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VOL LVNO 197 NEW YORK THURSDAY MARCH 5IA PRICK TWO CENTS
WE ARE ON TOP NOV
The Town Has Got the
Blizzard Down
NO LONGER ISOLATED
I
Through Trains Move Cars More
Coal CarLs Move
WE WANT MORE MILK
Wo Wont a Good Deal More of
Telegraph Facilities
DIGGING OUT AND THAWING OUT
Bonfires i the Snow Drifts Litera I
ture on the Snow Drifts
WAEM AOT FAIR TODAY
No Sudden Thaw Likely No Rubber
Boots but No 11s
From the gray and dubious dawn t the
golden and glorious sunset things were mov
Inc in New York yesterday Some things were
moving yet earlier and later They wero shov
els These useful Implements were tbe most
restlessly active articles in aU the restlessness
of a town that la 1 tired of resting They were
worked by thousands of Italians in squads
that had enlisted undor the banners of Com
missioner Coleman or of the street railroad
folks who were mining for the burled iron of
their tracks through depths of snow packed to
the sold consistency of Ice These squads were
working with tho help of pickax wielders
and were reinforced and supported In many I
Instances by a force of carts to remove the dis I
integrated mass In other places the pick and
I shovel brigades built high and solid ramparts
alongside the tracks of the mottled and mar
bled blocks they raised from the pavement or
cut chalk white channels through drifts and
pied them to greater heights on either side
The number and size of these gangs of
shovellers suggested the thought that the
city was becoming Latinized to an extent un
dreamed of But a study of them would not
bear out this conclusion Ameng them wore
welldmswxl and comfortable looking men
kidgloved day laborers as I wero The stag
nation of business the ordinary channels is
te probable explanation of this Another
vast though scattered army of shovel bran
dlshers were those who in pursuit of contract
work scorned the 11 and 2 a day toll of the
gong laborers and wanted S5 for digging out a
west side or north side house front Yet a trip
up the Bowery disclosed the usual number of
loungers about the cheap lodging houses
Thesearo the chronlo seekers after work BO
thoroughly used to looking for It that they
have no time t do it when they find It
Btlll other hundreds of the evermoving
hovels were agitated by children and women I
Tb former mao up by activity for lack of
strength Cut the latter mad a mess of it In
their attacks on the huge snow piles Their
training and their weapons were against
them There were a groat many of them to be
seen up town down town and all over town
but their little Ore shovels and the kitchen
okr for picks wore not very effectual An
other trouble was their different notion of
work A man would attack a drift with tho
simple purpose of dislodging It No matter
though snow remained under his feet I the big
pie was over the gutter instead of on the side
walk lie was content But woman though
cleaning a spot only big enough to sere as a
resting place for her dainty feet must have
that spot broom clean and dry or feel as
though she had Buffered defeat
JJONPIBES TO HELP THE THAW
Tho third day of the great blockade began
with discouraging symptoms of another snow
dlscouralng
fall and mUll 2 oclock In the afternoon there
wan aBtrngellng deposit of big wet flukes that
suggested the lust and by no means the least
dlslresslnl stage tho thaw I thawed just
enough to help things on a little The great
drifts in tho streets are bad enough but noth
tog could bo worse than a sudden transforma
tion of the snow to slush and water Itoads
full of snow may bo rendered passable by pa
tent work but against slush feet deep there
i no remedy The threatening rain did not
come though and at 3 oclock the sun peered
through the clouds as I to tell tie Signal
Service Department that the elements I would
do what they could to justify Its prediction of
far and Mfghtly warmer weather
An original genius on Vesey street conceived
the plan of building a lire on the big drifts be
fore his Btoro und all over the lower part of
the city his example was quickly followed The
air was full of brown smoke and the appetiz
ing odor of bonllres The method was unique
I unllue
and Interesting A hole excavated in the
drift of about tho capacity of a cubic yard
From tbe top of this to the top of the drift a I
funnel wa made to secure ventilation Then
trenches nere dug at the sides of the dilit to
conduct the water to the gutters The bole
was fled with barrels of shavings and paper
and empty packing boxes and tired Tho fuel
burnod right meriily and the Interior tho
drifts were speedily toasted ut least they
looked toasted for tho cinders and smoke dis
colored the snow to n dark brown and as time
passed tbe drifts gradually milled away This
artificial thaw caused no rerlouu discomfort
to pedestrians and It greatly facilitated tho
reception and delivery of goods at the many
stores where it was employed
CLEAEINO TUB WATS
The things that were moving besides the
shovels did not include many of toe street
car A fow of them ran and the cleared
streets which rendered that possible also
furnished opportunities for the movement of i
the fire apparatus To those who are familiar
flmlar
With the situation and appreciate tho good
luck the city has bad In the Patter of fines the
nglBnB will outrank the bolo cars In one
ouencs as possible travellers In the cleared
trete From the celerity J of sliding poles
Uabtnlnf hllhln up and dead wlo8 to the
scene or a Ore 10 the slow fouderlnK and
honlaslsted prOlreMS ef Monda night and
Tuesday Is a wldo IITerunce that is all in the
re fiends favor all
The awakened life of tho city was very corn
posit In character Business was a thing of
shreds und patches Malls and telegraphic
communication were still under the embargo
that the city was 80 vigorously shaking oil
The thousands of wouldbe business men who
thronged the downtown streets were fully
aware of this and of the enforced leisure It Im
plied No malls or telegrams mean no order
end orders if filled could crtulaly ore
hipped Wheeled l vehicles and Klelghs had
almost equal dlftlculty in getting aleng outKld
of the shovelsraoothed streets and hauling
was mill amaitur i that could be accomplished
only under the pressure of stern niteeBslty
U ho moving ol coal mil provisions was about
the only thing that mpplleU this pressure
Cal meat Iwpr und ottior nocesusrles were
variously totcd on wheels und runners und
teams threehorse fourhorse and tandem
l
were necessary to move either style of vehicle I
when loadd 1hl de loiiment of variety in
sleds and sledge wu almost endless An old
fashioned itonebeiit wai loaded with coal in I
kng with the driver teeterlug en top of them
A emaIl oy with a dry goods box en runners
of barrel staves 110 drew coal with the Rid of
a Newfoundland log
dOl
The coal men who had to stick to their Him
rIO tvvovvlipcled tip carte were very hen
In discovering the best cleaned M roots and no
VTi Tile lrno tandiiu and Bumntlroes
wih tlire ° crovo > tn 0 string the man on the
load holding the rain and going through the
ottope of divip though a throulh
lolebOf drvlDl tloulh
led 1 te bros bekt tbledlll bone Itrl
saris wsatsqusaij W y rst
t
I
keepers and other who sallied out to bid high
for the coal for their ranges I
BOSTON rxorut OR nom
Up t last night few poerle who were detained
In I town by the railroad bleokade had left the I
hotel which wr still crowded away beyond
their normal capacity Those who waited logo
wes or north had no means of getting nut of I
town and wouldbe passengers for Bo ton
thought themselves similarly shut IB But the
Blonlnztpn of the Btenlngton line arrived
curing the forenoon Htenlnltol oclock In the
alternoon tho Brlstel of the rail lllver line
came In Bh had started from Fall Klvor at 1
