The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 14, 1899, Page 5

THE SAN ¥FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1899. ASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—With two inches less than three feet of enow on the level and the m hovering - constantly nea , the capital is in the grasp of the vere blizzard in its The snow fall which began on evening has continued with- sation in fifty hours being twenty inches on top of the heavy fall of the few days preceding Driven ay by a high northwest wind, it ed in banks of from five to in depth, suspending all ving up the street car lines, off the eity from all outside ation by rail, and. causing untold suffering among the poor. By noon every street car line in the ol forced to suspend opera- 5 T all the retail bus houses closed down and dismissed their cler Delivery wagons which ven- tured out on their routes were in nu- merous instances abandoned in the streets, the drivers unhitching the horses and making shel from t biting blasts. At the Capitol neither house of Con- s had a quorum, and only a handful clerks put in an appe nce at the arfous executive departments, all of which closed e dismissing their s. At the City revailed, and no courts were » public schools made no a hold ses ached the t home. BT of sions, buildings The schools will closed to-morrow. Toward aft- the railroad companies ed to admit that their traffic bandened, the city lization that a fa al and provisions: was impend- e price of everything in the eat- went soaring skyward. d to the realization of famine d provisions was iméepnding. sverything in the eating arin; ward. markets prices were advanced to 100 per cent, when the scan- and immensity of manifest. Orders s poured in and gave nair when W s f lin we nt s ions apply is perflously scarce. F being sold by the bushel, stock on hand is , while railway gloomy. It was-an- this afternoon that. the gas supply was being rapldly -exhausted from the reserve tanks and the zas company's supply of coal was £o0 8 that it would have to be husband- der ed most 2ful Consequently the uced. Many - of the s were not lighted. The companies, . however, t maintaining a.service, lice report that the condition really - poor, -particularly the colored population, is- pitiful in ext Every effort: is being > by t authorities and charitable ms to ‘alleviate the suffering, but owing to the terrible weather condi- tions but little be accomplished. There has not been during the day a moment’s cé tion of the snowfall, and with the gale prevailing to-night it ous for any one but a strong venture out. - Many persons overcome by the cold, but no 1ave been reported within the red, however, that of life in the adja- 11 the streets were deserted iestrians and team: The has rendered most of the s and up-town streets im- and four horses tc ngle end avoring to break through a common sight. In packhorses have been all day_they could be instances i to and ruggling provisions or sacks of . coal. To- ight all entertainments have practical- been given up or postponed. Two of the largest theaters did not open their doors. One of the most. serious phases from fires. The fire de- rendered practically use- n of the deep snow and ter pressure which, in higher oir of the city, has failed entirely. The Potomac is frozen from its south > to Point Lookout, where it empties ) the Ch peake. The: ice val from ten to five inches in thickness and \avigation has been suspended. . The Alexandria fer oreed to aban- don their tr ome days ago, and to- night the Norfolk boats did not: at- tempt the passag, The railway mail service is paralyzed the storm and mails are at a stand- is the danger )artment re. less by low w 1 throughout the -Atlantic regfon. No through trains arrived here from the West over the Pennsylvania. road and only one over the Baltimore and Ohio. The only outhound train started on the Pennsylvar ing out at 4:30 thi East. On the Baltimore and Ohio only two through trains arrived from the East. All Chesapeake and Ohio trains were abandoned and there were no trains either sent out or arriving over the Southern and Atlantic coast line. BLIZZARDS FIERCELY RAGE IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, Feb. 13—The -storm which has been raging since Saturday as an extra pull- afternoon for-the night increased in violence ‘to-day, bes coming a thorough blizzard. Snow :fell all day and Is still coming down. A bitter northwest wind drifts the snow in clouds. The street cleaning depart- ment, after struggling thirty-six hours to clear the principal sfreets, gave up entirely, even surrendering Broadway to the wind and snow. The surface railroads run snow plows over the roads at intervals and maintain a service, but the cars are not heated and not well patronized. The elevated roads are running, but trains pay no regard to schedule time.. 