The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-03-06
EAST PARALYZED
Railroads Suspend Operations;
Ships at Mercy Of Seas
WORST STORM SINCE 1888

Nine and One-HaIf Inches of Snow
Falls in New York City; Funds Are
Exhausted From Other Storms;
Milk Famine Feared-Hundreds
Wait in Stations and Railway Cars.
NEW YORK. - New York and
from one of the worst storms in their
history. Five persons have been kill
ed, so far as reported, railroad traffic
is tied uD and wire communication
crippled Stress and sidewalks are
covered with an icy coating, making
walking difficult and dangerous, and
vehicle traffic is almost impossible.
Few trains are leaving over any OF
the main trunk lines for the west
and south and street car and elevated
traffic in the city and suburbs is lame
and in some instances suspended.
Not since the blizzard of 1888, to
which old residents point as the
worst in the history of the city, has
a storm resulted in so much suffering
A milk famine is feared, because of
the suspended train service iii New
Jersey and New York state.
Nine and one half inches of snow
fell during the day and when it stop
ped bowling gale set in. The tenn
perature, which had remained at
Jew degrees above freezing, droppe
many degrees, freezing the slush and
snow that covered the streets.
Street Cleaners Swamped.
With only 80 per cent of the snow
from the two previous storms remOv
ed from the principal streets, the
city street cleaning department faced
a new problem Already $98000O has
been spent in snow removal work and
c.ty officials we're unable to make an
estimate of the probable cost of the
nalslatest storm.
With it's telegraph wires down, sig
nails crippled and tracks drifted high
with snow, the Pennsylvania railroad
made no attempt to run train out of
New York after o'clock, and all in
coming trains from the west and
hours late A local train from At
lantic City arrived at 1870 o'clock
seven hours and fifty-three minutes
late. The conductor reported that
the storm was still raging along tn
coast and that the snow was drifting
badly.
In the Pennsylvania railroad sta
ton forty sleeping cars remained on
the tracks all night. In them were
800 passengers, many of whom slept
peacefully ignorant that they were
not on their way to their destinatic5
Hundreds Wait in Stations.
In the waiting rooms were hundreds
of persons waiting for the resumption
of traffic. Lunchrooms and dining
halls were kept open all night for
their accommodation.
Trains on the New York Central |
lines Jared little better. Points up
state could not be reached by wire
and the whereabouts of several incOn- |
Ing mail and passenger trains could |
not be learned. Among other trains !
reported lost was the Twentieth Cen
fury United. Between Peeksville and |
Cold Springs, a distance of elevn |
miles, thirty broken telegraph. poles |
are down. Albany and Buffalo were
out of communication and New York |
Central trains between these points |
were reported lost. The storm put |
nearly every wireless station along |
tie coast hereabouts out of commits
sion and after o'clock communica- |
ton with ships at sea was impossible. /
The aerials of the station were so |
crippled with sleet and snow as to
render them useless.