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Show RECORD STORM IN fW YORK Terrible Suffering Visits East Five Feijsons Killed TrafficJTied Up. WIRE SERVICE CRIPPLED Milk Famine, Threatened Blizzard Worst Since 1888 Zero Weather Prevails. New York, NY., March 2. Pol ills as. far west as Cleveland and as far south as Baltimore were battered by wind, slung wit,hV sleet and burled in snow in a terrific" storm, central over the slates of New York and New Jersey, Jer-sey, which began 'early yesterday and was still in progress, today. In New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, between 8 and 11 Inches Inch-es of snow, layer's o? It packed hard and frozen, covered the ground at noon and was sfU falling. Not in 25 years had Greater New York and cnviron3 experienced such a storm. At times the velocity of the wind reached SI miles an hour. Eight deaths were reported here. Traffic everywhere in the storro area was interrupted and in some cases ca-ses demoralized entirely. Hundreds of telegraph poles were carried down. Eighty-five thousand commuters on Long Island were carooned and residents resi-dents of New Jersey coming to the city were from one to five hours late. . ' New York, March 2, Under the third blanket of V snow in as many weeks, New Yorkvand vicinity today is suffering from "one of tho worst storms In its history. Five persons have been killed, so far as reported, railroad traffic tied up and wire communication com-munication crippled. Streets and sidewalks' are covered with an icy coating, making walking difficult and vehicular traffic Is almost impossible. Few trains are leaving today over any of the main trunk lines for the west and south and street car service and elevator traffic In the city and suburbs Is lame and in some Instances In-stances suspended, Not since the blizzard of 1888 which old residents point to as the yorgt. irv.the history -of the cltya'TmTenltedrin-so cltya'TmTenltedrin-so much suffering. A milk famine was the most feared today because of tho suspended train service in New Jersey and New York state. Zero Weather. Nine and ono-half inches of snow fell yesterday and when it stopped a gale set In. The temperature, which remained at a few degrees above freezing, dropped many degrees. de-grees. With only 50 per cent of the snow from the two previous storms removed remov-ed from the principal streets, the city street cleaning department faced a new problem today. Already $180,-000 $180,-000 has been spent In snow removal, and city officials were unable to make an estimate of the cost of the last storm. With telegraph lines, signal wires down and tracks drifted high with snow, the Pennsylvania made no attempt at-tempt to run a train out of New York after 7 o'clock last night and all Incoming In-coming trains from the south arrivea from two to eleven hours late. Forty Sleeping Cars Stalled. In the Pennsylvania station forty sleeping cars remained on the tracks all night. In them were 800 passengers. passen-gers. In the waiting rooms were hundreds hun-dreds of persons waiting for the resumption re-sumption of traffic. Lunch rooms and dining halls were kept open all night for their accommodation. Trains on the New York Central lines fared but little better. Points up-state could not be reached by wire early today and the whereabouts of several incoming mail nnd passenger trains could not be learned. Among other trains reported lost was tho Twentieth Century Limited. Albany and Buffalo were out of communication. communica-tion. The storm put nearly every wireless wire-less station along the coast hereabouts herea-bouts out of commission and after G o'clock last night communication with ships at sea was impossible. The aerials of tbo stations were so crippled crip-pled with sleet and snow as to render them useless, It was reported. Many Towns In Darkness. In New Jersey, where the force of the storm was most severe, many towns, Including Trenton, Newark, Jersey City and Hoboken. were in darkness last night as the result of feed wires breaking under the weight of wet snow. The storm held up liners in the outer harbor all night Two barges sank off Governor's island. Both had been torn from their moorings by the gale. Tho four-masted schooner Jacob S. Wiuslow. lumber laden for providence from Fernandiana, went ashore on Block Island. Her crew of nine was brought ashore by life savers, but ono roan returned to the ship later and was drowned. A tug lost four of her tow of barges In Long Island sound between Bridgeport and New Haven and eight persons aboard them were saved with difficulty. An unknown schooner is pounding to pieces on Thlmblo Island near New London and it is feared her crew is lost. Snow, which had ceased for a few hours during the night, began falling again early today. More than 10,000 men attacked the snow to keep traffic open