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Show Seven Deaths in New York Blizzard Severest Storm in Years, With Nine Inches of Snow and Big- Drop in Temperature. NEW YORK Jan. 4. Not In several years has New Y'ork been visited by a storm of such proportions as that which began yesterday and continued until earl today. Nine inches of snow fell, paralyzing paralyz-ing traffic, and the marked drop In tin temperature brought untold suffering to the city's poor. The blizzard caused peven deaths In New' York and vicinity, while many persons, per-sons, overcome by the cold, dropped to the street, some of them receiving fractured frac-tured bones. Five of the seven men who met death from tie- results of the storm died from exposure another slipped on the lr platform "of an elevated station, fell In front of an approaching train and was ground to pieces The seventh, I- W. Kller, a conductor on the Pennsylvania railroad blinded by the driven enow, stepped In front of the Congressional limited train at South Aniboy, N J , and was Instantly killed Incoming ocean liners report a bliszard at sea The Teutonic and Armenian from Liverpool; the Fumesla, from Glasgow, Glas-gow, and the Princess Victoria Louise, from Hamburg, are at Quarantine after tempestuous passages, but outside the bar are several vessels from European and South American ports Todnv 5J men were put to work cleaning clean-ing the streets of New York, and tomorrow tomor-row the number will le doubled. The effects of the blizzard were felt at most points along the New England and Middle Atlantic coastK. So far no marine fatalities have been reported. |