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1r f I I 44c 2 THE T8UN WEDNESDAY MARCH 14 1f388 tretlflllod banket that contained all kind of v provisions hose they disposed of at Dol If I man co prices t TnAMriNO flowN On Monday night tlio trnollor took tho etlhlonl out of the seals nnd mado thorn Into I prpndlnc them nroOR tho tOM fit tho- ecntn y Thorn was very IIe though for nnybody Tho uJcrltouipnt anxiety unro sufficient to keep thu maturity nwnko and tho hilarity of tho few spirits Indifferent to tho niluntfon would liavn ii invented sleep nnyhow- ilt t To till womnn tho lllLht wnfl very l long nl Mr though ovprvlhtni possible WIS li1O for tholr H l comfort Knrly Y08 fordny morning Iwontyof- j the mon delerininttdto niuko Ihn uttompt li- ent > to tho city ontoot Tlipy snccifded after weary hours of draulric ole IPC aflor nnotlier i through deep mow drHI I gottlnc I to Mott- i llaven Hero they short rost nnd then l plodded ncrons tothn suburban branch of tho Becond nvonuo plovated road Ono of Ihll tllrlpnhllhot n trnln a fol miles t bnck hli snowed Tim pnovv wns hanked up nil about tho vnglno and tho llros were out The supply of coal had run fhort and such wood us could he obtained by t chonplngupthacnrd tuliles In tha smoker cavo out Alt tho piissengors wore Rlnrlnl Irma i cold and olin man wus reported 10 bnilly frozen that It Wil not bolk vi d I that would recover wus considerable suffering from hunger also At Mount Vernon tim urn department wna culled out to pump water Into tho engines of trahtiR of tim Harlem rood that had 1mllocnl The uxnrnga number of pus- Bpeers on onch train wns placed nt 200 Mr Otto of HupMrinlnndont Toucoys nsMM ants wns on the chore linn express of tim New lon mail nnd left the train at HOtb street lie Bald that I hn suffered no hardships until ha began his walk down to thn ilnpot when ho I found hlmlrl enveloped In drills that nearly Hovernl times ho feared thnt be nail bitten off moro than ho could chew He I sot to tho offices In tho depot completely ox liauMod Another ofllclnl was snowbound at bit Inonlnd walked down Ho woe lucky n sleigh after trudging through tithes of snow above his knees MRP rjtEscoTTs BRAVE WAMC Mr Proscott ono of thn owners of the Con miners Coal Company of tbls city was caught with hut wife on n local Harlem train at Mott llnvon They Blurted with u party of throo non Mondny noon to wnlk down vita Impossible to toll ho said yostor day I where the unIts lay because of tho many epresslons In tho road tutu w o took Tho snow 1 WaR seldom less than knee deep nnd whllo WnlKlnc along In whn appeared to be n level i Ho would suddenly ourselves floundering J nil to our arm pits My wlfo was almost chilled r to dentil Tim most of tho time pho was wait log through snow up to hor waist When wo llnallr got to the Suburban road shnwas al- most ¬ dead Why tilt you leavo the trnln hn wan asked Because he replied wo feared being t j frozen to death If wo stayed there Before we cit tho train the pnsoencem woro chopping up tIle card tables and seats for tire wood It was elmply 1 question of Maying and freezing or f out and taking thu chauens of getting etrlklol i In fact wndld not think tim travelling t would provo so bad ns It did i lEN SUFFERING OS A STALLED CATTLE TRAIN A railroad mnn from Albany arrived down i town on the Sixth avenue clnvnted yesterday Ho hnd lot bis train behind him nt the Mutt hnttnnvllle station of tim Centrals Hudson lllvor branch Ills train was u mixed one with 1 good deul of live stock und n dozen or i mure persons aboard when It bit Albany at 5 t oclock Sunday uvonlnc Wo got stuck nlonc nbout Breakneck ho i Kid and I lay there until u freight cnmo up us Tho engineer cut loose from his own train nnd shoved us along to Yonkers and thnro ho loft us and went buck after his train ncnln Wo got along somehow until wo ran Into n train abend of us nnd smashed tho- obooso I tilt to splinters It didnt do nny other l tliunage though nnd wo got on at last to Man Lnltunvillo station There our own engineer f it looso und said hed run ahead for water i Vo didnt sco anythIng moro of him stud wovo f I IId thorn over since Thotlrst ones out were myself tutU another man He cuinn near dhrtg before wo got through the drifts I had to pull Lint out two or throe times and if ho hadnt jnd some whiskey anti drunk 1 little once in a- while i I think hed n boon a goner There are igiit or nilo mon loft there and they havent anything eat or any money to bus it oven if i thero was any place to got It There were 1 eomo of tho cattle dead already whon I loft i and the sheep uud hogs especially seemed to fa be suffering i Tho story wan corroborated by nn Iowa mnn Who Wits coming through on the fame train t with nineteen horses and who escaped und got down town himself and brought large satchel along bsdel carried over his shoulder bva i t piece He woro two overcoats and wnl j otherwise prepared In Moslem rushlon for Ho said ho didnt mind tins Eastern wonbor 1 I much but thought the railroad accommoda- tions ¬ lolt something to be desired Many of his horses wore dead and ho expected to lose k them all BArS nUXNISO TO NEWARK Tno Pennsylvania broke the blockade nt 020 < yesterday IlorlOOI At that hour they sent a train to I curried out about 250 poople who hnd waltnl for hour to get 1 home This tram to City l- tf 111 nnd was ent over tho lino iiealn at It returned nt H0 and at 948 It left for New- ark ¬ f 1 i again At 1030 a second crew was put on I and Superintendent Crawford said that ho should send trulnaover tho toad us fur ux New- ark ¬ f overy fortyfive minutes all nllt Super ¬ intendent Crawford lot towoik morning f by n I oclock wllllllrao force Tho yard good shape and by 11 oclock an attack was made on tho drifts near i JInrion Tho westbound track through the deep cut was found to be almost clear of snow but the leastbonnd Is covered up with so many r I out of It that It will not ho touched until the I Test of tho line Is opened Along about 4 oclock r I the road mow lively with trains of coaches which were brought in from along the lino near t JIurlon No snow was found uuroas the mead- ows ¬ but It was well bankud up Just this side t t of Newark lInt the hardest job was in New ark itself A freight and n passenger train were between Market and Chestnut i Btreots and Croat plies of unow were found at every street crossing By 5 oclock Superin- tendent ¬ Crawford said Tho line Is clear to c Ituhway and I shall send a train to Newark at once I hoar that tim line Is ulso clear from blladelphin to Trenton end halfway from Trenton to Railway I think we may be able to f end a train to Philadelphia tonight The Chicago Limited the only train sent out on Monday which l left at 10 A M was found I yesterday at Harrison The engine had Its front truck off the track It was locked rUI I and the train was taken Into Newark whore it Will remain until the lino Is cleared t EKtB GETS TO PATKRSON The hundred and fifty or more passengers Who were imprisoned In the Erie depot In Jor poyCity on Monday nigh where tho Kusque hunna left thorn on h trip ut ION spent i tbo night In comparativocomfort MlssPhelps- and the married lady and her children slept i comfortably in Superintendent Barrets room I on the second floor The lively shop anti fat tory girls curled themselves up on the seats of 1 A Nyack coach and half a dozen other coaches wore nt tho disposal 01 tho rest of tho people t i1 A cood manY people who spout tho afternoon and night of Monday In the depot wont across to the city but nearly nil returned soon and waited for trains home They wore not cheered by this notice which was put up early in the- y dayWe do Dot expect to itarl any trains from here lod y J I liiiHiTT Superintendent c In the afternoon tho westbound track wns J I Cleared and a train was sent through to clear the road to Paterson Tho trains which were stuck at Passulc wero found and all tbe imssen Srs who wished to do so returned on the work to Paterson At B oclock the first passen ¬ yertrainwaasent from Jersey City to Paterson conches anti hud two heavy engines to take It through No attempt was made to clear the Newark branch or the North- ern ¬ It was thought last night that a train would be sent out for Haverstravv over the New Jersey and New York This road was said to bo free of bad thrifts for twenty miles from Bergen All the stalled trains east of Port Jutvis wern reported to be In safe places Otto that passed i Port Jervls night before last got buck there