The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-01-04
STORM
VICTIMS
ATerribIe Snow Storm
Causes Accidents.
Railroads Tied Up and Outgoing
Steamers Kept 6dck. Worst
Blizzard Since 1888.

NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-Death came
with the terrible snowstorm which has
descended upon New York city and the
surrounding country. Injuries, some of
/ them serious, were numerous, and with
! the weather expected to turn much
colder great suffering must follow
At the Newark avenue grade cross
ing, the most dangerous spot in Jersey
| City, the Butler accommodation train
| Of the New York, Susquehanna and
| Western railroad struck a trolley car
bound from Jersey City TO Newark.
Six were injured, one woman, Mary
Hannigan of Newark, so seriously that
she is expected to die.
The heavy fall Of snow made travel
ing dangerous, and such trains as were
sent out Were compelled to feel their
way through the binding darkness.
Four men shoyeling snow from the
tracks Of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad near New Haven
were struck by an express train and
killed
Snow fell WITHOUT cessation during
the day the storm increasing in VIC
/ lence at night. The surface lines were
in trouble, and traffic was delayed
in every part of the city. Few cars
were running, and the Manhattan ele-
waited was keeping its trains moving
with great difficulty and on slow
schedule. In Brooklyn the conditions
were even worse
Every railroad running into this city
or ending across the Hudson had diff
Guilty with its trains No attempt was
made TO observe time tables. Many
trains We're abandoned entirely, while
others were pushed ont into the country
with extreme difficulty.
While standing at the railroad sta
ton of the Harlem division of the New
York Central railroad awaiting orders
at Brewster, ~ Y, the Chatham ex-
press, consisting Of a combination
smoker and baggage car, one Pullman
and three day coaches, WAS telescoped
from the rear 10y the locomotive at
tached to the Paving local, and
Charles Roberts Of Paving, a passen-
ger on the express train, sustained Sc
verelniuries.
The fast mail on the New York Cen
trail railroad, six hours late, ran past
Utica. y. Y, because the air brakes
failed to work and crashed into four
express cars being shifted by a yard
engine. The wreck blocked traffic for
some time. Engineer f. Murphy Of
Albany was killed, the handrail of his
engine being driven through his head.
While two engines were pulling an
Erie passenger train through the deep
snow the forward engine was derailed
near the Newburg IN. ~ station Fire
man John +. Miller Of Newburg had
both legs crushed and died in the hos
pital. Engineer Samuel NJ. Headley
escaped with three broken ribs and
bruises.
The Montreal express for Boston ran
into freight train on the Central Yer
mont railway near the Bolton (Vt) sta
ton, and Engineer Charles Holland,
who jumped, was critically injured.
The passengers were unframed The
passenger locomotive was wrecked and
traffic delayed several hours.
Peter Johnson, address unknown.
was found dead in the snow near the
Richmond County club golf links on
Staten island
Mrs. Frances Jeanette, seventy-five
years of age, may die as the result Of
exposure to the cold. She was found
near her home in Staten Island with
hands and face frozen.
Three boys about ten years of age,
two named Loundberry and the third
named butcher, were frozen to death
on the bay at Bayport Mich, during
the terrific storm. The boys were fish
ermen's sons and had gone out to their
parents fish shanties on the ice. They
became lost in the binding snow.