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tretlflllod banket that contained all kind ofv provisions hose they disposed of at Dol

IfI man co pricest TnAMriNO flowN

On Monday night tlio trnollor took thoetlhlonl out of the seals nnd mado thorn Into

I prpndlnc them nroOR tho tOM fit tho-ecntny Thorn was very IIe though fornnybody Tho uJcrltouipnt anxiety unrosufficient to keep thu maturity nwnko and thohilarity of tho few spirits Indifferent to thoniluntfon would liavn i iinvented sleep nnyhow-

iltt To till womnn tho lllLht wnfl very llong nlMr though ovprvlhtni possible WIS li1O for tholrH l

comfort Knrly Y08 fordny morning Iwontyof-jj the mon delerininttdto niuko Ihn uttompt li-

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to tho city ontoot Tlipy snccifded afterweary hours of draulric ole IPC aflor nnotlier

i through deep mow drHII gottlnc Ito Mott-i llaven Hero they short rost nnd then

l plodded ncrons tothn suburban branch of thoBecond nvonuo plovated road

Ono of Ihll tllrlpnhllhot n trnln a fol milest bnck hli snowed Tim

pnovv wns hanked up nil about tho vnglno andtho llros were out The supply of coal had runfhort and such wood us could he obtained by

t chonplngupthacnrd tuliles In tha smoker cavoout Alt tho piissengors wore Rlnrlnl Irma

i cold and olin man wus reported 10 bnillyfrozen that It Wil not bolk vi d Ithat wouldrecover wus considerable sufferingfrom hunger also

At Mount Vernon tim urn department wnaculled out to pump water Into tho engines of

trahtiR of tim Harlem rood that had1mllocnl The uxnrnga number of pus-

Bpeers on onch train wns placed nt 200 MrOtto of HupMrinlnndont Toucoys nsMM

ants wns on the chore linn express of tim Newlon mail nnd left the train at HOtb streetlie Bald that Ihn suffered no hardships until habegan his walk down to thn ilnpot when ho

I found hlmlrl enveloped In drills that nearlyHovernl times ho feared thnt be

nail bitten off moro than ho could chew HeI sot to tho offices In tho depot completely ox

liauMod Another ofllclnl was snowbound atbit Inonlnd walked down Ho woe lucky

n sleigh after trudgingthrough tithes of snow above his knees

MRP rjtEscoTTs BRAVE WAMC

Mr Proscott ono of thn owners of the Conminers Coal Company of tbls city was caughtwith hut wife on n local Harlem train at Mottllnvon They Blurted with u party of throonon Mondny noon to wnlk down

vita Impossible to toll ho said yostordayIwhere the unIts lay because of tho manyepresslons In tho road tutu w o took Tho snow

1WaR seldom less than knee deep nnd whlloWnlKlnc along In whnappeared to be n level

i Ho would suddenly ourselves flounderingJ nil to our arm pits My wlfo was almost chilledr to dentil Tim most of tho time pho was wait

log through snow up to hor waist When wollnallr got to the Suburban road shnwas al-

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deadWhy tilt you leavo the trnln hn wan askedBecause he replied wo feared being

tj frozen to death If wo stayed there Before wecit tho train the pnsoencem woro chopping up

tIle card tables and seats for tire wood It waselmply 1question of Maying and freezing or

f out and taking thu chauens of gettingetrlkloli In fact wndld not think tim travellingt would provo so bad ns It didi

lEN SUFFERING OS A STALLED CATTLE TRAINA railroad mnn from Albany arrived down

i town on the Sixth avenue clnvnted yesterdayHo hnd lot bis train behind him nt the Mutthnttnnvllle station of tim Centrals Hudsonlllvor branch Ills train was u mixed onewith 1 good deul of live stock und n dozen or

i mure persons aboard when It bit Albany at 5t oclock Sunday uvonlncWo got stuck nlonc nbout Breakneck ho

i Kid and Ilay there until u freight cnmo upus Tho engineer cut loose from his

own train nnd shoved us along to Yonkers andthnro ho loft us and went buck after his trainncnln Wo got along somehow until wo ranInto n train abend of us nnd smashed tho-

oboosoI tilt to splinters It didnt do nny otherl tliunage though nnd wo got on at last to Man

