The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26

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 is tonight The city itself
is lying under a foot of snow. In many
places it has 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 it remained for the underground
roads to carry home the hundreds of
thousands of workers from the down
town districts.
The entire coast line from the Della
ware capes north has been In the grasp
of storm which, because of its heavy
fall of snow, the intensity of the cold
and the force of the gale, has exceeded
IN severity anything experienced IN
years. From Maine, the New England
States and the Middle Atlantic States
have come reports of a most complete
winter tie-up. Far into the West there
is snow and remarkably low tenn
perature. Everywhere railroad traffic
Is delayed. Reports of disasters to ship
ping are coming in, and with the rap
idly falling thermometer much suffer-
ing must ensue.
SEVERAL DIE FROM COLD.
So severe was the storm in this city
that even during the day hours several
persons were frozen to death or dleu
from exposure. Tonight the hospitals,
police stations 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 entrance to
some belated ferry-boat which was
soon to attempt another trip.
Long before sundown the homeward-
bound workers learned that trolleys
everywhere throughout Manhattan had
been abandoned, that cable cars were
stalled in many places and that for
those who lived in the suburbs nothing
remained but to take UP quarters
somewhere near at hand If they hoped
to return to work the following day.
Soon after o'clock tonight a bull
letin was posted in the New York Cen
trail station saying that no more trains
were expected to arrive tonight. This
notice referred to both local and ex-
press trains.
Not a vessel Of any kind has sailed
from or arrived at this port in more
than twenty-four hours, and at the
port of Boston only one arrival was re-
ported, and that a coastwise steamer.
Two transatlantic liners, the Ryn-
dam, carrying the mails, and the Nord
America, have been unable to leave
their piers. Seven other steamships, all
scheduled to leave their piers during
the day. are still in port.
WORST STORM IN YEARS.
At Sandy Hook and at the quarantine
station the gale blew at the rate of
sixty miles an hour, and a number of
vessels are reported at anchor there.
The Atlantic Transport line steamship
Menominee from London, the Holland
American line steamship Rotterdam
and the Fabre line steamship Germa-
mia, all of which have been reported by
wireless, are in Sandy Hook Bay.
dozen or more other steamships now
overdue have not been heard from.
This city, always susceptible to ab-
normal weather conditions, is facing a
condition unequaled since that March
day years ago when it was cut off from
the rest of the world by record snow
fall. The present storm began yester-
day afternoon in a gentle way. AS the
night came the wind increased, and by
midnight it was blowing half gale
and drifting hard. At noon 1t was forty
miles an hour, and with it came a
heavy fall of snow and temperature
that fell rapidly. The thermometer
then registered about Is degrees. To-
night the mercury went to about 10 de-
grees at midnight and the wind at that
time was blowing forty-eight miles an
hour. Less snow was falling than DUR
ing the day, but 1t was still piling high.
All traffic on Long Island was sus-
pended.