.
The thermometer did not register above 26 de-
grees at any time. and at midnight the mer-
curry had dropped nearly to the zero mark AT
10 p. m. 1t was only degrees above. So far
as temperature is concerned it the banner
day of the season.
1t was not only cold in the open air, but it was
cold in the elevated and streetcars There may
be some reason for temperature reduced below
40 degrees in horsecar, or even a trolley car
but there is none in elevated car, where the
doors may be closed the major part of the time.
and steam connection is maintained with the
engine. Many OF the elevated cars were cold
yesterday, and there was excuse for it.
Two men were travelling downtown in Sixth
ave. train last night, in a that X
cessively cold CHANGING 10 look up at the
roof. they observed that every ventilatOr was
wide open. They got up and closed them. The
guard came in and reopened them. When re-
monstrated with, he said that they must be
kept OPEN as he had been ordered not to close
them.
The low temperature iced up vessels in the
harbor considerably and the bows and forward
deck of the big steamer Campania coated
with ice and frozen when she doCked, late
in the afternoon.
Policeman Siebod OF the East Eightyeighth-
st. station. a horse and wagon of the Hen
derson Towel Company standing at Eighty
third-st. and East End-ave. about o'clock last
night. with a the seat whom Siebold
round to be in a stupOr. The man half
frozen and the policeman hastily summoned an
ambulance from the Presby Hospital The
patient William Mcdonald. forty-four years
old. of No 80 King-st. His condition Is serious.
the hospital physicians said
The wind made walking the streets very
unpleasant, as well as difficult. II tore through
the streets all the afternoon from the fey regions
Of the Northwest at speed averaging fifty
miles an hour. Between 305 and $40 p m. II
reached velocity of seventy-two miles. At
the Weather Bureau IL explained that the
wind due TO low depression in Eastern
Pennsylvania. which. nature. abhorring
vacuum. was Fastening to equalize. The wind
did all sorts OF things that made travel hard.
II drove the water out OF the Bay much that
the tide was at least a foot lower than II ordi-
nariIy would have been. In consequence. the
Norwegian fruit steamer Krim bound out for
Philadelphia ran aground at 3:46 p. IN. in the
Swash Channel. She worked herself loose
hour later It cost the big Campania an hours
time in working her way up into the Bay.
The force of the wind great in the heart
OF the city that il with difficulty that people
could walk against it. Several women were able
to cross Thirty fOurth-st. yesterday at noon only
with the aid of a policeman.
Only a few accidents are reported as a result
of the wind. What might have been q serious
one occurred at No. 10 East One-hundred-and-
twenty-frth-st.. where at o'clock In the after
noon a large sign torn from the Horton
Building 1t fell TO the sidewalk. Benjamin
FngIander the elevator boy OF the building.
standing beneath the sign. which struck the
walk within a few inches of where he was
The snow squal which appeared so suddenly
soon after II o'clock was a blizzard while 1t
lasted. 1t struck the city from the west With
out warning there a tremendous wind
bringing with it dust and great flakes OF snow.
For few minutes person could not see foot
beyond his face, and to attempt to cross
street or catch a car was simply counting death
or accident The squall lasted only fifteen
minutes. but while II in full fury people
began to ask themselves how they were going
to get home. Then it all passed away and the
sun shone brightly. During the short lived bliz-
Zaru lhe CITY WAS dllhoSt III uelNi'e90 - t'''
only delayed traffic in the city, but 1t was neces-
sary to reduce the speed Of railroad trains. and
in the harbor every boat had to move with great
caution. The results of the miniature blizzard. In
which only LOO of an inch of snow fell, re-
mained all day as every teamster would swear.
The snow, trampled under many feet, made the
streets so slippery that not only the smooth
shOd. but the we'll shod. horses were often un-
able to manage their loads. There was Inuch
danger from this cause TO the pedestrian also.
According to the forecast, the weather is not
likely to continue IN an extreme condition 1t Is
expected to moderate to-day, and rain, with
more grip is one of the probabilities for to-
morrow.