The New York Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1879, Page 3

2 / NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1879—WITH SUPPLEMENT. . COLD AND SNOW. _—— Frigeric Wave from the Arctic Re- gions to the Gulf, ——— GOTHAM SHIVERING IN ULSTE tin Lio River Communication Inter- rupted by Ice Fices. TEMPERATURE THROLGHOLT THE COUNTR Railroad Traffic interrupted and Busi- ness Suspended. comsmnesinlpaneatitiens PEOPLE FROZEN TO DEATH. What a wealth of description is smibodied im these words! Biue faces, purple lips, fed none, « ¢ bodies rushing frantically through ‘he streets to escape the stinging cold, froven pipes and water fue, ftense miseries of street car travel. and a central desertion of the streets by all those not out upon imperative business— these amd other feoturce of extreme frigid weather sre all told in the few wor iow York at zero.” Not for three years bat such cold been experienced here as visited New ¥ yesterday. On the 1th of January, 1875, the thermometer stood at five below toro. Yesterday it wax at toro at Hudnut's at six New Tork at zero. e v'clock in the morning, amd at places more exposed, in the upper part of the city, it was reported that the thermometer had gone down even several degrees below sero. At a Liberty Street restaurant it stood at ope deyree below zero. The amount of keon physical suffering inflicted by this extraordinary degree of cold wax very great. Many p —partiewlarty the siding in frame duttages in the upper part of the city and at exposed rorners—were rudvly awakened out of their sleep as arly as three or four o'clock in the morning when the tremendous gale ‘hat was blowing penetrated iu perfect sheets of cold from which there seemed po escape. STRANGE DOMESTIC INCIDENTS. Children woke crying from the bitter cold, and the gusty wind that kept banging shutters and doors rendered sleep to many who were specially sensitive to cold utterly impossible, The snapping of the head of a nail in the outer framework by the frost sounded in the dead of night like the loud discharge of a pistol, To the sickly, the weak, the delicate, the convalescent, this Arctic cold came like @ perfect scourge. Husbands and fathers and brothers hed to rise in the dense darkness of these ghostly honrs and move bedstesds close to the fires, as their occupants were declaring that they were “perishing” with the cold, One man, to the knowledge of the writer, who occupied @ corner frame house standing on quite a «mall hill in York- ville, got up at four o'clock, went down stairs and fetched his ulster, in which he wrapped himself up and went to bed again, and then he declared the weight of the heavy garment prevented him from sleeping. Another gentleman, whose wife was an invalid, and who, being a rheumatic subject, was ex- tremely sensitive to cold, had her head wrapped up in a shawl during the whole night, and still she felt the wind that whistled through all the crevices and made her entire face ache with new- ralgic pains, until she finally rushed out of bed in despair, and, mufting herself in double blau- kets, came down to the big fire already lighted in the parlor, crying bitterly and declaring that she could not exist in this iccho ‘Oh, anything to got warm!" she moaned. “Take me anywhere where I ean get ourof this dreadful cold!” What woutl she have said had she been at Breckenridge, Minn., where the temperature was reported as being at eight p’clock in’ the morning 24 degrees below zero? In- deed, New York was probably the warmest place within a radius of many miles, and nearly everybody coming into the city from a residence in the country feported that it was much colder at his home than in New York. Mr. Hudnut, the druggist, for instance, said that at his country house, in Orange, N. J., the thermometer had even gone down to 10 degrees below zero. “A NIPPING AND AN BAG! atm. Hats told which way the wind blew, Unsnspect- ing men, with theif cold hands buried deep in the ulster pockets, suddenly turned a corner, and as sud- denly their hats flew down the street. Foolish men gave chase to their absconding property, while wise men waited patiently until some kindly disposed pe- estrian stopped the flying hat and returned it with ® good-natured smile. Runuing after hats was not unattended with great risk to life and limb, for the ground had just enough hard suow upon it to be treacherous, and he who started out with as much confidence in his foothold as one has in me into intimate contact with the The wind whistled around the corner of Fourteenth street and University place with such violence that persons who attempted to stand on the sidewalk and wait for a car were blown into the street. Ladies in ulsters looxed like umbrellas blown wrong side out. Veils detached themselves from bonnets and ascended neighboring telegraph poles, where they waved in defiance until cut into shreds, It was a bad day for Gainsborough hats. The wind took them broadside with such force that little kid- gloved hands were compelled to leave their warm mulfs and cling to the fluttering mass of felt and feathers. Comparatively few ladies ventured out, and certainly those who went ont once did not ture a second, time. Misery loves company, and misery enje itself to its heart’ rontent yesterday, from the bam car So one could say to anoth yh, your nose is red!” for the other could return the compli- ment. Men turned up their ulster collars and ran sideways, with their heads bent down, while the skirts of their coats acted as sails, which whisked them along at a rapid transit rate. ‘There were plenty of rosy cheeks ou Broadway, and plenty of rosy- tipped ears. Some of the ladies did not look badly, but others had a pinched and frozen look that was not ming. And the men, with white frost clinging to their beards and mustaches and their eyes red, looked a though it would take at least au hour before a blaz ing fire to thaw them out. HOW THE POOR BORE rr, ‘The liveried coachmen shrank into the depths of fheir long fur ¢ but did not dare to move # mus: cle, while the aristocratic Jehus from street stands beat their bodies with their brawny arms aud View white breath upon their benumbed Anger tips, Car drivers danced impromptu breakdowns on their narrow platforms, while omnibus drivers tied thetr heads up in worsted scarfs and turned down their tur caps. it people with plenty of wraps found it ha to keep warm, what about the people