clock In tho morning and the passage there
fore had taken only three or four hours loncer
t la usual The officers af the Bristol report
ed that on the eastern end n the Bound and In
Narracansett Bay there was nothing wore
than a revere rain storm when they posted
and that the wind was abating Up to this time
tme
there had ben no Intention or eendin a boat
tlo Doston but the Proyldence If the Jal 1 River
line wa nt one put In order nnd the announce
rnent made that she would start at 5 oclock
There was not time for this news to bn widely
dlSRemliated but enough prole heard of I to
crowd the boat heath of the other eastern
lines of naseagsrs also left on schedule time with full lists
The roadways of the Brooklyn Bridge wee
In bad rendition far little effort had ben made
to clear away the snow Teaming up the long
arch was therefore exceedingly difficult but
there was a good deal of trafllc nevertheless
Something happened her today that I
never naw before atd the collector at the
New York end Two different funerAls went
over and ever carriage In the procession was
carrale
wheels a sleigh The hers was the only thing on
MAIM BTABT U
After noonday yesterday the prospect of get
ting the accumulated mall out of the Post Of
flee brightened Thn mal m1 for th South and
Went consisting of 157 pouches and 249 eacks
that bad been denpatched by the fenniyhanla
road had gone on twlmmliglyso far as Known
A Bound Brook way mail of the Central Hal
road of Now Jersey arrived before noon The
New York and way nrrvd over the Northern
Railroad ef waJ mal the Newark mails of
Tuesday and yesterday by tho Pennsylvania
and the stalled Orange and Newark mal by
the D L and W and thelMorrlntown and way
mull by the pale road all arrived during the
early afternoon Th Staten Inland mal due
at 842 A M on Monday arrived yenterday at
1215 PM The Easton Il mal by way of
the Central Railroad of New Jeroey arrived at
noon 4ii hours and 25 minutes late
The surprise of the day was the arrival at
1140 A M ol the Now York Centrals mall
Iouche carrying the Cleveland Ohio Robes
ten Buffalo RiitTuml and HI Albans Vermont
and Albany malls due on Monday morning
In the afternoon the Bridgeport and New
Haven steamboats brought the Connecticut
mulls and the Fall River line steamer Bristol
arrived currying 79 pouches of ordiaary and 1
pouches of registered mall from New England
of the 12th and lath Inst The Fall River Provi
dence Stonlngton Bridgeport and New Haven
Steamboat Companies set Postmaster Pearson
offers to cany any malls he might desire to put
In their charge lie accepted all the tenders
and deiputchedthree pouches en the strainer
stlnler
Elm City for New Haven one pouch for Bridge
port by the Rosedale and about 16 pouches of
Easter mall by the Boston Sound steamer
which left the cltv ut 5 oclock 1 M A big
batch of mal was despatched to the Grand
Central Depot for noncompetitive points t
await the first movement of trains
THE TELEOBAPB riCXINO UP BLOWLT
Th Western Union had direct communica
tion yesterday between New York and these
points Chicago Cincinnati Pittsburgh Al
bany local stations to Nen burgh and PouKh
keepste Detroit Buffalo and several interior
cities of thin State along the line of the Wst
Rhoro Railroad Erie lines are serviceable to
Passaic and the Pennsylvania to Newark
Much more business Is transacted than Is rep
resented by those stray points Messages for
Philadelphia are sent to Chicago or Cincinnati
or Pittsburgh aid thence repeated to the
desired point Washington Is reached
polut
via Chicago Two wires capable of do
Ing a very small business nro open
to Boston via Albany and Worcester By the
same route to North Sidney N S the Anglo
American cable Is reached Noarly all of south
ern New England and northern New York is
is shut off from telegraphic communication
with this city Many points in the Southern
States are reached by repeating from Pitts
burgh and Cincinnati Up to last evening more
than 1500 Western Union pales had boen reported
ported down The receiving offices a not I
porea
overcrowded with business because tbe situa
tion is explained to all who submit messages
and as a rule patrons withdraw their orders
Ini orers
for even when points can be reached by repeat
ing in a roundabout way there is a great deal
of loss in time and the com pany cannot guaran
tee promptness or accuracy
WEBB OUT OP THE WOODS
Street cries that tho blizzard had stilled were
again beard The glass pudding and rags
and bottles unwelcome evidence
botles mon wero a not I
dence of the citys return to life A cry that
eemed strangely out of season was heard In
Second nvanue near Fourteenth street It I
startled the good people about 1 oclock I
WHBBtrnwt > errle8 strawberries Two men I
rr
were carrying a crate between them in which I
were two scar of pint boxes full of the red
berries They were sold at 35 cents a box but
bad few buyers as the fruit looked shrivelled
and frozen
The summing up for the day results in com I
fortable conclusions The giving out of the
milk supply is the principal blot upon this sat
isfactory condition And as that Is beyond
local causes and control the evil must be en
dured The extortions by small dealers In cool
and provisions are the chief local difficulties
that remain Were eut of the woods
GOING FOR iur tssotr HEAPS
Officiate end Frlvatp Cltlzeoe Pitch In
Broadway Clrnntd at Last
Mayor Hewitt was at his office all day yes
terday and attended to various matters of
business relating to the storm He was much
pleased at the prompt compliance of the Dock
Department with his suggestion to permit the
dumping of snow from any bulkhead The
police have orders not to interfere I
The Mayor received on his arrival home on
Tuesday night a letter from Fire Commissioner
Ptirroy making various suggestions relative to
necessary precautions for clearing the streets
In cabe of tire Re ent this reply
kUroaa Orncic NIW You March 14 1888 I
R D Purrty faq rralfnlt fire IttfmrttnenL
Fin 1 rolrd your letter of he lath Instant dated
1 10 r SI L t ubcut 7 eelock laat erenlnr en my return
kerne In much ebllcd tS you far ibe lugicetionB
tkercia contained but 1 o teem had been acted upen
Ce far as they were practicable befare Been or yeller
day I hail a cotitrtuc with Chief Bliaj early In the I
day after walett I leut for the Cmmililatr or Street
Je rA r I
Cleaning I and received his aiiuronce thai every nan
an < < every carl tkat could be procured would be l put te
work In opening the main tlioroiirbfaree and the lead I
I ing atrre a The leading street railway companies were
busily at work roiteriUr clearing the tracks 10 that I I
hopt by tonight Dial there wlii be a irreal Improvement
In the unIts wall I will enale 1 Ihe tire cLued le I pass
wlihont leriius extraction 1 ns been suneiied that
the wnrs el truck and cart heuld voluntarily contribute
tribute lo tee removal of Ihe blockade hloh now exists
by caning new te the rivers aad dumping at Ihe melt
eonvealnl point I have scoured perutltiien frem Ue
Dork Uparinient for this purpose b tat all wka feel
Inclined may Join In the neieuarv work of clearing
street at the earllet oiie moment and 1 trust leal
ouch voluntary actin will be general Yura jte
Aiitm I llawin Mayer
John Stewart President of the New York
Truckmens Association wrote to Commis
sioner Coleman I would suggest that you
6Ullest JOt
Invite through the press tomorrow all per
sons owulnl trucks carts and wagons to vol
unteer their assistance In carting the snow to
the river I wH give a double truck free two
hersos anti two men provided others do like
wise I am sure I all do I part of this work
you will have trafllo renewed In two days
Mr Coleman sent the letter to the Mayor and
said he thought it was 1 cood suggestion The
8uJlelloD
