Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-02
GREATEST STORM IN
Is YEARS RECORDED
IN NEW YORK CITY
Milk Famine Feared Because of
Suspension of Train Service
For Many Hours
Br Aasoeiased Press

New York, March 2.-Points as far
west as Cleveland and as fsr south as
Baltimore were battered by wind,
stung with sleet and buried in. snow in
a terrific Storm central over the States
of New York and New Jersey which
began early yesterday and was still
in progress to-day. In New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania between
and II inches of snow, layers of 1t
packed hard and frozen, covered the
ground at noon and was still falling.
Not in twenty-five years had greater
New York and environs experienced
such a storm. At times the velocity
of the wind had reached "a miles an
hour Eight deaths We're reported
here to-day.
Traffic everywhere in the storm area
was demoralized; in some cases in
terrupted entirely. Hundreds of tele-
graph poles in New York, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania were carried down.
Eighty-five thousand commuters on
Long Island were marooned and resi-
dents of New Jersey coming to the
city were from one to five hours late.
No milk trains reached the city dur
ing the forenoon, and a milk famine Is
feared. OF twenty-five vessels due at
the port of New York to-day only one,
the Delaware of the Clyde Line, from
Philadelphia, had reported before
noon.
All Trains Delayed
All trains to and from the West and
South were subject to indefinite de-
lay. Communication trains came in la
boriously, hauled by two engines. On
the Pennsylvania railroad, between
this city and Philadelphia, more than
zoo telegraph and telephone poles
were down and many signal bridges
been nr0Strafa6 q n rI
at work to keep the switches, open,
We're frustrated by the drifting snow
and the falling temperature which
crusted the rails with ice.
Twelve trains which left New York
between 1894 and p. m. were stalled
at various points on the New York
division.
Way Trains Started
The Pennsylvania station was
crowded with travellers who get no en-
couragement from the information
bureau. At 10.45 the officers of the
road said conditions would not i'm
prove until the storm abated. Several
way trains were started south from
Jersey City under orders to make what
progress they could. Announcement
was made at noon that all trains on
the Central Railroad of New Jersey
an the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
L
delphia and Washington had been
abandoned until further notice.
In the city cars, wagons and automo-
biles were stalled everywhere deserted
by their drivers. Suburban towns
were without electric lights last night,
and will be again tonight falling
wires having made it necessary to cur
off the current.
Many Schools Closed
Many schools in the suburbs were
closed to-day and hundreds of fac
tories were idle. Three laborers, try
ing to clear the tracks of the Long
Island railroad were killed.
Snow plows at work one the surface
lines in Long Island made slow prog
ress. Many stalled cars were found
buried In snow banks. They had TO
be hauled out of the way before the
plows could proceed. Telegraph poles
lay across the tops of others.
Traffic on surface lines through
Greater New York was halted. Many
cars were bandoned by their crews.
On the elevated lines in Manhattan,
the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn
trains We're kept running more fire.
quently than usual to prevent the
drifts on the structures from rising too
high. In Broadway automobiles were
left in snow banks by their chaufreurs
Horses were removed from trucks ana
wagons.
Wire service out of New York.
through New Jersey and East Of AL
bany remained badly crippled.
TRAFFIC Is HELD UP
Shamokin, Pa, March 2.-The worst
blizzard In many years set in here last