The Washington herald., 1914-03-04
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EAST emerging
FROM ICY GRIP
Railroads and Telegraph
Companies Gradually Re
covering from Blizzard.
DEATH TOLL TO BE BIG
Present Indications Are that Ii Will
Reach Fifty-Number of
Ships Overdue.

New York. March IA bright sun and
rising temperature today greeted New
York in its desperate efforts to break the
1ssS, while reports trickling In over dam
aged wires showed that the death list
in States along the coast will reach fifty
or more. Mayor John Purroy Mitchell, Of
New York City. Is snowbound In the
Adirondack Mountains.
The damage in the East Is expected to
reach fully s10ooo0co The cost OF snow
removal In this city alone will be about
S2.ooo0oo Six ships are aground and many
small craft were sunk.
After being given up for dead. eight
members of a crew Of forty men who
were on ten coal-laden barges which
broke loose from the tug Edgar F. Luck
enbach. OF Fire Island. during the bliz-
zard, were rescued today. They had
been tossed about at the mercy Of the
sea for more than thirty hours.
Two OF the barges were picked up and
anchored on Sandy Hook. but the fate
Of the other thirty-two men on the other
missing eight harges was unknown.
A food and coal shortage threatens the
CITY. A number OF ships are over due.
and at least thirty vessels arc still at
sea which ought to have been moored
Sunday or Monday. All the charitable
institutions for the shelter of the home
less were taxed to capacity. Industrial
Workers Of the World compelled clergy
men to throw open their churches for
the benefit OF the homeless.
ship SIN Aground.
Dispatches from Baltimore stated that
the Merchants and Miners liner Howard.
which went ashore in Chesapeake Bay
In the storm. was still fast
The wireless has been restored to nor
NAL working conditions and the sta
tions along the seaboard were kept busy
throughout the day calling for steam
ships which are overdue. Telegraphic
and telephone communication out Of this
city was still impaired today.
The elevated lines and subway were
running on their usual schedules today.
but the surface lines were badly crippled.
All leaves Of absence from the fire de-
partment have been revoked by Fire
Commissioner Adamson because Of the
dangers Of a conhagration. Eight hun
dred firemen are pstrolling those parts
Of the city where the fire-slarm system
was put out Of business to report fires
by telephone.
New Haven's Record.
Trains were from one to six hours late. !
Staten Island was again in darkness
throughout the night. OWING 10 tne preta- |
dcwn of the electric power system. Scores |
of funerals were delayed because the |
snow made entrance to the cemeteries |
impossible.
Practically all Of the victims OF the |
storm were working men. The list IN
ciudes maritime workers. employees OF
railroads. and persons who were run
down In The streets-or died from ex-
posure-
The New York, New Haven, and Hart
ford established a record by having six
of its trains reach this city on time to
the minute. two of them being expresses
from Boston. The Erie Railroad brought
in three of its lost trains during the
carly morning. The Western service on
the Lackswanna Is still practically an
nulled. One Lackawanna train which
left Jersey City for Phillipsburg. y. J..
Sunday, did not arrive until today.