New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25
OLD WINTER LOOKS UP.
DEEP SNOW COTERS CITY.
Sir-Inch Fall FrO@eR IN Streets
Mann Hurt.

Driven by ten-mle breeze. a heavy snow
storm from the northeast enveloped the city
yesterday. The first snowflake fell on the tower
of the weather bureau at precisely 11:13 a. m,
and by o'clock nearly six inches of snow had
fallen. Then the storm turned to rain. filing
the streets with slushy mixture of filth. which
at midnight, with a sudden drop in temperature,
congeaed into an unpleasant and dangerous
ice coat for sidewalk and pavement
BY 3 o'clock the New York City Railroad had
all its ploughs out clearing it's tracks and
piling the snow up for teams to struggle through
to-day. The wet snow clung to the. contact rail
of the elevated lines and caused fine display
of fireworks without materially delaying the
trains.
Many accidents due to snow covered ice We're
reported to the police and hospitals. The first
occurred shortly after the snow began falling.
Among those reported by the police were:
BAFJ5L Rte; 17at AdoPh sixty old tailor of No 40
23th street fractured night thigh and contusions of
LUHMAN, Henry. sixty-slx years old OF No 624 East
9th street. fractured left hip
street scalp %o4nd ana vT abTasions 3 0 Of the body
NELSON Albert thirty years Old of No $50 East 5oth
RosENBERG: Rachel. thiryeight years old. Of No 80
SMITH. Miss Lille twenty one years old. OF No. $40
East 10th street. fractured right leg
part Of the city Those trolley lines which run
across the island. with half a dozen hills to
climb. were put out of commission by the snow.
which made the rails as slippery as though
creased. Places like Grant City and Linoleum-
Vile were entirely cut off by the snow. and
even the shore lines had great difficulty in keep
ing to schedule.
The ferry service was delayed to a consider
able extent by the thick weather The boats
were anywhere from ten to thirty minutes late
each trip.
1t was the harbor traffic indeed which suf-
fered most. Although the Sunday traffic there
is considerably less than weekdays, there is
much Of II, nevertheless. The British steamer
Nanette. from Trinidad and Cienfuegos with
sugar for the Federal Refining Company, at
Yonkers, has been lying in the Liberty Island
anchorage for three or four days. She started
up the river for Yonkers yesterday. but off
125th street she encountered so much Ice that
considering the thick weather. her skipper put
back to the anchorage.
A dozen coasters and steamers from Carib-
bean ports got TO the Bar yesterday but stayed
outside because of the thick weather The
Etruria and the Philadelphia. weighted down at
the bows with ice. which ran from Plmson
mark to crows nest, came in and up to their
piers. the passengers heartily sick of their sea
trip with It's rough weather.
The trip Of the Etruria was an exceptionally
rough one. intense cold being encountered all the
way. Especially was this true on Wednesday
and Thursday, when the vessel ran into a wes-
terly gale, which threw up spray to the crow s
nest. freezing quickly IT struck the mast.
Old salts along the river front were unani-
nous in the opinion that for years a vessel
has not come into port here with such an arctic
appearance. During the gale part OF the
bridge and rails were torn away, but the steam
er rode through the heavy seas with uudauuted
spirit.
Although the rain indicated that there might
not be any work to-day for the snow removal
contractors all prepared for the worst. and
unless the snow is cleared away by the rain
there viii be about three thousand men at
work in Manhattan this morning cleaning the
streets