Evening journal., 1910-01-15
new YORK CITY
SNOW BOUND
HOwIinG Blizzard and the
Streets Covered With
Fifteen Inches
TRAINS BLOCKED AND
TRAFFIC PARALYzED
BY United press Leased Special wire

BY United Press Leased Special Wire
NEW YORK. Jan. 15-New York to-
day Is gripped by the severest snow
storm and blizzard II has known IN
years. With fifteen inches of snow
on the ground and a. bowling blizzard
raging the city is practically paralyzed-
Five deaths are known to have oc-
CURED and many accidents have been
reported. Traffic on elevated and sur
face lines is so greatly delayed as to
be practically useless. Horses cannot
pull loads through the drift snow and
people can hardly walk IN the face Of
the binding snow and bowling wind
Shipping IN the harbor is IN peril and
already scores of minor accidents have
been reported.
In the face of the storm. the Ameri<
can liner st. Louis fought her way up
70 Quarantine and later into the city
by as daring a bit of seamanship as
has been recorded IN the marine annals
OF New York. She was followed up
by the giant Lusitania. which. how~
ever, has been held at Quarantine By
the storm.
Mayor Gaynor. after a narrow escapei
from death, when he left a stalled train
at Hicksville. L. T.. is marooned at the
home OF DR.. Adolph Rave, unable to
come 60 New York.
Trains are from one 20 eight hours
late and the railroads report that traf@
nc from the wost Is so seriously im-
paired that there 10 no telling when
any particular train will arrive. ON
Long Island a dozen trains aro halt
ed by tho snow drifts.
Conditions on Staten Island. IN New
Jersey. Long Island. Connecticut AND
other suburban points are appallin,T
Traffic Is absolutely tied up. elndfSle
places the snow. carried by -
ing gale, is banked ten and'nf-l ~.
high ~t.,Ir.l
Hundreds IN Hotels.
In New York city tho hotels ars
packed Early yesterday tho Brook
lyn 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
20 work to-day almost impossible.
Hundreds chose 60 sleep IN hotels. AZ
ter theatre parties IN Manhattan un-
ablo 10 get home last night. people
were compelled 70 resort to hotels
which were packed 10 their utmost
capacity.
Tho United Wireless Company. has
given its operators orders not 20 leave
their keys. so great is the danger IA
shipping that no chance viii be taken
Of missing tho much expected signal
of distress.
Fifteen thousand men. under this
direction of big Bill Edwards, the for
mer Princeton football star. are try
ing 10 keep the main arteries Of trafiic
open, but their Efforts are futile.
For the first time I'm years. ashes
are being spread on the main uptown
streets Where the rotary plows and
sweepers of the street car companies
have worked. solid sheet Of ice has
formed and what few horses have been
brought out arc falling In every direc-
ton. Eight and ten horses ara used
bv the larger coal firms in trying ia
deliver coal 70 the larger ONCE build
ings. These buildings because of their
large coal consumption, can store but
"a hours supply OF coal in their bin,
and the problem OF supplying Their,
with moro coal now Is 9. most sar1oua
one.
Trains Stalled In Snow.
Reports from railroads having west-
ern connections show that dozens OF
trains due In New York arc stalled IN
snow drifts IN various portions OF the
country with no chance OF being dug
out for many hours to coma
on the Hudson and East Rivers. fer
~ traffic Is being continued In a desul~
tory fashion. The din of the fog
sirens is almost deafening.