Show fi STORMS the aas tern oil of tile union ROUGHLY HANDLED 1 0 o ay a boisterous blustering Blu g blizzard A RAGING HURRICANE I 1 comes aiom tile turbulent it atlantic 11 M RAIN an OW combine to naad the worst storms in many years wires down and cities isolated western ased press to TAX I 1 destructive storms drw YORK march 12 A serious storm of wind accompanied successively by rain snow hail and sleet broke over lite atlantic coast ill this section early on sunday evening it traveled in is northeasterly direction as Is evidenced by tile loss of tile tele gra communication first 4 ith all ington then with baltimore and lastly with philadelphia philadel phil say that no such destructive storm to telegraph wires has been experienced Nota single wire can be us e 0 P hi ladelphia and telo graphic facilities between that city and new york are probably unequal led in any similar distance in any other country for the first time i n the daily weather has failed ie tr arn e lions efforts have been made to roach tile capital by way of chicago but they were in vain naw YORK 7 p in march 12 the storm Is increasing it is abao I 1 u t unprecedented all business ean h a paralyzed at the stock exchange lem aban baliares were sold the smallest on record produce markets are all nominal the steamers city of berlin and la champagne arrived out tha weather has stopped the courts every street car in new york and brooklyn jersey city and elevated trains are stopped the brooklyn bridge and ferriea 3 are almost abandoned Downtown hotels are crammed with the elevated roads run trains ally usually have never before been stopped westerners declare that dakits never furnished tile gew yorks blizzard of today to day of forty mails due bet een 4 and noon only two arrived by 2 this afternoon news from eur where also tremendous gales snow storms are occurring are unimportant and uninteresting mainly relating coming obsequies ortho late emperor at nine this evening there was was alo abatement in the storm frozen eam and feet were never so numerous the drug stores were filled with patients all tile day and evening A woman absolutely froze to death tonight to night at the corners of broadway and fulton street popularly supposed to be mhd lest four corners on the face of the earth in hundreds of streets loaded wagons are abandoned and the horses taken to the nearest stables the wind has blown the snow into immense drifts countless accidents have occurred from slipping the astor house alone turned away would be guests other li aels have similar experiences exper inces x new york is absolutely snowbound tile oldest inhabitants never saw its equal not one train has been dispatched b either the frie or central today to day ekich 18 something telegrams Tel grams from d instances of two hundred miles have the same satorv to tell namely it is the V arst storm ever L here police authorities pay the storm has not been equaled since 1855 alost of the police telegraph wires were broken town early in the morn ing and the policemen were obal ed to tram miles carrying im S spate manke carcamo oo march 12 1030 pm our communication with the east his been partially restored but isso uncertain that we will not be able to carry tile eastern markets or stock lists to night there were no im pontaut doings in tile markets march 12 the storm that visited washington yesterday was one of the most remarkable for years in fact the capital mem ed to have been the center of a miniature cyclone that brought with it a blinding succession of rain snow wind aud cold in the early hours of the day the gutters ran bagh and in many ow p es I 1 io sowers were bl ked thus in t ie streets A eav rain continue until about 3 ocl in the afternoon when it turned to blinding which at ck to everything it bouc hed and to ice As night fell heavily lad en telegraph wires begab to come d wn and in many J places the streets were blockaded by them rurico wires were out of order and to add to the dis comforts of the lights began to fall by the city was almost in total darkness save for feeble gas jets at the signal office to dabit was learned that the storm was the result of the splitting of a storm trough that on the day be faire extended south acom michigan saturday night it divided forming two storm centers one over lake erie and one in georgia tile southern center then became climbing p the coast klag washington berday morning the center itself did until about 3 in the afternoon this took until neaily midnight fall amounted to iya inches off car henry the wind was blowing at I 1 a rate of fifty five miles an hour debter day railroads leading into washington have been blockade dby avow fallen trees w woe lit I 1 I 1 telegraph ries so the moy eltien a f the live be e n it not aban do ned at afie western union office iris learned that in the effect upon lite wires the storm was one of the ever cnown here has been almost completely seven q n abday evening xernia and evening papers of to a stared without telegraphic in t the wind his kept up a high velocity all day and at nine to nigh tit had n 0 t c h anaed chosky to nw alear pud it to 01 colder I 1 march 72 mini terrific bl gistard is raging 0 a the north ebors of take and the trains oa the canadian pacific are blockaded no train has arrived here from montreal nce thursday Thurm day A report is current 1 ie re that the trestle gave way at north I 1 1 throwing a canad ith a la jaa t r azin into a chasm M port Is unconfirmed |