Mayor sAid ee ton Many merchants availed
themselves of tbl opportunity during the day
to use their t own trucks to clear In front of their
stores and dump the snow off the bulkheads
Yesterday Mr Stewart Bent this letter to
Commissioner Coleman
Jtmii Ii Cole nan fm
Dun SIB The truckmen have had a meeting and
tree le I end a force lo morrow morning 10 franklin
and West sireota and I distribute our Ire as te reach
Ihe dry ide alitrlrt so soon ui poislble Ileae ask
Ihe press to Invite coOperation t all alone iho lino a > the
mere auliiance we get tbe isouer tbe work will oe done
Yours truly Jai STVWAKT
Street CommissIoner Colewmn was early at
his post and 1 before night had over 1700 men
at pst The regular contractors wore looked
after and had their full fore of mon at work
The Commissioner said that the plan of dump
Ing the Hnowfrom the bulkheads would greatly
expedite his work arid lie wan confident that
thoroughfares nnd ferry streets
the main thoroullfurS will
on he cleaned
SO1 T lleypo dif A t Co of Fulton street had a
large box built on tho street In fient of their
store and a steam pipe connection with their
boiler and Del 11 ery laptdljr all the snow In
front of their building
The bimlnesa houses of William street be
tween Fulton aDd John have appropriated
200 to Fulon tile snow carted away There
Jetrday were eight large Bras burning In the street
The leather merchants of the Swamp I
asked the Aldermen yesterday permission
to clean tho stnott In front of their Mores
The Aldermen passed n resolution giving tile
required permission although tha sums bat
already Iwn given < by the Btreotcloanlug and
Dock Departments
the The following Fire Commissioner yesterday passed
Awaited That bU Boner the Major be reiteetfiUy re
misted le ask tke coJfMatiea ef a tte available fene
admeant etererr department oftho city Government
In making passable the main thorontbfarei of lb city
and l lie purists toadies to them upon which tire spa
rams I heoes are sItuated and use In clearing I a working
space arennd Ib bvdrants
lltmirfi That his Honor th Mayor be respectfully re
Qnted to Join wilt looor Fire iJeparlment In nrclnt the
IIm
Kaeval of the snow from the Street railroad keI by
th several companies 0 soon as possible
Alderman Benjamin asked the Aldermen yes
terday to pass a resolution authorizing Com
missioner Coleman to employ all tho men and
horses tin could und to clear the highways of
snow This was passed as also a resolution
asking the Dock Department to permit tho I
dumping of snow from the bulkheads Rut
both base things had already hen dOle before
the Aldermen acted
Commissioner Onlemnn made a grand night
attack upon Broadway and the streets that
lead to ferries He wanted 1700 men and at
170
I cent an hour secured upward of I thou
sand A good many coal dealers and general
truckmen volunteered COt us of their wagons
and horses When it cam time for this fore
tme
to go to work which was about sundown
Broadway been cleared along the middle
of the street from Seventh avenue to Four
teenth street One gang was set to work at
this point with orders Innl proceed southward
another began at Bawling Omen and dug to
ward the north Other gangs were Rent to
war Chambers Orand Canal and Bleecker
streets
On Fulton street the members of lire
Fulon Dlmbf a com
pany turned eat and added their endeavors
to those of the regular gang In digging a trench
ten feet wide In the roadway By 10 oclock
Broadway was so clear from Howling Green to i
Chambers street that here cars could have
made use ef the tracks There was reasonable I
bop that the different gangs on the great I
thoroughfare would meet before daylight and
thus make surface car transit possible today 1
ALL BTRKET COMING TO LFE
lluarel Doe Nt e rrotenled Lund e > f
Silver Mar In Ike Snow
Thing were Blow enough In Wall street
yesterday but the Stock Exchange kept open
shop all day Many brokers rot In from their
outoftown homes but telegraphic communi
cation hadnt been established with other stock I
elculatnl cenlres The trading on tho Ex
change was larger but It was necessarily
all local The sales were 100000 shares
While most of the clerks and employees at
the SubTreasury the banks the Clearing
House tbo Custom House and the big busi I
ness houses down town have come In out of I I
the snowdrifts things are still clogged in the I I
absence of telegraphic communication with I I
other cities The absence of malls also leads
to all sorts of complications
I was announced yesterday that the banks
have protested all paper falling due In the
last three days for which no funds have ar
rived It was declared that this action was
necessary for fie protection of the banks It
expected thutlhcresvlll be a bowl when this
Is 1 known by the endorsers whose remittances
to extend or take up the paper are doubtless
aboard snowbound trains The complaint
will be over the protest fees
The Bank af the Stale of New York was en
abled te straighten out Its account with the
Clearing House yesterday for the first lime
Olearnc
since Saturday afternoon Cashier John I
Bolston had the keys to the vaults He was
unable to get In from his home In Elizabeth
The Continental Bank has got along pretty
well considering that the President IZdmund
V Randolph lives al Mount St Vincent and
the Cashier Alfred H Timpson In Hnvnity
fifth street The tug Captain John arrived at
noon yesterday from Now Hochello and landed
Assistant Cashier Seymour the bank Phil
Uoatcher Wiclitteks MClnlo artist E C Itoase
velt and JEP Pmckney Paying Teller of the
Oriental Bank Tney lire in New Koohelle and
started for business on Monday They got to
Mount Vernon where the train was snowed In
They fooled It bock to New Itochelle and char
tered the Captain John
The Consolidated Stock und Petroleum Cot
ton and Coffee Exchanges were open aU day
but little business was done
The Produce Exchange adjourned at 2 oclock
I The business for the day was Insignificant
At noon a sled load of silver bam weighing
two tons and worth 80000 was tumbled into
the snow In frnt1 the SubTreasury It was
I on the way to the Assay Ofllce and the off run
ner of the sled caved la 1 Th six guards took
turns la I lugging the bars into the Assay Offlco
Each of the bars weighed 100 pounds ana none
of em got away
Express wagons and anything with wheels
were pressed into the work of carting away the
snow from tie streets near tho Exchanged and
banks Fires ware built and some of the big
drifts were melted that way
Surveyor Beattle was severely bruised about
the neck and shoulders by I Cal on a blizzard
swept glassy pavement on Tuesday evening
He told yesterday of the pluck of four women
inspectors who were on hand Monday but bad
to sleep over night In the llargo Wile They
slept nn tables and used anything for com
I fortables
I At the meeting of the Governors of the
Stock Exchange yesterday it wan decided
that the blizzard nnd Its effect on finance and
commerce called for ofllclal investigation
Fully appreciating the full accurate and elo
I quentlr desorlptiv reports In THe SUN it
lrtv
was voted that copies of THE SUN of Tuesday
and Wednesday be placed among the archive
of tbe Lxohango They were accordingly Iliad
I with the reports of the gnat fire la i 1835
VliT GOODS STORES LDLK
Tie Blizzard Bit Out mt Their Bnslnts aPiece
PIe Theyll Never Get Back
Though the afternoon of yesterday at
least was pleasant and Broad way was crowded
with promenaders a large l portion of whom
wore women in shopping array the shops
were comparatively little visited and the keep
en thereof mourned another lost day A SUN
reporter who visited the great stores ef J it 0
Johnston Arnold 4 Constable Lord A Taylor
I E J Dinning Co and others on Broadway
found few people In them beside clerks At
each store the reporter was told that business