before It was snow d in It is not probable that say train will bl sent out on the mnln line bo fore tonight tho reports Indicate that the drifts are trootient anti too hard to get through without shovelling When tho storm struck the road it gave the mon hard work to gut things Into shape Twenty cars of cattle were among the last trainsin I took wen engines et them into the but it done although three of f the last oars Wil bucket ollthe track In doinG I Ihore wore a lot more of cattin bound ken These were not so lucky They wero caught and linva Without doubt frozen to lentil At least twenty enclnas worn blocked In tho Erie yard They Lund 7uel enou1 to keep them allvo but no water molted for n while and I afltrward hose was run to them from the W tract but two of theta died HOTHINO suns op t AN U 1 OB WEST SHOHE I Tho IL A W Railroad got out onn work train to Newark yesterday and that was nil k placard nt the ticket ofiliu anuoiinred io be run today March 13 Vector I day the tracks woro ton great extent vlvnrtfd through the tunnel nnd over the meudnvH to Newark At the crosslni of 1119 AnsIhuIUI road n few rods bojcnd t the tUOpl t I quuhalnl onclui woro wlh their limn Olt ontictuajly barring the Timy Wlro 10100111 thenltrrnool At Handfordncroia las iwross the truck with snow drifted iirouml thorn In hoaps Do I t tween Highland HIIIolll1 South Oiiirgo tn or Ilitrun on Monday from haMon Morrlstnmiunit other plius tire blocked In lucy entry from fiiKI lo 1000 pas ippi Since the blixkade most of the trains 11111 iiitpn bnnisht near stations whora thrro llnrr of I the puionceM MffwlnB tram cold dir tutitugor r Miiiiyiif tliolni8ijipR men of tutu Ornngps got ituwit as fr sXewnrk olllhlll sleighs or on loot butt cnuld come A iron b tiemuit who walked In from Brick Church lld that from lw4rk tito dOmartttl5eiy clelr truck made tbe walkIng isis easy matter oollton branch the road was turacikally coon bJ yesterday afternoon hut no ttins were rn I upectod that trains will bo run at least by today noon In the mean time the milk trains cannot bring their freight to the city and the malls cannot be despatched lOn tho West flhnro trnfTlo Is entirely sue I NO 00 ON jrnsitr CENTRAL The blockade on the Jersey Central wns oven moro complete yesterday tItan 01 Monday Nut I train was run on any of dlvlMons and the efforts of tho companys pmplujnos were directed the clearing of tracks for the poiwlbln iPHiimptlon of triilllc today Hit loco- motives lalinred nil thin lao rn mu aiuul well I Into afternoon to reliwto two trilns from tim IIIU 1Hllllho long cut nt Jackson avenue on and suceoodnl rIte trains wero accommodations that started for Newark early Monday morning They wero stuck tat In tho snow nil Monday night Homo of thu- opassettgers secured lodgings In the neighbor liood others sat In thn little station and the rest spout tho nliiht In thin hunks Improvised from tho materials In bite cars They wero brought back to the city yesterday afternoon The officers of the company wore so much en cournaiid with tim success of their efforts to clear blue Jackson avnniio put that It was de- termined I ¬ to Mart abram for Newark nt 7 P M but when that hour arrived tutu tracks woro again covered with drifted snow Inl it did not seem possible that I truths bo got out until this morning On the Long Brunch division no trains wore mused A locomotive with n car loud of track ¬ men started out on themnlnllno to clone tho outbound tinckand penetrated as far ns Green- ville ¬ Threo locomotlvos had come up to Greenville on tho Inbound Irl1 front Bergen Point The drill lit was too deep for them antI they wero switched to the oUter track ann brought up to by the truckmens train together with a handful belated travellers who hnd seized the opportu- nity ¬ to ret away from Bergen Point Engine 88 drawing the trackmens train ran Into a bank of snow at Greenvlllo so thou rind closely packed that the forco of the collision shattered the glass of tho hosdllght and cat windows Bits of thf flying glass struck thn face of En- gineer ¬ Clapp Ineorntlnglt badly Down nt Bergen Point a train with 100 pas- sengers ¬ for Now York was caught In tho Lutz rard and hl not vet boon released At last accounts hungry travellers hal devoured about ovnrythlng edible In Borgon Point to tho Croat dismay of that isolated and needy com Four iooomollves that had attempted to clear the lint were reported ofT thn track between Bnrgpn Point and Ullzabethport- Tun Lily Clay blondes worn still In the Jersey City depot last night determined to remain In their special cnr until It Is taken somewhere Another party phnrtnrnd the sleeper Baritan und was very comfortable I Is expected that trains will bo moving on Newark branch this morning AUSTIN conniN nniNiis IN A TEAIN The Long Island Railroad Dopot was the sub- ject ¬ for an artist Monday night and ynstordny morning Peoplo who fulled to connect on tim bolo stretch sought sweet repose on the floor of the wnltlmrroom Tim benches wore liiiotl with the wenryTwo men pulled down a long lauder which hunK on thu walls and ulept on tho rungs Many stayed there nil tiny yesterday and slept thorn again last night Tim Long island City wore filled to over- flowing ¬ Tho lingering hono that perhaps n traits would move out kent the crowd in tho station In hue sheds of thus stationwere drifts six feet high nnd not until nlcflt did tho busy workmen succeed uncovering the platforms lie wholo system Is demoralized Between Nnwtown nnd Corona tho G10 train front Iolt Island City to Whltestono Lauding Is filet nnd has been since Mondny morning Only ono train left the Long Island City sta- tion ¬ which succeeded In gutting tolls destina- tion ¬ It reached Breakneck In four hour regular time forty minutes l At Port Jefferson mail 1 is stalled Between Hock away Junction nnd Hprlneflold four trains two from Babylon and two from Pntehosuo took a rest for thirtysix hours At Mineola the iNorthport and tbo Locust Ynlovwaytrlns still lie WOMthnr was tho the Port Jefferson mall and the Mal Harbor mull stopped at South Oyster tiny hon the last two slrledat 705 nnd 730 Monday morn inglt Throe hours later they wero stopped by tEa snow The Oreenport ninth stuck at vt avcrlv At 2 P M yesterday aliho trains wero heard from except the nvorly- nod that reported an hour Inter Communication was very dlflleult as alt thu wires were down hut otto to Whltestonn and ono to Jamaica Linemen worn at work at thorn nil day but could do nothing in Ihl wind nnd cold On the Ilockaway butch train No2 which left the bench at 8 A M Monday was stalled be- tween ¬ Woodnnvon and Ulondnlo Junction She Is sll there und has no chance of Immedlato At 215 yosterdnv engines 55 85 and 07 with n baggage car filled with shovellers started over tho North Shore division I was stalled at Newtown ut 4 oclock In a a mile long in which the snow I IB sixteen fet deep At 12l P M engines 99 101 and started with a snow plough for Jamnicii and mot a like late but late lust night when recalled was nblo to como On Monday four trains came In on the North Shore division nnd two wont out At J P M- yestcrduva relief train Marled with nil kinds- of provisions and cooks for I tour of the whole system but wns rornlfe nt P Mns no head- way ¬ could ho stuck ul Jamaica at 410 with oOlln1 48 nod 53- Tho the trains stalled between Hooknwny Junction nnd Uprlngllnldwore taken to the nolghboilng farm lioness old cared for Mlnooln accommodated the passengers who wore stranded nato that placo Jamaica 10J passengers nearly nil busi- ness ¬ moo started from Putcliogue nail Babylon lor New York on Monday morning worn chnflng at the delay Amoll them was Austin Corbln At his 1 P St two- nausongorcitrannd Iwoongines Longlsland- City to go to the rescue of tho belated business- men It sot through and arrived at Long Islnnd City at 750 When tho train drow Into the station a mighty veil arose from 100 throats followed by Three Cheers for Aus- tin ¬ Corhln which worn heartily given As tho company trooped to the ferry house singing and yelling hike Indians I central llcuio was Mr Corbln smiting and ecrcno Ho wits en- veloped ¬ in 0 bll coat trimmed with sealskin and his legs wrapped in pieces of ingrain carpet to the knees tils first question was Are any trains running on the other roads I tell you sir I tried to pet in the train fr6t anti have worked like n beaver all I kept away from the boys until I made it pretty cer- tain ¬ that 1 could get them through Wo will be In running order as soon