Lnltunvillo station There our own engineerf it looso und said hed run ahead for wateri Vo didnt sco anythIng moro of him stud wovo

f I IId thorn over since Thotlrst ones out weremyself tutU another man He cuinn near dhrtgbefore wo got through the drifts I had to pullLint out two or throe times and if ho hadntjnd some whiskey anti drunk 1 little once in a-whilei I think hed n boon a goner There are

igiit or nilo mon loft there and they haventanything eat or any money to bus it oven if

i thero was any place to got It There were1 eomo of tho cattle dead already whon I lofti and the sheep uud hogs especially seemed to

fa be sufferingi Tho story wan corroborated by nn Iowa mnn

Who Wits coming through on the fame traint with nineteen horses and who escaped und got

down town himself and brought large satchelalong bsdel carried over his shoulder bvai t piece He woro two overcoats and wnlj otherwise prepared In Moslem rushlon forHo said ho didnt mind tins Eastern wonbor

1 I much but thought the railroad accommoda-tions

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lolt something to be desired Many ofhis horses wore dead and ho expected to losek 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 250poople who hnd waltnl for hour to get

1 home This tram to City l-

tf111 nnd was ent over tho lino iiealn atIt returned nt H0 and at 948 It left for New-ark

¬f 1i again At 1030 a second crew was put onI and Superintendent Crawford said that ho

should send trulnaover tho toad us fur ux New-ark

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f overy fortyfive minutes all nllt Super ¬

intendent Crawford lot towoik morningf by nI oclock wllllllrao forceTho yard good shape and by 11

oclock an attack was made on tho drifts neari JInrion Tho westbound track through thedeep cut was found to be almost clear of snowbut the leastbonnd Is covered up with so manyr I out of It that It will not ho touched until theI Test of tho line Is opened Along about 4 oclockr I the road mow lively with trains of coacheswhich were brought in from along the lino near

t JIurlon No snow was found uuroas the mead-ows

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but It was well bankud up Just this sidett of Newark lInt the hardest job was in New

ark itself A freight and n passenger trainwere between Market and Chestnut

i Btreots and Croat plies of unow were found atevery street crossing By 5 oclock Superin-tendent

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Crawford said Tho line Is clear toc Ituhway and I shall send a train to Newark atonce I hoar that tim line Is ulso clear fromblladelphin to Trenton end halfway fromTrenton to Railway I think we may be able to

f end a train to Philadelphia tonightThe Chicago Limited the only train sent out

on Monday which lleft at 10 A M was foundI yesterday at Harrison The engine hadIts front truck off the track It was locked rUI

I and the train was taken Into Newark whore itWill remain until the lino Is clearedt

EKtB GETS TO PATKRSON

The hundred and fifty or more passengersWho were imprisoned In the Erie depot In JorpoyCity on Monday nigh where tho Kusquehunna left thorn on h trip ut ION spent

i tbo night In comparativocomfort MlssPhelps-and the married lady and her children slepti comfortably in Superintendent Barrets room

I on the second floor The lively shop anti fattory girls curled themselves up on the seats of1 A Nyack coach and half a dozen other coaches

wore nt tho disposal 01 tho rest of tho peoplet i1 A cood manY people who spout tho afternoonand night of Monday In the depot wont acrossto the city but nearly nil returned soon andwaited for trains home They wore not cheeredby this notice which was put up early in the-

y dayWedo Dot expect to itarl any trains from here lod y

J I liiiHiTT Superintendentc In the afternoon tho westbound track wnsJ I Cleared and a train was sent through to clear

the road to Paterson Tho trains which werestuck at Passulc wero found and all tbe imssenSrs who wished to do so returned on the work

to Paterson At B oclock the first passen ¬

yertrainwaasent from Jersey City to Patersonconches anti hud two heavyengines 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 NewJersey and New York This road was said to bofree of bad thrifts for twenty miles from BergenAll the stalled trains east of Port Jutvis wernreported to be In safe places Otto that passed

i Port Jervls night before last got buck therebefore It was snow d in It is not probable thatsay train will bl sent out on the mnln line bofore tonight tho reports Indicate that thedrifts are trootient anti too hard to get throughwithout shovelling When tho storm struckthe road it gave the mon hard work to gutthings Into shape Twenty cars of cattle wereamong the last trainsin Itook wen engineset them into the but it donealthough three off the last oars Wilbucketollthe track In doinGI Ihore wore a lot moreof cattin bound ken These werenot so lucky They wero caught and linvaWithout doubt frozen to lentil At leasttwenty enclnas worn blocked In tho Erie yardThey Lund 7uel enou1 to keep them allvo butno water molted for n while and

