The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1895, Page 6

4 oy HE WORLD: |STRONG BRAVES THE STORM. His Removal Axe Is Being Sharp- ened Work. ‘The storm was vot severe enough to keep Mayor Strong at home to-day, He was at his desk at the usual time this morning, and at once went to work on his mail, His order that nobody was to be admitted until 11 o'clock, was falth- fuliy carried out by Daniel at the door. | Mayor Strong's axe is ready for busi nese, and there is a look of resignation on the faces of all the officenolders wad | APAY CAR ~ BLOWN UP, eee Explosion in the Grand Cen-) tral Yard Heard Many jeome Within che sweep of tae Mayor's Bl 48 Awa | Power of Removal bil | 0¢3' 5 Folluwing Uist of the principal joffices wa in all provavillty ve vly re a ——— City Chamber: bh. Donohue $25,000 Seyusel to the Corporation Willa Te . 3,009 | riment of Taxes and Commie «nd Asaesanient “the ship Is well provided. with eable WPORT, Ro 1, Feb. 8 —The steam Jolin Whalen and Joseph iiument and with enough rope she vould be boat Pilgrim: of the Fail River line towed safely In the most furlous sea 2 for Fal Flying Iron Crashed Throngh the (James tania TT Tee eee esreae eit ot [passed here at 410 P.M, hound for Pa fof a House and Into Charice iL sturray, vessels overdue, are. yt itside | River. Jonn J. Seannel q bar, and that if La Gas is not) FALL RIVER, Feb. The news that y ineee| Beisie news ftom her ie Pilgrim had been sighted off New & Mans be . of Wuildives ‘Thomas J Whe Teutonic is a sister ship of tne}port was received here with great ter Simmons finches, and gross. tonnage 468) tons [here at her usual time, and as hours THREE VERY NARROW ESCAPES. | 151 Havers © Scns cos sam 18.0) She ig minutely sub-divided “by [pasted without any things nf her the } dames d pvand Andrew 4. White, De ence de ming’ forenand | Mor timid began to fear that she had eg 1 pgs GROEN res cateritrintihiiten Bas Oo | ant Crowe thee portion of her| met with tome mishap “gene | Bushe and Michael ©. Murphy, ength, which greatly Increases the se-| Despatches were received from New Gach $6,009) 1.000] curity of the steamship se 0 + | onde ihe a Alone bie je and Residents of the Vicinity | iit Co mimsioners James CBa PAS teamship in case of Col) pondon and other points along th John J. Tucker. Francis M~ Scott and has freq n records, and | Sund, saying she had not been sighted Thought a House Had “Horry W. ‘Cannon, en: i)" 85,000 + 8.000 every one fan hag the) From New Haven, however, came word Collapeed Peet oe tie enacts Board, Cha Te RRS TE Maven haute WAY tet. [that a big boat had been seen moving ee | stealth: Coramsissioneh Gysan,& poe] gram from “Harvey Se eo SmI {slowly about three-quarters of a mile rent mie Park ‘ mhn’s, Noo: from shore. Her name could not br Preitent of the Park Department George SS eanant® ax: Oe claus i seth 8,00 tain of Sun Domingo reports see. | | Sn cana Bache fuHer ualnes Trere was a terrific explosion in the | (CMU smi naa’ Nathan | ing during storin large four-masted | UistInguished, and ax no further tidings yard of the Grand Central Depot this ‘Strive Edward tell and A” 8” Tap steamer, off Halifax Suniay Name un-| were recalves the ie thal sprang up § GbioRle, wii yess No amare | known,” was quickly lost, only to be revived by Morning at 1.15 o'ciock, which resulted | MO ii Ge ihe amount of the stars | "the only steamer due in this port an-| HAS Gucue leek ole in the almost complete destruction of |jists whi h wi be turned over to now re awering the description given by Harve he Newport pe aed @ pay car of the Hudson River Railroad | clp.ents may be gained by the following |& Co, Is the Rhynland, of the Red Star Company and a very narrow escape from | Fly Charaveriain’s oMce 5 Be |e aan coe tne. aeutenle th 4 FOUR SAILORS LOST. @eath of two inmates of the home of | vate Workn Reseererenre isn] W. Cameron, an old seaman, who - Peter W. Maguire, at 16 t Forty: | Parks (excepting ae fegarded by the salts of the Maritime | pa¢ Out ina Dory tn the Blinding Charities and Hon seventh etreet. eaitt Depart The pay car. which has been standing | fuitce De ‘except’ wnitormed in the yards of the Company for several : i 8, was to have started up the road fexcept uniformed towards Hudson with $0,000 to-day ce Ro nese ¢ son 161 Pay the employees of the road, sin | Ty Deparn 181.900 eharge of Paymaster Burdett. Woked oF sucarion other than teach= The car tx furnished one-half in the Style of a private car, with upholstered Clty Record Commissioner of Jurorn Inape 31.100 ore and Sealers of Welghts and Seats, heavy plate glass and heavy | ii hits Brussels carpet, and the other half as | Examining Board of Plumbers . Qn office for the paymaster, with a big . . TTR fron safe in one corner. In the oMce |" “ee fs a large Baker heater, which, when the car is in the yards, Is heated by a NEW CORPORATION COUNSEL. hot air boiler which stands in the]... gaye a Democrat Will S yard. At 1.15 o'clock this morning one of the young men employed in the yards went into the car for the purpose of sleeping there during the night. He sat down by the heater and started to remove his shoes, and had one off when the heater exploded. The rush of hot air from the boiler on the outside to the heater within caused the explosio: Phe car rocked froin side to side, and she yourg man was thrown bodily to the Other end of the car, and the fragments ceed Mr. Clark. Alderman