In a few of the principal business streets. Many commuters failed to reach tho city early this morning, owing to crippled train service in New York City and New Jersey towns. The Wetitern Union Telegraph company reported that only five ol its out-of-town wires were up. ' The financial district was almost entirely shut off from the outside world. With the exception of a single sin-gle line to Alpany,r communication with Wall , street .was'alnvoaifcip t:. - standstHlr Fiercest Blizzard in Years. Philadelphia, March 2. Philadel-phlans Philadel-phlans rose today to find the city In the grip of one of the fiercest blizzards bliz-zards that has struck this section in many years. Suburbanites were obliged to dig through snow banks, that had. drifted fence high, and traffic traf-fic on most of the surface car lines was at a standstill. Conditions on the steam roads to outlying sections were little better. Severest Storm of Winter. Washington, March 2. The severest se-verest storm of winter swept the t-lantic t-lantic coast today from Eastport, Maine, to Savannah Ga., while a cold ware rolling down from the Great Lakes country overspread the Atlantic Atlan-tic states as far .south as Florida. Lowest temperatures ever recorded in March were registered in Charleston Charles-ton and Macon and other points in tho southeast. Centering over southern New England Eng-land today, the storm brought heavy snows north of Maryland and caused shifting gales all-along the Atlantic coast. No marine disasters had been reported. Still colder weather in New England Eng-land was predicted tonight but a warmer waye moving on from the plains states today promised relief for tho entire east" by late tomorrow or Wednesday. ; Call for Help. Pittsburg, March 2. Answering an urgent call for help the Pennsylvania railroad early today bent a special train from here lo Jersey City. It carried three hundred track and shop workers to aid In clearing ' up the storm wreckage. Much Damage In -Baltimore." Baltimore, Marqh 1'. The terrific wind storm which swept over the city and vicinity last- night continued today to-day but with diminishing strength. Keports of property damage carao from all quarters. During the heighth of the. storm, the Lutheran church of the reformation reforma-tion caught fire and waslestroycd. One thousand barrels of whiskey were destroyed when two big warehouses ware-houses of the Canton Distillery company com-pany at Canton, a suburb, were burned burn-ed today. The loss was estimated at $1,00,000. Storm Hits Cleveland. Cleveland, 0.. .March, 2. Cleveland was hit by another stprm today. There was a storm fall and the temperature this morning was 12 degrees above zero. All trains on trunk railroads were late, those from tho east being S hours behind schedule Coldest Day of Winter. Chattanooga. Tenn. March 2. The temperature here early today was 1G above zero, the coldest of the winter. It became slightly warmer as the day advanced. Philadelphia, March 2. Tho blizzard bliz-zard which began yesterday and continued con-tinued through the night, abated today. to-day. Tho railroads appeared to be tho worst sufferers, being more completely com-pletely tied up than In any storm for vears. Four deaths were reported in this city directly due to the storm. According to the weather bureau only flvo inches of snow fell, but the 43-mile 43-mile wind drifted it badly. Railroad, traffic on both the Ponn- sylvania and Reading lines was practically prac-tically at a standstill In the early part of the day. No trains had arrived from New York srlnce last night-and.in the fore-;npQ,iL;no fore-;npQ,iL;no " 'attempt -was- madet4tosend trains out to that city. Twenty-one Trains Stalled. The Pennsylvania road announced that 21 trains were stalled between Philadelphia and New York, some of which were "lost" because the operating oper-ating officials were unable to communicate com-municate with them, all wires being down. Trains from Washington to New York and west were not being sent out of the capital. Trains from the west were three and four hours late. All trains between be-tween Philadelphia and seashore points were annulled and practically all trains on the Lehigh Valley ami Jersey Central railroads between New York' City and Pennsylvania were abandoned. An excursion train oh the Jersey Central due to arrive at Easton. Pa., last night from New York had not been heard from up to 11 a. m. Coal Mines Shut Down. - Practically all coal mines In the anthracite field were shut down, due to the storm. Two deaths were reported at Scran-ton, Scran-ton, due to the storm, O. It. Wheel-ock Wheel-ock of Cleveland, Ohio, wsa overcome while returning to his home from the Sunday revival meeting in that city. -Nearly 1500 persons were marooned ma-rooned all night in the Sunday tabernacle tab-ernacle at Scranton, unable to get home. |