The Washington times., 1905-01-27
COUNTRY
ENERGIES SLOWLY
FROM ICE GRIP
Paralyzed Traffic Re-
stored and the World
Moves.
INCIDENTS OF BLIZZARD
INCIDENTS OF BLIZZARD
Suffering Among the Poor
in Many of the Cold
Belt Cities.

NEW YORK. Jan. z7.-The great snow
and wind storm of Wednesday, which pa
ralyzed traffic of all kinds. is today lit
tie more than memory. The snow is
being rapidly removed from the streets
by an army Of men. and conditions are
again almost normal.
Street cars and elevated trains are run
ming on schedule time. and the usual
crowds are once more seen IN the shop
ping districts
All the railroads have cleared away
the drifts, stalled locomotives have been
dug out, and trains are being operated
regularly Trains on the Pennsylvania
Railroad are moving promptly. The
same conditions prevail on the other
trunk lines. with the exception Of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western. on
which road through trains are about an
hour late The service, however is i'm
proving. and II is thought by afternoon
all trains VIII be up TO the schedule.
The Long Island Railroad is again
open, except for short stretch on the
main line between Riverhead and Green
port. Snowplows are constantly ar work
! there. and it Is expected that the bar
-ier viii soon be lifted.
Hard Times at Sea.
All vessels arriving here are coated
with ice, showing that the severe
weather extended seaward. The steam
er Bernilla, which arrived this morn
ing. has very low free board and had
a deckload OF dye wood The spray
had frozen several inches thick over
the decks, making ii very dangerous
for the crew 10 move about. The Sides
rigging, bridge. boats, and every part
of the house was coated with ice from
four TO six inches thick
A number of the crew were frostbit-
ten.
Freighted with ice and battered by
MANY seas, several vessels of the be-
lated feet of incomers reached the har-
| Dor.
| All had had trying times with the
blizzard 1t was necessary TO keep fog
| signals constantly going, while spume
driving with the snow lashed the leap
Ing vessels until they were tncrusted
| with ice from end to end.
The turmoil SO wrought upon the pas
sengers of the Alliance. which arrived
! from Colon, that religious service was
held on board. the voyagers gathering
in the saloon at the height of the storm
| to offer up prayers and to sing hymns
rem IN Sltudt10u.
The officers Were not quite sure there
| was no peril in the situation Captain
Shilling said it was the worst expert
ence he ever had II was off Barnegat
where the vessel caught an eighty-niIe-
an-hour gale from the northwest and
which sheared the steamship a full fifty
miles from her course before it was
done.
in from Jacksonville with decks a mass
of ice, piled high and ribbed, as is the
sand along beach. Captain Watson
said that his vessel was off the Della
ware caDes when the blizzard came
rioting out to sea The gale was so furi-
ops that the vessel was unable to make
aay headway, and for the next twelve
hours she remained hove TO undo
steam
Steams in Two Days Late.
The Hamburg-American liner Moltke
from Hamburg. reached port two day:
late. The passengers We're glad to reaci
port at all The vessel has had all sort.
of mishaps and on top of IL her fui
STARE of he blizzarI, which she en-
couutered Off Nantucket.
Recounting her misadventures. the off
GERS told of how a w1re hawser got fou
| OF one of the propeilers while the Vesse
was being warped out Of her Hamburg
| pier and Of how 1t required the service
| of diver to clear the obstruction. a
Dover a gale made Il Impossible Tor tn
ship 10 get alongside her new pier ant
the passengers and their baggage hat
| TO be taken off in tender. Inen higi
gales were met and then the blizzard
which tossed the great ship as she ha;
mover been tossed before.
Passengers of the Atlantic. one Of th
South ferry line. had the novel expert
ence of walking the ice from boa
TO shore + he Vessel was on hcr nOo'
trip from New York. but came 70
standstiil when halfway IL her Brook
Ivn slip. halted by mass of ice eHghicl
was clogged there.