W. M. K. Olcott was one of Mayor Strong's ear‘y visitors to-day Mr. Olcott came to put In a good word for William Plimty, a stanch Republican of the Twenty-third Assembly District, who wants the place of Commissioner of Jurors after Commissioner Nooney is de- posed under the Power of Removal bill. Col. 3. VR. Cruger also called to urge ‘the appointment of James W. Au- ten to the same place. Mr. Auten is a Brookfield mar, and Plimly is backed by ‘MAY BE THE TEUTONIC ine steamship from w York on an, Jan. t lor 4 | | Both veatela were due here on Tues | day ~ | H -- QUEENSTOWN, Feb. §—The British steamer Glenochil, Capt Harrison, from (Continued from First Page) [New Orleans on! Jan via Newport | |News, on dan 05. for London, arrived for a vessel to cross the bar, No here to-dny short of coal. She reports in shipping circles, In fact, Is at that on Keb. 6, when about lay tile alarmed about the #1 fthe White [southwest of Kinsdnle Hei spoke Star liner, dng surmised that sie the British steamer Loch 3 8 either d Uy the storm, that she | Allison, from Charleston on has stopped to take La Gascoknes pee | Bremen Hengere vor that she te heiping the | The Loch Maree was French 1 port wae using all ner avila Agent Forget. of the F sjorder to keep her furnice walling anxiously for the und ws the. wind wae favor The oes pot bring news of La ‘Gas: Loch Maret was under all | togne he will be greatly disappointed, |eouli sot, Capt. Harrison belles T have no reason, bes said thie} in all probabllity she will reach (acen morniig, “to change "the opinion fits! | town shortly, formed, that La Gascogne’s mac hive is Gut of order, and that she jo wither | ihaking repaira at see or is being helped | PILGRIM ALL RIGHT. | to, port by some other vernel ef do not agree With other men that it would be dang Ble Pall River Liner Sight lowing veskel to take I port, provided she was disailed | Of Newport mer- Exchange ar being equal to any Kency, Snowator ante Pareet tt De, Radmore,” and the) me bark Emma, bound from New Among. the ‘Teutonic's ‘sengers 4s| London, Conn. for Cape Hatteras on a sir Willam Van Horn, the President] fishing expedition, reached the ‘ower CUM eG ICU Nia’ gtar| bay at 7 o'clock last evening, ‘The bliz line “Sifices to-day. to those Inquiring |2ard was then setting in and Capt ut the vexsel that thes should ar-|Tangon decided to go to New York for ee aun noon sonny nip | safety. He turned the achooner, and the Tnvanhted m s Afirst thing they knew was when the ‘The White Star officials also offer to telegraph those inter when the Teutonte is eighted, and they thus avolt the annoyance of answering frequent tn- quirtes. schooner struck the West Bank, which {s a shoal between Swinburne and Hoff man Islands, Ag soon a the schooner struck, four « ange, gmeers, of elt, [the sailors, contrary to the orders of the Gasond (taptains officer: | captain, launched a dory and put off Piton, second off third | ain and four others of the crew Meer; Martin, ch r: Le Bars, | Gn the vessel until 2 o'clock wecond engi averne, third engi: | ning. The vessel was then go. neer, Haman, engineer; Japhet, | ces and the leeward side of th commissaire, Gervais, doctor. |vesel Was under water, 7) aptaln Agent Forget said this afternoon all the four sailors took the sQl.’s in La Gancog p carried col rumenta, some of their clothing and her ten a running at m™ » and launched the second dory. her machinery should be di They drifted around, being unable to would not. travel full speed, and there | row the dory, and were finally caught fore would not use so much coal. Helin the current and swung to the Stiten thinks there need be little alarm on|{\iind shore near the lighthouse that score, It was 6.10 wren they were landed. The A mar called at the French Wne} men had woollen stockings in their office this afternoon and inquired anx-| Mouths to prevent Delng frozen Stitt fously for the fate of the vessel. He | Their clothing had from one to two of the heater, which was made of cast| both factions of the Twenty-third As- iron one inch ‘thick, went flying in every | #embly District. sengers. men were taken care of by. Lighthouse- Girection. ick, went flying in every | #eO yy coward, of the Ninth Regiment, |.‘ wiil give $10.00 to you,” he sald to| Reoper Wiliam Davie, and at noon he ‘One piece, Welgaing thirty-five pounds, | had a short talk with the Mayor aboui|a clerk, “If you will send out a tug and | ang his men lett for New York. Ninth Regiment Armory matters. Mayor Strong was asked about the resignations and appointments which he anuelpat He was not dispored to say who he Inteded to appoint to some of the more Important offices, but went so far as |to state that the next Corporation Coun- se: wiil be a Democrat r diMcukt to find the right Went through the roof of the car, tear: { hole in it, and the sinaller ‘augments wrecked the fittin a Tas heevy «of the he rocf of the Something in the shape of a proj It flew high tito the air, completely across from the wes: the yard, where the cur wi st to the east side and down thiough the roof of the rest- dence o: Hetr Wo Maguire, in Bast to appoint.” he sald, “'be- orty-seventn street,” It ploughed tts ght men when found’ don't Way through the roo! in a slanting di- | Care to serve in @ public capacity. yeetion, passing comple ‘The Mayor sale that he had accepted nly through one room and through @ titlon into #/all the resignations which had