New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-15
WOMAN CAUGHT IN
SNOWDRIFT SUCCUMBS
Hundreds of Unemployed
Find Work in Clearing
Streets-Cost Million.
MILK FAMINE AVERTED
Drop to Zero and More Snow
Predicted-Heavy Fall Up"
state Blocks Roads.


Texas. which can generally be de-,
PENDED on TO finish what it starts. senci
New York large sample from IT'S welt'
known lire of twenty -four-hour biz
yards yesterday that crippled traffic on:
land sea and commutation, killed five,
in the greater city and left a ten-incb'
covering Of alternate layers of frozen
sleet and snow that it will cost $1,000
600 TO remove.
Outside OF these things and the facti
that the city hasn't fully dug itself out
vet there was practically nothing tor
the blizzard. And after It was all over,
(seemingly) around noon. the whiplash
tail of the blizzard licked down at fifty
miles an hour. There is promise OF
more snow and zero weather to-day.
Storm signals were displayed again last
night from Maine to Hatteras.
All over the eastern part OF the coun-
try the heavy fall of snow impeded rail-
road and street traffic. Many cities
reported suspended streetcar service
Railroads running into New York were
behind on schedules anywhere from one
hour 10 no traffic at all.
Milk Famine Averted.
The lateness Of milk trains caused a
scarcity of that drink in some sections
of the city, and caused much anxiety.
Late last night it was announced by
the railroads that milk trains were run
ming on passenger schedules and would
| be on time.
| Work was begun early yesterday
| morning on snow removal by Street
Cleaning Commissioner Fetherston and
the contractors who have been waiting
and hoping for snow. BY nightfall
there were 10000 men recruited from
the army of the unemployed busy with
pick and shovel
Many Of the men came from ths
charitable lodging houses and were
but i'll fitted 10 work on the street.
Some were so greedy for the 20 cents
an hour paid for shovelling snow that
they dropped exhausted due 10 their
undernourished conditions. Inspectors
| In charge OF gangs were instructed tn
permit men to receive their money ac
the end of the first hour so they mignS
get food and return to work in better
condition.
The contractors were gieeful over tna
heavy fall of snow, which will cost the
city dearly, as the pay is by tne foao~
and It takes only few feet OF surface
10 make a load All told there are
about $50 miles OF streets that must
he cleaned at once and 1,500 which VIII
not be cleaned IN the next three weeks
Surface car lines were the worst suf-
ferers yesterday in the city Az 'in'ee
thsre were no cars running on many
;,, nortant Zines. due to the rapid drift-
,no of snow on the tracks. In many
instances. the wind whipping the as-
nhalt tare to the driving sleet, cloggep
the rails when the freeze came, ano IL
WAS necessary TO dig several inches "r
tee off the irons. At 42d street cars
were stalled on the ice-coated rails and
picks were brought into play 10 clear
traffic.
ONLY the subway survived the ordeal
and that was badly hampered by the
extra thousands who crowded down
when other lines went out OF oper-
alton. Elevated lines. while running
trains. we're not making their schcd-
ules.
At midnight il was announced teat
practically all lines. surface and e'e-
waited, were running on time.
Autos Stalled by Hundreds.
Hundreds of automobiles were stalled
in snowbanks throughout the city. Al
10Th street and Fifth avenue there
were az many az ten cars al a time al
standstill while their smooth tires
whirled helplessly on the snow. They
were towed out by passing automobiles
equipped with chains.
Practically every motor car used
chains to secure traction on the slip
merry streets. and those not go equipped
had hard time.
OF the fve deaths reported the most
tragic was that OF Miss Elizabeth Simp-
son. who died in a snow drift few
feet from her home. She had left a
trolley car in Elmhurst Long Island.
and was struggling along when she
collapsed In a bank Of snow hve feet
deep a passerby saw her umbrella
sticking above the bank. and after try
ing in vain 10 release her called po
iceman She was carried TO a house.
where physician said the struggle
through the storm had weakened her
heart so much that she died from cx-
posure.
An unidentified man was found
| frozen 10 death in hallway et No.
| 434 West 42d street
| Two mon blinded hy the wind.