Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-26
FREEZING WEATHER
FOLLOWS STORM.
Terrible Suffering Among Resi-.
dents of the Poorer Quarters
Of New York City.
SUPPLY OF FUEL IS SHORT.
Storm Less Severe in New England
Colder 10 Nisconsin-Milder
In Kansas.

New York, Jan. Declaring weather
which followed the great storm Of yes
terday brought New York one Of the
coolest days it has experienced in many
years. During the early hours Of the
morning the mercury reached the zero
mark in the weather bureaus official
thermometer and at s o'clock this fore
noon 1t stood at degrees above,
Terrible suffering is reported among
the residents Of some Of the poorer
quarters Of the city, where thousands
were without sufficient heat clothing
or food Charitable institutions where
free lodging is given We're packed to
their capacity during the night
The subway and the elevated lines
we're running today and in very good
condition, but surface lines were prac-
tically unable TO operate their cars
Efforts We're made throughout the night
to clear the tracks but the light snow
drIftei back ON tho tracks as fast as
It was cleared away
The mercury chung closely TO the zero
mark during the forenoon, rising at u
rate Of hardly one degree per hour
While nothing like full reports from
all sections of the city had been re-
ceived, II was known that at least eight
deaths had resulted directly from the
abnormal weather. All Of these victims
were persons who fell IN the street
henumbed by the cold and exhaustion.
one Of tho most serious conditions
which confronted New Workers today
was the food and fuel supply Already
there is practically q famine I'm milk,
Coal dealers reported today that they
had about two days supply ON hand but
they seemed certain that the conditions
WIZ Improve sufficiently within that
time to allow them to get a renewal
from the wholesalers who have thous-
auds OF tons IN barges on the New Jer-
sey side OF the Hudson river
Provisions Of all Kinds have been adj
vanced in price.
Every railroad running TO this city
Is suffering severely from the storm
Not one of the through trains had sue
cceded in getting through I'm either d.
rection and the suburban traffic was In
serious state.
Conditions iu Brooklyn were worse
than in New York.
Dispatches from an sections Of the
state generally report % cessation Of the
snow fan and clearing and intensely
sold weather Railway traffic was said
To be badly crippled.
a dispatch from Little Falls, ~ ",
said that the thermometer last night
registered II TO rs degrees below zero
throughout Hcrkimer country. Only
trains carrying pcrishable freight were
being run on the Mohawk division Of
the New York Central
Seventeen passenger trains from New
York ON that road scheduled TO pass
Little Falls during the last 10 hours
had not been heard from up 10 a. m.
Among them was the Twentieth Cen
fury limited.
Trains ON the Pennsylvanla railroad
which should have arrived last night
came IN today from 10 l3 hours late
and suburban lines were I'm very poor
condition Through trains on the Erie
road due last night had not been re-
ported today Al Poughkeepsio, on the
New York Central, a large number Of
through trains we're stlll stalled TO-DAY
The Southwestern express, Cleveland
express Adirondack express Twentieth
Century limited and the Chicago ok
press, AN due 10 arrive this morning
We're reported to be from three to four
hours late
Funerals have been suspended mn
over the city and the conditions mo the
cemeteries are such that no funeral can
take place for several days, Tho end
0f the storm permitted the blockade "
shipping to lift and the steamers which |
had been held up outside the hlrbot, |
came into port.
Among them We're the Transatlantic |
liners Calahria, Meuominoe, Gcrm1nia !
and Rotterdam, and the Colon steam |
or Alliancia. Al the vessels were cove |
cred with ice and snow The rigging |
rails. boats and the decks were coated !
heavily.
IN NEW ENGLAND, !
Boston, Jan. 2G-Rcports today from
various points on the New England !
coats indicate that the great storm OF .
yesterday had lost It's severity during .
the night but at the same time news /
that four sChooners and one steamer
had been driven ashore at Cape Cod /
was received. The steamer was the
Georgetown, OF the Atlantic steamship |
company's line, which struck ON Great
Point on Nantucket shoals Tho crew /
reached shore. but the steamer is re-
ported to be I'm a bad position,
OF the sohoouors two We're Eve mast
crs, a thhd was a. four-masteT the !
names of these being unknown while
the fourth was the two-masted fishing
schooner Monitor Of proyincctowu,
which struck during the night on Saga
moro beach bar oil Sandwich. The crew
of four men was driven TO the rigging, !
whore they spent the night with ln-
tense suffering until daylight, when the
falling tide permitted them 10 escape
90 shore. Of the larger schoonors, one
OF the hyc-masters went ashore on |
Yarmouth fats, while the second five
master ana the fuur-master grounded
ON the fats near North Dennis,
The schooner reported last night us
ashore oft Proyiucetowu stll was in
distress today ana her Identity had
not been learned
The sudden vceriug Of the gale from
northeast to northwest was the lndl-
rect cause Of the casting ashore Of so
many craft at points whore they had
sought shelter. Today's reports indi-
cate that iu New England the greatest
force of the storm was felt ON the south
ern shore Inland the disturbance was
far less severe ~ Boston the streets
were piled high with snow which thou
sands of men were working hard % re-
move.
The mercury early today registered
2 above zero, There was much suffer-
ing from exposure which was the direct
cause OF two deaths in the city.
BITTER COLD IN PHILADELPHIA. !
Philadelphia, Jan, 2G..-Bittor cold
heather today followed the snowstorm