been sent | has! bedroom. |him so far’ He would not say whether ‘A Mrs, Wheeler was sleeping in the | or not Police Commissioner Martin had offered to resikn. All that he would say warding that Was that he had not yet epted Mr. Martin's resignation. MURRAY AND KERWIN. first room. Bhe was awakened by the erath, und looked up to see a big hole | iu the ceiling, th feet long and two « wide, through which the snow was | Directh t the “ad oof the bed on which sh: sleeping. there. Was ehother big hole in-the-partition theousn | Walch the profectiie had xe In the hall bedroom Wiilam Haight, a| Clvil-Service BE student woo hives with Mr. Maguire, | a was ping on & Small iron bedstead od He was awakened suddenly by his bed} The G0 or 70) men who have been doubling up. and found that he had a certified to by the CiviieService Ex The iron had str ck directly tn the ;#m@ning Hoard as eligible to appoint gentre of the bed. and ame within a! ment or the police fores, held an indig few inches of striking him. i : nid aro! Half dazed with fear he ran our of |MUON meeting last might to protest the roomt and foun the other merge {against the action of Police Commis: bers of the buuschold standing inthe, Sioner Murray and his Republican col hall in stupefication. An exatinatheg | eague, Commissioner Kerwin, in refus- ehowed that Haight was uninjured, ex-|'g Take appointments. Pr cept from shock ostal cards Were sent out on Tuesday Wot krowing exactly “wi ha to all the men, and they met somewhere Not ore exactly what had hap-|in Fourtechth street ast might. desl old rushed into the street in their | UoNs It Is said, were adopted, scoring night clothes, and Mr. fe up te two Pollee Commissioners iand con fo investigate. He made several efforts Gemning thelr tactles, which, the fo move the iron, but it was too hot to | lege. Is for seifieh and political purposes handle and finally he was forced to| The resolutions demand, ac one who attented the me acancles now existing. ¢ from the eligible list, | A great rity of the names have | been on list. for over six months, | desist ‘The people in the houses next door to the home of the Maxuires heard the ¢rash, and thinking that the building had colla |. rushed out into the street th id Gag tel eely Bh Lean Pirate ap oreg nd they ullege that It would be a great | ne Me a eee Roe RE injustice to nullify. the lst after all the ained to them that it was a piece of | (rouble and expense the appicants have Fron which bad fallen thr eee OF sone Lo to secure thelr certificates and somewhat allayed thelr fears, a fearch Was begun to discover where the fron had come trom , CLEANING THE STREETS. ants, Slaguite and several netehbors | = = ressed and went around to the sub-| : station in the Grand Central Depot, | 4" Pxtra Fore where Sergt. Robb was in charge © of 3,000 Men Is at Work To- ay. Everything was excitement in the sta-| Hen Onin Was excitement In the stae! Supt. Robbins, of the Strect-Cleaning the exposion, and when Mr. Maguire Department, sald this morning that he arrived Sergt. Robb ha juest deepatched | had added an extra force of 3,00 men two men to find out what was u "The shock 1 been | to his regular force of 1,380. ‘The carts jon h of the exp! fel in the stationchotse so. Alstinctly | pressed into service number 1.20 at It Was thought some portion of ‘The frst squad A in| the Grand. Central Depot must have |, 1no Orst squad of men sent out this | Boe eed ee postion ite RAYS | morning was directed to Fifth and Sixth lively in'getting out of che building |avenues This squad will, after piling Afar aishort whi ge polie the snow there, go to work on the Stated that they could find no cause tne Stfeeta along the river front ne expos At $ c'clock another section of men Wore sent out to Investi- was sent into the Bowery, and at 10 Yolock the Work of cleaning Broadway | Uroadway was let in, After gnow the and report heard t to lovat The neigh that excit station ty the amy reer it was fo trouble killed Legislators ALBANY his resignat the M $ rea ws that rs Mayor train waa wrecked near P sod trad cached Albany up to re at that Better use too much than too little Pearline Geware of imita tons fexecucion, ci Mr. Cs begged felesaed os hie banaent were accepied and said his mother and sister were Pas-| inches of ice on It. The captain and his find La Gascogne!”’ ‘The inan said his name was Clark. He wan, i anything, poorly dressed, and French line officials set him down for w crank La Gaacogne was to have sailed from this port to-morrow on her regular trip to Europe. No vessel of this line will sail now however, until next Wednes- day, when La Normandie will start for the other side, THOUGHT TO BE The captain says the four men who put out fn the boat were drowned. It was impossible for them to reach shore, ag they each pulled in opposite dir ons, SPOKE AN OCEAN LINER. IcKensle's Captain Thinks It Wa the Teutonic, but In Laughed At. (Special to The Evening World) BOSTON, Feb. &—The schooner John BE. MeKenale, arrived at Gloucester this morning and reports seeing a large steamship last night. ‘The captain of the steamship sa had lost his bearings and was off He asked for Minot's ligits, of the McKenzie. cannot MH the ateamship’s name, but thinks | it_was the Teutonic The Hoston agents say absurd. STEAMSHIP ALPHA IN PORT. LA GASCOGNE yion Heard Signals of Distre: During the Night. BABYLON, L. 1, Feb. 8—The ocean steamer which was heard blowing her whistle as if in distress off this place jast night is thought to have been the overdue steamship La ene, The weather was so severe this morning and lust night that none of the oldest: bay~ men could be induced to go out in their se this report boats. Last night a number of news: paper men from New York attempted ty cross the Great South Bay from Raby- lon, but the by the cold, The wind has returned almost overcome ports Terrible Exp n blowing hard since (spoclal to The Exevtog Workd) Jast night and the snow on the level is HALIFAK, N. 8. Feb. 8.