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i. II IN WAKE OF
STORM ON COAST
New York Traffic DGmOraIizGd
and Many injured,
SNOW BLOCKS RAILROADS

The Coal Shortage is Causing Appre-
hension-coast Resorts Were Hard
est Hit.
New York. Feb. THE gale and un-
usually high tides which have dashed
tbe North Atlantic coast for the last
two DAYS. accompanied by blizzard
VIII Oh hlanketed most of the terri DRY
with snow and ice, were gradually sub
siding, leaving trail of destruction
and suffering.
New York was slow recovering from
thp Storm. With the exception of the
subway the entire transit system was
crippled. Only a few cars were run
ming on the surface and elevated lines.
Discarded storage battery cars
which formerly ran over the now
abandoned crosStown routes in lower
Manhattan, were pressed into service
on the lower East Side. TlSrd-rail
cars were prevented from running in
This section because of the ice-packed
channel rails.
A man of seventy was found dead in
a snowbank in Brooklyn.
The streets were piled high With
snnwdrifts. a shortage of snow shov-
eIers and the threatened strike of the
few thousand that We're working agi-
tated the street cleaning department.
Scores of pedestrians were injured
when signs and door hoods collapsed
from the weight of the snow upon
them. Such accidents at two theatres
and one hotel in the hear of the
Broadway theatrical district necesSt-
tated the sending of dozen persons
TO hospitals and calling out police re-
serves.
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Davi-
son, stationed at Governors Island,
was dangerously injured when he was
struck by a falling glass awning in
front of the Playhouse in West Forty
eighth street Both his legs were
broken and il is feared his skull was
fractured Two other men were SINH
larry injured in front of the Rivoli
theatre III broadway.
The shortage of coal caused consid-
cradle apprehens; on. Traction COM
panies said they had only few days
supply on hand and that they would
be forced to suspend operations unless
their bunkers were speedily replenish-
ed. Barges laden with coal are tied
up at New Jersey points by ice foes.
One of the novelties Of the storm
was the use of an army tank to push
stalled trolley cars.
Many winter residents Of Coney Is
and, where the storm and high tide
did thousands of dollars damage to
amusement places and bungalows, left
their homes in boats for there was
.hree felt of water in most Of the
streets. Policemen visited marooned
residents of bungalows to see if food
or other aid was needed.
Hundreds of pleasure craft and fish
| ing boats at Sheepshead Bay were
smashed or carried out to sea.
The New England Steamship COM
pany announced a tug sent to the
steamer Maine, ashore OIL LAeCutIoh
Light at the end of Long Island, to
take off its three passengers had not
| returned. Wrecking tugs also have
been despatched TO release the steam
ers Chester w. Chaplin, Boston, New
Hampshire and PequonOck, reported
| fast in the ice near the Maine.
City Island, in Long Island Sound,
which is part of New York city, was
marooned. Deep drifts compelled
most of the 1000 residents to stay at
! home
Estimates of the property damage
along the coast run well beyond the
two million dollar mark.
Points along the New Jersey coast,
especially Atlantic City and Sea
Bright, were hardest hit. Houses were
washed into the sea and towns parti-
ally inundated. Resorts along the
Long Island shore near New York also
| Cpre heavily dana ond