The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-05
Men Found Freezing in
New York's Streets.
THOUSANDS ASK AID
And Shelter is Given. But Among
These Poor Wretches Many Are
Without Underclothing Or Stock
ings Even, and Practically
None Have Overcoats.
None Have Overcoats.
(By the Associated Press.

New York, Jan. Anew York City
and all the surrounding country today
vas in the grasp of the most severe
storm of the winter. Traffic of all
kinds was hampered trolley Ines We're
tied up, and the streets, swept by a
gale, driving before it fine snow that
cut like sand and piled in great drifts
were pract. cally impossible. Rail-
road ira MS from all points were de-
layed from a few minutes to three
hours, and the elevated lines were OPP
Grated with great difficulty without re-
gard TO schedule.
At sea the conditions must have been
beyond description, but no disaster has
been reported. The bark Alkaline was
Blown from her anchorage off Stater
Island and was dragging ashore, but
Ter anchors tlnal1y neld her or OFT
NadSworth. In the harbor, the only
pcnt where observation could he had,
an immense sea was running AMI sew
eral great liners and smaller vessels
tugged al might at their chains in the
scml-sheltered spots where they had
sought refuge from the storm. What
may have happened off shore to any
luckless craft which had to face The
fury OF the gale, only time alone can
tell
All over the city this morning found
trolley cars blocked in the streets
great drifts piled against them and
preventing them from lnoving an inch
III many of the cars were snoWDound
passengers who had remained in the
ears AL night rather than face the
oil zzard in an attempt to walk to theii
homes.
-Four serious fires during the night,
two of them calling fer two alarms
and two for three alarms. gave the
firemen and their horses their most
bitter experience of the winter. IN one
case-just before dawn and when the
storm was at It's height-the occupants
OF several tenement houses in the up
l,er Easts de We're routed from their
beds and forced TO flee half clothed to
the storm-sWept streets. In this fire
81 hourses which We're quartered in
stables near the tenement house were
burned to death
Pedestrians were compelled - force
their way through the unbrokeh drifts
to tile subway stations. Every station
along the subway was packed and the
trains were jansned.
Lying Freezing i'm the Streets.
Although thousands of homeless ili,-
fortunateS were given shelter by the
various charitable organizations last
night more than a score of men over
come by cold were found lying about
the streets early to-day. All of these
probably will recover under treatment
A remarkable story of misfortune
was told to-day by Superint2nden.
York of the City Lodging House. Five
hundred persons. nearly all Of tn
men, appneu Tor Sue4Ier at his insti-
tuition during the night. Only six of
the five hundred wore overcoats ana
hardly half of the five hundred had
either underwear or stockings. The
DouIes OF tour victims of exposure in
last nights storm were found to-day
at various places in the streets A
guard of the Brooklyn elevated rail-
road died on a platform after being on
duty all night.
The fall in temperature during the
storm as recorded by tde local wealth
er bureau was % degrees. Several
times during the early hours today 13
degrees above zero was reached. AS
the day advanced conditions in the
city proper began to improve slowly.
New York was not alone in its suf-
fering from the storm by any means
and as far as west Middle Missouri
as as far South as Charlotte, X. e.,
snow and extreme cold were rc0orted.
Kentucky, the Virginia, southern IN
diana and southern Ohio, all of Penn
sylvania, except the northwestern por-
ton: New Jersey and New England
were in the grasp of the blizzard.
From every point heavy snow was re-
ported with blizzard accompanying
Throughout Maryland there has bean
a snowfall of ten inches.