was regarded as being practically at a stand
still for tho week at a loss to each of the big
stores ef uncounted thousands of dollars a
I day The blocking of malls the telegraphs
and the railroads at one swoop stopped all the
wholesale transactions while the retail busi
ness amounted to but little I Said Mr Edward
P Hatch of the firm of Lord it Taylor
I 1 I would bo natural lo suppose after this
cessation of our retail business lor two or three
I days anyway that in the next two or three
days we would make up our loss bv doing a
much greater business than usual But In my
experience 1 have rfirely tound this to be the
I case The loss Is never made up People dont
come out the next dar Ird buy as one might
suppose they would I have no doubt that If
this btorm keeps up for a very long tIme tbe
business at Its close will be Increased some
what but you may be sure that the Increase
will he but comparatively little
te all the dorks In the big stores are yet at
their posts A good many of them live In West
chester county and have not put In an appear
ance sine Saturday Most of tbe stores up
town closed on Monday in time to allow tho
clerks who were so bold as to get don town to
get home again In most Instances the clerks
were sent back A8 soon as they arrived and few
of them had to sleep in the stores as the clerks
In MacY did A groat many of the young sales
women have been lodged ii I convenient hotels
by their employers since Monday night
ONLX t ll LHJJ
ItTCmu Bay Knkbor lot Youll Have te
tinr Blet Onjee
Hundreds of citizens filled with alarm at
the prospect of a thaw tried to buy rubber
beots at uptown and downtown retail stores
and were horrltled at the news that the dealers
bad nothing left In stock except No Jls A
SUN reporter who mad a teurof downtown
stores and stores along Third avenue yester
day found that the Htook of all the average
sizes was exhausted Dealers sent la their
orders for the winter supply of rubber boots
last June and they nay they cant renew the
supply now because the manufacture of the
boots U stopped In the winter months Borne
men down town offered 1 und JO a pair yester
day for rubber boots that would lit and didnt
get them They toro their hair In despair at
IIey
the thuughl of the flood that would overwhelm
the town If tho suovvblockod streets bogun to
thaw iu earnest I
fbi Ilrxltll IlepMrlneut Knocked Out
The blizzard knocked out the Health De
partment entirely President Uayles was
cooped up In Wshome at Orange Chief Clerk
Golderman oeuld not get down from Fordham
Heights and Dr Nagl was snowbound at
ned Bank Lots ef clerks who live out of town
were missing Mr liurlegn stenographer a
young lady appeared yesterday She had been
snow bound on I Connecticut train blnce Mon
day morning Not much happened while these
folks were gone
The smallpox ambulance broke down In the
I transportation of fOUL patients and Ulgh 1
r rOt br Dr Wfl with aoMl I
flcultr A doctor up town reported that two
men in another place were sick with the small
pox Dr Priest went thi > rn and found that the
men were all right The doctor who resorted
them nick was sent to n lunallo asylum yes I
terday t In the absence of Mr Bayles particu I
lars arc withheld I
ar lot of undertaker who had delayed fu
neral on hand iame with requests for an ex
tension of the time they are allowed to keep
corpses aboB ground The thing had to be
done of course for them are no burial
grounds In tie city and them wore no ways of
getting out of the city Hut Dr Nagle was not
there and his chief Dr Tracy did not dar to
do such a thing as to break a rule In te Iare ab
sence of Mr Bayles
nnooKLrN nIaGuflrNs VR
Street Oar RnnnlB Teterdiir la Seme or
tkr Pints Tfcoreuchlnrea
In Brooklyn if the men employed by the
railroad companies clearing the tracks a
included there must have been an army of
60000 persons armed with shovels working
yesterday with might nnd main The Brook
lyn City Railroad Company had more than
2000 men at work all of Tuesday night and I
the result was that In the morning the wel
come jingle of the car bolls were heard In eome
of the thoroughfares The first
leading tborOfRbfarss lt car
run since the bllrt rd struck the city on Mon
day morning was on the Court street line one
of the most Important In the companys sys
tem With six horses fresh and restive from
their lone mst and two drivers the oar left
the Greenwood stables at 5 oclock I reached
the ferry In less than an hour with an many
passengers as could hang on It Three more
cars each with six horses were Bent out In
rapid succession and then cars with four
horses until 7 oclock under ten minutes
headway when to batter accommodate
the groat rush of trafllc the cars were
run on live minutes headway During tho
greater part ol the day tonminute rule was
observed but in tie rush hours in the evening
the cars warn run on live minutes headway
The snowbound residents of Gonanus poured
down town all dar and were rejoiced to Und I
that the City Hall wa still In its piaco Since I
Monday the hud been virtually cut off from
all communication with the lower part of the I
al communicaton
city The oomoany also managed to raise tit I
blockade on the Fulton avenue line at 0 oclock I
when tno first car left l tbe stables at Fulton
Street and Brooklyn avenue making the run to
tho ferry in lortrflve minutes Each car had
feur horses and two drivers and twice its usual
quota of passengers During the day travel en
the line was steadily extended out toward East
New York but regular street ear communica
tion with that busy suburb will not be estab
lished before today
I N oclock traffic was also resumed on the
Myrtle avenue line but the other lines will not
be opened until today
President William lllchardson of the Atlantic
avenue railroad had more than 1000 men rt
work clearing the tracks along the different
lines of the company but night set in before I
the blockade on any of the lines was removed I
Mr Itlchardson expects to have the cars on the
Firtli livanue line and name of tko other routes
In operation today The Smith and Jay street
Una still remained snow bound
Mayor Chapln and City Works Commissioner
Adams were early In 1 consultation and Con
tractors James rl Olllen George England
Charles Hurt John Cox A Co and Herman
Cnrk wore employed to remove the anew from
fllleen miles of streets and dump It In tho East
River and for this work the regime fund of
I 135000 has been drawn upon All the wagons
that could bv obtained were pressed Into the
eenlca by the contractors and toward night a
I revolution wrs wrought In the aspect of tho
leading thoroughfares te
The business of tbe undertakers remained
almost at a standstill and fewef them were
daring enough to venture out with funerals
Mr Hopper of Court street started out for
Greenwood with a hearse to which thore were
six horses attached but he was obliged to
turn buck before he cam In view of the ceme
tery Presideat Oakley of the Kings County
Livery Stable Keepers Association notified
Mayor Chupin that the association would cooperate
Chljln aSiOCllton
operate with the Ity authorities In clearing off
the snow from the streets approaching the
cemeteries Health Commissioner Griffin no
tified the undertakers that they need not hurry
in the matter of Iiitermp t4 for a few days ex
cept in cees or contagious diseases and be In
structed the ambulance surgeons to use sleighs
in responding to culls The oleo have re
ceived Instruction to notify all householders
to clear their sidewalks and keep the gutters
clean but twelve hours grace 1 given boforu
complaints are made
The schools all remained practically closed
yesterday Very little business was done in
the courts All the stores were open and tho
clerks their places but there were very few