'In the suburbs, where the wind has free sweep, the drifts are five to ten feet high, street railroads have stopped altogether and suburban steam roads are blocked. Many neigh- boring towns are cut off . from New You altogether. . Few trucks and de- the official measurement | | 1 the few pupils | being | under double burdens | IN N 'GERMANIC SINKS ORTH RIVER Ice Causes the Big Liner to List ! and Slowly Go to the Hall the same con- | ‘ Bottom. submerged. The accident is said te of ice which formed on the steamer. and slowly sank to the bottom. The Germanic is resting on the “eight. degree” list. 4040+ 040+0+3+040+H were. at this task when the ac The tide was low and the ( erma out NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—The White Star line steamer Germanic sank at her pier'in North River this evening and is ngw lying there partly combined with the heavy weight of the ice, caused the steamer to list It is said that no one was injured. The steamer came into the harbor Saturday covered and when her cargo was emptied she was topheavy. A large gang of men worked all day vesterday coaling the ship and dent occurred. They say that most of the coal was on the port side, which made the ship list. A small hurricane struck the river at 9:30 p. m. to roll away over to port, submerging the open coal holes and permit- { ting her to ship a great quantity of water into her bunkers. is not.damaged. and will he all right as soon as the water is pumped This will be accomplished before ncon to-morrow. The Germanic was built in Belfast in July, 1894. by 42.2 feet in breadth and 34 feeét depth of hold. HACHO+0+04+04040 + THO40+THCHOHD40404040 4 C 404040404040 » have been due to the heavy coating The continued loading of coal, bottom of what the sailor calls an causing the vessel anic grounded. It is said that she She is 445 feet long § [ P livery wagons were seen oh the. streets | to-night. -Floating ice. cakes in the | river hinder the ferries greatly.. Few persons ventured from their houses. tc | day unless obliged to -do so. had to be closed because of the cold, and the special Lincoln day celebra | tions and- the theaters were thinly at- tended. To-day was a legal holiday with the banks and exchanges, and an enforced one in the business districts generally. As there were no shoppers the big | stores closed their dvors and sent the | clerks home... The streets even in the theater districts are almost deserted. | All the charitable institutions are taxed beyond their resources, owing to the sudden demands made upon them. Of the )00 destitute families in the city, as estimated by Blair, superinten- dent of the outdoor poor, nearly all are either freezing or starving to-day. The | continued storm has handicapped all efforts to aid and the blizzard of to- day has necessitated a complete sus pension. The thousands of poor Jews, Italians, Greeks, Syrians and Armenians who make ‘a living by selling fruit, confec- tione: push-carts and stands have been driv- en out of business altogether and | brought to the verge of starvation. Persons employed outdoors have lost employment temporarily.. They num- ber many thousands, and some of them will swell the list of destitute. The task of keepning rallroad trains in motion was almost herculean. . Par- ticularly was this the case with the | lines running out of the Grand Central station. With each hour the severity of the conditions increased, and those n charge of the work were reluctantly compelied to admit that the total stag- nation of traffic stared them in the | face. - When told of the eontinuation of the existing conditions. w: