The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-03-03
HOWLING GALE
STOPS RAIL AND
MARINE TRAVEL
Trains Lost in Snow Storm,
Liners Cannot Enter or
Leave Port.
IS PERSONS LOSE LIVES
Eastern Blizzard Worst in Quarter of
century-scores of People Injured
Milk Famine Threatened
New York Isolated.

Milk Famine Threatened
New York Isolated.
New York, March Fifteen per
sons are dead, scores have been in
jured and hundreds are in peril on
land and sea in a blizzard, which has
been sweeping the Atlantic seaboard
for "a hours
Business in this city is paralyzed.
Fourteen inches of snow has fallen
Rail traffic is at standstill and wire
communication is badly crippled.
City Completely isolated.
Dawn found this city isolated. Tele-
graph and telephone service was bad
ly crippled. many wires going down
In the wind and snow.
Scores of trains bearing commuters
into the city were blockaded. Street
car and elevated traffic was seriously
impaired Hundreds of miles of city
streets were absolutely impossible.
A force OF 1900 men and with
hundreds of wagons were set 70 work
by Street Commissioner Fetherston.
clearing away the snow. The street
cleaning department attempted to
keep force of men at work all night,
but the snow shovelers refused to
labor in the ripping gales.
Six Vessels. Wrecked In Gale.
Six vessels were reported to have
been wrecked in the gale off the New
England coast.
Train service on the Pennsylvania
was halted entirely. The Congress
sional limited, one of the crack trains
on the Pennsylvania, bound from
Washington to this city, stuck in
snow drift outside of Trenton At the
Pennsylvania station 1t was an
nounced that all outgoing traffic had
been stopped until further notice.
The New York Central, the Erie,
the Central Railroad of New Jersey
the Delaware & Hudson and the
Lackawanna all experienced similar
difficulties.
Four New York Central trains were
reported lost between this city and
Albany. Some Of the railway lines
trains crawled along at the rate Of
ten miles an hour, the passengers re-
joicing at even this speed.
The monetary loss from the storm
will be enormous.
Nineteen Steamers Held at Sea.
With 10 steamers, nine OF them big
ocean liners, held at sea by the worst
gale since that Of 1887, fears are felt
here that some of the vessels may
meet with disaster. For the first time
In its history the local weather bu-
reau notified the steamship companies
that no vessels should be allowed to
leave port.
Anxiety was particularly felt for
these vessels: Oceania, 800 passsn-
gers.
Calabria, 500 passengers.
Minnetonka, 800 passengers.
Prinz wilhelm v, 400 passengers.
Philadelphia. TOO passengers.
Principello, 500 passengers.
Kaiser Franz Josef 1, GOO passen
gers.
Cincinnati, LOO passengers.
Celtic. 1000 passengers.
The other vessels that had failed
to report up to late this forenoon
were:
George, vigilancia, SURNAME, Pana
ma, Prinz Sigismund. Cosmo, Bermu
] dian, Antilles and FL Oriente.
MIX Famine Threatened.
The stoppage of railroad traffic
threatened milk famine as trains
bearing the city's milk supply were
,>unable to enter this morning.
The fire alarm system was partial
1y out of commission and it was est
mated that SO per cent of the fire
alarm boxes were erected by the
storm.
Newark, N. j., March 3.-This city
is stormbound following a night O.
darkness caused by the blizzard The
electric power plant was put out O
commission by the high wind. Only
few trolley lines are able to run ant
railroad traffic is at a standstill Char
liable institutions are taxed to ca
pacity to care for the homeless.
There is a coal shortage and if an
other storm strikes the city suffer
ing will be intense.
Five Dead In Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, March 3.-Five per
sons lost their lives in the terrif
blizzard which struck this city. Snow
was still falling at noon, being pile,
into high drifts by a high wind. Stean
and electric traffic was at a standstil
and wire communication was bacl
crippled Trains arriving here fror
the west on the Pennsylvania railroa
were many hours late, the snowfall bt
, ing exceptionally heavy in the allie
gheny mountains.
Wreckage on the tracks of the Reat
ing held up traffic on that line. sTh
Thermometer was 16 degrees abov
zero