without? Hi clothed children shivered in protecting doorways had their scant draperies almost torn f ir naked limbe. The wind p strange freaks, To blew hand carts down the street from in front of groceryinen’s doors and tore signboards from their Posts. But who will not sing with Shakespeare; — Bow, blow, thou winter wind, The to unkind ke en, th be rude, Freer hon bitter sky, Thar te so nigh As odes Though thou the waters warp, Thy «ting is not so shar] As friend remembered not, DELAYS ON THE “1” hoaDs, Fortanate indecd was the New Yorker who cond fay that this was just the right sort of weather for him. But to every one who was sufficiently insensi- ble and hardy to make such a declaration there were bt least a hundred who entered their offices from the Streets with faces ali nipped up, and watering eyes and chattering eth and rubbing hands and stamp: it. The horse cars were the veriest and everybody who could possibly Nevertheless, many people we bsvintely compelled to resort to th 8 on the raiiw: ‘Tho trains on the ‘Third Avenue “L” ran very irregularly, owing to many en- having been “frozen up" during the night, and Huring the forenoon hardly any. tai bi Franklin square, this compelling hun¢ busi- Battery, and it is prohyhly no exag, many would lady have paid their fare five tines over to have escaped this cruel expostre: Seient supply of water at South ferr dered it t Pa to water was probably caused by the fuet that 1 dent arouad the Vatiury Lud lett their fauce! m owing to the | ' open to prevent the freezing pipes. The amount of misery used this unexpected stopping of the Third Avenue ‘4 at Franklin square could hardly be estimated, The manager sail, however, that the only way of obviat- ing tbe diffenity In the future wae tor the Depart- ment of Public Works to provide a better water sup- ply here by an inerease the mains. The cars not being heated, it was quite funny to listen to the i: fect chorus of loudly drumming feet which the chi and wretched passengers riotously kept up all the way. Vico President Bishop, of the New York “L,” said he was in hoy that the problem of heating the cars suecessfully by steam would soon be solved, in igie of the present’ failure of the system. On the Ninth avenue “L” hardly any trains were run during the ‘Oret two hours in the moruing, owing to the freezing of the pipes at Fifty-ninth strect, where the engmes we watered, and the latter had to be to Thirty-fourth street to be watered. Sixth avenue, “L"" fortunately experienced only very trifling delays, and the luxury of its nicely warmed cars was never more gratefully appre- ciated by its 60,000 daily passengers than yesterday, When the soft, genial heat seemed to many coming ehilled to the bone out of the iey cold like being newly called to life, while the Sixth avenue horse ears maintained the temperature of so many ice wells. ‘Isn't this glorious?’ ‘Hurrah! this is splendid.” “By Jove, this is good;” these and a hundred other outbursts of gratification could be hoard from the half frozen passengers as they came sb with heads all mut up, into the cars and .”" as it were, under their pleasant heat. were also coimfortably warmed, and the whole line of the Sixth avenue “L" seemed like sunny oasis in the Siberia of New York. The tracks om the three “L's’ were all in fair order, and the rails were only all the smoother from the snow fall, so that little delay would have arisen on the Third or Ninth avenue “L's” but for the freezing of en- ines and pipes and the insuflicient supply of water, whieh latter cause, it is hoped, will be promptly re- moved by the Department of Public Works. TRAINS RUNNING ALL NIGHT. The Third avenue “L” railroad began running trains to Harlem Inst night every ten minutes, wad will continue to do so until further tice. Prior to this the last train left the Battery t twelve o'clock midnight, and the last train down town left the upper part of the city at bh twelve o’clock. It is suppoued u trains were run all night to prevent the water from freezing in the pipes of the engines, as occurred on the previous night, and which caused ruuch interruption to trafic on the road and delay in the starting of the carly trains, SCENES ON THE STREETS. When venerable, white-haired Old gentlomen are seen, with faces muffled thrice in Shawls apd wraps, running ata irantiec rate through the streets, because walking was impossible in such an excruciating wind: when earlap and esr muff venders standing three to each block below the Hrnap office on Rroadway sell out their entire stock at ten cents apiece with'nan houror two and then rush home with jingling purses; when ladies come running into stores and other shops fairly breathless from the 1 air they have inhaled and beg to be allowed to stay a moment “just to get warm,” and when the plumbers are about the only happy People in the city, the ouly ones who do not grumble, then, indeed, it may be set down as an indisputable fact that it is exceptionally cold. All these features of exceptional weather were to be observed yesterday, and there is no doubt that probably three- fourths of all the conversation held yesterday referred, in one way or another, either plaintively or humorously or gravely, or with playful resignation, to this all-absorbing though prosaic theme—the . No wonder, though, for to many it meant utter misery all day . First, broken sleep and consequent exhaustion and ill humor upon rising; then frozen pipes and hence no water with which to yrta the morning ablution or even to inake a cup ot tea; then the expense and trouble of calling in ‘a plamnber when no plumber can be found for miles, because every one been engaged before; then freezing inears and running like inadmen through the streets: then barsting o' Rives in offices or busi- ness places and more trouble, expense and incon- venience: thea further exposure and suffering in getting home, there, probably, only to find the pipes frozen and their homes wrap) in Egyptian Harkness—these were, either wholly or partially, among the experiences of thousands yesterday, Jee FLORES ONSTRUCT THE RIVERS. Throughout the day the North and East rivers were almost ieebound, Above Hoboken the Hudson was frozen over, while below the river was filled with im- mense masses of floating ice. The floes came down the stream with # stately magnificence, and the mov- ing islands, rising aad sinking with the tide, seemed to vie with the