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Show SEVEN DIE IN BLIZZARD Now York, Fob. 2. Sovcn deaths woro caused, directly or Indirectly, by tho storm which swept this city and vicinity last night and today. Trnlllc was demoralized for a tlmo, but conditions woro nearly normal tonight. to-night. Two of tho fatalities wero duo to oxposouro, Ono man, blinded by tho snow, stopped In front of a train and was killed. Threo men were drowned drown-ed In tho loss of a dredge caught In tho blow on Long Island souud, and It Is bolloved a fourth who drlttod away on a raft also has ponsned. Ono of tho worst storms of tho winter la genoral from tho middle west to tho middle Atlantic states. Now England and throughout Canada. Cana-da. Rain, sleot, snow nnd wind havo all rbtitflbtitod tholr quota to tho dls-' ruptlon of railway traffic, tho hampering ham-pering of wlro communication and In . somo soitlons to tho raising of rlv- Iers to tho flood point, with considerable consid-erable damago resulting. |