The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-03
STORMS FURY CAUSES
DEATHS OF MORE THAN
SCORE IN THE NORTH
New Yorks Dead Sixteen Philadephias Seven While Ohe
Fatalities Are Reported-Trafic is Crippled
Richmond Not Seriously Hit

! NEW YORK, March 2.-The record
storm for quarter of a century has
driven seward after paralyzing rail-
road service. running wire communi-
cation, and disturbing public and pri-
vate business. The weather man be
lieves that winter IS grip is broken and
tells us that warmer temperatures and
| rain are on the way.
But the disappearing blizzard has
J left four boroughs at the mercy OF fire.
destroying or deadening the fire alarm
signal system in Brooklyn, Richmond,
Queens, and the Bronx. where iremen
are patrolling beats as they used to
I In Manhattan only is the system, the
nerves OF the fire department, in work
ing order.
Sixteen Deaths Reported
Sixteen persons were reported dead
tonight in New York and it's imme-
date vicinity, as result of the storm.
! Four men were killed by trains while
sweeping snow from the tracks, two
of them being swept together from the
trestle over Jamaica Bay.
| In Hackensack, n. j., man was
| found frozen to death against n tele-
graph pole. His hands covered his
ears. and he had turned his back TO
! the wind AS 1t swept from the North.
He appeared to have lost his way in the
binding snow.
Many persons were injured by falling
on the icy sidewalks. or being struck
as the wind hurled awnings, branches
and pieces of wood into the streets.
As regards the destruction of rail-
{ road service which was more general
and complete than operating officials
ever remember, the situation had
measurably improved at midnight to-
night.
~ prf n railroad
running through trains and the subur-
ban service of all was greatly reduced.
Trains were lost in the drifts. Wires
were in a tangle of broken poles. Train
despatchers were agetng from worry
But the Pennsylvania and the Lehigh
! Valley resumed through service and
promised. as did all of the other roads.
a betterment of local service. The
New York Central and New Haven re-
ported mitigated conditions. For the
, first time in weight hours railroad
officials spoke cheerfully.
| Nothing approaching the demolition
OF telegraph and telephone service was
| ever known. In this city, with Its con-
duits and protected cables. the phone
annoy ance was trivial. but in New
| Jersey and Long Island the conditions
could hardly have been worse. {
Roundabout Wire Service
| Only Newark could be reached by
! telegraph from this city. The only
direct service to Washington and the
West for newspapers or commercial
use, was by means of one under
ground system Of wires. The Pos
tai Telegraph company, In order %
reach the capital flashed along this
remarkable route. To Albany. to
Montreal. to Detroit. to Chicago, to
st. Louis, Birmingham. to Augusta,
TO Atlanta, to Richmond. to Wash
ington, So much damage was done
| to wires that 1t will be days before
! normal service Is resumed.
Philadelphia's Dead Seven.
! PHILADELPHIA, March 2.-Phil-
! adelphia Is snowbound. Seven per-
sons are dead in this city as result
/ of the storm.
| A real blizzard. the most disastrous
since February. 1902, swept over the