The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-25
NEW YORK CITY
IN STORMS GRASP
HEAVY FALL OF SNOW TIED UP
TRANSPORTATION LINES.
THE MERCURY ALSO FELL.
Unexpected Change in Weather Con.
ditions Caused Much Suffering,
Several Deaths and a Num-
ber Of Accidents.

New York, Jan. 25.-New York Is
digging itself out of a foot of snow
SO unevenly divided that while ex.
posed spots like Coney Island have
been blown bare, the thoroughfares
of the millions are left piled high with
drifts that impede the progress of man
and beast and, in the more open sec.
tions, have tied up street car and We
hicle traffic.
The storm was the first of impor.
tance of the season and the ardent
prayer of the New Yorker is that it
will prove to have been also the worst.
Much suffering was oocasioned: the
usual toll of deaths was exacted and
the monetary damage must be reck.
oned by tens of thousands of dollars.
Mercifully the snow was accompa.
MED by moderate temperature and in
its early stages 1t was welcomed by
the honest part of the $4,000 unem-
ployed men in the city. All who
sought employment from midnight on
found 1t readily and at good wages.
The man with the shovel was every.
where in demand. The street clean
ing department required some 10000
shovelers, the traction companies as
many more and thousands of others
earned many dollars from household.
ers by shoveling off walks.
Probably the most poignant distress
was experienced by the several thou
sand genuine tramps who, having rid.
den into town on the hard times wave
and since enjoyed the city's bounty,
awoke to find themselves confronted
with an unmistakable opportunity to
work. Some rose to the occasion and
others shifted their lodgings.
AS the day grew shorter and the
mercury fell the cold pinched in many
quarters and last night the charity
societies had their hands full. The
Bowery bread lines, perhaps the most
pitiful of the city's public exhibitions
of poverty, were extended for blocks
further than at any time before this
winter, and at an early hour It was
said that the supply would not nearly
meet the need.
The free lodging houses were packed
and the Salvation Army and kindred
organizations were working heroically
to minimize the effect of the sudden
shift from spring to freezing weather.
During the day thermometers regis
tered from 26 to 23 above zero, fol-
lowed by a gradual decline toward
midnight.
A number of accidents and four IA
talfties were credited to the storm $
account. One man was frozen to
death near a lodging house from which
he had been elected. A Grand street
merchant succumbed to heart disease
after battling with the snow and wind.
In Woodlawn cemetery special po-
liceman died while digging a path to
a newly made grave. A civil war vet
eran was a victim of heart disease
caused by exposure.
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 speed, the trans
portation facilities of the city and
the suburbs were well nigh demoral-
lied all day. Surface cars were para
lyzed in all the boroughs. Trains on
the railrods from New Jersey and
Long Island towns were blocked for
hours in many instances.
yAlong the coast the storm whipped
the waters into dangerous fury.
Sound steamers took refuge In harbors
to avoid the fate of the John NJ. Star
in, which went ashore during the snc W
storm, and shipping was seriously in
terfered with.
Along the Jersey coast much dam
age is reported The strip of land
separating Shrewsbury river from the
ocean was swept over by huge waves
and several towns, particularly Sea-
bright, were more or less under water.