The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-15
HOwling Storm Raging
About City-BuSiness
Paralyzed.
DEATHS FOLLOW
MANY ACCIDENTS
Surface and Elevated Trains Are
Bound Up--Shipping Is
IN Peril.

NEW YORK, Jan l5.-Nzv
York today is gnpped by the s.
vereSt snOwstorm and blizzard Il has
known in years With fifteen mches
Of snow on the ground and a howl
ing blizzard raging, the city IS prac-
tcally paralyzed-
Five deaths are known TO have Cc-
CURED and many accidents have
been reported
Traffic on elevated and surface
lines IS so greatly DELAYED as 10 Re-
practically useless. Horses cannot
pull loads through the drift sn9-
and people can hardly walk in the
face Of the binding snow and howl
ing wind Shipping in the harbor
is in peril and already scores CT
minor accidents have been reported.
In the face Of this storm. the
American liner St. Louis fought her
way up TO Quarantine and later into
the city by as daring a bit of
seamanstip as has been recorded in
the marine annals Of New York
She was followed up by the giant
Lusitania.
VESSELS GRAVE DANGER.
The risk Of bringing these liners
up 70 Quarantine vas great. but no
greater than remaining of the
mouth Of The Ambrose channel.
where the storm caused them 20
drag their anchors and threatened
every moment TO drive them
ashore
Both vessels bore many evi-
dences Of the terrific struggle with
heavy seas. The pilot house OF the
Lusitania was a wreck, the result
Of being struck by one Of the big
gest waves that Captain Turner,
her skipper, ever saw. This oc-
CURED Monday night and for SIX
hours the giant Cunarder stopped
in midoceau while her steering gear
was repaired
Turner said the waves encount-
cred IN the fierce westerly gale Of
Monday evening were mountains
high. Finally there was a great
biIlOw that rose and rose in the
blackness and broke down upon us
with a roar Ike an earthquake -
Is the way Turner described II
The captains and officers quar-
ters we're flooded and several Of
the officers and crew, including
QuartermasteT Kidding, were in
jured.
Mayor GaynOr, after a narrow ESCAPE
from death, when he left a stalled train
at HiclzsviIle. L. L, is marUJned at tha
home Of Dr. Adolph Rave. unable to
come TO New York
Trains are from one To eight hours
late and the railroads report that traf-
fc from the West IS so seriously i'm
paired that there IS no telling when
any particuIar train viii arrive On IonE
Island a dozen trains are halted by the
snowdrifts. The passengers are being
cared for as well as possible ln neigh
boring farm houses
Conditions on Staten Island, in New
Jersev Long Island. Counecticut. and
other suburban points are simply ap-
paring. Traffic is absolutely tied up-
n some places the snow. carried by
the driving gale. is banked ten and
fifteen feet high
Hotels Are Packed
In New York city the hotels are
packed Early yesterday the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company called Up every
big factory and department store in
Brooklyn and notified the managers that
getting people home would be a serious
problem, and getting them back 70
work today almost impossible Hun
dreds chose to sleep in hotels After
theater parties in Manhattan, unable TO
get home last night were com
peeled to resort TO hotels. which were
packed to their utmost capacity
The United Wireless Company has
given its operators orders never to leave
their KEYS. so great is the danger to
shipping that no chance viii he taken
Of missing the much expected signal Of
distress
Fifteen thousand men, under the d.
rectiOn OF Big Bill Edwards, the for
meF Princeton football star. are trying
to keep the main arteries Of traffic open,
but their efforts are futile
FOR the first time in years, ashes ara
being spread On the main uptown