Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-26
BLIZZARD SWEEPS
NORTH AND EAST
RAILWAY TRAFFIC SUSPENDED
IN NEW YORK
STORM COVERS LARGE AREA
Much Damage to Atlantic Shipping
Thermometer Registers thirty
Six Degrees Below Zero at
Huron, s. D.
By Associated Press.

BY Associated ffess
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.--Not since the
blizzard of 1888, by which all storms
are estimated as great or small, has
New York been so completely snow
bound as it was tonight.
The city itself is lying under foot
been banked by the wind to a height of
several feet.
Surface travel early in the day was
abandoned, overhead transit was
irregular and slow, and 1t remained for
the underground roads to carry home,
so far as they could reach within the
city limits, the hundreds of thousands
of workers from the downtown dis
tricts.
The entire coast line from the Della
ware Capes north has been in the grasp
of storm which, because of the heavy
fall of snow, the intensity of cold and
the force of the gale, has exceeded in
severity anything experienced in years.
Several Persons Freeze to Death
Inland from Maine throughout the
New England states and the middle
Atlantic states all reports indicate a.
most complete winter tieup. Far into
the west there is snow and a remark
ably low temperature.
Everywhere railroad traffic is de-
layed; reports of disasters to shipping
are coming in and with the rapidly
falling thermometer much suffering
must ensue. So severe was the storm
in this city that even during the day
hours several persons We're frozen to
death or died from exposure.
Tonight the hospitals police sta
tons and the house of refuge are
crowded to their capacity.
More than once police reserves were
called out to take care of the crowds
that were struggling around the en-
trance to some belated ferryboat which
was to attempt another trip.
Liners Remain at Piers
Soon after O'Clock tonight bull
letin was posted in the New York
Central station saying that no more
trains were expected to arrive tonight.
This notice referred to both local and
express trains.
Not vessel of any kind has sailed
from or arrived at this port in more
than "a hours and at the port of Bos-
ton only one arrival was reported and
that coastwise steamer. Two trans
atlantic liners, the Ryndam, carrying
the mails and the Nord America.
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Seven other steamers, all scheduled
to leave their piers during the day,
are still in port.
At Sandy Hook the gale blew at 60
miles an hour and a number OF veS-
sells are reported at anchor there.
The Atlantic transport line steamer
Memonee from London, the HollaE,i-
American steamer Rotterdam and tn :
Fabre line steamer Germania all of
which have been reported by wireless
telegraph, are in Sandy Hook bay.
Long Island Isolated
A dozen or more steamers now over
due have not been heard from.
The storm began yesterday afternoon
in a gentle way. AS the night came
the wind increased and by midnight it
was blowing a half gale and drifted
hard. At noon it was 40 miles an hour
and with it came a heavy fall of snow
and temperature that fell rapidly.
The thermometer then registered about
Is degrees.
Tonight the mercury went to about
IL degrees at midnight and the wind at
that hour was blowing As miles an
hour Less snow was falling than
during the day. but still it was piling
high.