Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-04
DEATH IN THE STORM.
Binding Snow Causes Several Fatal
 Accidents.

NEW YORK, Jaa lDeath 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 NewarS avea.!a grade cross ing, the meet daigc;'ells si)ot in Jersey City, tho Rusits accommodation train of the Nekr s,sss .S,Sluctaana and Western raitle.a s...ss', q trolley car bound from .Is ' <.t.s.s go Newark. Six were isl.nltat. aa We .;sl, Mary Hannigan ol < .,.;i!..s, s;o s> .0,,sly that she is expee.td tosd.a.
 The heavy fail oi asl3H made travel ing dangerous, afld st !. si.s,4ns as We're sent out were compelled to feel their way through the binding darkness. tracks of the NQW York, Kew Haven and Hartford railroau near Kew Haven were struck by an express train and killed.
 Snow fell without cessation during the day, the storm increasing in vio- lence at night 1'he snrface lines were in trouble, and traffic was delayed in every part of the city. Few cars were running, and the Manhattan ele- vated was keeping it's trains moving with great difficulty and OH q slow schedule. In Brooklyn the conditions were even worse
 Every railroad running into this city or ending across the Hudson had ditfi- culty with it's trains. No attempt was made to observe time tables. Many trains were abandoned entirely, while others were pushed out into the country with extreme difficulty.
 While standing at tue railroad sta tions of the Harlem division of the New York Central railroad awaiting orders at Brewster, N. r., the Chatham ex- press, consisting of combination smoker and baggage car, one Pullman and three day coaches, was telescoped from the rear by the locomotive at tached to the Pawling local, and Charles Roberts of Pawling, a passen- ger on the express train, sustained se- were injuries
 The fast mail on the New York Gen. tral railroad, six hours late, ran past Utica, N. ". because the air brakes failed to work and crashed into four express cars being shifted by yard engine. The wreck blocked traffic for some time. Engineer F. Murphy of Albany was killed, the handrall 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 (N. " station Fire man John F. 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 unharmed. 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 Jeannette, 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 blinding snow.