snow-crested Jersey hills in their cold grandeur, In places drift ice united in inte many a solid mass and ex- were so choked that the boats great difheulty, if at all. On the Nort River the scene Was exceedingly beautiful, the moving masses: tee look to the passengers on the ferryboats: chan! islands of glass and dia mond dust. of the floes were apparently for- midable enough to sweep everything betore them ame down the co! and ® the and the shipping into the bay w the Battery. Later in the afternoon a Hema rter visited the Battery in order to catch 4 faint of the open Polar sea which had been formed Just below Castle Garden. Looking toward the sea a frozen deep was visible as far as the © ould reach, With the ebb of the tide large fields of pack ice hed floated into the bay, and in many places it wax a solid mass, N the Jersey shore it might have been possible to walk on the frozen surtace, and even off the Battery wall the pack ice werimed strong enough to bear the weight of a darin, pedestrian. Out in the stream huge eakes of crystal were lifted on the top of the waves, and in many places they appeared and disappeared like immense Whitecaps swollen with & sense of their own im- portance. The water was ruftied by the high wind, and every wave that rolled back with the flood hugged the dancing pieces in a fierce embrace, One huge cake, almost large enough to be called a floe, especially attracted the reporter's atten- tion, It had come down from beneath the Palisades or the heights of Weehawken during the night and anchored off Bedloe’s Island in the morning just in | time for high water. By daylight it was trying creep up the East’ River. Unfortunately for iis ambitious pretensions, the receding tide resisted its untoward tendencies, and so the yreater part of the day was spent in a the contrary waters, Nightrall found it dashing itself to pieces against the waves it had «o vainly tought, for, bent upon going to sea as it was, it neither succeeded im resching the ocean by the way of Hell Gate aud the Sound nor in getting out by the Narrows, BLOCKING UP THE SLIPS. But the coveson the Rast River, all the way up to Astoria, gave evidence that many ice floes which had pe down from the Hudson the day before were more successful in penetrating the waters of Wall- | about and Gowanus and Kip's bays than this anfor- tunate piece of erystal which captivated the re- porter’s fancy. In spite of a current so rapid that it would not permit the broken ice to freeze together and up went floe atter foe, Alling ali the recesses to the eastward, of which New Yorkers know about as much a they know of Lake Tanga- und the Albert and Victoria Niyanza, And down iu they came, forced back by the receding tide, a flock of wild geese, pointed at the base, but spreading out into a half inverted V, and so ing ferry slips and obstructing the ferryboats, As it was high water at Hell Gate very early in the morn- ing, the receding tee caught the earlier passengers crossing from Long bdana to New York, Tose who had occasion to ctos# before daylight found the pas- sage very much impeded by the floating ice, and many of the boats made several fnetfectual attempts Detore they were able to enter their slips, ‘The de- tentions were exceedingly annoying, and # good deal profane language mingled with the wild music of he howling winds. VOMTUNATE PEREIRA ular feature about (he day's interruptions i enabled to ran its boats on schedule time, another in an adjoining slip was to send out more than one boat in an hour, Un the East River, for lastance, the Catharine Street Ferry was not subject to any setious interraption, while the Koorevelt street be iu several instances were uuable to eater their slip and the Nevada was compelled to land her passengers at Catharine street. During the morning the passengers by the Roosevelt street ferry hat very lively experiences, ‘Yhe boats ran very Lregulariy, owing te tue dufteulty of entoring the slip on either side, aud by eignt co clock a large crowd of people bad collected in the Brookiyu terry howe. Ae # matter of course the waiting ro wished to on to stand to the aud = tor hoses were With the tenacity le when the eleme Passengers quietly end they were subjec ~~ Viki was too email te accommodate all who ud Any persone were compolied the wind, ouisule Terry house biting, exporet Te agaitet them, most of the the outgoing b Herings did 5 Idabo, for instance, which left the Brooklyn side at half-past eight, carried many passengers who had been waiting in the cold for a long time, The cavins were ed to stfform tien and those who could pot find scoommodation juside were compelled to remaim outeide omong the vehicles. The bitter winds and the flying spray made the ordeal a very trying one, especially as the trip Was accomplished with diMeulty, When the Idaho, with her freigit of half frozen mumantty vachod this side of the river, she found it impossible to enter hee slip on account of the tee, and it wae only by transtorring ber passengers to another boat tn an adjoinny ep that they managed to yet ashore, It | was while the Liaho was in this position that (he Ne- vada put into the «lip of the Catharine ferry howse, Subsequently the bats were able to om ee with less diffieuity, and during the afternoon evening they ran almost without interruption. BAD AS A #TORM AT BRA. ‘The Catherine stroet ferry, the Muuter’s Pout ferry | and the Hariem and Morrisania boats made reguint trips during the day, At Pulton ferry there was very little niterruption, although some of the boats were an unusually long time an making their trips. A se- Ties of delays on this ine like that experwenced ty the Hoorevelt street cerry in the morning hoare wou! have been productive of intense saitering. Theeontinu- ous stream of people Who pour inte New York by these Doats between seven and nine o'clock im the moras would have preseuted au exceedingly lively picture if there had been any marked irregularity im the trips from the schedule » Ax it Was, many of | the passeugers « orn plained of inconvenience and dis- | comfort, The wind bhai mede a rushing tide from the sea, and although was lower during the day (han it dies be for mony monthe the boats surged and plunged as if in midvcean, “i would a8 svon bave been in 6 storm in the Gulf Stren,” said 4 pasowuger, “aud we wind the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge panied rocking of the boat with a most