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Show ' STORM NOW RAGES ON ATLANTIC COAST NEW YORKt Jan. 30. Tho center of tho wostorn blizzard reached this city today. Accompanied by a high west wiufl, a heavy fall of wet snow, succeeding suc-ceeding a rainfall throughout last night filled the streets with slush which threatened to delay all city transportation transporta-tion except the subway. Frequent accidents to pedestrians woro reported. With tho front windows of tho street cars thickl' coated, motor-men motor-men wero unable to seo pedestrians dodging across the street and slippory crossings and the snow deadened tho sound of tho approaching cars. Among tho hundreds who sought shelter last night, in tho municipal lodgings wero ' about forty women and children. Most of the men wero put to work cleaning the snow. Firo broke out in a stablo on Montroso street in Brooklyn and spread so rapidly that forty "families wero turned into tho street. An adjoining tenement was soon in flames and the tenants in it had narrow escapes. |