customers except In the grocery and provision
stores where 1 brisk trAde was done Milk
could hardly be purchased at any price Meat
was scarce und several cents a pound higher
than last week Even the supply of bread was
limited Vegetables became a luxury and
0011 could be Iroured only with the greatest
dllcult1 and itt enormously advanced prices
Th dealers said they had plenty of stock ou
hand but no means to deliver It The supplies
of coal In the grocery stores had all run out
and the poor people In the tenement houses
were forced to pay from thirtylive te fifty cents
for a pullfuJ or shiver in the cold and with
eut food
The Dromon were kept in reserve during the
day but there were only a few fires and these
of serious
no serllus consequence
There has been an accumulation of Business
at the Coroners office since Monday no less
than 24 case having been reported up to yes
trOY afternoon bo far as known only one of
them resulted directly from the storm Tbo
rosuled
victim wai Michael lihlvu a coachman Ho
roraalned all day on Monday in the buffet
inc storm and returned to his home 1119 1ul
tou street exhausted He threw himself in I
chair and died while his wife was trying to re
store him to consciousness
William Uuber and William Coleman aged
11 and 15 years r p ctley during the first
outburst of the fctorm on Monday morning left
a stable In Coeoer avenue near Hamburg
street about 3 oclock with a herbe and milk
wagon to go over Ihelr route They hal not
gone morn than a few blocks when tlie wagon
rot wedged tight In tho allow and they were
obliged to abandon It The boys loosened the
horse and led It to an unllnUlied building In I
Schaffer street They put the horse In the cel
lar and than climbed to the second floor where 1
they remained Imprisoned until Monday after I
noon when they wore rescued half frozen
Tho trustees of the Classen Avenue Presby 1
tarlan Church will have its leaning and dan I
gerous steeple taken down ut once
No trains left tho Lone Island Railroad De
pot in Ilatbiiiili avenue yesterday
The venerable members of rray Society of Old
Brooklynites have been exchanging remin
iscences since tho arrival of the blizzard Mr
Judah f Voorhees who lias lived in Brooklyn
sixty years sold
l never remember such a storm as this In
the winters of 1SJG ISM and 1H5J we had ee
vote now storms hut they were not accom
panied by snob high winds 1 and uxtreme cold
Jlio only earn running In Brooklyn until 8
oclock lout night were those en the Court
street und Fulton avenue line At the latter
hour travel on the Greene and Oaten avenue
line was also resumed and on all the other
lines of the City UiUlroid Company big gangs
of laborers were at work cleaning lanlS
tracks and they will stick to their shovels as
long aa their strength holds out The com
pany Intended to run the Court and Fulton
avenue cars all night and with less headway
than usual It will be a couple of days before
u81al I wi < befort
the He Kalb menu and tho Smith and Jay
streuts roads wu resume operations ant
Tkluge Exrte bv Now MbeTellera
Men who were trying yesterday t make
Bldewalks on the Hill in Brooklyn passable
found a number of things At De Kalb avenue
and Adelphl street In the heart of a big snow
drift a man turned up Metbodlut hymnal and
I red veil while on the opposite corner some
body found I brown Derby hat Near Cler
moot and De Kulb avenues a snow shovellsr
found I box of bon bons still Intact and Illty
teat further on a boy dug tip j the dead body of
a black and tan doa Un Wllloughby avenue
about ton yards from ashlngtou lark two
negroes discovered two feet from the crest of
I snow mound gentlemans a cuff with a cold
and moss agate sleove button attached With
In twenty feet of the corner of Clinton and Do
Kali avenues a pair of ear mufflers were
fouad and about OU8 liunilrrd fet further up
tho thoroughfare a bottle I of milk right side up 1
was taken out It wa I day of discoveries
last but not least of vOikh was a brand nmv
pulr of tioiiberu neatly clone uu In manila
paper These wore removed from a drift In Do
Kalbatcnuft lear Cumberland street They
bad evidently been abandoned by a tailors boy
Fire eglnrn 1 o Itusmers
All of the lire engine and truck companies
were supplied yesterday with extra horses to
be taken out by special riders behind the ma
chines and tiseil according to need The men
of inch couiin 11 l uptconstantly m <
duty ut tin lioiibp tome of ttu > onalntMnticl
lireao carte lolb9 hud lUi runners prepared
Fired were scarce yesterday
LklUna Or > er riteker Uuterl
A ufsiipxspsreUeS 0 citdtie eeaiiiAti4
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xr comas TIA LONDON AND DESCROHU
XUK 11VAT1VN DOWN EAST
Tfce Storm Canr Cvnelderitfctei I Lee or Lire
In 8nv T wniIt itn GeU Only the
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IJUckMde Delate ci the Exchange
Cesvrieht 188 U Inr Fop IVtnllnt amid 1UbIUlnS
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BOSTON LONDON March HTho storm
has been comparatively light on tho Massa
chusetts coast Loss than eight Inches of snow
fall at Boston and there was enly a slight In
terruption to travol within a radius of twenty
Ova miles The streets are Blopny and are fast
clearing tenlitht under a Unlit rain
Communication North and East by roll and
wire now suffers little delay The storm fol
lowed a narrow belt from New York along the
New Haven rood to Hartford anil north by the
Connecticut valley and spent Itself In southern
I Vermont and New Hampshire There Is no
trouble north of Concord A Montreal train
I came In today Little progress has been mad
In piercing tho great barrier between New
York and Boston from this side
Today the A Ibany road succeeded In getting
a train through from Boston to Spriiiglleld
It expects to roach Albany tomorrow night
The train from New Haven reached Middle
town today
No trains are moving west of Now Haven
An army of ehovollora Is at work on the tracks
around New Haven The boat from New York
nrouae
reached Stonlncton tonight bringing news
papers and the first direct news
papr anl
The Fall lllver bout started For New York
this moraine and another tonight with malls
Nothing can be done t repair the telegraph
till th railroads resume The wires are work
i ing well to Albany and all the newspapers are
I receiving Washington despatches as usual
I Long distance telephone wires are working
I between Boston and Klngsbrldgo Communi
cation by these wires will probably reach New
York by tomorrow
No serious disasters are reported on the
coast Much loss of life Is reported without
details at towns In the track of the storm
notably at Derby Conn and North Adams
Mass Mitch suffering occurred among the
passengers stalled In trains at various places
There Is no scarcity of provisions In Boston or
vicinity
Thore has been no general news of interest
In New England since the storm began Th
Stock Exchange has been In session a usual
and the market has been dull and strong
Tho groat works of the Chemical Paper Com
pany at Holyoke are burning tonight
Palmers block and other buildings at Am
herst were destroyed last night The weather
Is moderating rapidly and there are fears of
groat freshets
JESXY CITY RESUMES BVSIHESS
New Jersey Law Uaker Still Confined to
Taylor Uetel
Two hundred and fifty thousand tons of
snow taken from the streets of Jersey City
was thrown into the North River yesterday and
Jersey celebrated the relief thus afforded by
resuming business At 1 oclock street car
traffic on the Montgomery street line was re
sumed and cars were run on four minutes
headway The danger of a food famine was
over and butchers and grocerymen were en
abled to replenish their stock About the only
persons IB the city who were unhappy were
those who were compelled to stay there on
