The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-01-25
POOR AND UNEMPLOYED
ENDURE GREAT SUFFERINGS
Street Car Traffic and Ferryboats
Paralyzed.
CsIa wsvs And snow strikes Many
seuthern Cities Much
Dsmase has Been Done
% EARLY Crops And
Gardens.


night is digging itself out of q foot
Of snow. The thoroughfares of the
millions are piled high with drifts that
impede the progress OF man and beast
and that have tied UP street car and
vehicle trafic.
md something like normal conditions
restored. Tonight the temperature
was failing slowly and snow promised
to stay for another day at least
The snow storm which began last
night continued until past noon today.
and even after the snowfall ceased
half gale kept the air thick with fIur.
rfes that filled the walks as fast as
they were cleaned. clogged the wheels
Of trafic and blinded the skippers on
shore.
The storm was the irst Of import
apce Of the season. Much sunering
has been occasioned: there has been
the usual toll Of deaths taken and
the monetary damage must be reck-
oped by thousands OF dollars. Merci-
fully. the snow was accompanied BY
moderate temperature in it's early
stages and IL was welcomed by the
honest part % the $4,000 unempioyeo
in the city. All who sought employ
neut from last midnight on. found !t
readiIy and at good wages. Even Win
All who would work employed, the
streets In the outlying sections could
not be kept open. ~.
As the day grew shorter and the
teraperakure fell, the cold pinched IN
many quarters and tonight the chariIy
socisttes had their hands full. the
Rowery bread lines were EXTENDED TO-
night for blocks farther than az any
time before this winter, and at an ear
IL hour it was said that the supply
yo,sld not nearly meet the need.
Tha free lodging houses were packed
1omlasf ana aha salvation Army ana
ISl,5s;rsA organisations were working
TerofcaIly 10 minimize the effect OF the
snddsn. shirt from spring 70 fresxing
s,,cs,,~fera refEsstered from 30 70 20
above zero, followed by q graduai de-
cline toward midnight
J "a number 81 accidents and four fa-
fSIitfee we're credited to the storms
account. One man was frose 70 'Rsa aat
lrdnine house from which he had
been elected. A Grand street mer-
rI,anf arccufnbed to heart disease after
baftiing with the snow and WIND. In
Vvoodlawn cemetery special ponce
man died whiIe digging pain 20 =
aran wac another victim Of heart dis
ease caused By exposure.
Tsha storm gave the new public SER
vice eorauninsion its first opportunity
" witness the transportation scompay
MES struggle with the elements
Except for the subway IN Wnics
there vas only one brief delay. and
ths elevated roads, where the trains.
vyith one exespticns ran regularly,
,horah under slow speed, the trans
,eortsfion facilities Of the city and the
s,Iburbp were well nigh demoFaliEed
tfaroughout the day. Surface cars were
raraIyzed In AL the boroughs: Trains
on the railroads from oatiylns rev
Jersey and Long Island towns were
blocked for hours in many cases.
while the steam railroad trains from
dietanf points came into the Grand
Central station generally belated,
through schedules to distant points
were fairly well maintained. the
steam roads in New Jersey suffered
more. train on the New Jersey
southern Railroad is stalled tonight Der
tween seabright and Normandie.
Rough at Sea.
Along the coast the storm chopped
the waters into dangerous fury.
sound steamers took refuge IN harbors
70 avoid the fate Of the John "a. starin,
which went ashore during the snow
storm. and shipping has been seriously
interfered with. The schedules Of all
lines have been deranged.
Along the Jersey coast much damage
is reported. The strip Of land separat-
ing Shrewsbury river from the ocean
was swept over by huge waves, and
several towns, particularly Seabright,
were more or less under water. Bulk
heads and pavilions were washed away.
The steamer Providence from New
York 70 Boston was driven into New
London by the storm and her 400 pas
sengers proceeded to Boston by rail-.
Down on Sandy Hook, a small Meet
OF trans Atlantic steamships ran into
the binding snow, which hid the har-
hor beacons and made 1t necessary to
anchor until clearing weather. It was
not until tonight that the Hamburg.
American steamship Graf Waldersee
ana White Star liner Adriatic threaded
their course up the windswept channel
to their docks All incoming liners re-
port towering seas, which broke over
ships sides and battered the decks
Nine steamships due here today we're
still unreported at Sandy Hook tonight
Late tonight the weather was clear
and the wind had slowed to twenty
four miles an hour.
While the storm was at its worst
Mrs. Clara Yorveick was found wan
dering in the streets in Brooklyn clad
only in her night clothes. Her feet
were frozen, when the police found
her.
Retail coal dealers today advanced
the price Of the domestic sizes OF coal
fifty cents per ton. II was announced
the additional cost Of delivery.
STORM SWEETS COAST.
Scorem Of Vensela ON Atlantic at Mercy
OF Gale.