The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-02
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Worst Blizzard Since 1883
Visits New York City.
Had Not Yet EMERGED From q
Previous Covering.
SERVICE IS CRIPPLED
Eight Deaths Reported rs Re.
suit of the Storm.
Fall of 91z Inches Followed by
q Howling Wind.

New York, March Points as far
west as Cleveland and as far south as
Baltimore, were battered by wind.
stung with sleet and buried in snow
In q terrific storm. central over the
states OF New York and New Jersey,
which began early yesterday and was
still In progress today. In New York.
New Jersey and Pennsylvania between
and IL inches Of snow. layers of It
packed hard and frozen, covered tho.
ground at noon and was still falling.
Not in twenty-five years had Great
er New York and environs experienced
such "a storm. At times the velocity
of the wind reached 81 miles an hour.
Eight deaths were reported here. Traf-
fic everywhere in the storm area was
demOralized, in some cases interrupted
entirely. Hundreds OF telegraph poles
in New York, New Jersey and Penn
sylvanta were carried down. Eighty
tive thousand commuters on Long Is
land were marooned and residents OF
New Jersey coming to the city were
from one to five hours late.
Streets and walks are covered with icy
coating. making walking difficult and
dangerous and vehicle traffic is al
most impossible. Few trains are
leaving today over any OF the main
| trunk lines for the west and south
and street and elevated traffic in the
city and suburbs is lame and in some
| Instances suspended. Not since the
blizzard of 1888, which old residents
point to as the worst in the history of
| the city. has a storm resulted in SO
much suffering. A milk famine was
| the most felt today because of the
suspended train service in New Jer-
sey and New York state.
Nine and one-half inches Of snow
fell yesterday and when it stopped a
bowling gale set in. The tempera-
| ture. which had remained at a few
degrees above freezing. dropped many
degrees. freezing the slush and snow
| that covered the streets
With only fifty per cent of the snow
| from the two previous storms re-
| moved from the principal streets Of
| the city, the street cleaning depart
| mont faced a new problem today.
Already $4,000 has been spent In
! snow removal work end city officials
were unable to make an estimate Of
the probable cost of the latest storm.
| Wires Are Down.
| With the telegraph wires down.
signals crippled and tracks drifted
high with snow, the Pennsylvania
railroad made no attempt to run a
train out of New York after o'clock
last night and all incoming trains
from the west and south arrived from
two to eleven hours late. Trains on
| the New York Central lines Jared but
| little better. Points up state could
not be reached by wire early today
| and the whereabouts Of several in
coming mail and passenger trains
could not be learned.
| Among other trains reported lost
was the Twentieth century Limited.
Between Peekskill and Cold Springs,
g. distance of about eleven miles,
thirty telegraph poles are down.
Albany and Buffalo were out Of COM
munication and the New York Cen
reported lost. The storm put nearly
every wireless station along the coast
hereabouts out Of commission and
after six o'clock last night communi-
cation with ships also was impossible.
In New Jersey, where the force Of
the storm was most severe, many
towns, including Trenton, Newark,
Jersey City and Hoboken were in
darkness last night as the result OF
feed wires breaking under the weight
Of the wet snow. The storm held up
liners in the outer harbor all night
and menaced shipping along the
coast. Two bargees sank or Govern
or's Island. The four-masted schoon-
er, Jacob S. Winslow, lumber laden
for Providence from Fernandina,
went ashore on Block Island. Her
crew of nine was brought ashore by
life savers and one was drowned. A
tug lost four of her tow Of barges in
Long Island sound between Bridge
port and New Haven and eight per-
sons aboard them were saved with
difficulty. An unknown schooner is
pounding to pieces on Thimble Island
near New London.
Begins Showing Again.
Snow, which had ceased for a few
hours during the night. began falling
again early today. The gale formed
big drifts in the country districts and
added to the troubles o. the railroads.
| More than 10000 men under the di-
rection of the street cleaning depart
ment attacked the snow to, keep traf-
f1c open in a few Of the principal bust
ness streets. These same men quit
work during tho gale last night and it
was feared they might not report to-
day.
Many commuters failed to reach
the city this morning. owing to Grip
pied train service from nearby New
York and New Jersey owns Many
New Jersey trains were cancelled.
Fire alarm circuits in all the out
lying districts Of New York City, Jer-
sey City and Hoboken were demoral-
lied. In New York firemen were sent
out on patrol duty, while In the New
Jersey cities hurry calls were sent for
all policemen and flremen on duty to
report.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany reported that only i've of ita
out-of-t0Wn wires were up. The
worst Of the storm II between New
York and Albany, according to wire
officials In Newark q short circuited
wire resulted in q flre which ate q
bad hole in the stands OF the NeWark
international league ball park The
fire would probably have destroyed
the entire structure hut for the fact
that the benches were piled high with
snow and the blaze burned slowly.
Ffu0 lGafne To Georgia.
Washington, March 1.-The severest
storm of the winter ragged today from
Eastport, Me-. to Savannah, Ga, while
cold wave. rolling down from the
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