music.” ‘The only serious inconvenience fm nog Ded Fulton ferry boats was in when the very low water made it ditheu! animals al 5 At the Wall street ferry the ice did much serious inconvenience in the Poe ps of the day, but the ditficulties increased to evening, finally the boats ceased running altogether. th boats were laid up in their Brooklyu slips. ‘The it boat to leave this side was the ton, Which went out at balt-past seven o'clock. It was on ae tt of the difficulties of Ler passage that Superia: tendent Sinith ordered the ferry to cease running. ‘The boats of the South and Hamilton ferries ran very irregularly during the greater part of the being ed by drift ice on the Brooklyn side, Lp | cakes #8 slips of both ferries were choked up with ice, which rendered the entrance of the boa! used the South ferry ly! Ben New York, the terryboat New York having been ined in the Hamilton ferry slip to prevent the ice and wind from ring ber. As with the Fulton ferryboats consi le trouble was experienced by trucks in passing aboard the boats on the steeply inclined bridges. ON THE NORTH RIVER. The boats on the North River oxperienced even L nperd difficulty than on the East River, owing to he greater quantities of drift ice in the stream and the slips. The ferryboats plying between Jersey City and Hoboken and the city ran only at irregular intervals. ‘The Pavonia ferry, more fortunate than the others in having | fewer large cakes in front of their slips, ran the Chambers street boats with only a slight vari- ance in the usual time, there being only one round | trip missed during the day. ‘The Twenty-third street | boats ran about once an hour and ut nine o'clock | P.M. were stopped for the night, ‘Trains on the | Erie going westward were all delayed by the ts from five minntes to half an hour, ‘The Hoboken boats ran regularly up to noon, but after that time tho bouts were unable to make round trips in quicker time than an hour and a half, later in the day this delay being greater. The Pennsylvania Railroad boats sut- fer more than those on any other ferry. The ferryboat Newark, which left Jersey City at twenty- five minutes past ten A. M., became ob- structed in * slip at Cortlandt street when within twenty coe of the pier and remained there for five hours. The John H. Starin shortly after stuck in the ice directly in_ tront of the Cortlandt street slips and prevented the ferryboat New Jersey from leaving for over an hour after her timo. The New Jersey afterward backed up against | the Newark and took off her passengers, At three | o'clock several tugs were sent to the assistance of the Newark and succeded in towing her through the ice back to Jersey City, where the halt trozen horses were taken off and the boat was laid up, At three o’clock the ferryboat New Branswick lett Jersey City for Cortlandt street, but returned to Jersey City at lialt-past six without having been able to land her passengers. No other boat was sent out from Jersey City for Cortlandt street last night. The Desbrosses street boats during the night ran pretty regularly. Al trains on the Pennsylvania road were delayed, FOR THE FIRST LIME IN TWENTY-RIGHT YEAS. ‘The pilot of the ferryboat Newark, one of the old- est on the river, said lust night that it was the first time in twenty-eight years that he had failed to land his passengers. He said that the ice in the slips at the foot of Cortlandt street was Pairs fully fifteen feet deep, and that the tide would not be of an; the intense cold and could not be cut. the ice is in splendid condition, clear and abundant. ‘The only fatal effect of the cold recorded tr Newark vesterday was the dropping dead in the street of a forse, Much inconvenience to families wos oe- cusioned by the frocsing of the aqueduct water. ‘Trains were delayed on el! the tal . out chiefly in consequence of the ive blockade at the ferries, It was reported last night that « brakeman on the Central Halroad of New Jervey hat been frozen to death, A reporter at Elizabeth, where it wae said the man lived, traced as well as he could three rumors of such acase, One rumor related to a nan named Opdyke, who lives somewhere on the road toward Bound ‘Brook, who merely had his finger numbed, and when the report was issaed he was comfortably seated at his fireside resting before re- suming his work, Another ramer related to a man named Oscar Berry, also a brakeman on the Central New Jersey Railroad, who, it is said, was frozen to death. this romor was set at rest by his brother-in-law, 2 conductor on the Central road, with whom the writer conversed. The third rumor was the mest indefinite, ft neither named nor located the mau who was said to have heen frozen. Ali that could be gleaned about it was that the deceased wax a brakeman on the Penn- sylvanin Central Railroud; that he was attached to u freight train which had no caboose; that while walking along the roof of the ears from the rear to the engine he fell off, and that when found the body was sti Who he was, where he hailed from, it was not possible to ascertain. At Elizabeth the three ru- mors were believed by railroad men to refer to the case of Opdyke, about whom the report was first circulated, But INTENSE COLD IN MONMOUTH COUNEY, NEW JERSEY—BOATS PAST IN THE ICE-~4& NIGET WATCHMAN BLOWN INTO THE RIVER. {BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Matawan, Jan. 3, 1879, Since Thursday a(ternoon the wind has been sweep- in driving it out while the strong gale then blowing continued. No accidents were reported at any of the ferries. ‘the scenes at the Cortlandt street ferry after the boats ceased running were of an exceedingly lively character. The waiting rooms and even the street in front of the ferry house were filled with people. “They were packed as cluse mside as sardines in a box,” said the ticket agent to a HERALD reporter last night, “‘and if we had not received instructions to send all passengers to Desbrosses street 1 believe they would be waiting here still.” It is estimated that as many as six thousand were turned away from the Cortlandt street ferry aiter the boats ceased running. At Barclay street the principal interest centred in the long lines of vehicles Which were awaiting transportation. “I believe they are not going to take us over to-night,” suid one driver to another, and while thoy looked wistfully into the slip where a boat was receiving passengers they suw her go out without