to be | expected to-night, officials of the road said ‘it was likely that traffic would come to a standstill beéfore to-morrow. To-night orders weré issued to sus- pend operations -on the main-line .and I'branches .of the Long Island Railroad until the: storm subsided. . Driffs nearly ten feet- high were prevalent .through- out the island. up by the storm and it was announced none of the Fall. River. Stonington or Norwich lines: would venture ‘to. make trips until the storm. ceases and . the entrance to Hell Gate is free from ice. ing consignments from Bostan. Chief -of Police Dévery to-night. -is- gued -an order to. the captains of . the various precincts in Greater New York fo ‘give shelter to -all who: apply. for it-and. to afford: general assistance-to. destitute ‘persons. | - Mayor Van ~Wpyck to-day. notified | Commissioner - John “W.- Keller af the | @epartment ‘ot charities “that. he had 1$20,000. subject. to the commissioner’s |'draft: for ‘the ‘purpose of relieving the { poor. . Tammany “Hall:'gave half the amount and:Richard.Croker and James Keene contributed: $5000 each. Three - deaths from the cold were re- ported today: They. are: : RICHARD ATCHESON. 56 vears:of age. frozen to death in the snow. .. GEORGE HATZEN, an agent. at 774 Broadway. fell dead in a snow drift. : LEE. SING.:a Chinese. 22 years old, frozen to-death in Brooklyn. COLD CAUSES DEATHS IN PHILADELPHIA PH]LADELP’H:\:‘FQ*}.‘ 13.—After-a day of heroic battle .all - the human forces that could be' brought into play to succumb, and:to-night . the -city s fast locked in the embrace of the worst blizzard in the history of -the local Courts;: | v and other small articles from | All of the Sound stéeamboats are tied { No out-of-town. mails were received | & to-day with the exception of two morn- | against the elements have been forced | weather bureau. Steam and local traf- fi are at-a standstill, and the snow- 1 | } heaped streets are deserted. From 8 o'clock Saturday night to the same hour to-night there has been a steady snow fall, the aggregate depth of which at the latter hour was seventeen and three-fourths inches. The high winds have. whipped this into impassable drifts, and there is no sign of the storm’s abatement. Early in the day the Pennsylvania Railroad abandoned its through trains to the west, the last one leaving here at 8:30 this morning for Harrisburg. At last reports it was stalled near Lan- caster. The western trains due here from New York at 1:25 and 11:52 a. m. went no farther than this city. All incoming trains from: the south and west which contrived to reach Broad street station were held here, The decision to abandon entirely -the New York division was not reached un- til 7 o’clock to-night, when it became apparent that the attempt would .be of too desperate a nature. Early in the day the. Reading road | posted a notice that all train service | was abandoned until further notice. The Baltimore and Ohio abandoned its local service early in the afternoon. No trains left for the West. There were a number of deaths and a good many casualties attributable to prevailing . conditions. John W. Yeamans fell dead at Seventeenth and Cherry streets; Benjamin Zeebley, aged 70 years, became unconscious on the street, and died within a few min- utes; James Hall was found dead in a vard downtown. Those districts which rely on Phila- delphia for a supply of anthracite coal are threatened with a famine, not a | single coal vessel having passed . out | of the Delawaré since.the middle of last week and shipments by rail hav- ing been cut off. WRECKED OFF THE SOUTH CAROLINA COAST SAVANNAH; Ga., Feb. 14. — The | steamer William Lawrence of the Mer- 5ch:m\s' and Miners’ Line, running be- ;tv\oen Baltimore and Savannah, is a wreck and probably a total loss off | Port Royal, S.