—The steam- foot deep. ‘There are heavy drifts | Ship Alpha arrived from the West Indies at different places on the Long Island| this morning two days overdue, Her is Tallroad Travel. is seriously delayed, | Cabtaln reports having had frightful ex- only one train leaving Babylon this} Periences in the blizzard of Tuesday mending! At wee by a big 4d the biting cold of Wednestay, She snow-plough, drawn by two powerful | MW nothing of La Gascoxue, sinew. ‘Telephone wires are down in| At govelock this mosaing, half an hour ry direction. ‘There ts no ec after the Alpha arrived, a large steamer Hon with the Heach or Hire ts! was signalled off the harbor, but before SOUT Na Fe Pam ett Mas she could make the entrance a blir | last night, ‘The Weather as oso severe Snowstorm set in, accompanied by a Vuring 0) htt the Uteeavane os crews could not patrol the beach. Up na is overdue, and the to this morning nov had been re. vessel outside may be h the Bara- ported. ‘The mercury this morning was co, overdue from New Yi pgrees below zero: MANY VESSELS IN PERIL, | MISSING ELBE BOAT FOUND. the Empty Craft One Ashrre at | i elds orn, Bleven Drifting | ue MON ee GLOVEE R. Mass., Feb. 8 —With LOWESTOFT, Feb. Another body the wind blowing @ hurricane, the ship- | has brought to Lowestoft by a ping of this port is sufferimy unpara-/|tishing smack. Visiting cards found Jeled damage. ‘The schooner Marble-| ypon the body bore the name of “Louis ad, from Boston to Winterport, Me../jeurt Kleinschmidt, Metalurs He-| with a cargo of flour, kerosene atid) jena, Mont.’ There was a second cabin | grain, went ashore on Fort Point rocks | passenger of that name on beard the| RBA ae total toes, pt Danforth and) pry, still another body brought here his crew managed to save themselves in| ig supposed to be that of Julius C. Dit- 4 smalt dory ra terrific strugs trich, of 122 East Twenty-third. street, The schooner Harvard, together with | New York Clty three unknown threesmasted schooners, | pager of the 1 nacbéen dre in dangerous positons within tty | proueht in here empty Oener alr feet of the same vocks, and are drax> tanks was buret. ‘This Was tle mt king their anchors, The schooners Regal feboat, which it was hopet cor and Fanny Freeman came in collision sur be x atfer the latter ha ged her at AHERD und. s chors for fifty yards‘ has , tae t Trade Jost her bowsprit, while thy ma ny lairy into has parted t i . Not Arriy §.—-Anx ping circles, in ylew ather reported by. ar riving steaners, on account of the nony airiyal of the Anchor line steamship | on eras, wets fariae § nehoria, Capt, Y. i ch left Ne ty the thermometer at Forse. Sore "Gn sane tor this port, ‘ond the | Stat w?, M5 gharmgmetes at Pagy's —— Weather Forecast, is ex pressed of the severe > weather forecast M the thirty-aig hours to-morrow 1s as foiloee, Snow weather this afternooa and. o! urday, colder: high norchweat winds Che following record eaows the chani w im thi 3 indi- pharmacy bug ‘BLIZZARD RAGING NOW. EVENING. FEBRUARY & 1895, —s (Continue! from First: Page.) | were jammed with peop! blows were struck will tu elther get off or on the eit he train reached Warren Inutes wehind time To make matters wor steam in the cars and from the cold The doors eoull not ty fount of the Jatt i On the ‘Third avenue road there was great delay fea above | Chathat Square to the | fe, sonw trains take ing twenty. minutes to get frou the square to the nus at the bridge Trains on J avente Hne ran | three trains would | into a station. This | vecurring so often, made the tejp daub. | the usual length of thme. Then there | at junction ac the same 4s with the any | paid double fare by going from rotd to another that in all the wating crowds there were complaints to the teket-choppers anit Hoket-sellers at the system that dld not allow a return of fare when prom service could not be give One cause of the unusual collection of gers from the tha slo Jersey and above the Harlem. CENTRAL TRAINS BLOCKED. ‘he storm the out the following list of the delayed|hend, the energy of the storm Was not : escaped. One man from Flatlands, why trains: sueceeding In reaching Flatbush, had No. a2, the American express from Chicago, | his multlers frozen fast to his face, ant eight hotirs behind tine he was half dazed with the terrible ‘cold Ee Te South Shore tine, from Chicago. ten and! tn the outlying towns and new wards a halt houre) ta about Brooklyn the storm was most No. 62, from Montreal, left there yesterday at] Severe, Some of the towns were com- 4B. M,, seven hours beiind ume. S pletely cutoff from the outer w No, Duftalo express, left there 7.30 tart] Wot? at Canarsie all the rods we night, seven hours late ocked and no attempt was made to 68, Albany’ local, three houra late {run trains over the Canarse Ral road. 5 the Chicago mall, fve hours Late DO rene eae Rairond runs through The 