Show NEW YORKS YORK'S SLEET STORM ice storm i They had what was equivalent to an in in- in New York the other day clay that is when everything everything every- every turned c cold ld i thing was ver very wet the rain gradually and fell in sleet and that made the streets as slip slippery pery pery ery as glass The Th storm seems to have extended LUP up and down do the coast for we read at the tome time fifty people had fallen on the ice in Washington Washing Washing- ton to-n and some of them were badly injured The Herald says that in New York the people skated d slipped and slid to the theatres last night Many rany people were injured by fal falling faling ing upon the ice icer covering the pavements Broadway was a sheet of f r 4 i ice e and from Fourteenth street to Columbus circle the lights flashed upon a creeping cautious procession I sion of gaily attired persons seeking tp to find their way war to places of amusement I i It Was vas in such a storm in Salt Lake some years ago that George Rodford started home at a late hour hour down Main l street When he reached d the corner corner cor cor- ner ncr where the Newhouse hotel is growing into form iho be he had to cross eross the street and he saw he could not make it At that time the holdups were bad in inthe inthe inthe the city and a Herald reporter was creeping his way home in Iii the middle of fr the street carrying an immense revolver in his right hand George was leaning against the corner tree on the Walker residence corner George was English born and remained English all his life l So as the reporter came along George put up a hand and said Hey there The reporter replied You hold Whereupon gun a you cant can't me up You son gun cant can't see that George said you YOl J I cant can't hold myself up 1 But Bu this thi storm in New York had with ith it also a fog that c caused sed the big ships t to run run aground in the bay and there was general confusion everywhere And A dI that is another queer thing There are all ld kinds ds of lights to overcome every form of darkness darkness darkness dark dark- ness ness but they have no effect when a fog settles down upon the earth The finest searchlight in the world cannot penetrate a fog forty feet The storm torm caused excessive suffering among the poor and one poor p boy 1 14 years ears old seeing a horse attached at at- I. I t-ched t to a truck fall on the street was so shocked 1 that hat he fell dead His death was reported to be l from heart disease A great many horses died or vere were killed as a result of the fog All manner of accidents happened both on l land nd and out on the b bay y and and the final vote was that a sleet storm was the he worst storm of all |