-C. - She left Baltimore | Wednesday last with a full cargo, but |'no: passengers. Saturday she ran into severe storm off the South Carolina coast. ~ She became disabled and in a | helpless condition drifted ashore near the Port Royal bar. The crew. aban- doned the ship in four boats. One i boat, containing A. J. Morrisell, sec- ond assistant engineer, and five. sea- men, made Port Royal. Three. ‘boats, = containing = Captain Willis, the first and second officers and. have not.beén heard from. The wires are down to Port'Royal. Assistant n- | gineer Morrisell reported ‘to-day to J. J. Carrolian, ‘the company’s agent hére, giving the facts of the .wréck.. He has doubts of the survival of the three severe, © - % The -names of the missing men cannot be ascertainéd here. Morrisell and h‘(l)g | companions “sufféred. great hardships | from the cold in the open boat-and were landing. Agent Carrollan expresses th hope that the miissing boats made ?{mdfi as the ship.-was near shore wheji-aban- telegraph. . - — i SEARCH FOR BODIES =~ . “IN THE SNOWSLIDES _/SILVER PLUME,. Colo., Féb. 13.—The search for boedies of viétims of.yestérday's | snowslides was to-day rewarded.’by the | finding of the remains-of Joseph Tondeni: the éngineers and members of the crew- missing boats as the weather was very | | mercial expansion, was to nearly exhausted when they inade a. doneéd, and. that the men ‘had not re- | ported, owing to the interruption of the WINTER WEATHER AT THE CAPITAL Causes a Slim Attend- ance in the House. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The bliz- zard caused practieally a suspension of business at the House to-day. The great marble Capitol looked Hke a snow palace. Ledges, facades, parapets were banked with snow. Onthe drives and on the plaza in front of the building the snow had drifted into a great bil- lows, in some places ten feet deep. Not a car line approached the building, but a few members of the House managed to reach the Capitol in carriages and sleighs. The hall of the House was as dark as a cellar. The snow banked up on the ground-glass ceilings, shut out the light, and half an hour before noon —the hour for the House to convene— the lights were turned on to relieve the gloom. The committee meetings, with but one or two exceptions, were net held. The few members of the House who arrived had no- thought for any- thing save the weather. They stood about the weather map in the labby in the rear of the hall disc¢ussing tempera- tures and snowfall and record-breaking in all parts of the country, and it was the unanimous verdict of the oldest members in the group that nothing.ap- proaching the present cold spell and snowfall had been known in ashing- ton in their experience. The nearest wpproach to it was the blizzard of 1888, which cut Washington off for a week from communication’ by railroad and telegraph. Speaker Reed did not appear at the Capitol, but sent word to his lieuten- ants that in his opinion it was inadvis- able to hold a session of the House to- day, and after consulting several of the majority General Henderson of Towa, who had braved the storm, .de- cided it would be the best to adjourn immedlately after assembling. Some of the Republican leaders were disposed to go-ahead with a session and an at- tempt was made to communicate with the Speaker, -but he could not be reached at his hotel by telephone, At 12:05 p.-m. Clerk McDowell called the House to order. There were about sixty members on the loor. Payne moved that the House adjourn, but -there were .cries of “No" from the little circle of members, most of whom held in their hands bills which they hoved te pass by unanimous mm‘.;bm, The motion was voted down, 9 to 44. On motion of Grosvenor (R. Payne of New York was elpcle’d (gpe(;‘l'(‘gl: pro tem., amid an outburst of applause. District day was postponed until Tuesday. On motion of Cannon, the House then went into committee of the whole, Hop- kins of 1llinois in the chair, and resumed the consideration of the sundry civil bill, Cannon asked unanimous consent that Hepburn be allawed to offer the Nicara- gua canal bill amendment at such point n the bill as he should see fit, all points of order to be reserved. He made .the request, he said, in order that there might be a full House when the amendment was considered. Corliss made a similar request regard- ing the Pacific cable bill, whereupon Can- non withdrew it. A resumption of the discusiion of the receipts and expenditures of the-treasury. which attracted considerabie attentios last week, was again precipitated by Sul- zer, who offered some figures as to the cost of the steamship subsidy -bill. Cannon reiterated his statement of