Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-25
LOSSES run INTO THE THOUSANDS
Believed That eIeat Damage Has
seeu Done to Shipping Along the
Jersey coast-TraHc on Railroads
Entering the City Badly Blocked
lumber of Deaths.
(By Associated Press)

NEW YORK, Jan. 24-New York is
digging itself out of 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 We
hicle traffic.
Tome row morning It Is believed
will find something like normal con
diiions restored.
Tonight the temperature was fall
ing slowly and the snow promises
to stay for another day at least
The snow stern. which began last
night continued until past noon to-
day, and even after the snowfall had
ceased, n half gale kept the AMIR thick
with flurries that filed the walks
as fast as they were cleaned. clogged
the wheels Of traffic and blinded the
hliippers of shore.
The storm was the first OF import :
ence Of tho season. Much suffering
hus+been occasioned there has been
the usual toll of deaths exacted; and
the monetary damage must be reck-
oned by thousands of dollars.
Mercifully the snow was accom-
panied by moderate temperature, and
in Its early stages It was welcomed
by the honest part OF the 10000 I'M
employed men in the city. All who
sought employment from last mid
night on, found 1t readily and good
wages were paid Even with all who
would work employed. the streets
in. the outlying sections could not be
kept open.
AS the day grew shorter and the
mercury fell. the cold pinched in many
quarters and tonight the charity So
cietles had their hands full. The
Bowery bread lines We're extended
tonight for blocks farther than at
any time before this winter. and at an
early hour 1t was said that the sup
ply would not nearly meet the needs
The free lodging houses were packed
tonight and the Salvation Army and
kindred organizations were working
heroically to minimize the sudden
change from spring to freezing wealth
or
Storm Causes Number Of Deaths.
During the day the thermometer
registered from &c to 90 above zero.
followed by gradual declining to-
wa.d midnight
A number of accidents with a num-
Der OF fatalities were credited TO
the storms account.
One man was frozen to death near
an East Twenty-thrd street lodging
house from which he had been eject
ed.
A street merchant succumbed to
heart disease after battling with the
snow.
special policeman died while
digging path to newly made grave.
a civil war veteran was another
victim Of heart disease caused by ex-
posure.
The sto-m gave the new public
service commission its first oppor-
tunity 10 witness the transportation
companies struggle with the clements.
Except for the subway, in which there
was only one brief delay. and the
elevated roads, where the trains.
With one exception, ran regularly,
though under slow schedule. the
transportation facilities of the city
and suburbs were well nigh demon.
allied throughout the day. Surface
cars were paralyzed in all the Dor
oughs.
Trains on the railroads from out
lying New York and Long Island
towns were blocked for hours i'll many
cases.
Railroads Bothered NV storm.
The steam railroads from distant
points came into the Grand Central
station generally belatcd, hough
schedules to distant points were fair
ly we'll maintained.
The steam roads of New Jrsev suf-
fored more A train on the New Jer-
} sey/ Southern Railroad Is stalled to-
mint between Seabright and Nor
riandle. Along the coast the storm
Whipped the waters into n DANGEROUS
fury. Sound steamers took refuge in
harbors to avoid the fate of he John
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