as anybody is Un seemed to enjoy the experience of being snowed uu immensely Tho mon on Mr Cor bin train wore very enthusiastic about tho way In which ho lund cured for thorn The larders of tbe surrounding country woro at his command opened to the snowbound men They worn lavish In praise Conductor Apgar and his crew Among the business men who slot on the train and accepted Mr Corbins hos- pitality ¬ were B K True Schuylor Parsons Gil Conklin Charles Koarlos Commodore Liv ¬ ingston William Hmlth N S Lawson Dr rush Milton Thompson and Barnuel Thomp- son ¬ nearly all from Babylon A BRIDEGRooM HELD AT rOUQHKEErsi- EPouaiiEEEraiE March laMore snow Is fall ¬ ing tonight already tIters are heavy drifts lining Main street which have been added to by snow shovelled from walks and are fifteen or twenty tnot in height Tho 200 passengers stopped here yesterday 1 by their trains belnl hold are scattered among tbe hotels and rate boarding houses of tho city nnd all are doing voii Among them are Assemblyman Hill of Albany and Assemblyman Yates of Hchennctndy Thero is also I younc gentle mnn who doesnt wish haiti name mentioned- who Is engaged to be married In New York to ¬ night About lilly of the detained passengers- are fed in the dining par of the Cincinnati o- xpresstt ono private hoarding house eighteen of them have been given lodglngsfor the night I1 our locomotives shoving a huge snow plough left hero nt noon going south Tho train plunged through u drill eighteen feet deep near Now Hunibiirch another big drift near Break- neck ¬ nnd landed at Cold Spring tonight Thoy hope to ninoh IVokcklll tonlcht North < if tHnl King a dri fifteen foot high and Koventy yards awaits the coming of tim bucuer Another enow plough shoved by two enlnel In charge of General Uondmiister Otis In1 llfty men I Is on Its way south tutu may reacts ro tonight A snowplough train broko the track fiom Iludon to Albany this afternoon No passenger trains tire moving tier will any ho IIIOVHI tonight ItlHhopiid I that the blockade will bo partially lifted to ¬ morrow OKTTIKO LY bTALLKD TItAlXS One Truck Clrnr Through the Fourth Ave- nue ¬ Tunnel tbe Other Hurled From tho upper end of the Fourth Avenue Railroad tunnel up to 150th street where tho Now York Central leaves tho Harlem branch taking an abrupt turn through and aleeI wlndlol cut tho tnow has lonl 1 sin duty what I wilt tulo mal duyc to undo The further up the rond ono InCH thin deeper nro tho drifts arid the fences Ihinlly disappear from view altogether Throughout the whole distance from the Grand Central Dupot up to not 111 Iho up MiKtral on the eastern silo u tunnel nnd sunken had Is compara- tively ¬ Fret from embankments so that couple of heavy locomotives hud little tioublo In clearing tho way yesterday But thn loWI track Is onn lone drift The drift iielulit In bite chunnolof tho tunnel bite IpenlngB of ull to have acted an site AI lion lubes Millions tons of BIIOW have hon IHI1UI thorn ui solidly nsiio in rn len hinitse it hnd 19UI slnreellWl1 lor hummer use Xuett r t ito mluliolrltl are I tel to- fet iV i o deiP iilmobt louchlu i uV1 linilubH bits I > to thovob L ole shUe uy to run loomotlvps through It syas 610WI by th effortH iimdi on Monday pang of 200 Italians were taken UP to the zutouttu 01 the funnel at Klchtyfourfh street Before they bait gone very fur It was eidont they could l l accomplish nothing having no place- enow near at bund In whlcl to dump the and nothing wbeh cart Itawuy The only feasible way is to carry I off In trains as so much freight- A reporter of I TUB RUN took 1 stroll up the tracks starting at 110th street where lay the rltamfnrd special which the stalled train WI nearest to tho city been there since 10X A M Monday 1 It seemed to bo more firmly riveted tho trucks titan over although tho drift about it hnd boon clouted away Tho engine which wits detached from tile train wan covered with a snowy mantle nnd the driving wheels anti machinery wore welded to cnthor with n continuous nuutu of ice The on- ulnfor Muck to hlllflt and kept up the stoRm Tho conchos deported by nil the pus soiiKcrs nxcnpt unit dozen younc nina who seemed to look upon tlulroxporlenco ns uhuco joke WPIO As Innr us tho company fed thom they At this point tho first train inn that hlock- nllo pntwcil downward about t oclock P M on thn up truck Two engines with n ear between luau come up earlier In tho nlternoon on this truck with Illtlo i tt difficulty iiudSupnrlntendout- Toucoy imulii u tour with two Imlne8lslur us- llfitli street nnd finding 1Ilnd track wits open to tho junction he gave for tho stalled trnlnn to come doWI to tho yards as fast ns they could bo I was a Now Haven train A Now York iVntrnl train stood on the down truck nt the I llcin street station waiting to bo I puttied out Inllnt 125th street wbor the trucks bend station wits 11 Ilnrlem ulcer traits In n touch worn plight than either of the other two for thin thrifts urn deeper this point 1111hcrl Is creator dancer of overturning Ilnrlem lilvor the road bed belnc on a level with the turroundltic country both trucks worn butt thinly covered with snow and tla fore of lOOItnllaiiB that wasjiut to work cleared Iho trucks before night The Harlem hirer train that was snowed under near thin station nf Mott Haven was returned on the down truck to the junction above nnd switched- to the upbound track ready to go down to the yards The junction nt 150th street wns a sight worth rlnl Three of the snowclad trains were hunt a few hundred yards from one an oihcir two on the Hiirlem trncku and ono on a Bwltih truck connecting with tim New York Central ut bite point whor It enters tho cut or The entrance gorge I Is Il0ppell lorI ton lOot deep In the gorge hidden 1 snow banks are three Now hnl CenlllrlnB whoso passengers suf- leiod I I mtlh Irhuton unt the Inst ono wnl carted IIIY A yesterday nt tao cnsn of company Near MHcombs Dam a onrtIt Conlrllrulllnotlnd Hnuyton Duyvll is liftn Upward of n score nro scattered along tho line to the norlhwnnl Thn second train that left tho junction for thn depot was a double header and a third en Wits nt thus rear end It was a Whll flnn the Harlem lllvor got BJclnlol P M arriving nt tho Grand Contra Depot nt 535 oclock making 23 min- utes ¬ The reporter was otis of 1 score who came down but tim regular passengers had all been taken oil earls in that lay The huge drifts in the main tunnel loomed up against the openings of tho walls and were plnlnly visible as tho trnln swept through the dark In- terior ¬ Tbo passoncorx had to wade through heaps ot snow two feet deep in the depot itself U they alighted NEWARK STILT FKOZKN VI The Speirowi and GnmQlilrdBorXetrtJeriey Hate Frrlihcil or Will strrr None of tim street cnr lines in Newark vras operated yesterday nnd no teams succeeded in breaking through the Immense drifts on tho turnpike and plank road between Newark and tItle city Dozens of business men rosldKic In Newark and suburban towns were anxious to get to this city yesterday morning and finding thnt no trains wero running on any of the lIve roads they hired sleighs nod endeavored to drive In In all cases they were stalled before reaching the Bergen ll A dozen brewery wagons urtllockd In snow between Jersey City and Newark The Newark are all overcrowded but little is lacking for the comfort of the guests except milk There Is a real milk famine In NOllrk Dozens of milk wagons containing ful cans of tho precious fluid are snow bound on tho roads between Irvlncton- BloomQeld Orange Lyons farms and Newark Tho drivers have deserted the wagons al- though ¬ they could get I dollar 1 quart for the milk In soma places In the city The condensed article is all sold out and the grocers are be ¬ wnlnl tho fact that they cannot buy more are short of coal also and people who de- pend ¬ upon buying fuelly tho pall hle had to- go to tho coal There wero no theatrical entertainments In Newark on Monday nlpht anti none last night Tho Harbor Lights Company did not arrive Joe Dowlluc and Sadie Husson with their now piny Never Say Dlo hnd tim big tunk con htructed nt Jacobs Theatre but in splto of their motto tithe they failed to get to Newark The London Speclilty Company billed at Vu aid maus Tlipatre was divided and half of the performers are snow bound homowhore Not a live sparrow was to be soon in the streets of Nowai I ynstordaybut the snow drifts were littered with tho frozen bodies of thou- sands ¬ ot f them A boy picked up 13U dead birds under the ivy ut Grace Church