The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

New York, January 24.-New York | tonight is digging itself out of foot of snow. The thoroughfares of the mill | lions are piled high with drifts that | impede the progress of man and beast and that have tied up street car and vehicle traffic.
 Tomorrow morning, it is believed,
 will find something like normal con
 ditions restored.
 Tonight the temperature was falling
 slowly and snow promised to stay for another day at least
 The snow storm which began last
 night continued until past noon to-
 day, and even after the snowfall
 ceased half gale kept the air thick with hurries that filled the walks as
 fast as they were cleaned, clogged the
 wheels of traffic and blinded the skip pers off shore.
 The storm was the first of impor- tance of the season. Much suffering has been occasioned; there has been the usual toll of deaths taken and the
 monetary damage must be reckoned by tn thousands of dollars. Mercifully the
 
 temperature in it's early stages and it
 was welcomed by the honest part of the 35,000 unemployed in the city All
 who sought employment from last mid
 night on, found it readily, and at good | wages. Even with all who would work employed. the streets in the outlaying 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 cieties had their hands full. The Bow cry bread lines were extended tonight l for blocks farther than at any time be- fore this winter and at an early hour it was said that the supply would not
 nearly meet the need.
 Lodging Houses Packed. The free lodging houses were packed tonight and the. Salvation Army and
 kindred organizations were working
 heroically e,- minimize the effect of the sudden shift from spring to freez- | ing weather. During the day the ther- | mometer registered from 26 to 2S above zero, followed by a gradual decline to- | ward midnight.
 ! A number of accidents and four fatal ities were credited to the storms act.
 One man was frozen to death near an
 East Twenty third street 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 ceme- tery a special policeman died while dig ging a path to a newly made grave. A civil war veteran was another victim of heart disease, caused by exposure ] The storm gave the new public service commission it's first opportunity to 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 excep- tion Ban regularly, though under SLOW speed the transportation facilities of the | city and the suburbs were well nigh de- moralized throughout the day. surface | cars were paralyzed in all the boroughs
 Trains on the railroads from outlying New | Jersey and Long Island towns were
 blocked for hours in many cases. | While the steam railroad trains from 1 distant points came into the Grand Cen | tral station belated, the through schedules were fairly well maintained.
 Sea In a Fury.
 | Along the coast the storm chopped the | waters into a dangerous fury. Sound | steamers took refuge in harbors to avoid the fate of the John M. Starin, which went ashore during the snowstorm and | shipping has been seriously interfered with. The schedules of all lines have | been disarranged.
 | Along the Jersey coast much damage | is reported The strip of land separating | Shrewsbury river from the ocean was | swept over by huge waves and several ! towns particularly Subright. were more | or less under water. Bulkheads ana pa vilions were washed away.
 The steamer Providence, from New York to Boston. was driven into New London by the storm and her 400 passen- | gers proceeded to Boston by rail- Down off Sandy Hook small fleet Of