9.20 A. M. train to Buffalo and Chicago |outs. that were blocked this tornin was abandoned us far as taking any passengers | with snow, ‘There was a prospect t Out, "Two mail care only were sent out morning that the inhabltants would b ‘The £80 outgoing Einpire Stave express left on] snowed Infor § ST eaaYR AL dont ine, a drift fifteen feet All outgoing trains are running double Ne Bra er ert coeiies headed, Outgoing locals to Croton and| jae heen inatited by the snow, an White Plains are not despatche n {now 60) inhabltants have despaired of sche day. As quickly as|rellef for the next weel schedule time to-day. AS duly ae | two men started from Carnarsie this enough passengers get In the walling: | norning at 7 « to » Barren room to fill a train, one Is mage up and | Taand. One of them herame exhausted sent out. on the way, and. his companion car- _ ‘i y gee {tied him on’ his shoulder for nearly a Mr. Flack sald the storm was very S° | ile to an inn, There it was found that vere along the Hudson River and further |The man who had tercued hauster up the State, and despatches received | friend had both ears frozen. Amputa- ee Oraid Sal announced that the | len may, Malthe Were Wiliam Kow. ale Is on the increase. enhoven and William Smith, both o wthe scal yard here ts tn bad shape. | CMMCver, Village. snow is drifting badly and blockading |"A Coney Istand travel was suspended ything. Although gangs of shovel: | oy ail the electric and steam roads, The VAnINE. Ore onthe email mountains [02 8! the ei eee guinst ihe houses and ier are they. cannot. remove them, 801 f ne middie of the toads. Few. people that the work of making trains and) were about this morning, and no damage sAtoning ‘cannot be accomplished ex-| Wag reported. up to noon. impossible trai It vel to lar traine will be ab WHITE PLAINS. storm has cut off communication by wire with many places In Westchester C Wait of others who are int could not do so to-day heavy snowdrifts. ‘The villages weather and the severest 1h zard Intatiem Railroad tracks at dit- ferent points are snowed under and this has greatly the morning tral through to their destination. BROOKLYN HAD TROUBLES. fam the day. No the on peo the rinj the bridge, consuming over an hour for a mi ‘The only street cars running In Will- jamsburs Gri car which was sent out from the G) po no no At the ferr ple fused information, furthe several hours. This was dente travel Ww street rou sta i ple no thi or hoi few were running. BROOKLYN TIED UP AGAIN. ‘The Snowstorm Does The cars County and Suburban road ferries at a an usual, This was becay Ww suburban railway service in New Howling Gale Up the State Inter- feren with the Service. tation-Master Flack, at the Grand tral Depot, sald tals morning that had greatly interfered with arrival of incoming trains. He Kf ick said at noon that It was to say definitely how many ins will be sent out from this city. will all depend upon the future de- lopment of 'he storm. If it continues Increuse It Js likely more of the regu- jandoned. N_Y., Feb. 8—The ‘oun- Some of the roads leading into 6 Plains are impassable on account the snow barks. The lawyers and in the habit of driving ; to attend the courts, a yt iolsa today on account of the eard from report zero ; since the bliz- impeded traffic. Some of hina were unable to get Uncles Ferries People ' cept for the Elevated railroad, Will- nsburg was completely cut off from » rest of Brooklyn and New York to- srry-boats were run during » early morning hours and the crush the “L" roads was fearful. Many pple reached New York by taking L" up to Gates avenue, transfer- ig to downtown trains and crossing journey usually covered in twenty nutes. morning were on the Except for a single n= ine, | | this vt Mne. and 8 stables over the crosstown The Company would give of a failure to run cars, houses this morning peo- with the Company re- than that the ts were running and had been for int e was run explanatic by many people who ines from Broadway, over the Twenty-third reet and Roosevelt street an the burs, rand st Mian utes, ‘The Grand street line was the first to the day, | Residents Greenpoint. were com- etely snowed In, The trolley cars were t running, the boats were tied up and e only thing to do was to stay home walk. About 991-2 per cent. stayed | m of art up later in the Brooklyn, Queens | made their a pearance shortly before noon, Only t Th Time | People in Brooklyn and ite towns and Island Railroad were all delayed, some trains die at the depot at $ o'clock were not heard fr up to 10.00. ‘The two trains from Oye’ Hay and Hempstead were the onl: to arrive at the depot up to 10.30, an hour tan and] were as follo “latbush avenue | above, ‘om ter nearly | Min Me Harbor, ¢ ort andl P chogue trains were sa nave been soon the first cars to pass over the | fois tow arrived at the City Hall a ty ea A sweeper und plough hey were two hours making half the trip to the City Hall | fed Hook. the De Kalb avenue ¢ unoing on time, onl e running down Ful‘on s| 6 in ve ‘The Brooklyn suburbanite had a time this morning getting to busin In the Plathush district, within the nets of the new Twenty-ninth Ward vrd in Platiands, he was almost cut off in mouniains of snow ‘ave: by rapid transit tines ley, was ut downtown crudged there wrapped comfortables and booted to tie walst, articubiriy in Flatbush was the ca service buried in snow. Alchough an tempt wits made to start