Show BLIZZARD IN NEW YORK I Snow Drifts Five Foot Deep and Traffic on Broadway Stopped NEW YORK Jan 6Not since the terrible ter-rible snow storm of five years ago has New Yorkexperienced anything so nearly like a blizzard in the Banana belt of Dakota Da-kota as that which has been blowing here since last night Traffic on Broadway is almost suspended while on some of the less prominent streets the blockade is complete The snow drifts in places are four to five feet deep Snow fell fitfully all afternoon with gusts of wind Early in the evening it began to fall fast and furious and driven by a gale it soon became be-came as fine as powder increasing in volume vol-ume and continued throughout the night with the results given above An army of men are at work today making mak-ing passable the streets and the snow is rapidly forming into lumps along the curbing before being carted away There is but little disturbance in the schedules of the railroads up to tonight The weather is clear and cold with little wind blowing The storm and wind did much damage in and around Jamaica bay Several Sev-eral yachts were torn from their anchorage and blown on the meadows where a number of them were completely wrecked |