Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-02
DOzENLNES TOLL
OF STORM IN EAST
Points as Far West as CIeve-
land and South to Wash
ington Hard Hit.
TRAFFIC is DEMORALIZED
AND WIRES BLOWN DOWN
Blizzard in Vicinity of New York
Worst in Twenty-Five Years.
Property Damage Enormous.

NEW YORK, March 2-Points as far
west as Cleveland and as far south as
Washington We're battered by wind, stung
with sleet and buried in snow in a terrific
storm. central over the state of New York
and New Jersey, which began early yss-
terday and was still in progress today.
In New York. New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania between eight and eleven 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
reached eishtyfour miles an hour. Eight
deaths were reported here.
Traffic everywhere in the storm area
was demoralized; in some cases interrupt
ed entirely.
Hundreds of telegraph poles in New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were
carried down. Eighty-flve thousand COM
muters on Long Island We're marooned,
and residents of New Jersey coming to
the city were from one to five hours late.
No Milk Trains Arrive.
No milk trains reached the city during
the forenoon. OF twenty-five vessels due
at the port of New York today. only one,
the Delaware of the Clyde line, from
Philadelphia. had reported before noon
All trains to. and from the west and
south were subject TO indefinite delay.
Communication trains came in labcriously
hauled by two engines.
On the Pennsylvania between this city
and Philadelphia more than 2UO telc-
graph and telephone poles were down.
n1t l,rifl hnI
trated. Laborers. hard at work to keep
the switches open, were frustrated by
the drifting snow, and the falling tenn
perature. Which crusted the rails with
ice. Twelve trains which left New York
between 3:34 and Z pm. yesterday were
stalled at various points on the New
York division. The Pennsylvania station
was crowded with travellers who got no
encouragement from the information bu-
reau. At 1876 the officers of the road
said conditions would not improve until
the storm abated- Several way trains
were started south from Jersey City un-
der orders to make what progress they
could announcement was made at noon
that all trains on the Central Railroad OF
New Jersey and the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad between New York and Phila-
delphia and Washington had been aban-
doned until further notice.
Cars. Wagons and Autos Stalled.
In the city cars. wagons and auto
mobiles were stalled everywhere, desert
ed by their drivers. Suburban towing were
without electric lights last night. and will
be again tonight, falling wires having
made it necessary to cut OF the current.
Many schools in the suburbs were
closed today and hundreds of factories
were Idle. Three laborers, trying to clear
the tracks of the Long Island railroad,
were killed
Snow ploWs at work on the surface lines
in Long Island made SLOW progress
Many stalled cars were found buried in
snow banks. They had to be hauled out
of the way before the plows could pro-
coed. Telegraph poles lay across the
tops of others.
Traffic on surface lines through Greater
New York was halted. Many cars were
abandoned by their crews. On the e1e-
waited lines in Manhattan, the Bronx,
Queens and Brooklyn trains were kept
running more frequently than usual to
prevent the drifts on the structures from
rising too high. In Broadway auto!no-
biles were left in snowbanks by their
chauffeurs. Horses were removed from
trucks and wagons.
Wire service out of New York. through
New jersey and west OF Albany remained
badly crippled.
Worst Storm Since 1888.
IHItt tlic tHlIu blanket oil snow
as many weeks New York and Vicinity
today is suffering from the worst
storm since the blizzard OF 1855, which
old residents point to as the worst in
the history of the city.
Nine and one-half inches o. snow f,i;
yesterday and when i: stoppeA
bowling gale set in. The :emperati.re.
which had remained at a few degrees
above freezing. dropped many degrees.
freezing the slush and snow tha. COW
cred the streets.
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 of the railroads.
More than 10000 men, under the direc-
tioE of the street cleaning department.
attacked the snow to keep traffic open
in few Of the principal business
streets These same men quit work
curing the gale last night and it was
feared they might not report today,
WITH only ~ per cent of the snow from