Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-26
THE WORST SINCE 1888
Effects Of Yesterdays Wide
spread Blizzard.
TRAFFIC rs PARALYZED
BELOW ZERO WEATHER CON-
TINUES AT MANY POINTS.
Hurricane Sweeps Atlantic Coast States
Trains Delayed-Much
Suffering.
TRAFFIC rs PARALYZED

New York emerged today from thirty
| sX-hour gale and snow storm to face the
coldest day of the present winter In the
early hours street car lines We're tied up
railway service disarranged and delaye I'd
| and street traffic almost an imnossibifitv
AT o'clock the official temperature was
zero. 1t slowly rose. until at noon the off,
| cial reading was degrees A brilliant sim
| shone from a cloudess sky, but its faint
| warmth was lessened by biting wind
| driving before it clouds of fine snow dust
| with the-d dawn tremendous efforts were
| put forth to clear the streets in the busi-
| ness districts and free the car tracks but
the work was delayed by the difficulty of
| securing men willing to face the cold and
| wind. By noon, however. conditions began
to assume an aspect approaching normal
brushes and plows cleared the car tracks
sufficiently to permit of fairly good serv-
ice, while the more important thoroughfares
| were made passable for teams
| The railways report a delay of from
| three TO nfteen hours in through train serv-
| ice, while suburban service is practically
| without schedule and in some directions en-
tirely suspended. The ferries In both the
East and Hudson rivers are hampered bv
| rapidly forming ice. The foes are driven
into the docks, compelling the use of tugs
| to force the ferryboats into their slips
| While fear is expressed of a coal famine
1t is said by dealers that If more snow does
| not fall the supply on hand is adequate to
| meet the situation The city, however is
| suferlng for milk the tie-up of suburban
| trains preventing the arrival of the daily
supply.
The police and charitable organizations
| report much suffering among the poor. and
| thousands of persons have been given shell
| ter in the municipal lodging houses and
| other charities.
Incoming vessels are coated with ice and
| report very cold weather at sea-
| Up New York state the snowfall has
ceased, but the tempera ture averages -
| degrees below zero. From the New Eng
| land coastline come reports of MANY ma
rfne disasters, but with little or no loss
| of life. SO far as known. Four sehooners.
two OF them big ive-masters, are ashore
| on Cape Cod, and the coal steamer George
| town is ashore on Nantucket shoals. A
heavy snow fell throughout New England
impeding railway traffic and making coua-
try roads impossible. In the LftchfieId
| hills, in Connecticut. the drifts are twenty
feet high.
NEW YORK, January 26-Clearing
yesterday brought New York one of the
coldest days it has experienced in many
years. During the early hours of the morn
ing the mercury reached the zero mark in
the weather bureaus official thermometer
and at o'clock this forenoon it stood at
degrees above. Terrible suffering is re-
ported among the residents of some of the
poorer quarters of the city, where thou
sands were without sufficient heat, clothing
or food. Charitable institutions, where free
lodging is given the homeless. We're packed
to their capacity during the night.
Although the storm cleared comparatively
early, many lines of transportation had
been unable to make their usual schedules
| early today. The subway and the elevated
lines were running, and in very good cond-
ton, but surface lines We're practically un-
able to operate their cars.
Efforts to Clear Tracks.
Efforts were made throughout the night
to clear the tracks, but the light snow
drfted back on the tracks as fast as it WAS
cleared away.
The intense cold held very steadily during
the forenoon The mercury clung closely
to the zero mark, rising at a rate of hardly
one degree per hour. The wind continued
and the conditions were hardly less unpleas-
ant than yesterday
While nothing like full reports from all
sections of the city had been received early
today, it was known that at least eight
deaths had resulted directly from the alb
normal weather. All of these victims
persons who fell in the street benumbed by
the cold and exhausted from tie effort Of
attempting to force their way along the
snow-drifted streets.
Two Serious Conditions.
One of the most serious conditions which
confronted New Workers today was the
food and fuel supply. Already there L.
practically a famine in milk. Coal dealers
reported today that they had about two
days supply on hand, but they seemed very
certain that the conditions will improve
sufficiently with that time to allow them
to get a renewal from the Wholesalers who
have thousands of tons in barges on the
New Jersey side of the Hudson river.
Provisions of all kinds have been adj
vanced in price by the Wholesalers, and in
many cases the retailers have added two
or three cents pound TO the advance of
the larger dealers.
The recovery of the surface lines even
in the center of the city was very slow
and the underground and elevated trains
were seriously taxed to handle the in
creased traffic. The subway particularly
was favored. The great crush made the
movement of trains extremely slow. and
no attempt was made to maintain
schedules.
Every railroad running to this city was
suffering severely from the storm today,
Not one of the through trains had sue
ceeded in getting through in either direc-
ton and the suburban traffic was in a
serious state.
Worse Conditions in Brooklyn.
Conditions in Brooklyn were worse thar
in New York There is no subway
in that borough to take care of thu
overflow traffic and the slow-moving-
surface cars and elevated trains were
jammed On many lines no cars at
all were running during the usual rush
hours of the day. and thousands of persons
were obliged to walk long distances to
other lines, only to find the cars and trains
filed to their capacity
The Long Island railroad which was
tied up completely as a result of the storm
yesterday reported during the forenoon that
not wheel had been moved Traffic cOn-