Show EASTERN BLIZZARD An Unprecedented Storm of Wind and Snow TRAFFIC IMPEDED ALL OVER Casualties In the BIz Cltio The Telegraph Tele-graph DemoralizedSad Havoc EverywhereEtc The Storm NEW YORK March 12The storm is general in New York State Connecticut and points south From all surrounding surround-ing countries come reports of the severest se-verest snow and windstorm in years There was a similar accident to that on Third Avenue on the Brooklyn elevated road this morning but attended at-tended by no casualties Business is virtually at a standstill Down townhouses town-houses are almost deserted Only two trainb arrived with mails this morning and the work of the postoffice is partially suspended A hundred tel graph wires are down Ferry boats between New York Brooklyn and New Jersey are running once an hour or less The wind attained a velocity of sixtyfour miles an hour PouoHKEEPsiK N Y March 12 About 8 this morning in a blinding snowstorm an express train bound south on the New York Central ran into another express at Dobbs Ferry demolishing several cars Jour persons were badly injured Both tracks are obstructed NKW HAVEN Conn March 12The storm in this vicinity is very bad At 11 oclock no trains had arrived from New York TROY March 12The storm in western wes-tern New York is about fifteen inches deep and is still falling Traffic is greatly impeded NEW YORK March 127 p mThe storm is increasing It is absolutely unprecedented All business has been paralyzed At the Stock Exchange less than 15000 shares were sold the smallest smal-lest on record The produce markets are all nominal The steamers City of Berlin and La Champagne have arrived out The weather stopped the courts Every street car in New York and the Brooklyn and Jersey City elevated trains are stopped Brooklyn bridge and the ferries are almost abandoned Downtown hotels are crammed with suburbanites The elevated roads run 3000 trains daily usually They never before stopped Westerners declare that Dakota never furnished New York blizzard of today Of the forty mails due between 4 and noon only two arrived by 2 this afternoon The news from Europe where also tremendous gales and snow storms arc occurring is unimportant and uninteresting un-interesting mainly relating to the ob sequies of the late Emperor 9oclock this evening there was no abatement in the storm Frozen ears and feet were never so numerous The drug stores were filled with patients all day and evening A woman absolutely froze to death tonight to-night at the corner of Broadway and Fulton Street popularly supposed to be the busiest four corners on the earth In hundreds of streets loaded wagons were abandoned and the horses taken to the nearest stables The wind has blown the snow into immense drifts Countless accidents have occurred oc-curred from slipping The Astor House alone turned away 300 wouldbe guests Other hotels have similar experiences 10 oclockNew York is absolutely snowbound The oldest inhabitants never saw its equal Notone train was dispatched by either the Erie or Central today something unprecedented unprece-dented Telegrams from distances of 200 miles have the same story to tell namely that it is the worst storm ever known here The police authorities say the storm has not been equaled since 1855 Most of the police telegraph wires were broken down early in the morning and the policemen are obliged to tramp many miles carrying impor tent dispatches CHICAGO March 121030 p mOur communication with the east has been partially restored but is so uncertain We will not be able to carry the eastern markets or stock lists tonight There were no important doings in the markets mar-kets WASHINGTON March 12The storm that visited Washington yesterday was one of the most remarkable known for years In fact the capital seemed to have been the centre of a miniature cyclone that brought with it a blinding succession of rain snow wind and cold In the early hours of the day tho gutters ran high and in many low places the sewers were blocked thus I Ii oding the streets A heavy rain continued con-tinued until about 3 oclock in the afternoon when it turned 10 a blinding snow which stuck to everything it touched and turned to ice As night fell the heavily laden telegraph wires began to come down and in many places the streets were blockaded by them The police wires were out of order and to add to the discomforts of the night the electric lights began to fail By midnight the city was almost in darkness save for the feeblegas jets At the signal office today it was learned that the storm was the result ol the splitting of the storm trough that on the day before yesterday extended south from Michigan Saturday night it divided forming two storm centres one over Lake Erie and one in Georgia The southern centre then began climbing the coast striking strik-ing Washington yesterday morning The centre itself did not reach here until about 3 oclock in the afternoon This took until nearly midnight to pass The total rainfall amounted to one and three quarters inches Off Cape Henry the wind was blowing fiftyfive miles an hour yesterday The railroads leading into Washington have been blockaded by snow fallen trees telegraph tele-graph wires and poles so that the movement of trains has been seriously impeded if not abandoned At the Western Union office it is learned that the effect upon the wires by the Ftorm was one of the worst ever known here Washington been almost completely I to > < isolated since 7 oclock Sunday evening The morning and evening papers of today to-day appeared without telegraphic information infor-mation The wind has kept up a high velocity all day and at 9 oclock tonight to-night it had not changed The sky is now clear and it is growing colder WINNIPEG March I2A terrific blizzard bliz-zard is raging on the north shore of Lake Superior and the trains on the Canadian Pacific are completely blockaded block-aded No train has arrived here from Montreal since Thursday A report is current here that the trustle gave way at North Bay throwing the Canadian Pacific passenger train into the chasm i The report is unconfirmed NEW YOBK Midnight Owing to the I tremendous gale and terrible snowstorm snow-storm there have been no arrivals or departures from this port Navigation has been almost wholly abandoned in the rivers and harbors and even the boats on the different ferres have made onlyinfrequent trips The storm is unabated un-abated and the wind is as furious as ever but the snow has stopped falling The snowdrifts in the business streets are as deep as in the country districts Grovjn persons here never saw the like There arc but meagre reports from the uptown districts but in thelower precinctS pre-cinctS where the reporters managed to struggle through the snow and against tho wind more than 100 fractures of limbs and contusions of the skull were reported The ambulance horses at the different hospitals were completely fagged out early in the night and the calls in many cases could not be attended at-tended to WASHINGTON March 12The efforts of railroad men to open communication with the north succeeded at 10 oclock tonight when the train which left New York at 9 oclock last night arrived here after a hard and tedious trip Persons Per-sons who were on the tram say thor experience ex-perience was without precedent in this part of tho country Aft r leaving Philadelphia tbo train had to grope is way Telegraph poles were uprpoieJ and trees and obstructions of all kind were found across the track at frequent intervals After great labor Wilmington Wilming-ton was reached where the cars were stopped to await daylight One passenger passen-ger estimated that 300 telegraph poles were removed from the track between Philadelphia and Wilmington A later train tonight brought in the Philadelphia papers twelve hours behind be-hind time while the New York papers which usually arrive here at 10 45 a m hadnot come at midnight The western west-ern and southern trains are coming in slowly and report that the effects of the storm are hardly noticeable iorty miles west of here One of the southern trains had a window of a car smashed in by a falling telegraph pole and several passengers were slightly hurt 1 |