them. The poor horses were compelled to stand in the cold wind for hours because so few boats wore running. ‘The east side Staten Island ferryboats were unable toland st Tompkinsville and Stapleton during the middle of the day yesterday, owing to the extremely low tide. MAILS DELAYED. ing across Monmonth county with terrible force, and the weather is so intensely cold thut all out door occupations have been suspended, The mercury fell to 10 degrees below zero early this morning at Mata- wan and it has been very little above zero through- out the entire day. At eight o'clock to-night the wind is still blowing a yale and there is no percepti- ble change in the temperature. VAST IN THE ICE, Raritan Bay is full of ice and no boats are —s ing to force ® passage through. ‘The steamer M: teawan is fast inthe ice about seventy-five yards from her dock at Keyport, and ailefforts to move her have thus far failed. She has been in this position since last night. The New Jersey Southern boats have discontinued their trips and remain at the Sandy Hook dock. Passengers from this road go over the New Jersey Central from Long Branch. BLOWN INTO THY RIVER. Charles Stancker, night watchman on the mam- | moth drawbridge across the Raritan River at South Amboy, was blown from the bridge into the river last night. He was discovered by other hands em- ployed on the bridge, and, after remaining in the water some thirty minutes with the therinometer at zero, he was out in # thoroughly benumbed and exhausted condition. d Owing to the severity ot the snow storm in the in- terior of the country many of the mail trains were much behind time, while tew reached the city on the scheduled time. At the Post Office it was learned that the Southern mail, due at 7:30 A. M. arrived at 10:35; gthe North and West mails via Hudson River Railroad, due at 7:30 A. M., arrived at 10:55; the mail via the Erie line, due at 8, was many hours late, and the train on the same road, due here at 7:25 last even- ing, was four hours and thirty-nine minutes late at Port Jervis; the mail by the Pennsylvania road, due ‘at 11:15 A. M., was about four hours late in arriving. ‘Telegrams received by the Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service yesterday atternoon repo! that train No, 11, due here at A. beenre ce A was delayed at Batavia, and train No. 6, due at 7 P. M., was snowbound at East Rochester. A telegram irom Canton states that trains on the Rome, Water- town and Ogdensburg Railroad have been ho} ly abandoned some distance north of Rome. is road was snowed up from the 24th of last month till the 1st inst., and now travel is again impeded. BEFUGE IN STATION HOUSES, At the various precincts last night an innumerable caravan of r and distressed people applied for temporary shelter from the storm. The motto was “first come first served;” but it was impossible to find accommodation for the number of applicants. Agreater number were driven away than are repre- sented in the following table of lodgers in the respec- tive precincts :— Precdac Mates. Females Precinct. Males, Females 3 0 8 9 a 28 Twentieth 3 4 3 Twent, 5 7 6 Twenty-second 13 3 ) 6 Twenty-third... 5 a 6 % Twenty-sixth.. — -_ 7 17 Twenty-sev'nth 17 3 ) 14 Tweaty-eighth. — fae 1 1 Twenty-ninth.. 14 w 3 0 Thirtieth...... — ~ 23 Vi Thirty-first. + 33 15 Thirty-second. ea 1 11 Thirty-third... 1 = 0 17 ‘Thirty-fourth. 3 = ‘THR DAY'S CASUALTIES, Mary Fenderlein, aged forty-five, residing at No. 547 Filth street, fell on the sidewalk and broke. her wrist, She was attended to at the Seventeenth pre- cinct station house, and left for home. George Douglas, of No. 134 East Fourteenth street, fell in front of No. 292 Broadway and fractured his = hip. He was sent to the Chambers Street ital. ‘Daniel Hollahan, of Second avenue and Forty-third street, was found on the corner of First avenue Twenty-seventh street, suffering from dislocation of the right arm and injuries to the right eg received I ing on the sidewalk. He was taken to Bellevue ompital. Jobu Walsh, a laborer, residing in 154th street, near the Boston road, was found early yesterda: morning wandering through Mulberry street by ‘Ofte cer Gillhooly, of the Fourteenth precinct. The police- man took hin to the Mulberry street station house, where it was discovered that he had been frost- Ditten about the face and is. He was removed to Bellevue Hospital. Some twenty-six cases of frost-bite were treated at the Chambers Street Hospital. Among them were six — Co, and a number of po- jicemnen, BROOKLYN AND LONG ISLAND—SEVERAL EXPLO- SIONS CAUSED BY THE COLD SNAP—A NUMBER OF PEOPLE FROSTBITTEN. Shortly before nine o'clock in the morning a lond explosion occurred in the plumbing shop of John A. Scoliay, No. 76 Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn. The steam radiator exploded with snch force that a portion of the front of the store was blown out, the apparatus in question was shattered in pieces and tho stock was thrown from the shelves in every direction. William Soollay, aged twenty-one years, son of the proprietor, who was seated in the store at the tinve, was struck on the shoulder with # piece of the flying metal and was also sealded about the feet. William Simpson and John Conselyea were also scalded, but not se rioualy, abo bands. The place was damaged to the extent of about $300. About half-past five o'clock yesterday morning one of the steam pipes of the range in the kitchen of St. Catherine's Hall, No. 286 Washington avenue, ex- with s report that terrified th ocoupunte of ho Ly iets ae ne bo es the who was ure ot the time, Was severely Darned atsout the face and orms, The damage amounts to about $100, A witailar accident occurred at the residence of Mr. Park and Kent avenues, domestic, where damage amounting to about $400 was caused, the range being destroyed as well as several articles in the Kitehen., The ex were caused by; = were frosen. FRostarrrrs. John Ward, aged fitty-five years, residing at No. 101 Walworth strevt, Brooklyn, wes found at a jate hour ot lying on the corner of Nostrond street, by Ofcer Gibson, suffering from the effects of the excessively cold weather, He was under the influence of liqie being taken to the City Howpital it was di his hands, foot and ears were frostbitten. Frank Seymour, forty } -...1y/ age, reviding at No. at an early hour in the morning on Myrtle avenue, near Walworth with bis baods Crosen, was