The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-03-05
GOTHAM STORM
WORST IN YEARS
New York Remains Practically
Cut OFF.
RELIEF IS EXPECTED TODAY
Eleven Dead In New York and Thin
teen In PhlIadel phla-7c0 Flremen
Patrol Street When Alarm
System Falls.

New York. March 3.--With tempera.
lures rising and fair weather promised,
New York and vicinity began to
emerge from the storm which rail-
road and telegraph companies declare
has been the most destructive In thie
section OF the country since the men,
orable blizzard Of 1888. Between thir-
teen and fourteen inches Of snow has
fallen.
Except by roundabout routes and
with the aid Of few wires running
underground, commercial New York
remained cut off from telegraph COM
munication with the west and south.
Fire Peril Great.
Fire Commissioner Robert Adamson
said the danger of a confagration here
was the greatest in years. Eighty per
cent. of the fire alarm boxes in Brook
Ign and Queens, 20 per cent. of those
in the Bronx and all in Staten island
are out Of commission and 700 tiremen
are patrolling the streets watching for
blazes. Business is heavily handi-
capped by train delays, which have
prevented the transportation of mails.
Stalled trains also bring the city
face to face with possible shortage
Of milk, meat and provisions, while q
coal famine is threatened in some Sec
tons of the city because Of the snow
filed streets.
The first ocean liners to arrive since
Sun nj n
Harbor traffic generally was inter.
rupted, some of the ferries suspending
service for the first time in % years.
Several rescues of tug crews were eff
fected along the Brooklyn waterfront
when the boats sank.
Start Some Trains.
Fallen telegraph poles which inter.
rupted wire service continued to delay
trains for many hours. The Pennsyl.
vania railroad announced that it had
resumed sending out trains regularly
from the local terminal at $3.50 p. m.
after % hours interrupted service.
Eleven Lose Lives.
The first serious street car accident
of the storm here occurred when a
trolley snow sweeper, running down.
grade on Second avenue, ran into the
rear platform of a surface car. An
unidentified man was crushed to death
and two persons were injured. In the
near New York IL persons persisted
as a result of the storm.
Thirteen Die in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, March 3-Wire COM
munication between this city and New
York as well as points on the New
Jersey coast remains practically at a
standstill, but railroad traffic to and
from New York has been re-estab-
lished, although on an uncertain scale.
Thirteen deaths due to the storm were
reported from the city and nearby sec
tons.
Vive-President Marshall arrived here
after being marooned for IA hours
near New Brunswick.
Going Out to Sea.
Washington, March 3.-The storm
which gripped the entire east during
the last "a hours was reported to be
off Boston and rapidly passing out to
sea.
Street lights and part of the street
car system Of the national capital
were out of commission for several
hours last night
Fear for Ship.
Providence, r. l., March 3.-Fears
that nine lives were lost on the coal
laden barges Frank Pendleton and Jo-
sephus, which were torn loose from
the tug Edgar F. Luckenbach off Fire
island light ship in the gale, were ex.
pressed here.