Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-03
100000
FROM
TORN
)eatb List May Go Far Beyond
Half Hundred = Fury
Passes Seaboard.

q NEW YORK. March 3.-A bright
Hun and rising temperature gave aid
IA New York to-day in its desperate
lHorts TO break the icy shackles
laced upon the nations metropolis
H. the worst blizzard since 1888, while
&epor,s tricking in over repaired but
BIN lettering telephone and telegraph
Rires showed that the death list as a
Result Of the storm in States along
4he coast will reach 80 and may go
zhuch higher
The damage in the East as a result
i the blizzard is expected to reach
Euly $4,000, 900. The cost of removal
bf snow in this city alone will be
] 100000
Ships are ashore at various points
d me Atlantic coast and many small
Frat were sunk in the ice. With the
Statement Of wind, tugs put out from
Bis port to search for a string Of
bnissing barses, carrying 2S men.
Which became lost in the blizzard off
Flre Island
The chief aftermath of the BLIZZARD
Fl this city lay in the attempts to re-
tore the streets and traffic to some
kars normal
1000 Clearing Streets.
Street Cleaning Commissioner
n e;herston employed a force of 1000
lnen, who at daybreak attacked the
finch layer cf snow in the principal
Streets Every available wagon was
pressed into service, but with all the
sencies working under pressure, 1t
fas believed that it will be two weeks
before conditions here are near nor
IanaI If further snow falls in the
meantime. the plight of the city will
be acute
lnteruroan traffic was quickly re-
lleyed of congestion after the snow
ceased falling, but steam traffic on all
ides of this city was still seriously
crippled because of the wreckage
E'ron the tracks.
The Lakewood Atlantic Express
was still showed in near Redbank,
n. j., to-day But for the heroism of
L. =. Stoddard, the famous polo play
|er Who risSed his life in securing
food, the plight of 100 persons on the
Train, who became snowbound Sum
oay would have been much more Sc
Tious to-day
a food and coal shortage threatens
he city, but the menace of a milk
anime was averted by the action of
me railroad companies in giving milk
rains the right of way where it was
possible for trains to run at all.
Homeless Storm CHURCHES.
A number OF ships overdue as a re-
su't Of the gale and at least 80 boats
are at sen which ought to have been
N'ore1 at their docks Sunday or yes
'efday Great fields of ice in the
hudson River. East River and the
A'roor paralyzed shipping.
All the charitable institutions for
D'e shelter o. the homeless were taxed
" capacity during the night. Indus
"'dl Workers of the World compelled
Nersymen to throw open their doors
'T the benefit of the homeless. About
-'+' men, women and children sought
'4e..er AT various institutions. OF
@'S number 200, under leadership Of
'''Hh Iannebaum Of the INV. w"
1,"'.led to St Marks Protestant
'"1i'a at Tenth street and Second
NeAl" where they demanded lodg-
'As .ar the night. They were given
,'"e. 1ad sandwiches and allowed to
'.sep a The pews.
~" leaves Of absence from the fire
r,,'pa''ment have been revoked by
re- Commissioner Adamson because
.7' Dangers of a conflagration.
'. 'remen are patrollins those
Y 2t The city where the ire alarm
.2''ih was put out Of business to re-
IVY tTes BY telenhone.