last week regarding the ship. subsidy. bill and the Nicaraguan canal bill. Payne;chairman of the committee. which. Teported the subsidy- bill, said: he wel- comed any information that would throw. light upon the-bill, :but he ‘protested against alarming statements as to- defi- ciencies 1n advarce. Estimates did not always colncide with appropriations. . As an illustration he. cited the fact that the estimates - for the army bill had. ranged as high 'as $145,000,000,” whereas . the .Mili- tary Committee had prepared a bfll car- rying less than $80,000,000. He asked Can- non why he had not thrown his influence against the 1 days ago. hese bills; he ‘said, would take. more money from the ' treasury in a bills together. g Cannon declared that if the .army bill carried but $80,00,000 there would be.a de- ficit on'that account of.-$45,000,000." Berry (D.) of Kentucky made a.speech scoring some of the economists of the House, who were shouting ‘for.economy and reaching their " hands into. the treasury. at ‘every opportunity. “He at- tacked the steamship subsidy biil, charg- ing that thé. decay of .our. merchant marine- was attributable to the. ruinous protectivé policy of the Republican party. Willlams_(D.) of Mississippi -declared that the dream .of eastern empire was already a fatlure. With the ratification of the peace treaty, 'peace and commercia] Lexpansion were to come. Instead there was a war, the prospect of long,. bleody and expensive war, and now, owing to the great” expenditures involved in the East, | the construrtion of the. Nicraguan -canal which would-furnish a real basis for com. postponed. - "After having completed fifty-nine para- graphs of the bill, the committee rose, and at 4:45 p. m, : the House adjourned. TWENTY- FOUR BELOW . INOLD KENTUCKY . LEXINGTON, KY., Feb.-13—Attest- ‘| éd thermometers’ registered 24 below zero this morming:. The poor were fed ‘at soup houses all day, and wvarious citizens have donated coal. 3 SAVANNAH, GA., Feb. 13.—A heavy sleét yesterday, Snow: to-day and the coldest weather ever known here have |- :paralyzed all business ublic bufldings bills a few.| Igached, and then sald: vear than both-the subsidy and canal | TRAIN WRECK DUE - TO COLD WEATHER Snappi_n\g of a Rail Brings Dis- aster to the Cleveland Flier. badly injured. the hospital; will live. several cars were badly damaged. towns. from the Homeopathic, removal. 9900000000 06000060000 town. ©® over on its side. ® the air brakes took effect. PITTSBURG, Pa., Feb. 13.—The east-bound Cleveland flier on the Pittsburg and Lake Erfe Rallroad;, which left Cleveland at 11:18 a. m., was wrecked this afternoon near Fleming Park, opposite Davis Island. The fireman. was injured so that he died and seventeen passengers were A partial list of the dead and injured is as follows: ‘W. M. Campbell, fireman, found lying under the trucks of the bag- gage car; died before medical aid could be sumioned. John Totten, engineer, painfully, but not fatally injured. George Neese, baggagemaster, cut about the head and arms; taken to James B. Yohe, a son of Superintendent J. B. Yohe of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie road, badly cut about the face and head. He was travel- ing in the parlor car with his father. Miss Mary Kelly, Youngstown, Ohio, arms and neck badly injured. H. C. Barr, Newcastle, legs and arms injured. B. C. Cato, Alliquippa, hurt about the back. E. 8. Hubbard, Hotel Henry, not badly injured. C. P. Wagner, Newecastle, slightly injured. Samuel W. Armstrong, Newcastle. Caléb Welsh, conductor, McKeesport. The wreck was caused by & broken rail. high rate of speed, ‘required by the schedule, and the locomotive and ‘When the news of the accident reached the city a. wrecking crew was sent to the scene and physicians were summoned from the nearby The injured were removed from the wreck and given as prompt attention as the circumstances would permit. Mercy and West Pennsylvania hospitals and were at the station ready to receive. the injured. caused- much suffering to the injured and to those who aided in their The train was composed of a baggage car, two day coaches and a Pullman parlor car. . All were vestibuled and it was one of the crack trains on the road, making the trip from