yesterday morn- ing ¬ nnd then did not disturb tho snow to seek those buried beneath It It Is doomed highly probablo that almost nveryRiimo bird In the Btatn ol New Jersey either his perished In the storm or will starve to d The ruin of Sun- day ¬ soakod them through nod bite sudden fiI 01 tomporattiro deprived thom of the fly Tim death of the hardy sparrows in the sheltered places in the city makes it almost certain that not mans quail and trouso II the open country survived tlio storm The New fork pnperl reached Newark on Monday morn In none got through ros terduy big prices were offered for copies of TrtK 1t nnl Tim local papers appeared on tlmo on days but they hud no despatches from anywhere Thin only telegraph wire in working order yotordlywnA between Nowark anti Mor Is not In communica- tion ¬ with any othor place Tim Western Union repairers worn struccllnc through snow drifts day yocterdny but could make no headway against tho tuuglo of broken wires and up to a lute hour lust night the wires wero all down between Nowirk mutt this city No casualties were reported in Newark yes ¬ tlrdnllhoulh many persons were saved In on Monday night by being drnzgei exhnuhlrd from banks of snow Amateur photographers wore out in force yesterday morning Immortalizing bite beauti- ful ¬ scene and taking pictures which will bo held up to grandchildren In > ears to como to quell nny disposition to magnify the puny snow btorms of thin future The oldest Inhab- itant ¬ caved in yesterday nnd had nothing to pay about the good old Imf when he used to Hlnchrlile over the tops fences Prophet Million the Inconsistent French weather progiuouutlcator who bus lost n small fortune tills winter by backing his predictions with good money raked in nearly t200 yester- day ¬ becaiisa ho hnd that much out in wngnn tlmt It would rain on Sunday und snow on Monday Ho is happy because for once he had no bets the other way Two employees of the Singer Sewing Machine Works nt Ulrabotbport reached tholr hOles in Nowark at noon They that several of the employees of bite factory were badly frozen In walking from bite works to the railroad station u quarter of n mllo away at noon on Monday und that one man who died on tho way was Iylnl nt the fiutory They saul that the man name they did not know foil within 100 yards of the gates nnd wee cnrrled back dead Others were res ¬ cued with the greatest diniciilty unit wprl taken- to Hhlbuls lIntel with thwlr eyes clos up with lee and tholr hands and toot and carat frozen rite Singer works me on the shore of the buy nnil the wind bus full siveop mIcroBe six miles of unit meadows on the lice or which HIP Ctsni rid ilullroud Million stands P Kemioy billie and Frank Force bite Nownrkers who told bite story said thud six mon wore badly frozen und that one mnn mimed Situ rvvond hud both liundH frozen to bite wrlIs They said that 1800 out of thin 3010 nmployees went to tho factory on Monday mornlnc nnd that twenty or thirty ol them sinned out In tho teeth of Hie blizzard to go to tlm Million At t luau station between 200 and Sun men vvnro IltlIlnd many of Ihol conlrl to rOluIIllhlro ni nllII I stove Dills I said the wind blow so hnrd that mon could not face I nnd those who uticeeuded In gutllnc to thu lion from tint factory ull biUnvo that some of tholr comrades are iurlel In tho drifts rilllAl > Kllllll jiiz IIMt SllAltl Truffle ut a SliiniltlllVnln Elton to Open tue Kiillrtmtl lIt Long Dlittlltcf Ttltphon- fFuiLATiEMiUA Murih laEcrthln In and around this city Is lit it Irhhtullolullo- nntlit Is not ns lull ns It WIB rdl have ln cleaned f sO that street cur tliivel IIIIH been rcauined butt t ta rillronils nro Illrlull blocked Tho trnlns to nnd from mid thrt W It < t art enlIst bound ionio- vvlmrn nn oliu luow wlioie All Iho I itt on vvlr uro down I In OUT di C111 Occasionally 11 locnl or eomej i Into t his city user thu Phlludeliihlunudllund illK I lOIld ltTonu hnvo been mudo lo open HP traffic butt for mllBH und mil the rlroldK urn C- OIfll with lmmoiu0 it u ieiiilnr bllzxiui 1 now Ilolfnl nnd fiB Out us u unit I is cut lii roit cit t Ils fill i iiiruln Nothing like 1 dub er klowlllr before I The sv I i liluh I lhit i I Ito water In I thn Delaware Itlver huts l 111 Iuwl Hourly out und jnftoa pivoplonrP I iaiurs antI hurry but cannot gut iicrobs tha vliiinno- lKurtrle Llirtlt Shine Again Tho United States nnd Itrusli electric com- panies ¬ hail all their hiuipa In service lust night anti New York was rescued from the cloora oi the flrst night following the blizzard THE FIREMEN CRIPPLED CnZIN rntuxTKuna LUND A HAND xo- IIAVt THE xxnixvs Nearly I0 TumMIr In usurer l n Blcck el lliirnlmr Tcncmrnti on the Vet tilde Pitnle Aiunnr Dweller on the En > t Side Shortly after 2 oclock yesterday morning throo alarms of fro woro Bnt out calllnc for twelve engines four trucks The fire TMln- Wost Fortysecond Breotl block from the West Shore Ferry and 1 few rods of tho Con- solidated ¬ Companys gas works Tho blizzard was pranclnu viciously nt tbe time and not at nil tired It had In Inct got Its second wind Chief Shay with his ayes wldo open was at his hendaunrtar In Mercer street and Chief McCabe was at hulk headquarters at Twenty ninth street and Bovonth avenue Shay jumped into his wagon McCabe mounted 1 broad bucked horse and started for the scene Shays wagon tumbled over bIte drifts and MoCitboa horse ploughed through tho mounds until ho reached Fortysecond street and Eleventh ave- nue ¬ No 3 engine with six horses and I score of men to help was being backed to the hy¬ drant in front of Bernard Dnlys saloon on the corner while fifty feot away the double tene- ment ¬ at 6JD West Fortysocond street was roaring and crackling with great flames that yore licking up thus five stories and root as I they were shavings Engine house No 2 1 Is but three mocks away but Foreman Brown and his men and the six horses had u mighty tough utruegl to get to tho tire5 Xhelvo chiefs Immediately gave up honl of other engines under the and directed that No 2s one line of hose fthould bo used so as to protect tour large tenements adjoining 059 on the cast Fore- man ¬ Colby of Truck 4 and Foieinnn Nugent of Truck 7 lund their men responded without Ihl trucks They carried their Illdllnd Sixty families with lots rer bustled out of the four tenements Forty lies and a corresponding number of little ones had trot out of fijJ and wore distributed in Duly H saloon the barroom and restaurant of the West Shore Hotel Fitzgeralds feed store and the tenements on the opposite side of the street Tho fiery cinders from C59 set fire to the roofs- of tho four tenements and only after an hours battle had No 2s single hose and the axes of the truckmen put out the llames Patsy Lagan owned CSV The women and children who wer turned into the street were ciently Assom hlyman Dalton lr MoManus lair Daly Mr Fitzgerald und Mr Ultim of the hotel gave them mod and tOieltur Mrs Mary Tlm mons n widow was taken from her bed in the tenement at G55 apparently dying from consumption and lay on ono of tile long tables in tho VUat Hhore Hotel The tim started In tho cellar of Jr Gormans little grocery shop at 559 Fire broko out yesterday afternoon at 340 oclock in 11l1nullophlelK smoke house in the cellar on livestory double tenement house nt 35 Allen street and the fire lighters lund to return to the primitive and up- roarious ¬ methods of half a century ago to roach it Tho snow drifts made an almost insur- mountable ¬ blockade In the East side streets and hundreds of excited citizens seeing the plight of tho llremon lent willing hands to the tolling lire horses by hitching hawsers to tho tongues of the engine cnrriuges and hauling theta along just as the old volunUer firemen did In tho old days before steam lire engine wan over hoard of Tho lire itsultwaaarathorsmnll affair caused by the careless handling of some sausage meat near I furnace but so Ireltwere the obstacles- that us soon as the ot anywhere near the tenement 1 second cal lor reOnforce inent of engines was sent guard against possible spread of the flames Engine 25 whose headquarters are In Marion street near Irlnco street sllredout with elghthorses but the snow was for them A hawser- was hitched to the tongue and 100 citizens seized hold of It und began to tug for all they wore worth Hundreds men nod children attracted by the strange spectacle folowot shouting encouragement to the hose cart dashed along the sidewalk scatter ¬ log frightened pedestrians right and left