Arizona republican., 1905-01-26
WINTERS ICY CHAIN
Not Since 1888 Was New York and the
 East So Tied Up.

New York, Jan. 25.-Not since the 1 blizzard of 1888 has New York been so l completely snow bound as it is tonight. l The city itself is lying under a foot of snow, that in many places has been | banked by the wind to a height of | several feet. Surface travel early in the day was abandoned. overhead tran sit was irregular and slow, and it re- mained for the underground roads to carry home, so far as they could reach within the city limits, the hundreds of thousands of workers from the down
 town districts.
 The entire coast line from the Del
 aware capes north has been in the
 grasp of the storm, which, because of
 the heavy fall of snow, the intensity of
 the cold and the force of the gale, has exceeded in severity anything eXpe-
 rienced in years. Inland from Maine
 throughout the New England states
 and the middle Atlantic states all re-
 ports indicate a most complete winter
 tie-up. Far into the west there is snow
 and remarkably low temperature.
 Everywhere railroad traffic is delay
 ed. Reports of disasters to shipping
 are coming in and with a rapidly fall
 ing thermometer much suffering must
 ensue. So severe was the storm in this
 city that even during the day hours several persons were frozen to death
 or died of exhaustion.
 Tonight the hospitals. police stations and houses of refuge are crowded to their capacity. More than once the police reserves were called out to take care of the crowds that were strug- gling around the entrance to some be- lated ferrybOat which was seen to at tempt another trip. Long before sun down the hOmeward bound workers learned that the trolleys everywhere throughout Manhattan had been aban- dOned, that the cable cars were stalled in many places and that for those who lived in the suburbs nothing remained to do but to take up quarters some where near at hand if they hoped to to work the following day.
 Soon after ' o'clock tonight a bulle- 1 tin was posted in the Grand Central station that no more trains were eX- pected to arrive over the New York Central road during the night This referred to both local and express | trains. On the New Haven system | very few trains were dispatched and | those that arrived were five hours be- l hind time. The Boston express, due | to arrive at 4:15 p. m., was reported | stalled in a snOwdrift at Rye. This l was the condition that prevailed on all ] the roads entering New York. Not a 1 vessel of any kind has sailed from or 1 arrived at this port in more than twen- 1 ty-fOur hours and at the port of BOs- 1 ton. only one arrival was reported and | that was a cOastwise steamer. Two Transatlantic liners, the Ryndam, l mails. and the Nord America, l have been unable to leave their piers. | Seven other steamers, all scheduled to | leave during the day, are still in port. |
 At Sandy Hook and Quarantine the | gale blew at 60 miles an hour and l number of vessels are reported at an | chor there. The Atlantic transport l line steamer Minomine. from London, | the Holland American liner Rotterdam, l and the Fabre line steamer Germania, l all of which have been reported by | wireless telegraph, are in Sandy Hook | Bay A dozen or more other steamers, | now overdue, have not been heard | from.
 Not a Sound steamer left tonight | Not only were there some fears of the | storm, but little freight had been de- livered to these boats and the passen- gers cancelled their tickets. i
 This city, always susceptible to ab- normal weather conditions, is facing a l condition unequalled since that of | March, fifteen years ago, when 1t was cut off from the rest of the world by a record snowfall. The present storm began yesterday afternoon in a gentle way. As night came the wind increas- ed and by midnight it was blowing half a gale and driving hard At noon 1t was forty miles an hour and with it came a heavier fall of snow and a tenn perature falling rapidly. The thermom- eter then registered about 15 degrees. Tonight the mercury went to about 10 degrees at midnight and the wind at that hour was blowing 4S miles an hour. Less snow was falling than dur ng the day but it was still piIing high
 Outside of Brooklyn and Long Island City all traffic on Long Island was sus- pended