Cleveland in three hours. It is believed that the broken rail was one of the effects of the ex- treme cold. This is the first accident that has occurred in this part of the country since the cold weather began. The train left Cleveland at 11:18 a. m. and ran on time to Youngs- At that point two hours were lost and the train ran on a siding near Fleming Park to let another train pass. the rail broke and the locomotive was thrown from the track and turned The tender ran on for several hundred yards before The train was running at a Ambulances were called The cold weather In running off the switch 0 0 00 000000 060 060060009000 0600090 ©0-0000 0-0600-000 000 SENATE OPENS WITHOUT PRAYER Chaplain and Statesmen Snowbound. QUORUM IS NOT SECURED THERE IS SHARP DEBATE ON McENERY’'S RESOLUTION: Fruitless Attempt to Set Aside the TUnanimous Consent for a Vote on the Measure Providing a Philippine Policy. Speécfal Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON “Feb. 13.—At no time during the session of the Senate to-day wasg a quorum-of the body present, the majority of the members being snow- bound at their homes. ~For- the first time in years no invocation was pro- nounced at the: opening ‘of the session, neither the regular chaplain nor any other minister being able to:reach the Capitol. A sharp debate over the unan- imous consent agreement reached Sat- urday afternocon to voté on the McEn- ery resolutlen to-morrow afternoon was precipitated early in the session. Some feeling was manifested by ‘Senators who-object to the adoption of the reso- lutjon, but none of them indicated what might be their action to-morrow:. ‘In connection with the consideration of the resolution the Senate declined to meet at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning.. The agricultural appropriation bill was called up, considered and passed Wwith only a few unimportant amendments. A bill removing the disabilities of certain persons engaged in the c_hju. war was passed. : SR It. was when Berry of Arkansas gave notice that Bacon would address the Sen- ‘ate ‘to-morrow on the McEnéry resolu- tion that the controversy over the ques- tion of the unanimous consent given Sat- urday was precipitated.. Platt .of Connecticut took the -position that the agreement ought to.be rescinded, saying that it partook of the-nature ot a’ snap judgment, having been -made when an_appropriation bill ‘was under consideration. Hale of Maine demanded the regular order, and then made a speech in opposi- tion to_ rescinding the agreement. He® declared that the proceeding whereby Mason . had secured unanimous consent was deliberate, and said.he ‘had never witnessed an occasion where an agree- ment of. the kind had been entered upon with more solemnity. : g Platt insisted that no unanimous con- sent was ever given under similar cir- cumstances, and although he disclaimed making anythreat, .he sald: “We shall have no more unanimous’ consent if this method is to- obtain.” . - : In response to the statements made Me- the unanimous consent »ngre{:mdent was T a0 that there are Senators in this chamber who ‘would not have. voted for the treaty -if they had net been assured of an op+ ortunity to vote upon thé McEnery reso- ution. ~If any ‘Sendator was not present - when . the. unianimous consetit agreement ‘was made ‘it .‘was his.own fault. 1T notice, therefore, that I shall -object to ‘any. violation of the unanimous consent. agreement.” S B : oar of Massachusetts said he had just received a telephone message from.Mason who-requested, on account of his illhess to-day, that discussion of the unanimous agreement go over -until to-morrow when he might hé. present. 