account of the stoppage of railroad traffic
Especially blue were the twentythree Assem
blymen and State Senators who had spent
I their time since Monday in Taylors Hotel
Assemblyman Hill of Essex the father of the
new Localoptlonliighllcenoe law varied the
monotony of hotel life by walking to hit Police
Court escorted by half a dozen young ladles
members of the Casino opera company who
are wIUnl for a train to take them to Haiti
more It was A fatal move for the Assembly
man for on his arrival at the court ho found
Justice BlllRing In the act of steeping into his
I slolzn Nothing would do but the Judge must
take the girls sleigh riding and the Assembly
I man was deserted He made his way buck to
the Hotel unnoticed Tho Maurice Power
troupe and a band of Either players who are
also waiting for outgoing train tried to en
liven tin by giving an entertainment in tho
parlors or Taylors Hotel Twentylive brokers
from this city who live in cities along the line
of the New Jersey Central Railroad and were
unable to reach their homes chartered the
parlor car Karitan and spent the night in card
playing and singing car
At the Post Ofllce the first mal from any
point west of Newark since Sunday morning
was received about 10 oclock Thousands of
mon were at work clearing the streets and
they succeeded in getting Newark avenue and
I Montgomery street in good condition for any
kind of travel Monday and Tuesday there
wore only two alarms of fire In the city Yes
terduy there were six but nono of the tires
amounted to anything The undertakers are
having more trouble than any other of the
business mon as it has been impossible to
roach any of the cemeteries in the city and no
bodies could be burled In as many cases as
possible ibe embalming process was adopted
to preserve the bodies Gangs of mon will be
gin work this morning to open the roads to
tho cemeteries
The only person reported missing yesterday
was Robert Crosby I fourteenyearold boy
who started for work Monday morning and has
not bon heard of since
DAKOTA JUKE Us
Mcseate to Mr Hewitt OaTerlnc Cletheo
nod Food mad lleeiey
I is suspected that a facetious intent lurks
In these despatches received by Mayor Hewitt
yesterday Bum net Dakota March li
Mayor tlmltt N r
Jau0 anll T
Dakota
Subscription papers reported passed throughout
beta for aid of lorD sufferers In New York and sur
rounding country Citizens of tlie Territory express
deep sympathy fur your people I and are responding I lib
erally Would you prefer clothes or feed or beth r
J Sl Quint Bismarck Tribune
Flcaox Dakota March li 1
Utvor Bewtit A r
liurnn Dakota under a milt spring now sends her
sympathy to bllztara itrlcVeu New York I neodeil
you may draw on ui for lAo to relieve the storm set i
ferers J I I K > nr Chairman
A despatch signed Chamber Commerce Bis I
marck Dak roud
BUmarck stands ready to five substantial ale to bus
card bUsters ef New York Let us know your needs
Si II Jiwau
Many Citizens sent a despatch from St
Paul dUnn which said
The city of St raul lenders te Now Tank her sympathy
for tne damage to life and properly cartoned by Ue
blizard new raging in your city Unaccustomed cc
siorms of suet severity as lo real railroad and tale
gr pilo Isolation frill mba ooulde world and never bay
turbid peonie frosen tu death In Ue stresia we shall be
glad in contribute lo say relief fund which may k
started for your afflicted people vtealUer Sire yester
day and to day mild and beautiful
Mayor hewitt had no time to be funny in re
ply Ho answered In courteous matter of fact
phrase tn the effect that New York was much
obliged but that no help was needed
Rapid Trau11 TulUil it a Hood Tlmtv
Monday night was a good time to con
sider means for the extension of New York
rapid transit facilities but the commute ap
pointed for that purpose by the Heal Estate
Owners and Builders Association couldnt get
Itself together Bo the association was obliged
to tackle the subject at its meeting last night
without tho asUtance that n report mont the
committee might liia nnnrdrd Tile discus
shut developed a sentiment favorable to Mayor
HewlttV plan lii so inn as It may prmo useful
to the central portion of tbw city but It was
thought tlm brunch lines of the rroriosed ys
tern should be hopped off and that sepa
rate lines to meet the demands the traliio
In the eastern and wnstcru sections of the city
ibould be provided In their stend
It was unanimously agreed that the blizzard
had put anuletuBon the orencut plan of the
Murray Hill people The association resolved
commit itself lo no scheme and ga > n the
001T ruitttit inst noel inns to I report on tho I 2i it
t tin It5itniiiitiori itist hi tb i tiori a n ltl htltlltu
for tliu hill to oxLiniiit IlirthiisunoiL nuirt
gltgt4 from tuxMilini tmtthor bill cmptluu all
raorlKUcos oa real eState
Wemaue VTrk Made EaiyWaahipg
UI ItltuUf with Ul ill t lyiss IeariizeMv
110RSR CANS RKAI1EAtt
Fanrtb Aremoe Takes th Cahe IlrRdtTr
Akcni Op n Ale
The banner horse car line the Fourth ave
nuo which nt THE BUM announced yesterday
bad got its cars out and down to Twentysecond
street on Tuesday opened the route down as
far as Bronme street yesterday There were
1100 Italians at work at it Nine hundred ot
them began at Twentysecond street In the
morning and reached Broom street by dark
They simply picked and dug out tho ire and
snow about the car rails and shovelled It aside
It WAS slow and tedious work for the layer of
Ice was often a tent thick Two hundred wore
at work above Fortysecond street clearing the
tracks In a similar way The entire 1100 were
paid off at night at the Thirtysecond street
depot on Fourth avenue receiving 2 each or
60 cent less than the taco atwoik clearing the
railroad tracks In the annexed districts
Thanks to the long stretch ol tunnel and the
I old style T mil the Fourth avenue line bad
I wired the eyes of itHcnmpeiltors Only the top
of the T rail has to be uncovered Llghtron
cars were kept going during the day and they
did a good business The men cleared nn
average of two and onehalf blocks an hour
yesterday and Mr Bkttt expects that by to
I night be will have the read cleared to the City
I Hall from tortrxeoond street and perhaps
above that to tfuhtynlith street
All the other lines WPM at work with as many
men as could bo had but men who hud shovels
I and wore willing work were making much
I money clearing sidewalks that may would not
work for days H lines Superintendent W N
A Harris of the Belt Line had 250 men at work
all night and SOU during the day About 9
oclock yesterday morning ho sent out a car
from the stables in Hltyfourtb street and
Tenth avenue on the Fiftyninth street cross
town line as far as Third avenue This service
was kept up all day and as the lino was cleared
the can followed up the shovellers until at 6
oclock there were twelve cars running from
Thirtieth street on the went bide UD lo Hfty
ninth street and across to First avenue Work
wa to he continued nil last night and by this
morning It was expected that the line would be
onon from Canal street on Ute west side to the
Thirtyfourth street Jerry on the east ride
Throe hundred iind fifty mon under Treas
urer J B Underbill attacked the drills on th
Second avenue line at the stables In Ninety
sixth street yesterday morning and the line
was cleared by nlcht to Fortysecond street
Mr Underhill has fourteen miles of track to
look alter flight on the feecond avenue route
and six on the First avenue I shall keep at
work all night on the main line of tho Second
avenue he said last night and br morning
I hope if the weather remains soft to be ablo I
to start cars between the stables and Houston
etreot
borne work was also done on tho First avenue
route but this will not bo pushed until the
Second avenue line Is open from the City Hall