The tenement that was auto is opposite Grammar School No 2 and there are several fire hydrants In tho block but they were burled under snow drifts and the firemen had to use the hydrant at Canal and Grand streets Hundreds of citizens rushed to the aid of the firemen and helped thor with the hose Twentytwo families numbering nearly 10 nil told lived in the double tens ¬ mont they were all In the street scream terror The llreinnn tound that Raphael the butcher had dashed out leaving his daughter in the smokefilled sitting room in the basement oer the smoke house and one of the firemen rushed In and carried her out Only two engines were able to get to the scene on the first olnrmlud only three en- gines ¬ of tho seven on alarm were able to light their way through the drifts rite lire extended to tho bakery store of Louis Men ¬ delsohn on the other Bldool thejdoublo build- ing ¬ before the how lines got Into worklni order About JSOO damage was butcher shop and bakery and 800 damage to the building which is owned by a Mrs Crook who lives In Kovetitysixtu street Neither Baker Mendelsohn nor Butcher Itaphael was insured and they stood out in tho snowdrifts of Allen street nnd tore their hair In grief The panting double lenl of Truck 9 gave out in Prince street near flowery while return- ing ¬ from tho fire and a hundred citizens nnd boys volunteered to drag the cumbrous appa- ratus ¬ tolls bouse In Elizabeth street I block and a luaU away Tho horses refused to budge nnd were unhitched and led around to their stable Scores of willing hands helped the lIre men to tafco th ladders oil the truck and rush them to the ijuarters and after the ladders wero taken away tim enthusiastic crowd dragged bite truck to the house In a few minutes The spilling out upon tim floor of some coals from a grate In tho brokerage shop of F P Freeman sot fire to that ground flooring of 43 Exchange place nnd brought several engines tolling through the snow drifts of Wall street nt Rli P M A single fireman put out the lire with an extinguisher- A frightened tennnt of a house in Mott street ran to 1ollot Headquarters late in the alter noon and reported that the housl was on fire anal Sergeant KelUher sent an alarm The lire fortunately wax in a chimney Enilne 20 33 and13 worn all temporarily lire burned out the chimney before the engines got Into Mott street jIznw UP ytiK Film SIOXALS The City bni Dee Uncommonly Lucky So Far In Etcnpln Fire So far there has been but little trouble nt Fire Headquarters in receiving alarms and reports of fires though good fortune has had much to do with this favorable condition of things Of the 175 disabled boxes below Sixty seventh street seventyfho hind boon put in order up to 4 P M yesterday Many boxes above Sixtyseventh street were still out of order About 430 P M ono of the most Im- portant ¬ circuits which connected with twenty boxes gave way Nevertheless alarms have boon received in the regular way from all tho very few Ores that have broken out since the blizzard began and It has not been necessary to communicate- by circuitous routes Four operators wore at work in hits telegraph department all last night and the night oofore Two are sufficient ordinary tlmen On Monday night tho In- struments ¬ lund to be covered up to protect them from this snow which leaked in from the skylight blunt crowns the telegraph room and those not In immediate uso were so covered last night Assistant Superintendent Inrrel bnysthat moro snow Is not to be so I much MI a continuance of tho wind or I u change to nun whIch woutid greatly Increase the die ability of crossed wires tb o far us tho bole I Kraphlu deportment 1 itt concerned them have been storms before this which cost Imodec munlcatlon to a much greater About fifty men were at work repairing wires yes tiirday and more would have beon employed If they could have hen obtained Hporclnry Jiisseii siild in reforonco to the of t fuel to supply thus enginesutthe Lulght street fire on Monday night that thus coal de fuels front which extra fuel in always furnished tiati a fithi supply on hand and Ihlt the only dllllculty In 10lnrl to conl was trans porting II which worn called Imcr8 to Unit fire cnrrled order to I lnl Il0unlln I llulitnn their woieht us I oRlb11 Then I is not l ely to bo Htiy trouble thl hy InintR ho thinks 1 m Rnmv will proui Hut i Ililint protiitlon nrifiist ficozlng lll I to Hemlock Iut e veti tog lucia had been nine alnrmi reported tat Fr DoadniinrlnrH bo- cldes M > vf rnltl iii I nliirms since t thi I bllgranl be- gin i hi only tires of I Importnucn wore t thogo- nt Lulght street und Wpslliirtvfecniid Mrcot Jlii wiltlun t renorls ot battitl louis ln hum dipuuon I tutu at It huita been thonrht best to ul low tint llrunien to dovotu their entire iitloutlon to their active duties Vi Water Left Ia Camden lij Long litnanre Klntione t- rniLAnciaiiu March 13 Caimton Is Jn a bad predicament Tho wind line blown almost nil thus seater out nf hue Delaware River anti thu clty6 wiiler supply Is oxiiauRled If a fire Inyiks out It may sweep away the wholo city Iubile omens aro closed private luiblnoss Is almost subpeuded no malls have been received anti titers la no telling when they will arrive Not a train IIUH arrived during twentyfour hours People are melting snow for drinking water cud all the factories have been shut down iiorr jinooKLTtt is DOIXU X flarfoc Cam Running Xfare Thee Ifil Funeral Po tpnrrt In Brooklyn yesterday no attempt was made to resume trnfTlo on any of thus street cer linos but the elevated railroad managed to re sumo operations Superintendent Martin had a couple of hundred men at work on Monday night clearing the snow from the tracks anti yenterdayhe suceceiluict with but slight Inter ttiptlonsin keeping fifteen train In operation They wore not run on schedule time but tin general rule was from eight minutes lo ton mln- utps headway Each train was packed but greater care wax exorcised bycnclnoers rural train mon and not an accident occurred The managers of the surface roads directed all theIr efforts to the removal ot the snow from UK tracks In this work the big snow plough were not used but 4000 or 5001 laborers wero pressed into service arid on all the lines this work wan continued nil ilay II Is expected that travel on almost all tho main- lines will bo resumed In part today rite City Railroad Company alone has eighty mullen ol tracks to clean off and as several of its kuughs were broken In the vain effort to light tho thrust attack of the blizzard on Monday morning the work ot removing the snow will bo attended with so much bite greater difficulty ProsKlcnt Lewis says that J50000 wilt not cover the IOFS to the company by the storm If other roaas have been similarly damaged and even should thero bo no return of the storm several days will be required to put matters In their accus- tomed ¬ shape Sleighs wore almost the only conveyances seen in the streets yesterday and for their use a big pries was demanded Very few of bite hnckmeti ventured out yesterday apparently satisflod with the handsome profits they lund made on Monday The lack of hotel accom- modation ¬ In Brooklyn was painfully Illustrated on Monday night The few hotels around the City Hall could not shelter half the number ot persons who wore cut off from their homes and many persons after making vain efforts to obtain a covering for their heads for the night were glad to seek retime at the police stations Anxious Inquiries were made at Po- lice ¬ Headquarters for more than one hundred mlsslne persons but it is presumed that all of them or nearly all havo turned tip as inqui- ries ¬ were not resumed yesterday Many persons have suffered severely from ex ¬ posure during the storm and there are from 20 to SO In the various hospitals who wore picked up unconscious in the snow but all will recover and so far no loss of life has been reported It Is feared however that such a blizzard could not keep a city of nearly a million people in its cold grip for a couple ot days without some fatal consoquoncos and that It will be found that some persons havo been burled in the snow Titers has been in- tense ¬ suffering among poor people in the tene- ment ¬ districts It hits been almost Impossible to obtain fuel and yesterday coal was not do livered for loss than 15 a ton All funerals have been postponed Brooklyn has fared well In the mattorof Ores as none of any serious consequence has oc ¬ curred since the storm set in Fire Commis- sioner ¬ Ennls has