New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-03
SIX INCH SNOW FALL
BELOW ZERO PROJrISED.
hemoral Begins at Once-Tsro,
Fatal accidents Trains BIocgsd


Day and 20 degree drop TO below zero was tbs
last prophecy OF the weather forecaSter ,s,-
night. Up 70 10 o'clock about seven inches or
snow had fallen. and there was a pros,s--
OF the downfall continuing all night and TO-DAY
to probable depth of ten inches or more. There
were two deaths and many injuries as the re-
suit OF the Storm and fractured skulls broken
bones and sprained and strained Hgaments. due
70 falls on the sidewalks. kept the ambulanc,
surgeons OF the various hospitals busy through
cut the day and night
THE DEAD.
0whR M5 Nssssos q ,. No ass East
RAtLINa. 1. Isna.. found dead in snOwbaalx at Ono
nunared-and-forty-seventh-s and Robbins-ave
THE INJURED
DoSoHAS 5ssssnifh Al % No g Mssqn.s suaa
according to police wsa partly int 2, EoGssye s
be fracture Of skull; Hudson Street Hospital
aetrsd .Es sii NOT No expected s "a Fsos. PasSs
od sin oad IN OF E09ds to TIE goysrnnent pier at TIE
slipped and fsn under wagon; Hudson strsss
LANzEARD. William F.. Of No. iO2 East ralre,-srss-.
BroaaHy sRRsa padsd as 5s ss an fS ss N rSH e ne A
6as y Ms No M:ssS & asssS q Ne 2s s
Hudson street Hospital --Al
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conscious mont o. 10 c GTsen@lc. .9aas Radsns sS
Street Hospital; expected 70
a man supposed 70 De Ignatz Balltng, a German
laborer. about thirty-hve years old. was found
dead IN snow bank about twensy-dys fsss
east Of the TRACES OF the Port Morris Branch
OF the New-York Central Railroad, near One-i
hundred-and-forty-S ;venth-st. last night.
John Mccarthy. . track walker saw the body
lying in bank near what is known a.
the Pocahontas Cut. The body was frozer
stiff. He called Policeman Clicks. OF ths Alex
ander-ave. station. who removed the body TO
the station Mccarthy told the 7oIics that hs
had seen the about an hour before near
One-hundred-an ed-and-forty-ninth-st, and that hs
was then sitting on the tracks. The man had
a passport from Bavaria. dated 1855. made ous
TO Ignatz Balling, and two letters and two pho
tographs. One Of the letters was written in red
ink and in German It started OFF with Dear
father and sisters" 1t was addressed to Ba-
varia. The other was from Bavaria and be-
gan, Dear brother-in-law.' It was signed.
| Philip and family" The contents OF the let
ter was an appeal to come back to Germany.
The postmark six months Old A card
bearing the name of John Langnlack. No So
Fulton-aTe., Astoria. Long Island was also
found
The police theory is that the man became i'll
and froze before he could call assistance.
Mrs. Howard fell in the areaway OF her home.
and was killed by her head striking the pave
ment and fracturing her skull
When her husband returned from work he saw
what ne supposed was a mound OF snow in front
of the basement door. He attempted to brush
aside some of it with his foot. and was horriaed
/ to the face of his wife.
He rushed into the street and told police
man. An ambulance was called from the EIar-
lem Hospital but it was useless.
Policeman Minchin. Of the Church-st. station.
/ found Mr. Resented lying on the sidewalk 1t
/ r-v- win
utes before. He hurried TO the hospital in
| an ambulance. where he was revived. 1t was
| said he would probably recover
The Weather Bureau said it wasn't bliz-
zard in the strict. technical sense of the term,
/ but the public in general not being q sticNIer
/ for the etiquette surrounding polite weather
| expressions. called it a blizzard Six inches OF
| snow underfoot sky full overhead. a tenpera-
| ture of 10 degrees above zero and the wind
blowing thirty-four miles an hour were SUM
Gent to justify the expression Commuters
who stamped on ferryboat decks as the pilots
felt their way cautiously in the harbor. people
on trains that were anywhere from one to two
hours late as were those almost every
railroad running into the city, passengers m
blocked and snail-paced surface cars. team
sters who tried to hold up slipping, steamlns
horses pedestrians who slipped and stumbled
and measured their lengths the sidewalk
these told one another it was a blizzard
Early in the morning the snow began falling
and the wind rising. and as the hours advanced
the snowhakes grew larger and cauls down
faster. and the wind, not to be outdons. waxsd
stronger with each gust The light Of a gray
day dawned on a perfect blizzard setting.
Long lines Of deformed. hunchbacked people
ploughed the smooth surface OF the snow shses
into myriad tracks. as they wsnded their way
TO the elevated stations. With the beginning
OF traffic began the trials Of man and beast
Painting horses struggling IN vain. went down
bv the hundreds. Some lay IN the snow until
bullet ended their sufferinss. Others with
the aid Of blankets and "cuss" words. scrars-
bled to their feet and again essayed to haul
their heavy loads. Men and women, too, found
preserving balance and foothold a difficult task,
and many was the Iiniment bottle last nighs
that made frequent trips to the drug store.
AS the day wore on the temperature dropped
steadily, and surface traffic began to feel tbs
clogs ON it's wheels The elevated roads did not
suffer for the snow. dry and scattered by the
wind did not pack close on the third rail. and
what did gather there scraped of by the
new scrapers. What however. was blessing
to the elevated roads curse to the electric
cars for the snow blown from the elevated
structure and along the street piled UP in
mounds in Spots forcing the cars to back. and
ram the obstacle again and again The big
revolving brush pIoughs buzzed their way over
the lines continuously. squirting snow clouds into
the cutters but they were not equal 10 main
tanning conditions that would allow mora than
a speaking acquaintance with the time schedule
In the afternoon people who gathered at the
railroad stations to greet incoming friends
learned that trains from all points up the
state were from one to two hours late. The
came conditions of wind. cold and snow that