cars, O clock not one was under way On the Brighton ch Rullway fury of th» storm was realized, + drifted was the snow over the that an engine equipped with @ big sno failed to open the road, thou nent attempts were made to for Lig locomotive along. the Phitlands Flatbush and tr his hoot The mail which 1 due at the Island » Yelock had not arrived up to 10.30, Richmond Hill all travel was cut off Brooklyn Many of the Inhabitants w do. business in New York and Brook: did not leave thelr homes to-day, FORECASTER DUNN TALKS. Statement Made Here Is the ome by Forecaster Dunn Te Day. “The atorm predicted day before yes- terday hae been raging all along t Atlantic coast, and far Into the interior during the night. “The storm centre passed directly over this city just before 1 o'clock this morn- in a north- ing, and was travelling easterly direction. It Is now between Boston and Portland, “The barometer all locat Me. lantic coast, making navigation tremely perilous. It is a genuine Winter cyclone of the severest type. “Some features worse than the The highest winds recorded at that ti registered a speed of fifty miles hour, although our blown away during the storm, and there may have been slight increase before we could get repaired. “The greatest of this storm a velocty of the at M., andthe instrument ni registers 40 miles an bour “Our in the Manhattan ever, registered a Life Building, ho’ maximum record-breaker, At Sanc morning the gale was blowing at t rate of sixty miles an hour; at Blo Island, 68 miles, and Montreal, 68 mil at Wood's Holl, Mass., It was repor' that the entire B Hook 1 4 standsiil, and he who got up woo tracks nany Instances extreme hardship the —suburbanite lown over ound about his along the coast has been exceptionally low, and violent gales prevail everywhere along the At- ex- Mareh blizzard of 1888 anemometer was height of the wind since midnight, as recorded here at the Equitable Building, was 43 miles an hour instrument at the branch office of sixty miles an hour at 3 o'clock, which Is it nal Service outht w ‘ol- ar- he So we Bh at In to ho, yn he ed are me an ow we hi he ack t blown to pleces during the night and the station completely wrecked by the hurricane. i] Not a Word from Cape Hatteras, | We have had no report of the observa- do not know what is the matter, siation may also have heen demolish The high winds extend all along ‘tons at Cape Hatteras this morning, and That ed. the coast from Key West to the Newfound- land coast “This Is worse than the 1888 blizaa on account of the enormous area ered by the storm, and the extreme locity Of the gales. ‘The Influence of storm extends over a circle radius of about 1,6) miles, and strete having rd, OV ve. the a hes now from the Aississippl Valley east- ard about the same distance over the ey it does over the land. “Another feature of this storm which ts ‘worse the great blizzard, 1s that th: temperature is much lower. ‘The day after that storm the thermome- ter registered 4 degrees above zero, At 6AM jay it was zero here and 1 degree ‘below ut the Manhattan Life Observatery “But It is going to b ler here, villages «uffered severely from the! and LT expect by ti Sains storm. The snow tied up the trofley shall break the rec for the coldest nan ae: weather in | ven York since the Bure Was siart he offlela! record for low The “Li roads furnished Mitle relief, | Tnperature here is 6 and 1 should not as all train’ to the brid were be rinsed to see it go below that ‘The cars were so crowded that at many) “The snowfall last might, ax nea as . 4 we can measure it, Was about > 12 station the Brooklyn “L" people | ]NS:, ca SHES an ADOUE Bc he compelled to wait over thirty, the snow drifted so, that we could not | ea eae a veratnl tike accurate measurements, however, Many business men due in New York {Ml Lt may have been! + Showed at o'clock. did not reach there until 10) peariy we days, he ful kk |was something over two | ‘The cold wave his spread ow over ridxe cars were crowded beyond | ine entire South, and is more severe it was nearly 9 o'clock than anything on record. Et is felt m rst ca on the Brookion ia Plorida than in uny part of Ananie Avenue Ralircds! United Stites, ‘There has been a fall | y Hall The De Kalb | tonperature of 42 degrees since veater Was the first Hine to run at Savannah, Charleston and Pampa. eased “At Jupiter t Was i degrees at RA The M., at Titusvill 4, Jacksony iD stuled from am pae ‘This is terrib! her for t lid not get off until 830 o'¢ Florida ndoit would not be surprisin inight cars were atoaf tt Killed all the fruit that exeaped th s i aN t : first cod wave of three day 10. inth street and Ninth avenue on the Coney istind and Brooklyn road, piled reeatns 1 the Se in dritys covering the platforms of he freezing ‘ne to-lay extends al The ere {ter trying for | most ' nithern ofthe th a 8 ¥F gen Stre Commuters to Brooklyn over the Long yomake headway through finaily were for Yelock this m from. Ninth rry. Beyond Ninth street it look hough travel had been suspended finitely A few cars were running on the Fulton Platbush Avenue and Fifth Ave- No cars were runnin Myrtle avenue, Crosstown, Court eet, Beveuth Avenue, Ninth Avenue, ifteanth Btreet, Hicks Sireet, or Ber- Ine, on Greene Ave- ar Key West place in the this morning point in the Rocky M rature is abo Zink ps he storm does not 1 the Pacific coast. "The line ol gero Weather to-day as far south as the