Fomo' rr) Mt. Catherine's Hospital. James Dougherty, of No, 196 Ryerson street, wos found by « policeman on Willongaby ay almost frozen to hb. His hands were frosthitten and . He won under the influence of liquor, He was subsequently arraigned before Judge Fisher for tntexiestion, but wae sent to the City Hospital, ELSEWHERE ON LONG TShAXD, ‘The snow drifted all day on Long Island and the cold was intense, The bare are closed to maviaa- i OUTDOOR WORK SUSPENDED AT LONG BRANCH— ICE EMBARGO AT HORSESHOE, Lose Baancu, N. J., Jan. 3—8:30 P. M. ‘The westerly gale, which commenced about three P.M. yesterday has not subsided in the least. The cold is so intense that.all out of door work is sus- pended. This morning at seven o’clock the ther- mometer indicated: six degrees below zero, There has been some moderation during the day, but it is now ents colder hourly, At Sandy Hook and Horseshoe the bay is covered with ice as far as the eye can reach. FROZEN IN. ‘The steamer Jesse Hoyt and the Heraup yacht aro frozen in at the New Jersey Southern Railroad dock. The latter tried to fc out this afternoon, but had to return after gett tyro or three hundred yards, There are in sight fast in the ice three schooners, two sloops and two tugs. The embargo is caused by the wind blowing the drift ice from New York Bay into the Horseshoe, where the intense cold freezes it into a solid mass four or five feet thick, DAMAGE TO PLANTS IN HOT HOUSES. Aspurny Park, N. J., Jan. 3, 1879, Astrong westerly gale has prevailed along the coast since yesterdhy evening. The thermometer is 5 a below zero, There has been considerable damage to plants in hot houses by the sudden freeze, There is some anxiety here and at Long Branch about the water supply in case of fire. The wells and cisterns are frozen. CROSSING THE HUDSON WITH HEAVY TEAMS-—— NEW YORK CENTRAL TRAINS, PovauKerrsix, N. Y., Jan. 3, 1879. ‘The gale and cold continues, and by to-morrow every ferry route above New York city will be aban- doned, At all points above here people cross the river on the ice, and at Rhinebeck and north of that place teams cross on the ice. Railroad telegrams report more serieus detentions of trains on the New York Central Railroad, West of Rochester the running of all trains has been abandoned, and west of Utica to Buffalo the situation is worse than during the last storm. Two trains ran off the track to-day, but no one was injured, No wenger trains have arrived at albany from the Vest since last night. The through mails are forty- cight hours late and none are expected until late to- morrow. ‘he fast mail for the West, which should have left New York at half-past seven o'clock to- night, has been discontinued, as it is known it cannot get through. All passenger trains for New York are made up at Albany. NO TRAINS FROM THE WEST AT ALBANY. AuBaxy, Jan. 3, 1879, No trains from the West have reached this city since twojP. M. yesterday, RAILROADS ABANDONED NEAR OSWEGO, Osweoo, N. Y., Jan. 3, 1879. The storm which commenced yesterday is the worst of the season. All the railroads have been abandoned, The snow is four feet deep in the country. REPORT FROM SYRACUSE—-A TRAIN MEETS WITH A SLIGHT ACCIDENT. [BY TELEGRAPH ‘TO THE HERALD.) Synacese, N. ¥., Jan, 3, 1879. One of the fiercest snow storms ever known in this region has been raging here since an early hour Thursday morning. The railroads centring in this city are all encountering great difliculty on ac- connt of the drifting snow. The Oswego Railroad has suspended travel, a passenger train having been snow bound at a station called Lamson’s since Thurs- day. No trains have run on the Northern road since Thursday noon. The trains which left this city at that time has become buried in a large snow bank between Clay and Brewerton stations, whore it still remains, The imapers bg are offering fabulous sums for conveyance by team back to this city, a distance of about twenty miles, Food is furnished by tho country folk. AX ACCIDENT, No trains have arrived or departed on the New York Central Railroad to-day, except # special, which was sent East at noon, on board of which was Assembly- man Thomas G. Alvord, who was bound for Albany. This train was drawn by two engines, At !Can- astota the leading locomotive became detached, and shot mbhead into a snowdrift. The train followed and a collision ensued, the reeuit being a ial demolition of both engines and the destruc- jon of an express car with its contents, on Van Voorst, the engineer of the lending en- Hine, i6 rar dinjured, The Binghamton Railrowd is biockaded, The New York express due here at twenty minutes to six this morning, is fast in the snow at Preble, twenty miles from this city. The storm is still raging at this writing—eleven P. M. CONDITION OF AFFAIRS NEAR ALBION, N. ¥. (bY TELEGRAPH TO THR HERALD.) Aunton, Jan, 3, 1879, A heavy snow storm began last night in this sec- Hon and continues with unabated fury, the wind piling and packing up the snow in every possible place, Travel on the New York Central Railrond has been suspended, the officers allowing no trains to leave Rochester or Buffalo to-day, At Spence: t Wao’ ieelaht trains ate anowboundy hedged sides huge banks, and at ‘Murray two passenger trains of which ean bbe storm ceases, as the drifts are opened. The farmers are , the drifts being fifieen to twenty 4 high ates accumulating: oe ew ether ‘ospects are the B ody time this winter tnat Railroad, ‘TRAVEL DELAYED. ~**-~Uatea, N. ¥., Jan. 3, 187%, A bite tee snow storm, raged here ali day wu ae o'clock P.M. Trains on the New jad from the east are pretty nearly on tin freight trains ere running. The 1:30 A! yo left here on time, but was snowed in hear Canastota, and only reached Syraeuse about eleven P.M. The train leaving New York at 16:30 A. M. reached here half an hour late and combined with that which left New York at 8:30 A.M. The combined train was held here until nine P. M. on account of a snow plough being buried in the drifts at Whitesboro. No other train will go West until the arrival of the Chicago Pacific Express, which left New York at half-past eight to-night. The storm was more fierce between Uticn and Syra- cuse, The St. Louis Express did not come through this morning, but an accommodation train from Syractse was on time. THE STORM ALONG THF GREAT RAILWAY LINES — TRAVEL IMPEDED. Burraro, N. Y., Jan. 3, 1879, ‘The storm which commenced yesterday morning in this section