The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-03-03

| fell yesterday ana When II SIopPed' q
| bowling gale Sc in. The temperature,
which had remained at few degrees
above freezing. dropped many de-
| grees, freezing the slush and snow.
With only so per cent Of the snow
| from the two previous storms removed
| from the principal streets, the city
street cleaning department faced new
| problem today. Already $3.50 600 have
| been spent in snow removal work and
CT officials were unable to make an
estimate of the probable cost of the
! latest storm.
| TRAFFIC is PARALYZED.
| With its telegra III wires down, sig
nails crippled and tracks drifted with
snow, the Pennsylvania railroad made
no attempt to run a train out Of New
York af er o'clock last night and all
| incoming trains from the west and
south arrived from two to eleven hours
! late
A local train from Atlantic City ar
| rived at 4:SO o'clock this morning,
seven hours and hfty-three minutes
| late. The conductor reported hat the
storm was still raging along the coast
and that snow was drifting badly.
In the Pennsylvania railroad station,
forty sleeping cars rema ned on the
tracks all night. In them were 500
passengers, mary of whom slept peace
fully ignorant that they were not on
their way to their destina tions. In
the waiting rooms were hundreds Of
persons waiting for the resumption Of
trafEc. Lunch rooms and dining halls
were kept open all Aisnt for their &C.
CUnmOGatiOn.
Trai on the New York Central
lines faTed Tut lit ie letter Points ur
state could net be reached by wi e
early today and the Whereabouts of
several incoming mail and passenger
trains was unknown. Among otner
~ a.. SIS 80 e-a"a tae : g" -4-,ietl
Century 4Ilitea.
Between Peeksk.ll and Cold Springs,
a dis ance of about eleven M es, there
are thirty troken te1e -r4ph poles. AL
tany and Buffalo were Out of commu-
nication and New York Central trains
between these points were reported
lost.
The storm put ne~rly every wireless
station alo g the Atlantic coas here
abOuts out of commission. After 6
o'clock last night comm Irication with
ships at sea was impo ssible, The ae-
rails Of the stations w2re crippled with
sleet and snow it WAS repor ed.
In New Jersey where the force of
the storm was most severe, many
towns. including Trenton the capt. |,
Newark Jersey City AMI Hoboken
were in dark ess last night as the re-
suit Of electric feed wires breaking
under the weight of wet snow.
1000 MEN 1T WORK.
More han 10000 men under the d. !
rcction of the street cleaning depart !
ment attacked the srow to keep traffic
open in a few of the principal hrs'r0 o /
streets. These same men quit work
during 'Ne gale last night and 1t was /,
feared miGht not report today
Many commuters failed to reach the |
city this morning owing to crippled !
train service from nearby New York |
and New Jersey towns. Many New
Jersey trains were cancelled.
Fire alarm circuits in all the outly- |
ing districts of New York city. Jersey |
City and Hoboken were demoralized |
In New York firemen were sent out
on patrol du while In the New Jer- |
sey cities hurry calls were SEM for all |
policemen and iremen off duty to re- |
port.
The Western Union Telegraph Com |
pany reported that only five of its
out of town wires were up. The worst
of the storm is between New York
and Albany, according to wire officials. |
In Newark a shor circuited wire re-
suited in a fire which at a bad hole
in the stands of the Newark Interna-
tioral League baseball park. The fire |
would probably have destroyed the en-
tire structure but for the fact that
the benches were FILED high with snow
and he blaze burned slowly.
New York's financial district was al |
most entirely shut off from the outside
world today by reason of the severe |
weather. With the exception Of a sin |
gle line to lbany, communication with |
Wall street was almost a a standstiu |
Trading was corresp ondingly light |
with downward tendency Of prices.