to Harlem It will be easy work from Ninety
sbctb street up but below Houston street In
the narrow streets all the snow must be carted I
away No cars were run yesterday but the I
road was lively with long teams nulling snow
ploughs and sweepers
Vice1rusldent Henry Hart and Banana
tendont J U Robinson were In tne office of the
Third avenue road when THE BUN reporter
visited there last night The storm will cost
us between 25000 and 80000 sold Mr Hurt
in expenses and loss of receipts but we are
getting th line open as fast as man can do It
Two hundred men worked at it all day Tues
day 400 that night and 700 or 800 were at work
yesterday Tliey were divided In gangs and
although none of the road was open to trafllo
last night it was expected that cars will be
running this morilng all tile war from Harlem
to Grand street As soon as they get down
there and the Fourth avenue line li open to the
City Hall the Third avenue curs will take their
track because all the snow hasgot to be carted
off Park row from Pearl street south
Th 123th street cable line across town got
one truck clear yesterday and one car was run
with horses bacit and forth all day between
Eighth and Third avenues Today they expect
to get the other track clear and start the cable
Nothing has been dona on the Tenth avenue
cable line This is reported to be badly cov
ered with drills Passengers have however
little trouble In getting to Carmansvllle by
means of the Sixth avenue elevated
Superintendent B E Moore of th Sixth ave
nue line bad a taw men working on Tuesday
eight und yesterday be increased his fore to
about 300 No care were run during the day
At 6 oclock the road was clear from Fiftyninth
street to Thirtieth street but It is not likely
that any cam will be started until tonight
Cam will be started on Urn Seventh avenue
and Broadway line this morning ut 7 oclock
between Fiftyninth street and Fourteenth
street and will perhaps get to Bowling Orson
Two tangs of men under Superintendent H
B Wilson cleared the Eighth avenue creek
from Hftynlnth to hlrtyelghth street and
between Canal and Boring streets yesterday
With 100 men be expects to open his line In
time to start cars thin morning by 10 oclock
No cars were run yesterday and BO work hits
been done above Fiftyninth Street The lust
work was done on the Ninth avenue line bu
perintennent L P Falk was short of tools and
only hud about seventylive men at work yesterday
terda Today be will put on 100 more and
by tonight he hopes to get the line open be I
tween Fiftyfourth and Fourteenth streets
On the crosstown lines work was pushed
vigorously all day Cam were running during
the afternoon and evening on uortlons of the
Fortysecond and Twentythird street lines
THE I21EJTRES ARE JZfSPMIAC
They UnTO Lost BtjavIlT by he Blizzard
but lire UradF to Make It Up New
All the theatres In town excepting the
Bijou presented an appearance last night of
reviving life At the Bijou the actresses were
all on hand but Manager Rice told them that
th attendance of spectators would probably i
be too small to pay the management forth
expense of giving a performance and the
pirates and chorus girls went away dlscenso
late Performances will be resumed tonight
It was said lust night that Manager Daly and
Henry Irvine were the only theatrical mana
gers who hadnt Buffered heavily by the bliz
zard Duly and Irving were protected from
loss by the lame advance sale of seats and the
Cosmo was considerably protecttd in the same
way Barn urn and Bailey have lost 12000 by
the decreased attendance A theatrical mana
ger said last night that the combined loss to all
the theatres by time blizzard bad footed UD over
AOOO
Birnume midgets the tiny Adams sisters
Lucy and Sarah and the 025pound Indian
prlncons Bosahftw were among the snow
bound captives of the blizzard The midgets
were stopping IB Brooklyn but werent able to
get to Madison Square Garden until Tuesday I
afternoon The heavy Iodine princess was ut
a downtown hotel in town on Monday but her
great weight and the nlockado combined kept
her a pr eonur until Tuesday afternoon when
the blockade was lifted HUfUoIently to north a I
vehicle strong enough to carry the princess to
th Garden
The Casino Mndelon company escaped last
night from a blockade that hud kept them pris
oners aboard the transfer steamer Maryland
since MtiBday morning Bertha Itlocl Ihubella
Urnubart Lllll Urubb aid Comedian Powers
were among the prisoners In the palace cars on
the ferryboat Theornpanyarrfved from Bos I
ton at the Harlorn Klveron Monday morning
and when they got to Jersey City they had to
Bond messengers across the river to Washing
ton Market to get fresh food supplies They
left last night by train for Baltimore where
they are billed to play tonight
NO JtORK BUZZARD
A Wurm Wave le CMgtho St rm Away
and It le Cmlr Rapidly
I There will be no indications from Wash
ington tonight said the vs eather clerk at mid
night There are no wires available for the
Ignal service from the South or Southwest
ana wo are entirely ignoraBt of the condition
ef things along the New England coast Tim
second blizzard ban not sunned out and la no
longer be leard The coldest weather now
Is around Iiltnburgh and Buffalo and Lakes
Erie and Huron The thermometer stands
near the freezing point In those districts West
of that it is clear and warmer The coldest
place this afternoon in the West was North
Plane Neb where it was only CO We caniot I
Kite any official forecast of the weather hero
but the local Indli uiloiis are fairly Iruhtuorthjr
These tire that It will bo slightly colder In tho
mornlnz followed by n arm fair vvcuther It I
let not protimhio that there will ltq enough of u
thaw to rmiUo serious trouble Vt e do not ex
pact to ale ofliclul indications here before the
end of the week
Lvtms In Stranded Street Cure
Ever since the six care of the Third Ave
sue surface r ad were abandoned In the
snow drifts just after daybreak en Monday
conductors have been lltlig In them They
draW their pay just HH If ilia curt Wura trinal
ii nr 1 tic monotony of tlielr Inn r vigil was
vnrlud by nnstlting half a bundled times an
hour tilt question Vhen will tile cars be
going mnin r and chasing mlfnnlevoun small
boys off the cur platform Th email boys
eeraed to consider It cr t tport to yank the
I
CONNECTICUT SNOW BOUND
TUB FIRST WITS FR031 NEW UJVKS
JI1ICIIViJ HX bTR4MRR
Wrecks end Inst i Ille so the eudTbC
Mrumfr New haven Benched Tcrrlfcl
HtiOorlniKe ol the IHeiiencra a Bherc
FrHfafnr thr Biiletreil the sinS llSmrlm
the chonnrr Harold C nereher Seal
with all nn tlnurd rxcept One Three
Other VrcU Wrrcknl All the Rail j
roiid In tl > e rttnte HlocUndrcl and Co m
uiimlciitUn by Wire Cut OffTvu Trala
tlnllril wltlilna Few tttlrenl N vHnT l
> the IHieiiicrr DO llaura without Feed
NEW HAVEN March H via steamer Elm
City Tlio great snow storm has fevered all
i connections between Connecticut and the
metropolis for hut past lortyelght hours Not
a train In moving nn any railroad throughout
tho State and lullgraph connection between
this city and the outside world was entirely out
off at an early stage of the storm ThoConsol
Idalod road was utterly unablo to cops with
the elements and train are stalled at all
points along tho lino In many canes they bo
cnmo snow bound far front stations or places
whole supplies could bo obtained Rnports
I i have boon coming in of terrible suffering In the
towns and villages throughout tho State and
especially on the coast The special corre
spondent of TUB BUN U enabled to give this
story through the courtesy of the Old Lina
steamers plying between bore and Now York
The Captain of the Elm City volunteered to
run his boat to the metropolis today twelv
hours sooner than was UU original Intention
In order that THE BUNS readers might learn