kept all the men on duty at the stations and by permission of Mayor Cha pin bo has hired a couple of hundred extra horses for temporary use as the regular sup ¬ ply would bo of no service in dragging the en ¬ gines through the blockaded streets The snow has been cleared away from the fire hy- drants ¬ The only fire yesterday was at 27 Clor moot avenue but it was Quickly extinguished with slight loss The policemen were cautioned by Superin- tendent ¬ Campbell to bo especially alert For the purpose of making their duties less ardu ¬ ous the usual night patrols wore split up into two sections each remainIng out for throe hours Instead of six That the police did their hard work la a satisfactory manner is evident from tim fat that only a few robberies and these of a trivial character were reported Business in the Court House was almost at a standstill All the Judges worn in their places but only n few of thu lawyers and liti- gants ¬ appealed und at noon the courts with ono exception wore all adjourned In the po ¬ lice courts the disposal of cases of drunkenness wits the only business transacted The Black Maria which Is used In convoying prisoners from the jail to the courts broke down and Justice Walsh was obliged to hold court in the jail All the magistrates were mild in meting out punishment to offenders The only serious panic during the storm in Brooklyn was caused by tho partial destruc- tion ¬ of the big steeple of the Clusson Avenue Presbyterian church of which blue Rev Dr Chamberlain is pastor in Clnsson avenue and Monroe street Persons living In the adjoining houses were startled about 9 oclock on Alan day night by a series of loud crashes resem- bling ¬ thunder They rushed to their doors and windows in alarm and soon to their ter- ror ¬ discovered that blue timber supports of the steeple wero being blown of piece by piece nnd flue pieces lulling on thn roofs had caused the startling crashes In the morning It u as found that all the fifteen feet of woodwork at the lower part of the steeple had been torn away and that the steeple Itself bad careened and was loaning toward Mon- roe ¬ street at an angle ot fifteen degrees Each heavy gust of wind caused the steeple to sway from side to side and Its destruction was momentarily expected A panic seized many of thus occupants In the adjoining build ¬ lags some deserting their houses and others going to the collars and basements for safety A squad of men hurried to the church nt 8 oclock in the morning and ropes were stretched around the exposed district and no otto allowed to pass City Works Commis- sioner ¬ Adams anti Building Commissioner Platt made an inspection of the place and de- cided ¬ that when thus steeple gave way It would fall across Monroe street In a direction south by east and all the occupants in the houses in Monroe street opposite thus church were notlnVd of the Impending danger Tho exposed houses are Nos 2 4 d 810 and 12 and nil day the occupants of these houses wore careful to remain on the lower floors It was thought that title would bu am- ple ¬ precaution as the weight of the spire at that distance would not do moro titan crush In the roofs of any of the houses The church wile built eighteen years ago and thus steeple was slightly slanted during a severe storm about a year ago If the steeple does not fall it will have to ba taken down and for some- time no services can be hold in the church One of the effects of the storm has been to stop all business in the Coroners ofllce Yes- terday ¬ afternoon titers worn moro than twenty cases awaiting the action of the Coroners but It Was found impossible to hold any inquests It is believed that there must bo more titan 120 suspended funerals In the city All this schools remained closed yesterday Postmaster Hondrix ao the people ot Brooklyn as excellent n mall service ns tim situation could admit and thn letter carriers discharged their severe duties in n heroic man- ner ¬ struggling through the snow plies hike Arctic travellers Many of them returned to the Post Ofllce exhausted antI the main ofllce- nt one titus resembled n hospital ward On Monday tight out of the eleven mall deliveries were mndo Yesterday none but local malls front Now York arrived anal nl noon till the mull was cleared front the oflUo Vt h therit would nil roach its destination was another ttiiash ion Tho liorco gusts ot wind on Monday night caiibodmuch damage all over this city Trees forces chimneys and awnings wore Ilown down anti windows biuunbed A memorablii elm In Bergen street near Novlns tsvo feet In diameter with two Immense brunches which wait tim pride of thu neighborhood succumbed to the storm early yesterday morning It broke tilT tliruo foot Irons tho ground 1 ito liii brunches fell on nn unoccupied house 211 Bergen Street doing conbldernblo damage THE SUN yesterday morning found greedy buyers ut 10 cents nab IB cents a copy in ll- llamsburgh anti ireonpolnt I wouldnt have lelt my houpp said onn buyer for a good deal of money except to got THE HUN Now 1vo gut It Ill tro homo and en ¬ joy myself All thus people In my noubo are awaiting my coming nnd well muko a party rustling and listening Otto mean the purtlwsor of tw nty copies do ml ici b huit Ito mado th Pbt rtha taut for spofiila unit Nosaid he I havo got the pnp rs lor people nn lit V labs k heu i its y heard i 1 sti going nflor THE KUN they agreed if I would bring I tack n copy to I them to vloiin infMooii t anti sliltiwilk ion bliuulu IWB seen thoi I b they contracted for Lvi ryntr eliiiidnMiimu In Oreenuolut ant WllllimiRhur I N blmikwl with miovv fallen trees and ileserlnd truekK und wiirnn < f- trrduy I t tho t pjiipiltflors ot ton yards In I the t tenement districts t culled upon I hut police for protection to theirpropeity Crowds huron s about their yards bluet stud demanding cotta To those who could buy It toad was Ituilt taut In small tituintllies Mnoral factories which rely on ii dally supply of coat score forced to shut uiosruu ysuettartitty Aetutant Chief lnglneor John Hmlth of blue Fire Department libel evening lied sleds sent lo nil the endue houses to carry that luebe In ciiwi of nil re The 1nrk Theatre thus Grand Opoin House mud hyde Boitmnails lhaautre score alien lust night hut bite audleiieo In uarli wait ery pninll Arrangements had I lorn inado for owning bite Brooklyn Theatre but a portion of Mr Mayos company which Is booked for thin week failed to arm In time and the opening was post ¬ poned until tonight At 110 oclock this morning nil traffic In Brooklyn wits suspended the last train fur the night on the olovntM road having left the bridge nt that hour Trains wilt run on ITRU Inr schedule time it is expected on this road I today XHAHKr A017JIM2 OV T1IK JUttnUK- An the DIIT AdTuxcrtl hut Channel tie Brook lyn Oprntrt XVIdrr Trains on the Brooklyn Ilildgo ran all Monday night and until 7A M ycrterdny tray ¬ chars found no difficulty l ID crossing the river Then the usual rush of Brooklyultes to got to the metropolis began and although no surface cars were running yet the Brooklyn elovntoi- tlallroad supplied enough passengers with those who made their way to the bridge on foot tcj causa a jam at the bridge entrance Sands street before 8A II wits filled from curb to curb with n pushing and struggling but goodnatured mass of human beings mostly men but a good many women The cable wns not used partly because the bearing wheels on the bridge wore frozen stiff and partly because Superintendent Martin deemed it unwise to use tho grip on account ol tim accumulation of snow and ice The same prudence also governed hue counsels of the managers In regard to the number of trains permitted cm the bridge Only outs train at a tints waaailowed to burden the structure An soon mitt one train arrived on one track anatlicr wits started from the other track In this way It was possible to divide the crowds sending the passengers for ten minutes up the north stairway nail in the next ton minutes up the south stairway Trains of three cars and two engines were run This arrangement however while the neces- sity ¬ existed of sending passengers up first one and then tbe other stairway was not sufficient to relieve blue pressure at the one ticket ofllcu An arrangement adopted to send passengers through the ticket office to the south platform caused a rush In that direction The rush up the stnlrwny wns prevented by a rope stretched across the promenade trom the Houth aide to the ticket olllco on the north side and four