3 ‘Wolcott of Colorado—Does the Senator from Massachusetts understand that the unanimous agreement of last Saturday carries ‘with it a ‘unanimous consent not to discuss the question.in the absence of the Senator from.lllinois?" - - - “Hgar, -with some feeling, .replied: - “I do not think the Senator from Colorado ought in fairness to address such a ques- tion to mie. After Hoar and Wolcott had had a col- 1 that was not audible. to thé - ate: Hale of Maine rose and said: “Le ihe' Senators adjust their differences out- ide. AL Alljgon of Towa said it was well under- stood that if the resolution was debated: it would occuPy the remiihder of the ses- sion. He maintained that the unanimous consent to' vote upon the.resolution im- |- lied that there should .be no debate. o of Connecticut entered a pro- Hawle: test aj &Kut the unanimous consent agree- |, t ‘to_vote on the McEnery resolution, :1::;1 said: *“I do not wish to characterize this performance, but it was most unfor- s te. and unfair, and I think it will h‘gr‘-:ngtear be difficult “to ‘gét unanimous’|' onsent.” : > 52 cA bill granting to the-city of Boulder, Colo., certain lands for park purposes amendments to- the - bills grantin, en- sions. to Mrs. Semple, daughter r)fgprefli- dent Tyler and General John M. Palmer ar{d :eflit lhejm to c%nferon(‘fl‘ ‘onsideration of the acricultural appro- priation Bill was then begun. The a]r;gr(v- priation for vegetable pathological Ugations was increased .from $22500 to $32,500, provided $5000 should be used for the investigation of the disease known as “little- peach.” The appropriation of $25,000 for irriga- to:)%n investigations was increased to $35,- Tillman offered “the following. amend- ment. which was agreed to: ‘““To enable the Secretary of Aericulture to investi- gate and-teport on the -cost ‘of making tea and the best methods of cultivating and “preparing . the same for market, so as to demonstrate whether it is practica- ble to introduce its culture in the South- ern States as a Ernfltfll\lp industry, $5000.” The bill was then passed. Teller of Colorado then made a brief statement to the Senate, in which he safd he proposed to-morrow to vote for the McEnery resolution. - He knew of no agreement to adopt that resolution, but it was in practical accord with views which he had expri 1. heretofore. He hoped, he said, those views might be carried ouf and. erystallized into law. He pro- ceeding to- discu: some of the amend- ments which he sald would be offered to the McEnery resolution, when ~Allison said: “No amendments can be offered to the resolution under the unanimous con- sent agreement.” Among the bills passed were the follow- ing: Amending the statutes concerning the drawing off, gauging, marking and re- moval of sSpirits, s h; spirits may be drawn off in packages-smaller than bar- rels and put in five-gallon cans for export purposes; House bill for the establishment of -a lighthouse ‘and fog signal at Foint Laurin of "South .Carolina explained how | Kkrow | T give |. Arguello, Cal. The Senate ‘then. at 3:20 p. m., on mo- tion of Alleon. went into executive ses- sion, and at 3:32 p. m. adjourned. MANY COLORADO MINERS SNOW-BOUND DENVER, Feb. 13.—The big storm in the vicinity of Leadville started on its fourth week: to-day after one day of sunshine, and although the snowfall was’ not very:heavy to-day there was enough to add considérably to the diffi- cultiés -in ‘the way of opening up the branch line to' thé mines in the gold belt. For the.present ~Leadville has enough coal and provisions and ar- rangements have been made there to send food to outside districts. _Two prospectors on snowshoes ar- rived in Leadville to-day from Wheeler: It-took them four days to make the trip of fourteen miles.- Theére is enough food at “Wheeler and "other towns: around Kokomo and Dillon to last ten days, with care. Potatoes, flour-and salt pork are the articles of diet. Stock is suffering, and between eighty and " ninety - head of horses between Wheeler and Léadville have scarcely any food whatever.. An effort will be made to dig a road across the mount- ains to Rando, near Red CIiff, on the main- line' the Rio Grande, in order to supply ‘the towns between Kokomo and .Leadville, should the South Park remain unable to clear the higher line within the next week. The wagon road would be.but ten miles in length and the prospectors from: Whealer state that ‘the proposition is to have every able-bodied man turn out and shovel snow. A relief and work train sent.out from | Boulder by the Colorado and North- western Railway succeeded in getting only as far as Klondike Point. There has been no suffering so far in any of the. mining camps on that line, but fuel and provisions are running short. MISSING NUMBER OVER A HUNDRED Little Hope for Those on the Bulgaria. LINER PROBABLY WENT DOWN IN A SINKING CONDITION WHEN LAST SIGHTED. Of the One Hundred and Forty Passengers and Crew Only Twenty-Three Were Rescued. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Feb. 13.—Lloyds’ agent at St. Michaels, Azores, cables that the steamer Wechawken reports that the Bulgaria, when spoken on February 5, in latitude 40, longitude 43, was in a sinking condition, with three holds full of water, her rudder broken and her machinery disabled. The agent says the Weehawken lost her boats and ar- rived with her bunkers full of water. The agents of the Hamburg-Ameri- can Steamship Company here admit that the last news of the Bulgaria's condition when sighted by the Wee- hawken is graver than they had at first supposed developments would show. They are still hopeful, however, that the rest of the crew and passengers have been rescued by other steamers in the vicinity. The Daily Mail to-morrow will pub- lish a dispatch from Ponta del Gada Azore Islands, saying that the Bulgaria had a crew of ninety-eight and carried forty-one passengers, and that the Weehawken rescued twelve members of the crew and eleven passengers. NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—The agents of the Hamburg-American line to-d: is sued the following list of passenger: all steerage, on the steamship Bulgaria: C. Jarove, Jacob Ade, Johanna _Ade, Josephine Piletzki, Joseph Blunas, Jonas Osmidak, Milkowitz Ferenz Ignaz Frapold, Petro Co . Adolph Schroeder, Fanny Spagat, Wejetelk ‘Stelhj, George Asmussen, Satinslow Sujale, Joseph Min- turn, Heinrich H er, Helene Francul- mann, 8. Zolnekwitz, J. Kap: i, Fran- ciska Trotz Vladivolsk: Protzer, Nels Anderson, man, Martha Metzk: W John Gunnlick, John Hill, A. Brown, J. Jaeger, August Weinhart, Joseph Heli; Ergard Lippert, E . Raver and infan Mertz Kohn, Eva Kohn, Ignatz Kohn, Nettie Kohn, Nathan Kohn, Bennie Kohn, Charles Werner, Thom: annie Burgmann, Ludovike Szoerb ski, a- than Wingarten, Anton Werniak, la Moses, Jos Bilako, Menam Bilako, Juda Rubow‘iju Ja MANY OCEAN VESSELS ARE STORM-BOUND NEW. YORK, Feb. 13.—None of the Atlantic liners from Great Britain and the Continent that regularly arrive here at the end of the week has yet been sighted. The passenger steamers due are'the- American liner Paris, nine days out from Southampton, which was due Friday; the Cunarder Etruria, eight days but from Queenstown; the French liner La Bretagne, nine days out from Havre; the Anchor liner Anchoria, six teen days out from Glasgow; the Hol- land-American liner Sparndam, eight- een days out from Rotterdam; the Hamburg-American liner Pretoria, fif- teen days out from Hamburg; the North German Lloyd liner Gera, thir- teen days out from Bremen; the White Star liner Nomadic, thirteen days out, and the Cymric, ten days out from Liv- erpool. Freight steamers whose voyages are growing uncomfortably long are the Eastern Prince, 24 days out from Shields; Deike Richmers, 25 days out from Havre; Salerno, 26 days out from Newcastle, England, and the Catania, 18- days out from St. Michaels. The Almida, 58 days out from Shields, has been about given up as lost with all on board. No doubt a large fleet of steamers has -arrived in the vicinity of Sandy. Hook bar and is waiting outside for the blizzard to pa: The marine observer laconically reports ‘“nothing but bliz- zard.” LIVERPOOL, Feb. 13.—Reinsurance upon the Cunard line steamer Pavonia, from Queenstown, January 25, for Bos- ton, has been effected here at the rate of 10 guineas. The following are the second cabin passengers on board the Pavonia: F. Carruthers, M. Carruthers, Mr. and Mrs. E. Fielding, two Misses Fielding, Miss Emma Dahl, Mrs. Graves, Miss M. e Rose C.: Colling, W. 'T. Houston, George Stevens, J. McEwan, four McEwan children. ( GREAT NORTHERN TRAIN RESCUED FROM SNOW SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 13.—After being snowed in for twenty hours near Durham, nine miles west of Blackfoot, Mont., in- the Rocky Mountains, the Great Northern: train No. 3, the mail *“fiyer,”” arrived here to-day at § a. m., twenty-five hours late. The services of two rotaries and a large force of men were required to dig the train out of eight feet of snow. 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