Arkansas cutting across the Mississipp! south of Memphis, running east to Atlanta. Ga. penin 1 the wa Was M degrees Dils is the only ‘ eust ul su vantry it ni fre f r ‘al Vall and then in City. “At every point north of this the meroury al sero this mornin, “The temperatures reported at # A. hich is it fact, at. uns ley, ley, rom there north- easietly direction tiil It strikes N-w York line is, New York, 1 degree n, 18; Buffalo, 6; Al- 12; St. Louts, 12 14; Davenport, ta; ni Hos! Cinglana ; Chica Vincent, Minn. Morehead, below the coldest place In the country was iemarck, pre it was 4 below." ntinulng statement Forecaster | Dunn sald: “This second ¢ several day: ase 1 plat ually to-morrow 1 spell Is tkely t the cold will grad now on until fhe. » snowstorm has about It will clear up during the af. ternoon or evening There see ) be a break In the gold wave in, ie Northwest, in- cluding ye Dak. ving, Montana and Colorado, and States bordering on the Rocky’ Mountains “Since ve y there has been a rise of from. i to The high north will continue t we day ane gradual decrease in severity to-morrow morning.” Barly Re nt Out. Mr. Dunn, w edicted this storm day befo: says that warnings of its approach hall been sent out to the cities ant towns in the West and Southweet as 1s A As it advanced ei sent to all shipping compa nd rail. road corporations In the At antic States, as well ag to the postmasters of villages and smal! towns in the rural districts, Over 400 of these special warnings, which are only given tn cases of emer: gency, were sent cut since yesterday hoon.’ The heaviest, snowfall was. to the north of New York. and at Al- bany It was reported this morning at a foot and a half, and at Boston two eet. BEERBOHM TREE SNOWBOUND The Fama Actor and Hin Com- pany Het Up Near Baltimore. M r Horace MeVicker, of Abbey's Theatre, has received a despateh from the H, Beerbohm Tree Company stating that the entire company 1s snowbound hear Baltimore, and that It will be tm- ble to return to New York for this evening’s performance. It is therefore announced that there will be no performance at Abbey's to- night. The Beerbohn Tree company left for Washingten early this morning to give rmance in that city for the ben- ationa, Press Club. IN. Reb, Bane special which left New York at midnight ~ and his company, ‘ommittee from the is city, arrived in Wash- afternoon, ngton about 2.0 WRECK ON N. Y. CENTRAL. The Cara, POUGHKEEPSIE, N, Y., Feb. &—A reguiar raw Western blizzard, the worst since th raging since this xreat storm of 188%, has been throughout the Hudson Valle yclock last night, and at 9 o'clock mening shows no sign of abate- ment. The fall of snow has been very heavy and there are now fifteen inches on the level. The wind blew flercely al. night, piling the snow in drifts ten and ve feet high in some places. Trate on the New York Central Rall- road was Interrupted at 3 o'clock this morning by an accident near New Ham- burg, which was a direct outcome of the ‘storm. A work train had been standing on the down track all night, while workmen were engaged in put: ting In a new water tank for the use of locomotivi The proper danger sig- nals were displayed, but in the bilnding snow they were not seen by the engi- neer of a freight train bound south on the same track, and the freight ran into the work train, derailing two cars, which were thrown on the up track, Almost at the same minute the Mon- treal Express, which left New York at midnight, came along and struck the deratled freight cars. The locomotive and one baggage car of the passenger train were wrecked. The railroad authorities say that no one was burt. ‘The passenger train was running slow- ly at the time on account of the storm. Both main tracks are blocked by the wreck and trains are stalled on both sides of it. A wrecking crew has been sent to the scene. Between here and Albany no trains are ranning. ‘The Atlantic Express, due in New York at €.00, is stalled in a snowdrift at Hudsoo,sand the Northern Express, due at Forty-second street at 645, Is blocked at Coxsackie. xtra engines have been sent to their assistance, * The American Express for New York is at this city six houre jate, and none of the ‘ocal commuters’ trains has been despatched, Snow ploughs haye been started along the tine, but it is fe that the wreck at New Hamburg the snow will combine to compt stop traffic all day. est in seven years, The trolley lines are snowed up, and business Is entirely sus- pende REAR-END COLLISION. and tly In this city the snow is the deep- Transit Train Run Morris Park, L, 1 rear-end collision between Rapid- train No, 195 and a through train mn Hempstead, drawn by two engin: curred at Morris Park station, on the Long d Railroad, about 7 o'clock this m: ry ‘The through train was bound from goklyn, wad left the Brooklyn depot 4 short time after the Rapid Transit train, ‘The rapid transit. wag on its way to Jamaica, When {t reached Mor- ris Park it was unable to go any further, owing to drifts. ‘The engine@ of the through train, Kelly, thinking Engineer Hugh Livingston, of the rapid transit tray had side-tracked, in order to let Kelly go through, @jd not slow down and ished Into the rear of the rapid transit Br Engineer Livingston was thrown t the glass in his cab by the e of the collision ang had his face badly cu. ‘The rear pfitform of the rapid transit train was smashed in and the pilot of the engine on the