The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-03-13
GALE STOPS TRAFFIC
TRAINS ARE LOST IN SNOW
STORM, LINERS CANNOT EN-
TER OR LEAVE PORT.
IS PERSONS LOSE LIVES
Eastern Blizzard Worst in Quarter of
Century-Scores of People Injured
Milk Famine Threatened-New
York Isolated by Terrific Storm.

New York, March 3.-Fifteen per-
sons are dead, scores have been in
jured and hundreds are in peril on
land and sea in a blizzard, which has
been sweeping the Atlantic seaboard
for "a hours.
Business in this city is paralyzed.
Fourteen inches OF snow has fallen.
Rail traffic is at a standstill and wire
communication is badly crippled.
City Completely Isolated.
Dawn found this city isolated Tele-
graph and telephone service was bad
ly crippled, many wires going down
in the wind and snow.
Scores OF trains bearing commuters
into the city were blockaded. Street
car and elevated traffic was seriously
impaired. Hundreds of miles OF city
streets were absolutely impossible.
Six Vessels Wrecked in Gale.
Six vessels were reported to have
been wrecked in the gale off the New
England coast
Il
was halted entirely. The Congress
sional limited. one of the crack trains
on the Pennsylvania. bound from
Washington to this city, stuck in a
snow drift outside Of Trenton. At the
Pennsylvania station it was an
nounced that all outgoing traffic had
been stopped until further notice.
The New York Central. the Erie.
the Central Railroad Of New Jersey,
the Delaware & Hudson and the
Lackawanna all experienced similar
difficulties
Four New York Central trains were
reported lost between this city and
Albany. Some of the railway lines
trains crawled along at the rate Of
ten miles an hour, the passengers re-
joicing at even this speed.
The monetary loss from the storm
will be enormous.
Nineteen Steamers Held at Sea.
With 10 steamers, nine of them big
ocean liners, held at sea by the worst
gale since that of 1887, fears are felt
meet with disaster. For the first time
in its history the local weather bu-
reau notified the steamship companies
that no vessels should be allowed to
leave port.
The stoppage of railroad traffic
threatened a milk famine as trains
bearing the city's milk supply were
unable to enter this morning.
The fire alarm system was partial
ly out Of commission and it was esti-
mated that so per cent of the fire
alarm boxes were effected by the
storm.
Thirty-Two Men Are Facing Death.
New York, March 3.-Thirty-two
men are hopelessly facing death on
eight steel barges anchored in so
mile gale off Fire island. On shore
life savers are watching the imperiled
vessels but unable to launch a res
cuing boat in the mountainous seas,
as the wind is blowing directly to-
ward the dangerous coast Each of
the barges is loaded with 1000 tons
of coal and stands only two feet out
of water. Big waves are sweeping
over them and they may sink at any
moment
Five Dead in philadelphia.
Philadelphia, March 3.-Five per-
sons lost their lives in the terrific
blizzard which struck this city. Snow
was still falling at noon, being piled
into high drifts by high wind Steam
and electric traffic was at a standstill
and wire communication was badly
crippled. Trains arriving here from
the west on the Pennsylvania railroad
were many hours late, the snowfall be-
ing exceptionally heavy in the allie
gheny mountains.
Wreckage on the tracks of the Read
ing held up traffic on that line. The
thermometer was 16 degrees above
zero.
Vice-President Marshall Snowbound.
New Brunswick, n j., March g.
Vice President Marshall was a passen-
ger on a Pennsylvania railroad train
which was stalled by the snow near
the local station about midnight and
was still there early in the afternoon
The train was bound from New York
TO Philadelphia. The west-bound
track of the Pennsylvania here is
blocked by fallen wires and poles.
Blizzard Hits Cleveland.
Cleveland, o.. March 3.-Cleveland
was staggered by another blizzard by
which traffic was greatly delayed and
which caused suffering among the
poorer classes.