The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-26
BLIZZARD COSTS
LIFE B. IN THE EAST
New York Buried Under Deep
Snow and Property Loss
Is Heavy.
0ITY'S LOSS ALONE rs
- OVER TWO MILLIONS
Eight Persons Known to Have
X Perished in Streets of the
i'll Metropolis.

,, Sew York, Jan. 26.-New York
emerged today from a thirty six hour
gale and snowstorm to face the coolest
day Of the present winter. In the early
wa yservice disarranged and delayed
and street traffic almost an impossible
ity.
With the dawn tremendous efforts
We're put forth to clear the streets in
the business districts and free the car
tracks, but the work was delayed by
the difficulty of securing men to face
the cold and wind. By noon, however,
conditions began to assume an aspect
approaching normal.
The railways report delay of from
three to fifteen hours in thru train serv-
ice while suburban service is practically
without schedule and in some directions
entirely suspended
Problem in Food Supply.
One of the most serious conditions
which confronted New Workers today
was the food and fuel supply. Already
there is practically a famine in milk.
Coal dealers reported today that they
Provisions of all kinds have been adj
ganced in price by the wholesalers and
in many cases the retailers have added
or 3 cents a pound to the advance of
the larger dealers.
Suffering Among the Poor.
The police and charitable organiza-
lions report much suffering among the
poor, and thousands of persons have
been. given shelter in the municipal
lodging houses and other charities.
thousands of persons slept last night
In railroad stations and ferry houses in
and near this city because Of the in
ability of the railroads and ferries to
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ade OF snow. Especially was this true
of young women employed in Offices and
stores in the city.
The plight of the passengers stalled
in trains in the outlying sections of the
city was pitiable. Tho within a few
NAL conditions, they might as we'll have
been miles away.
! Funerals have been suspended all
over the city and the conditions at the
cemeteries are such that none can take
place for several days. Burial COM
panies have offered the use of their
vaults for bodies without charge.
At Least Eight Perished.
While nothing Like full reports from
all sections of the city had been re-
ceived early today it was known that
at least eight deaths had resulted di-.
rectly from the abnormal weather.
Al of, these victims Were persons who
fell in the street, benumbed by the cold
and exhausted from the effort of at
tempting to force their way along the
snow drifted, streets.
Incoming vessels are coated with ice
and report very cold weather at sea.
A heavy snow fell thruout New Eng
land, impeding railroad traffic and MAX
Litchfeld hills in Connecticut the
drifts are twenty feet high.
l.; Driven Into Snow by Fire.
One hundred and fifty persons were
driven from their homes early today
by tenement house fire in the Bronx.
Several occupants Of the houses, whose
ame n' We're 0's rsscu SSi by v S{ ese
life savers while the fremen were
struggling thru the immense drifts of
snow which made the streets almost i'm
passable.
= Many Of the persons who were forced
to flee in their nightclothing suffered Sc
verely from exposure in the terrible
weather and it is feared that some of
them may not survive. The fire was
subdued after six double three story
tenement houses had been destroyed
The financial loss is placed at 100000
100000 Lost by Blizzard.
The total direct loss by yesterday 8
blizzard in New York city will foot VI
more than $2,00O,OO0. The principal
elements in this great sum are dis
tributed as follows, according to esti
mates gathered from reliable sources:
Department and other shopping stores,
loss in trade ..................... $500 90
Port losses expired charters, delay in
f-sight, no Sound traffic, los7 in tow
age, ETC SOO,UO
Public markets. loss In trade. ........ 10000
Elevated surface and subway railroads,
loss in traffic ::.....: :......:.. 1oo, 90
Restaurants chiefly in business dis
tricts, loss in custom. ............. 10000
Steam railroads. loss in traffic. ....... 5000
Street cleaning department, cost Of --.--
snow removal ...................... 5000
Theaters and places Of amusement,
loss in patronage. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1900
Loss in telegraph and electric tele-
phone equipment ................. 80, 90
Livery stables and automobile compa-
MES, loss in travel. 1000
Barrooms and billiard rooms. loss in
custom ........... 5000
Balls dances, entertainments, loss in
wages of $4,000 men and carts, o0'0o
couldn't clean streets. 5000
Ferry companies. loss in traffic. ...... 1000
Fulton fish market, loss in supplies. 25, 90
freightage .......... :.............. 5000
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