policemen stood on guard to prevent the crowd from breaking through Then bIte crowd turned to thu ticket office anti performed a letter B In winding through the ticket ofllco across the promenade to the south platform Htill the crowd in Bands street grew and In ¬ creased and finally to relieve the pressure the south roadway was thrown open to pedestrians Thousands walked to New York in the road ¬ way Grown men Irollcked like kittens and run races Eight young mon procured a rope front somewhere and tied themselves to It at intervals and trotted across bite bridge pre- tending ¬ that they were enduring the perils of till ascent of the Alps There was no need for their precaution Shortly alter 11 oclock a force of Foventyflve nun was put to work cleaning the promenade of Ice and snow and It was thrown open to pedestrians This with the throwing open of the roadway relieved the pressure at Hands street and at noon bridge travel resumed Its usual aspect Fourcartrnlns two locomotives ono to push anti thus other to pull kept the public un ¬ der way across the bridge all daY after 12 oclock- Of thirty bridge policemen who should have reported for duty early yesterday morning only eighteen appeared at the Sands stroet bridge police station and at fl A M twenty of theentire platoon reported for duty This compelled policemen who Imd been on duty during tIm first of the storm to remain at their post Several pedestrians who stole their way on the bridge unobserved worn found during blue night on Monday in n halfdozed condition and were taken to the tower stations rubbed and escorted to land In the afternoon the last car of a throocnr train arriving in Now York fiber unloading passengers jumped the track at a switch and travel was delayed for halt an hour LINEMEN GET AT THEIR BIO JOB One r Tbeae Ity We Skull lie Able to Telegraph und Phone The Western Union Telegraph Company had forco of moro than 300 men out yesterday bolstering UD poles and untangling wires in the city No pretence ot sending messages by moans of city wires was made All business that came however was received subject to delay and then transmitted through the pneu- matic ¬ tubes of the company and forwarded to its destination by messenger The Western Union Company was Indeed very btimblo in regard to the condition of the city wires and fell back as it were without re- serve ¬ upon compressed air The United Lines had one wire open to the Hoffman House The scone in the main operating rooms was similar to that to be witnessed in a school ¬ room when the masters back Is turned Most ot the operators hued literally nothing to do but telegraph with their eyes to their charm ¬ ing colleagues of the opposite sex Western Union was able to talk to Chicago Pittsburgh Cincinnati and Buffalo in the u est but in the Liihtaml South nil wires were reported down In the North connection was good with Albany Syracuse Newburch Hondout Hudson Utica Feelcskill Tarntown and stations on the West Shore itnllroad The telephone wires were all demoralized yesterday The Long Distance Telephone Company has been 11 happy exception nil through Local telephone plants wore in a bad plight yesterday Thirty mon were put at work to restore to the perpendicular eeventeen holes in West Eleventh street which lund been tilted against the house fronts breaking win ¬ dow glass anti smashing shutters and also de facing brick walls Nine poles were down at Tenth avenue and 140th street and the wimo tale was oft repented In Harlem anal Mott Haven A cable belonging to thus Metropolitan Telephone Company wits jerked out of tho bed of the North River by a steamer which anchor- ed ¬ olTCortlandt street on Monday night The electric lighting companies say they are in good shape again The police wires wore working better yester ¬ day Linemen repaired damage till Police Headquarters was in communication with the twentyone stations below Fortysecond street Title was n gain ot fourteen stations over Mon ¬ day butt perfect communication was estab- lished ¬ only with the stations comprising the western division Tho entanglement of the wires mode it difficult to roceho long do spntehett The telephone wires connecting tho Central Office with bite rharles Mercer anil West Thirtieth street stations wore In order nnd that mode of communication wale most used The police wires above Fortysecond street ate still In had shnim mind the fourteen sta- tions ¬ beginning at West Fortyseventh street and ending at Klngsbrldce are obliged to do their business with thus Central Ofllce by roes sengnrs Not n few policemen came to Police Headquarters with despatches yesterday SIR BAJiavKT AND tEL snAP NW llount Vcrnani end Iurctim nt Ii later ettlnff un4 ho Is Our Iho snowbound citizens of Larchmont and Mount Vernon havent seen a newspaper pinco the blizzard started in on Sunday night nnd Newsdealer P T Barguet started out from his store at First street Mount Vernon yester- day ¬ morning to got a supply of SUNS for his im- prisoned ¬ townsmen Ho started at 84 oclock and got to THE SUN office at IK oclock P M Allot tho distance to ICGth street whore ho caught on to ubiiburban rapid transit train was mails afoot in company with J B Clarke of Lnrclunont who was in 1880 a professional waller They came up into THE SUN office and re- ported tlmt the wholo Wostchester region they iissod through was hopelessly snow bound Between Woodlawn Junction and Pelhntnvllie they saw nine trains snow hound In a row Newsman Bnrsuot reported that tha passon- KorH of titus blockaded trains passed Monday night playing curds und singing to whllo away the dragging hours Tha blockade of the trains was BO eflpetual that the townspeople mound hue station estimated that it would tale between two and three days to untangle It A business man on a Boston train blocked nt Mount Vernon offered tiOO on Monday night in any one who mild drise him nt once to Illumsbrldgp to catch or communlcnto with title city but nobody accepted thus otter Tho townspeople saw that nobody could undertake thojourniiy without a cortalutvuf belri burled In the snow drlftn- Townsman Mnstorspn who uses at Bronx ylll illiid Huddnnlvof apoplexy at 9 oclock Monday morning whllo nt Mount Verron nnd lilh friends offered to pay 123 to the one who would carry inos iige to jlrnnxtllle In Mas- tcrsonB family II All I tolugrapli ami I lelephiui- ouoimiunlcitlonwaicut i off until thn I only I way word could bi got lo thn family wan by mnsum- c r Nobody in t tho I town hud the Iiiinllhioil to lateR the bllznid and entry tho inoFRiig- Athroueh nnd It was not until last nlyht tlmt- JliisteitoiiB family know of hK deuth Hie brty was tkn to it lintel J ho Larchmount nnd Mount Vernon llimor dealers deejared yesterday afternoon that their 2ipplf hard liquor had been enllrelv ron tuilmoti by bite belMr passengers ttiutl l chilled townspeople who wero out doors In bite Mori- ufVmnn HfC nt Fiild blunt Its was going to walk back toi Mount Vernon this morningn walking I with an occasions I lift I from a pausing sleIght was tho only way tmit any one could hiopt ho bring Into Mount Voriion that imilcrost Ing news of hunts all blue roil of tlm nutbldo world wns overwhelmed by tile bllzjanl- UUere inmutleslaaer Fish Vas Aqueduct Commissioner Hamilton Fish Jr telegraphed yesterday to the office that he had been snowed In at Bpuyten Duyvll Creek for twentyfour hours EAST RIVER ICEBRIGED- CKOSS CKOSS ov FOOl vnux VIP cnr in flflhUML1 A Score ol Foolhardy lien CniiTht nhm tkn lee went Out three Rrictied with Hit eiiltr All Travel by Cleat ItnpprU- Tho rislnjr tide bore tip from the bay yo- tordny morning a hugo field ot Ice It wafted It past the Battery before ito sun was duo and shot It up tho Hast lllvor The lower ferries saw It coming and did not attempt to putt out nor boats It was wider titan this river and longer titan It was wide When It got up no far as hurling tulip on this side it stuck The cdga scraped the Military sUumnhlp dock anti twisted several piles out of position At Fulton ferry just above It caught lash shutting In thus slips and jamming hard against the next pier above whore the Black Ball clippers dock A- long extension of ice shut out trnlllo almost up to blue Brooklyn Bridge At the same mo- ment ¬ the pastern edge which jutted far abend of tim Now York side ot the floe caught oppo- site ¬ Fulton Ferry It jammed Into the docks for nearly a mile south shutting In the stores from Martins to Hobortss A point ran north ¬ ward from the centre just under