Show N STORM K NG S 6RP BHzzard Prevails Throughout New York and the = > last Railroad arid Telegraph Communication i Communi-cation Almost Paralyzed In the Country Districts the Storm Was Very Severe and the Snowfall Was Much Heavier Than in the Cities Steamers Were Delayed by the Thick < Weather Several Lives Lost Due to the Blizzard Conditions New York Dec 5A heavy windstorm wind-storm accompanied by rain and later by snow struck New York today and for a lime seriously interfered with all railroad and steamship traffic as well as with business In general Surface car lines the elevated railroad and all ferryboats were compelled to abandon their schedules and run as best they could Part of the Third avenue elc valed line was tied up completely The tieup was so severe that even the stock exchange began the day with an extremely ex-tremely small attendance Toward noontime noon-time anow ceased to fall but the wind continued high and it became much colder The maximum velocity of the wind was fortyeight miles an hour Telegraph service vas much hampered ham-pered by the storm Both the Western Union and Postal companies s reported that their systems had been shaken up The worst conditions for the telegraph companies were In New England and In the t Hudson valley although buslncs to the South was somewhat delayed Dispatches from up the State showed llspalches that the storm was severe in the euun I MtOl1 try districts and 1 time snowfall In the Interior In-terior tdcs wui much heavier than In this ° ln l t Time gnle blowing across the Jersey MeadowH today tore down eleven tele rnph TeatowH west of the West llacken lph Lacka sack bridge on the Delaware 1Jt wnnnn Western railroad The fast mall from the West was caught In time I frol 11 mesh of wires and the windows on one I side wo10 broken the flying glass cutting II cut-ting one of the women passengers 1 The train was blocked three hours At Albany WtS the snowfall Is ery heavy train are reported from one to and all ale 1 five hOI al late Bllzvard conditions i prevail Nowburgh Sara vail at Sehcncetudy lewhurh ul II and toga and otlKr places In the eastern nnrUern parts of the Stale From RoVhoster to Buffalo the storm Is much mldlI In this city the storm developed Inlo a blizzard as the day grew About an inch hll1zorc snow fell during the forenoon Sound steamers arrived several hours late and their officers reported the I storm very heavy up the sound |