Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-03-06
GOTHAM STORM
WORST IN YEARS
New York Remains Practically
Cut Off.
RELIEF is EXPECTED TODAY
Eleven Dead in New York and Thir-
teen in PhiladeIphia-700 Firemen
Patrol Street When Alarm
System Fails.

New York, March Anew York and
vicinity on Monday was still in the
grip of the most destructive storm IN
this section of the country since the
memorable blizzard of 1888. In and
near New York II persons persisted.
More than twenty ships due have not
yet arrived, and fears are felt for the
safety of the $500 passengers they
ere carrying. Up to a late hour no
wireless messages have been received
Except by roundabout routes and
with the aid OF a few wires running
underground, commercial New York
remained cut off from telegraph COM
munication with the west and south.
Fire Commissioner Robert Adamson
said the danger of a confiagration 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 firemen
are patrolling the streets watching for
blazes, Business is heavily handl-
capped by train delays, which have
prevented the transportation OF mails.
Stalled trains also bring the city
face to face with a possible shortage
of milk, meat and provisions, while
coal famine is threatened in some Sec
lions of the city because Of the snow
filed streets.
The first ocean liners to arrive since
Sunday morning reached quarantine.
Harbor traffic generally was inter
rupted, some of the ferries suspending
service for the first time in rs years.
Several rescues Of tug crews were ef-
fected along the Brooklyn waterfront
when the boats sank.
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 rs hours interrupted service.
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 we're injured. In the
near New York II persons persisted
as a result of the storm.
Philadelphia, March 4.-Wire com
munication between this city and New
York as we'll as points on the New
Jersey coast remains practically at 6
standstill, but railroad traffic to and
from New York has been Te-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.
Washington, March 4.-The storm
which gripped. the entire east during
the last "a hours was reported to be
off Boston and rapidly passing out t.
sea.
Street lights and part of the stree
car system of the national capita
were out of commission for severa
hours last night.
Providence, R. l., March 4.-Fear'
that nine lives were lost on the coal
laden barges Frank Pendleton and 10
sephus, which were torn loose from
the tug Edgar F. Luckenbach off Fir,
island light ship in the gale, were ex
pressed here.