is more severe in cxtent than the pre- coding one, wod traffic on the railroads is almost en- tirely suspended. Snow ploughs are of little use, as the drifts fill in as fast as clearances are made, On the New York Central road no trains are moving towlay from here. Several passenger trains are de- layed at Batavia, ‘The Ningara Falls and Lockport trains are stalled at North Butfalo Junction. ‘The Erie Railway generally is blocked. The last train came in at one o'clock this morning. The force oi the storm extends from Castile to this place, On the Lake Shore Railroad the snow is very dee inthe vaeinity of Dunkirk. No trains have star from here yy. The last train on that road came in at abou: ten o'clock last night. . A trai the Buffalo and Jamestown Railroad is stalled at Gowanda, the track being in a bad condi- tion further on. Efforts are being made-to bring it in. The Qanada Southern is running trains from Erie stroet irreyularly. ‘The Great Western is blocked at North Buffalo, ‘The Grand Trunk trains have been generally aban- doued, Tt is atill snowing Any, but blowing hard. The snow 38 drifting badly. It is intensely cold, the ther- mometer rang.ng at about zero. Several cases of suffering uve been reported, but no fatal ones at this writing. ‘THE SCHUYLKILL FROZEN OVER. + PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 3, 1879, In this city the thermometer went down as low as 3 degrees below zero during the night and at noon to- day registered 7 degrees above. a At the United States Sigual Office, from all parts of the State reports of intense cold are received, the thermometer at an early hour ranging from 4 degrees below at Harrisburg to 3 below at Pottsville. At Wilmington, Del., the mercury showed 5 degrees below zero. At five o’clock this morning the thermometer at Gerziantown marked 6 degrees below, a fall of 40 since noon yesterday ‘The harbor here is full of the iceboats. ‘Tho Schuylkill River is completely frozen from its mouth inland. ice, but is kept open by TOO COLD FOR BUSINESS AT BASTON. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.} Eastox, Pa., Jan. 3, 1879. ‘To-day has been the coldest that has been known in Easton for many years. The thermometer fell to 8 below zero, Business has been almost sus- pended, ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE COLD. WiItesnarne, Pa., Jan. 3, 1879, At seven o’clock this morning the thermometer istered 10 below zero. Kenjamin jremsrgerty frozen to death at Mill Hollow last night. STORM AMID THE ALLEGHANIES, ALTOONA, Pa,, Jan. 3, 1879. A heavy storm is raging id the mountains. There is a blockade upon the railroads and trains are con- degrees siderably delayed. The thermometer marks 14 below zero. THE LAKE SHORE ROAD BLOCEADED. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE BFRAT Entre, Pa., Jan 3, 1879, The Lake Shore road, between Buffalo and Cleve- land, is blockaded. No trains have arrived from the Fast since last night. Three freight trains are snowed in between Dunkirk and Angola. Four a trains arrived from the West to-day. The tealcs were abandoned here. On the Philadelphia and Erie trains are blocked. SEVEN DEGREES BELOW AT PITTSBURG—TRAINS DETAINED. Prrrspuna, Pa,, Jan. 3, 1878. The Signal Service Office reports the lowest tem- perature during the past twenty-four hours at 7 dogrees below zero. In more exposed parts of the city it fell to 21 degrees below zero, There is great de- tention of travel on railroads, particularly on the Peunsylvania Central, from the severe we te COLD IN CHICAGO AND THE NORTHWEST—SUF- FERING OF THE POOR. Curcado, Jan, 3, 1879. ‘The temperature after midnight gradually lowered, until this morning the mercury stood 22 degrees be- low zero in exposed places in the city. Several cases of freezing are reported, but only one was fatal, Reports from points Northwest show the cold is continued and severe, with the thermometer record- ing from 15 to 30 degrees below zero. ‘rains are delayed on all the roads, but no accidents of importance have occurred. The poor aro suffering considerably, but active efforts are being made by the Relief Socicty to relieve the destitution and discomfort. EIGHTEEN DEGREES BELOW AT ST. LOUIS, Sr. Lovts, Jan, 3, 1879, ‘The weather is intensely cold, the mercury show- ing 18 degrees below zero, TWENTY-SIX DEGREES BELOW ZERO IN DAKOTA, Yawkton, Jan. 3, 1879, The thermometer rogistered 26 degrees below zero this morning, and is 12 below to-night. The sky is clear and there is no wind. Numerous cases of frozen ears, hands, feet and noses are reported, ‘Trains on the Dakota Southern Railroad have not moved to-day, all the locomotives having beeu dis- abled by freezing. STEAMERS DETAINED AT NEWPORT, Newport, R. 1., Jan. 4, 1879. ‘The cold wave reached here during the night, At daylight the thermometer indicated 3 degrees above zero, ‘The wind is blowing a g The steamer Newport, unable to go to New York, has turned to Fall River. The Old Colony came through on time from New York, but owing to the gale was revented from touching here, Mer pa: re and Freight arrived here by train at noon from Fall River. —_— COLD ALONG THE SOUND. New Lonpow, Conn., Jan. 3, 1879, ‘The Signal Station thermometer, in an exposed position, registered 10 degrees above zero at mid- night, 3 above at half-past seven A. M., 2 above at eight A. M, and 8 above at twelve P.M. A brisk west wind is blowing. Catitionary and off- shore signals are displayed. SNOW STORM AND GALE AT ST. JOHN, Bye. Jon, N. B., Jan. 4, 1979, A snow storm has been raging here since ten o’clock last night. The wind during the night han: from northeast to south and blew " No Moe damage is reported yet. om BEVERR SNOW STORM AT MONTREAT, Montreat, Jan, 3, 1879, ‘The snow storm yesterday aud last night was the moat severe of the season, All trains due here this morning were several hours behind time, NEW YORK STEAMERS DISCONTINUED ON ACCOUNT OF ‘THR ICB, (BY TELEGRAPH To THE HERALD.) Nonvour, Vis, Jan. 3, 1879, ‘The Bay line steamers will discontinue daily trips to-morrow on account of the ice in the Chesapeake, The Richmond and Washington Mes discontinued several days ago. The Philadelphia steamers ate running , but only the New York steamers are maki Slcemens. ‘The temperature is bitterly cold, and ’ degrees above. The meteorologists a oie wil be colder to-night than for twenty THE COLD AT ANNAPOLIS. [BY TELEGRAPA TO THR HERALD.) ‘Axsapouis, Md., Jan. 