The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-26
BLIZZARD ALL
OVER THE EAST
Great Suffering Among the Poor il
the Big Cities.
ALL TRAFFIC PARALYZED
SHIPS UNABLE TO ENTER THE
HARBORS.

EW YORK, Jan. 25.-NOL since the
blizzard of 1883. by which all
storms are estimated as great or
small, has New York been so complete
" snowbOund as it is tonight. The
city itself is lying under a foot of snow.
that in many places has been banked BY
the wind to a height of several feet.
Surface travel early in the day was
abandoned. overhead transit was irreg-
ular and slow and il 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 districts.
The entire coast line from the Della
ware capes north has been in the grasp.
of a storm which, because of the heavy
fail of snow, the intensity Of cold and
the force OF the gale, has exceeded IN
severity anything experienced in years.
Tieup Is Complete.
Inland from Maine throughout the
New England states and the middle
Atlantic states all reports indicate a
most complete winter tie-up. Far into
the west there is snow and a remark
able low temperature.
Everywhere railroad traffic is de-
1ayed; 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 exhaustion.
Tonight the hospitals. police stations
and the house of refuge are crowded to
their capacity.
Thousands Snowbound.
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 seen to attempt another trip. Long
before shutdown the hOmeward- hound
workers learned that trolleys every
where throughout Manhattan had been
abandoned, that cable cars We're stalled
IN many places. and that for those who
lived in the suburbs nothing remained
but TO take up quarters somewhere near
"a hand if they hoped to return to work
the following day.
soon after o'clock tonight a bull
1etin was posted i'm the New York Cen
trial station saying that no more trains
were expected TO arrive tonight. This
notice referred to both local and ex-
press trains.
Trains Stalled.
On the New Haven system very few
Trains were dispatched and those who
arrived were from four to eight hours
behind schedule time. The Boston ex-
press, due TO arrive at AIS D. m. was
reported stalled in "A snoWbank at Rye
This Was the condition that prevailed
on all roads entering New York.
Not a vessel OF any kind has sale
from or arrived at this port in more
than twenty-four hours. and at the
port of Boston only one arrival was
reported, and that a coastwise steamer
Two transatlantic liners, the Ryndam
carrying the mails and the Nord
America. have been unable to leave
their piers
Seven other steamers, all scheduled
10 leave their piers during the day, are
still in port.
Sixty-Mile Gale.
At Sandy Hook and Quarantine the
gale blew at sixty miles an hour, and
q number of vessels are reported at
anchor there. The Atlantic transport
line steamer MenOminee, from London
The Holland American line steamer
ROTTERDAM and the Fa bre line steamer
Germania, all of which have been re-
ported by wireless. are in Sandy Hook
bay. a dozen or more other steamers
now overdue have not been heard from
Not a sound steamer left tonight
Not only was there some fears of the
storm, but little freight had been de-
lvered to these BEATS and passengers
Cancelled their tickets.
Storm Began Tuesday.
This city. always susceptible to alb
normal weather conditions is facing
condition uneqUalled since that 18th of
March years ago, when it was cut off
from the rest Of the world by a record
snowfall. The present storm began
yesterday afternoon in a gentle way
As the night came the wind increased
and by midnight IL was blowing a gale
and drifting hard At noon it was
forty miles an hour and with it came a
heavy fall Of snow and a temperature
that fell rapidly. The thermometer then
registered about 10 degrees. Tonight
the mercury went to about 10 degrees
at midnight, and the wind at that hour
was blowing forty-eight miles a hour
Less snow was falling than during to-
day. but it was still piling high
Outside Of Brooklyn and Long Island
City ali traffic on Long island was sus-
pended.