the shadow ot the big bridge Southward another point rouohod nearly to Governors Island It was an enormous Ice field of many hundred acres and old salts had to go back a dozen years to recall Its equal All this was before 8 oclock Tho bridge was not running cars then and even refused foot passengers nn entrance Fulton Ferry was blocked The hundreds of people who had gathered attho two gateways to the city wore impatient A daring spirit lenpod from the bridge dock to tho Ice antI started afoot across the floe His progress wits anxiously noted for awhile and then another man tried It More followed and In n quiirtar of an hour a straff cling line of pedestrlnns stretched across the river from Brooklyn to New York At this end they found three plors on which a landing could be made Ono was blue upper Mallory dock another the Harlem dock of Fulton Ferry anti the third tlio Black halt dock just above The last was the favorite especially after half a dozen fishmongers from Fulton Market whoso occupation the blizzard hind destroyed lot down ladders and accommo- dated ¬ climbers at 5 cents n houd Tim exam plo inspired people at the New York end to travel eastward and by 0 oclock hundreds were availing themselves of the unusual pas sago The Brooklyn Bridge was opened to traffic soon afterward hot this did not doter the natural bridge passengers many of whom made the trip simply to say they did It On the bridge Immense crowds btood and garcd on the singular sight below A largo number of these persons hurried to the nearest end of the bridge and muffle for bite Ice passage in search of adventure and glory About 0 oclock some tugs made strenuous efforts to break the blockade Ono tried It on the west sldo without success The powerful tug Transfer No 1 of blue Now haven line went through the sixInch ice like choeso us for as the second Fulton Ferry slip This opened the road for the ferryboat Fulton which began ply tag between the slip and Catharine Ferry on this side It destroyed the entrance to the Ice bridge too and drove the peoplo down to Martins stores whore some longshoremen erected ladders They exacted one cent toll but worn willing to take a quarter nnd got u good many of them with several coins ot larger size One man gave n dollar and said it was worth it to walk across the Last Illver Several women made the trip Home wore unattended lllcbard liaising a ferryman nt Fulton Ferry estimates blue number of persons who crossed at 10000 Mr Howell of Martins Stores says there were only 1000 Tlm majority of esti ¬ mates range between those figures AB soon ns Mr Martin discovered the ice bridge he declared hun passage foolhardy natal decreed that no others should make the trips from his two piers rite enterprising ladder mon thereupon transferred themsulves anti their ladders to Watsons pier just below und business was continued A good many started front Itobortss piers but titus let there was not safe anal people were warned off The dogs who crossed the natural bridge were legion They seemed to appreciate the rarity of the situation Tommy hum a Brooklyn junk dealer has a dog with a record He made tho trip four times all on his own account Charles Peek of Brooklyn whose wife was tbo- llrtt woman to cross the Brooklyn Bridge after it wits built travelled yesterdays ice bridge twice He bad business In Now York and as tile ferries did not run came over and buck nn blue ice Ho said it was solid as a pavement C II Cone went to business In Brooklyn on that passage und said ho wished It were per- manent ¬ Also wind blew him clear across without effort on his part He tried first to hind at Hobortss H tores but finding that un ¬ safe climbed up above the ferry house Meantime the tugs were very hard at work trying to force a passage One hugged the New iork shore another the Brooklyn shore Others attacked the floe from the south They did little good for awhile A large tug belong¬ lag to the Old Dominion line did the biggest slice of work in the beginning The pedestrians scorned the invasion of the tugboats and increased in numbers every minute Several newsboys stood In the mid- dle ¬ of th river and sold THE SUN Icebrldga edition for ten cents each High tide was due at U46 oclock Its effect was felt about 10 oclock The average pedes- trian ¬ did not know this and did not care But the seamen longshoremen know the fact and realized the danger when ebb tide would loosen the Ice raft from its moorings The knowing ones therefore placed themselves at the several entrances to the floe and warned people hack Very many refused to obey anti this ladders having been banished let them selves down from thus piers The Ice looked strong mind they thirsted for glory Many were seized by the longshoremen and kept off br main force At the turn of the tide the great icefield moved Not a crack on lib surface showed the change butt n gratIng upon the ends of the piers against which It was pinned told the story to the selfappointed watchers along the shore and loud were the cries to get to the shore There wore over a hundred persons on the ic at this moment Most of them broke into a run Some of the cranks who felt safe from laving ft firm surface beneath their feet per ¬ sisted in plodding on at their own time Hev oral minutes elapsed after the first warning Then with some uulck croaking and cracking from end to end the floe began to shift sea- ward ¬ The most Imperturbable then took fright and on both sides of the river thrilling scenes wore OBUCtad About forty persons crowded to the edge of the ice at the main entrance to the Black Ball dock But the dock wns passed The Ice wits Rhlftlnc seaward A grab was made then at tbe end of the Fulton Ferry pier but thus piles were slippery and the edges of the ice showed signs of crumbling The most Intense excite- ment ¬ reigned upon tho ice floe and on the docks as well New arrivals from across thus ice Increased the crowd nt the edge o very moment Some laughed in this excitement Homo exchanged cool jokoH with those on the docks One quietl- y ¬ asked to hnvn u tug sent down for him an- other ¬ requested nstoie fftlll another shouted that hed cable when huronuhod the other side Tho majority though were greatly excltod Most of them shouted aimlessly one man sank on his knees and prayed Slowly the floe drifted down There was nut a rowboat accessible Koernl tugs began t9 get taut sttsiuu for tutu rosette but the toe crated against thus northerly Mnllory piers the next bulow the hurry crumbled nnd shivered against tim talons and almost stopped Thus pause wits only for flvo minutes but in that time a score of dock tmploeeu lowered ladders antI helped very one ashore One man In his ncrvoua- nees reeled to one side anti slid oil into the Icy water Tho longshoremen were by and quick by seized him and pulled him out Another mull was loiind covered with ice from head to foot Ills teeth chattered hlsayuH were dull lilt see wait while He still hed broken through atoms lotion lee on the Brook lyn edge of Ihn line anti been hauled up on mite linn ice They tried to make him gut Puck on liorr hut he stud hed cross that river if he thai for It Moon niter lie last titan was landed the field 5leUUI to the tide undmouMl rapidlv down thus btriim On ibis Brooklyn side morn exciting Ind- dnntfi were inking I phico Tliein was no crowd for I Iheie WPIQ finreoiiii caMuaid I j hroo men who lund just Milltod when the tug lloo Italic on the I turn of t tho I Idu cwmed uncertain which nay to go The I niu Mnicnal WIIH to the houthwanl Iutllnu I ii rin Hho lund hattie little piourenB but uhru tlio title turned site mauls tine long Irs bnek and In the plunge for- ward ¬ cut blue Ito like tie crust Site went faster titan wn expected and approachml chose tn where the ihreu young men hued just started on thelijieiilous trip Tho men stopped in terror The Ice biilgnd underneath I them ivlth the pressnieanil hue waves haul I llhe V rushed on they would at least hne Mood t I U I n I Ihn nut I n Mieet As It WHS they hihitnled inmed backward forward Imelt ngnln t mid stood still 1 Fits Ice emachu cat merrily Then It huUod up separated anti caeh of I thn thrff young uin scare iiiunrliril upon u- fopitrutocako of ten Tin lug hud grant through llkenn arrow and was fur up tho stream They shouted frantically and waved their arms Those In the crowd on the wharves shouted and waved their arms too Several tugs saw thu predicament and started to the rescue but
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