New-York tribune., 1912-02-11
Trains Stalled by Below Zero
Temperatures and Blizzard
Cuts OF Cities in the
Northern Part.
SNOW TO-DAYs FORECAST
Moderate Temperature Predict
ed, However, as Reports OF
Great Hardships Come
from All Sections of
the Country.

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the United States. has in the last day
or two stalled trains. caused coal fam;
ines, frozen rivers and bays that almost
never Weld 10 Jack Frost and brought
suffering and death. Even as far South
as Northern Georgia and Alabama snow
fell yesterday TO depth OF four inches.
while in this state the country about
Syracuse has been suffering from biz
zard which has cut 1t off entirely from,
the north. Cities throughout the state
and in Pennsylvania and the Lake
Huron region report lower temperatures
than they have experienced before in
years
This city. on the other hand, though IL
woke up Yesterday morning TO its low
est temperature this winter, with one
exception, is benefting from the ocean
at its feet and from its surrounding bays
and rivers, which, weather experts have
explained, act much as the vacuum
about thermos bottle in preventing
either extremes Of heat or cold. It was
colder in Pittsburgh, where the official
zero than in New York, where only 2
degrees below was recorded, although
Pittsburgh is almost on a level with IL
latitudinally Buffalo, which is about
as far north as Saratoga. reported IL
below, demonstrating that the great
body OF fresh waite at its gates cannot
compare with the salt Atlantic as mod
orator Of temperature, while Saratoga
itself reported Is below.
Hudson Ice Never Thicker.
Alb ny, on the frozen Hudson, expert
enced temperature Of S below. Ice in
the Hudson has never been thicker.
measuring near the shore at Tarrytown
from twenty to twenty-five inches.
Monticello reports that Sullivan County
has made new record with 3S degrees
below zero, while Orange County has
suffered one degree less But neither.
apparently, has been visited by the bliz-
zard, which has cut Oswego off from the
rest Of the world and stalled Tyrone
forty other passengers in dead train
near New Haven, little place ten miles
east Of Oswego.
Train service on the Rome, Water
town & Ogdensburg Railroad, the only
railroad line between Syracuse and the
north, has been abandoned because OF
this same storm, which has been in
progress now for several days. The
train due from Watertown at Syracuse
at $40 o'clock on Friday night had been
| lost, according to last accounts, not hav-
ing been heard from after leaving Rich
land.
Along the St Lawrence temperatures
ranged from 20 TO 80 degrees below zero
yesterday morning, while in the Adiron-
dacks So below was about the limit. All
trains north Of Auburn on the Lehigh
! Valley Railroad were stalled yesterday
between that city and Fairhaven, ths
Lake Ontario terminus. In some places
along the line the snow had dristed
higher than the boxcars, It was said
The weather man expects snow TO fall
here tonight and tomorrow morning.
but at the same time he looks for a mod
Grafton of temperature, so that the
swarming millions on this little island
will not be subjected to a blizzard rag
ing at temperature of or 10 degrees
below zero, which has been the lot of the
upstate cities. There was enough human
suffering here from the cold alone yes
terday to make the addition Of storm
devoutly to be deplored.
Municipal Lodging House Crowded
The municipal lodging house harbored
several hundred homeless creatures last
night. whom not even the prospect of
half day at the stone pile on the Island
deferred from seeking this public shell
ter The police reported that intense
suffering was general throughout the
poorer sections of the city. The police
of the 1O4th street station found Edward
Tuohey, sixty years old, at 116th street
and Second avenue, unconscious from
exposure. and had him taken to the
Harlem Hospital.
The Tenderloin station reported that
John Peterson, thirty-two years old.
butler. OF No. 302 East 32d street. had
been removed from Broadway and 35th
street to Bellevue, suffering from cold
and destitution and that he would prob
ably die Peter Secat, an ironworker al
work on the second floor Of the building
at No. 211 East 73d street. repairing the
fire escape, let himself fall to the side
walk below because his hands became
so numb from the cold he could not re-
tain his grip. An ambulance surgeon
from the Reception Hospital said the
man was suffering from conclusion OF
the brain, but he refused to go to
hospital and was taken home.
Chicago, Pittsburgh. Muskegon. Mich.
and Hackensack, n. j.. are a few Of the
cities in the direct path of the cold
wave which report deaths from freezing
A coal famine along the st. Lawrence.
due to the stalling OF trains 10 the
south. and the low pressure of the nat
ural gas in the region about Buffalo arc
bringing misery in those sections of the
state. especiall, in homes where inva-
lids dwell.
Rochester, Feb. TO- Rochester and viciii
ity are experiencing the coldest weather in
eight years. Last night the thermometer
touched below zero. A west wind, driy.
ing sleet before IT, crippled street railway
traffic. Reports from up the cenesee Val,
lev show temperatures OF from 1e to>2e
below zero, with the thickest ice on small
ickes in the memory Of the oldest inhab-
itants.
syracuse. Feb. 1o-The most severe
storm in the most severe winter within the
memory of the Oldest residents Of Central