how snowbound Connecticut fared
The roads throughout tho State are utterly
Impassable and business Is prostrated In all
the blizzard stricken towns There has boon
great suffering and innny lives have boon lost
by accident and exposure to the storm The
situation at this time of writing 11 A M IB but
I little changed The wind Is almost as fleico as
I ever and snow line been falling almost con
stantly since Sunday morning Now Haven is 1
completely Isolated much more so than Hart
I ford which has telegraphic communication
with Massachusetts towns The greatest loss
I of life was lu all probability along the shots ot
Long Island Sound
The steamer New Haven of the Old Line left
her dock in this city at S A M on Monday
bound for New York There were twentyOva
passengers on board two of whom were women
Capt Post was In command Tho storm grew
more furious as the steamer proceeded down
the harbor and the passengers became terribly
frightened jim gale constantly Increased In
fury CaptPost let go hU anchor about ten milea
out In the Sound Huge warns swept over the
steamer washing away everything movable
above deck The dishes caster Ac In the
saloon were swept olf the tables and In somo
Instances the metal articles on the tables wer
hurled with inch force against the partition
of the staterooms that the panels were broken
through Tho furniture of the cabin was utter
ly demolished The anchors were kept out
until about 1 oclock on Monday after
noon when tho strain on the steamer
became co great thai the cables were slipped
the Captain deciding to beach the steamer it
being the only hope for the safety of those on
board The engines wero kept going and the
steamer struck ut about 7 clock on Monday
evening on the West Haven shore The boats
worn manned and all hands ware ordered to
make for the shore which was about 10U yards
I oft The terribly frightened passengers bud
I died Into the boats and made u safe landing
li b Barber the purser of the steamer nar
rowly escaped drowning He was knocked
overboard but his companion rescued him
after desperate efforts The real sufferings ot
the party began after reaching the shore The
thermometer down to euro and nothing
but deeerted summer cottages n mile oil could
be seen One ot these wise reached the door
I broken In and the halffrozen men carry
ing the women In their arms found
temporary shelter The banisters and stair
cases were torn down and fires started No m
food could be obtained and twelve of the
strongest mon volunteered to brave the storm
and obtain help and food from the city They
faced the blinding furious blizzard and es
caped with their lives hoy travelled three
miles In the heaviest part of the great tttorm
The entire party was completely prostrated
when thuy reached a farmhouse near tho city
Ten of them hud their hands and feet so badly
frozen that amputation may be necessary The
other two escaped with frozen faces and earn
No one would venture to the relief of
tho remainder of the party for fear ot
losing their lives Thoy have now been in the
destined cottage for fiftynix hours without
food and their condition must bn most deplor
able A party of men will stun for the shore
I tomorrow with provisions Their sufferings
must be imiobcrllmblo us there IH no one living
I nuar the cottagu during the winter months and
food could not possibly be obtained at nny point
nearer than a mile und throequarters The
steamer will be badly Injured aunt last reports
she was pounding heavily on the beach had
the steamer been the Elm City or the Northnm
which curry their boilers on deck It probably
would have been capsized and gone to the bot
tom after dropping her anchors Tfle New
Havens boilers mire in berhold and they thus
served as ballast
The Htarin line steamers fared better
The Corning left New York at OA M on Bun
clay Altar leaving Furl Bchiuler she an
chored and remained there until yesterday
morning Thirty passengers were aboard
I They were greatly frightened This morning
she managed to reach Now Haven harbor her
I decks and rigging covered with Ice and snow
and her crew and ofllcors completely exhaust
I ed The steamer John U Btarln of this line
bit her dock for New York on Monday mora
ine at about 3 oclock The last teen of her
she was off Bridgeport und headed for New
York She Is paid to buvo hud only one an
chor aboard and Hint a light one The offlco t
I of the company In this city wan besieged this
morning by persons anxious to learn as to the
safety of friends who ventured out on the
Steamer The officials here were confident that
the Htnrln would either roach New York or put
in at some Long Island port No Information
whatever could be obtained of her and there
were many uuufurlng men who paid that no
steamer like the John H Btarln could have
lived In the gale which she must have en
countered
The tnomasted schooner Harold 0 Beechor
I of New London was wrecked off Bran fora
Beacon Bite left New York on Sunday morning
at 4 oclock with Cupt Khercttand a crow or
unveil Bite bad a cargo of coal for New London
hen off Norwalk the storm began It kept
Increasing In force und it seemed as if every
minute the schooner would sink The crow
I did not dare launch the little boat because
the blinding storm would have made It all the
worse for them They spent the day on the
Bound they knew nut where Night came on
and still there were no signs of it let up In the
storm The waves dashed over the fide of the
vessel and the crow wore benumbed and par
tlully frozen At i oclock on Tuesday morn
Ing a loud crash was heard The vessel had
Rlruck a rerf and u hole had been knocked In i
bar bottom At the command of the Captain
every man jumped for the south boat It was
Moon lowered and the seven men got Into it
Tho Captain rushed back to get some paper
in the culiln and while he was there the
waves dashed the boat away from th
schooner The Captain appeared on deck ana
shouted for them to hold on The seven men
exerted themselves to the utmost to
get back to the sinking vessel but their
efforts were without avail and gradu
ally his cries for auMMance grew fainter
In the distance The schooner was fast sink
lug with her cargo and the Captain Tho cr7
were tossed about until whan about four mllel
from the shore a big wave struck the boot up
set It und they were all In the water They
were off Branford and when they left tie
fohooner wore live miles from the shoro They
were all drowned with the exception of one
who was washed onto tile overturned boat
This sailors name was Lewis Smith of Wst
Haven and a eon of the wellknown Captain
Charles Hmlth who dropped dead In u boat last
summer Smith held on although his hands
became numb his ears and cheek frozen and
Ills logs so stiff that lie could nut move them
Jilt hair won one must of ice und his clothei
More frozen Bolltllv to his body After two
I hours the boat wax blown in within a hew rods
of land lie felt Unit although land was in
sight he would havu to relmttso l < hla hold aa all
his strength wan gorif lth a fervent prayer
to Heaven that he might be saved he let go
1e watt soon aficinnrd washed ashoie where
no managed to crawl out of the reach of the
waves He wits coon afterward picked up for
dead Stimulants were administered and he
was restored to life He says il was nothing
short of a miracle that he was saved
Reports were received br today which
have been pjrily verified that two vessels are
nshorii ono olT litony Cheek and another at
Cinllfimllnlr Art of bite crews of thtsa
vthAelrinoir iM to Imvo boen lot
ThfMVavc diihheil clour over the llBhthoUM
at tIe mouth of Nnw Huvon Harbor flavor
vessels In distress were hinhled by Keeper
homuson but no assistance could be render
ed He say be has peep storm for Mr win
ten at various joists en uo xiew wu4