3, 1879, The polar wave arrived here yesterday afternoon, and it has been blowing great guns since last night, ‘The thermometer at the Naval Academy indicated 2 At one phi ag to gh wg entero bane 3 degrees above. JACK FROST'S VISIT TO THE OLD DOMINION. Bicuonxp, Va., Jan. 3, 1879. ‘The cold snap set in here last evening. The ther mometer at sunrise this morning indicated 7 degree above zero, afall of 40 degrees since three o'clock yosterday afternoon. A high wind from the west has revailed during the past twenty-four hours. P 8 we y: aM FROZEN. The James River, which has been only navigable for steamers for several days, cl to-night. The New York steamer Wyanoke and the ta Semcue Pioneer left here this morning. The ther- mometer at midnight was eight degrees above zero. INTENSE COLD IN TENNESSEE. Memruis, Jan, 3, 1879. ‘The weather is extremely cold, The thermometer this morning at daylight had fallen to 6 degrees above zero. ‘The river is filled with floating ice, making navigation above this point hazardous, THE COLD IN GEORGIA, Conumsvs, Jan. 3, 1879. ‘The weather is intensely cold, and » high win@ prevails. ——— MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, Orrick or THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasnineTon, Jan, 4—1 A. M. Indications. For the South Atlantic States, rising barometer, stationary temperatures, northwest winds, partly cloudy weather, For the Gulf States, northerly winds, stationary temperature, increasing cloudiness, possibly fol- Jowed by sleet or rain in the Southwest, slightly higher pressure. For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, the Upper Mis- aissippi and Lower Missouri valleys, stationary or higher temperatures, stationary followed by lower barometer, northwest to southwest winds, clear or partly cloudy weat?.er. For the upper lake region, stationary, followed by falling barometer, warmer, cloudy or hazy weather, diminishing northwest winds. For the lower lake region and the Middle Atlantic States, diminishing north and west winds, backing to southwest, stationary or slightly higher temperature, riaing barometer, clear weather, and over the lower lukes light snow. 5 For New England, rising barometer, stationary o2 lower temperature, partly cloudy weather and west, erly winds. For the Pacific States, increasing cloudiness, and in the North Pacific possibly light rains. ‘The rivers will generally fall, when not frozen. Cautionary signals continue at Lewes, Grand Ha ven, Milwaukee and Ludington. Cautionary off-shore signals continue at Indianols, Galveston, Port Eads, Mobile, Macon, Cape Lookout, Cape Hatteras, Kitty Hawk, Cape Henry, Norfolk, Baltimore, Cape May, Atlantic City, Barnegat, Sandy Hook, New York, New Haven, New London, Newport, ‘Wood's Hole, Boston, Section 8, Portland, Section 7 and Eastport. THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in com- parison with the corresponding date of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, Building, No. 218 Broadway :— Meee asia, 79. i _ a o 6P. + 20 9 2 9P. at 9 12 M..... +. 18 6 12P.M..u..0. 16 9 ‘Average temperature yesterday.. ee freree temperature for corresponding date last year......++ cceeot atts + 16% KILLING NOT MURDER. CRIMINAL INTIMACY WITH THE WIFE OF THE ACCUSED HELD TO JUSTIFY HOMICIDE, [Bx TRLEGHAPH TO THE HERALD.) Hannisossuns, Va.,.Jan. 3, 1879. In the County Court of this county Jacob Snyder was to-day acquitted of the murder of an old negro named Pete Slaughter, which occurred by shooting in the eastern portion of this county, near the Sheu- \doah River, on the 17th of November last. Old Pete had lived off and on with Esquire Jimmie Dovel, whose daughter Snyder about two months previous to the homicide. In the course of the trial it was proven that Old Pete had been on terms of criminal intimacy with Mrs, Snyder, the Squire's daughter, previous and sub- sequent to her mai jo to ‘der, and that she had two illegitimate children, one white and one black. Snyder was cognizant of all these facts when he married her; hence his killing of Old Pete was not justified by the people in section where jt occurred, and the trial attracted much at tention. Snyder's father-in-law, Jimmie Dovell, seemed to entertain more for Old Pete than for his white son-in-law, and was the chief witness for the prosecution, doing everything in his power for the conviction of the acct Eminent counsel defended Snyder, with the above result. PLYMOUTH PRAYER MEETING, “Tt you have not been on Litchfield Hill and spent awinter there,” said Mr. Beecher last night to the small audience in the lecture room of Plymouth Church, “you don’t know what winter is. My boy- hood was spent there, and in my father’s house I had a room that had an aspect both to the north and west, hat I got all that was discomforting. I have many toes woke in the morning with Beunoe drifting into the room and o irge drift at the foot of the bed. You know Hoth of alacrity, either, unless 7a ey, stepped ont of bed into @ luyer of snow. it feels like moss, We have had to dig down in well many atime through the ice to hat the baci down, when the water was #0 frozen it could not be used I have, when @ boy ten years old, driven two miles to the brook and brought water home for the folks to wash with. I therefore, what it is to live a hard know, life, although I may be @ little dainty now. These ex} served me well when I iived in the frontier im the early years of my ministry, and was and to do meny ring which required Steet Cnty boree'n shoe coming of tnd Wi the ries i] or iy ‘sbandoned biacksmith's ut it on my horse's foot. came toe the searet, town I went to afarrier. He looked at it and said it was rather Duilding fires, of course. nders, and do eo, things: - Bn wl -— . Lknow enou put surgery man gran, and would do it to save his lite. Indeed, T leg off, and would sometines feel that I could cut some men of if they wanted me to. (Laughter.) T mention these things to show to you that many seeming hardsh) are of 1 vod . byt = rate aa fae orn pad tii y us through # diset tens completely ‘on oar nature that we never forget it. of his father, an he him in life more than bymne or texts. TALMAGE'S TALK, “Coming here to-night,” said Rev. Me, Tatmage Jast evening at the regular weekly prayer inceting of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, “has been an arctic expedi- tion, Our sympathies should extend to-night to the pilots —_