through train was smashed, A woman was cut about the face and one man was hurt about the hip, The conductor of the rapid transit ‘train Was also cut by broken glass, but no one was seriously injured, The snow was coming down » fast that Engineer Kelly could not see ahead of him and this is given as the cause of the collision. The name of the woman who ‘was injured by the flying giass is Miss Alice Hurley, of Jamaica, RUN INTO BY A FLOAT. One of the floats of the New York and New Haven Railroad crashed into the ferry-hoat Steinway off Ninety-second street Just before midnight, The Stein- Way plied between the Ninety-second eireet’ dock and Astoria, Her port Wheel was stove im, disabling her. Sh rfted to Ninetieth street, where she insta ple hot more than a dozen » board. Al were panic stricken “They shrieked, and some of them were with diffieuty prevented 1 jumping into the water with lite Hreservers whieh they had secured from the tower deck, ‘Phen the boat drifted against the pier, four men, passengers, wanted to put'a plank out and Ket ashore Policeman Carney secured a tug, and the diswbled boat was towed the scond street dock, None was i MENS Were way Was te of the Ninety and the pas- ers lanied jured, en ‘safely t ‘0 Astor! was oat after the hing first: sho} 100 BUILDINGS SWEPT AWAY. | THE GREAT VALUES. We are offering during our FEBRUARY CUT SALE Cannot be matched tn any store to New York. Fathis week we have made furthur LARGE REDUCTIONS in ome Finest Grades. $35, now only.. Very best quality French \ $ and English Worsted Cheviot and Belgian Vieuna, sold as high ag $25 and 830, now ON varn vi: ] BOYS’ & CHILDREN’S All-Weel Suits, Over- coats and Ulsters Cut in Half, Greatest Values, at. STEWART BUILDING, BROADWAY AND CHAMBERS ST. OLD HERALD BUILDING, BROADWAY AND ANN ST, $2.50 3. 4. 5 6, Prices CLOAKS AT LESS THAN 1-2 PRICE. $25 Garments for. vee SE 5 Garments for. sees 312 Garments for......... $ CASH or CREDIT. L. STERNBERG & C0, 635 Fulton St. opr sim piece Brooklyn. of a tidal wave, and reports are pouring in from all directions along the coast telling of the destruction of property. A det ie vt spatch from North Sydn of destruction on the Island Cape Breton, From Ferry to Baker's, @ A tance ot half a mile, the teleg! have broken off and disapp this point it 1s known that tw houses and shops were washed yon Tuesday, when the sea poured upon the land with almost irresistible force. Note ing was saved at this point. t Midddle Head all the fish were swept away. At New Hav the fish stores and residences are making a total of more than one hua- dred buildings which are now kn have been swept away. So far ag known no lives were lost, gl is et ‘Thirteen Cases in the Police Course To-Day. Cases of drunks and found freesing im the snow some time during the night, constituted almost the entire batch of prisoners before Justice Deuel at Yorke ville Police Court this morning. ‘There were about thirteen prisoners, three of them women. « Edward Brooks, a well-dressed busi. hess man, of sixty years, living at 4 West Twenty-first. street, was found helpless from the effects of the cold and drink, on the stairs of the Ninth Avenue Elevated road station, at Eighty-first street and Columbus avenue. He was discharged. Annie Clark, @ poorly-dressed girl of twenty years, said she was homeless, The patrolman found her last night, une conscious in the snow on East Thirty. first street. She was stiff with cold and had to be carried to the station-house, It required vigorous treatment, to bring her to life, She was sent to the tslan for two’ months. Louis J, McKeever, of 200 Avenue B, was found almost frozen on Second ave- nue and Sixty-first street by Polrolaas Tyler, of the Past Sixty-seventh s squad. He got two monthi Diedrich Rodenberg, twenty-five years: old, felt drowsy from. liquor, lay down in the snow at Thi vent Fifty-ninth street. He wi found un- consicous by a citizen who, with an officer, carried him to the station-house, He was discharged. ———— BELT CAR RUN AWAY. Driver Mahoney Pulled Over the Dashboard Into the a The storm played havoc along the Bast River, There were several accidents up both ran away. The car waa fill across snowbanks for a block, Passengers Stalled at Troy Last night with half a dozen persons on house a quarter of a mile away at dawn, oR ALL xINDS op on the Belt line. Shortly before 7 orcloeks Ni ste was with passengers. “It ran into a snowe ‘The, passengers clambered " from Maht in the Biissard. board, who were obliged to spend the nd were almost helpless when they Storm Havaged the Coast of Cape Breton Islan HALIFAX, N. Feb, 8.—The sea here -o-day is higher than for years, This this morning car No. 82, driven b; rick Mahoney, at Jackson st ni horse down. The other hort ‘peorme bank, stopping trafic at that point, The liberated horses ran on, dragging pei and and ear, je runaway horses ran across square into snow-covered marble slaba TROY, N. Y., Feb. 8.—One of the inet. dents of the storm here was the stalling night in the car, the blinding blissard making it unsafe to venture out. shed i BROMO CAFFEIND 18 MASE TO CURR struck by a blast of wind, ki unmanageable, and when the horse Mahoney over the | dasl eg HAD TO SLEEP IN MOTOR CAR. of a motor car on the east side last ‘They managed to get to a fire-engine a PrERvascenT €@ Be yeu ese the difference ‘Morning the water reached the strength | @MALL GIES, 10e LAR@BGISR O1.0m