I afltrward hose was run to them from theW tract but two of theta died

HOTHINO suns op t AN U 1 OB WEST SHOHEI Tho IL A W Railroad got out onn worktrain to Newark yesterday and that was nil k

placard nt the ticket ofiliu anuoiinred iobe run today March 13 Vector I

day the tracks woro ton great extent vlvnrtfdthrough the tunnel nnd over the meudnvH toNewark At the crosslni of 1119 AnsIhuIUIroad n few rods bojcnd tthe tUOpl tI quuhalnl onclui woro wlh their limn

Olt ontictuajly barring the Timy Wlro10100111 thenltrrnool At Handfordncroia

las iwross the truckwith snow drifted iirouml thorn In hoaps Do

I t tween Highland HIIIolll1 South Oiiirgo t nor Ilitrun on Mondayfrom haMon Morrlstnmiunit other plius tireblocked In lucy entry from fiiKI lo 1000 pas

ippi Since the blixkade most of the trains11111 iiitpn bnnisht near stations whora thrro

llnrr ofI the puionceM MffwlnB tramcold dir tutitugorr Miiiiyiif tliolni8ijipR men of tutu Ornngps

got ituwit as fr sXewnrk olllhlll sleighsor on loot butt cnuld come A ironb tiemuit who walked In from Brick Church lldthat from lw4rk tito dOmartttl5eiy clelrtruckmade tbe walkIng isis easy matter

oollton branch the road was turacikallycoon bJ yesterday afternoon hutno ttins were rn Iupectod that trains

will bo run at least by today noon In themean time the milk trains cannot bring theirfreight to the city and the malls cannot bedespatchedlOn tho West flhnro trnfTlo Is entirely sue

INO 00 ON jrnsitr CENTRALThe blockade on the Jersey Central wns oven

moro complete yesterday tItan 01 MondayNut I train was run on any of dlvlMonsand the efforts of tho companys pmplujnoswere directed the clearing of tracks for thepoiwlbln iPHiimptlon of triilllc today Hit loco-motives lalinred nil thin lao rn mu aiuul wellI Into

afternoon to reliwto two trilns from timIIIU 1Hllllho long cut nt Jackson avenue on

and suceoodnl rIte trainswero accommodations that started for Newarkearly Monday morning They wero stuck tatIn tho snow nil Monday night Homo of thu-opassettgers secured lodgings In the neighborliood others sat In thn little station and therest spout tho nliiht In thin hunks Improvisedfrom tho materials In bite cars They werobrought back to the city yesterday afternoonThe officers of the company wore so much encournaiid with tim success of their efforts toclear blue Jackson avnniio put that It was de-

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to Mart abram for Newark nt 7 P Mbut when that hour arrived tutu tracks woroagain covered with drifted snow Inl it did notseem possible that I truths bo got outuntil this morning

On the Long Brunch division no trains woremused A locomotive with n car loud of track ¬

men started out on themnlnllno to clone thooutbound tinckand penetrated as far ns Green-ville

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Threo locomotlvos had come up toGreenville on tho Inbound Irl1 front BergenPoint The drill lit was too deepfor them antI they wero switched to the oUtertrack ann brought up to by thetruckmens train together with a handfulbelated travellers who hnd seized the opportu-nity

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to ret away from Bergen Point Engine88 drawing the trackmens train ran Into abank of snow at Greenvlllo so thou rind closelypacked that the forco of the collision shatteredthe glass of tho hosdllght and cat windowsBits of thf flying glass struck thn face of En-gineer

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Clapp Ineorntlnglt badlyDown nt Bergen Point a train with 100 pas-

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for Now York was caught In tho Lutzrard and hl not vet boon released At lastaccounts hungry travellers hal devouredabout ovnrythlng edible In Borgon Point to thoCroat dismay of that isolated and needy com

Four iooomollves that had attempted to clearthe lint were reported ofT thn track betweenBnrgpn Point and Ullzabethport-

Tun Lily Clay blondes worn still In the JerseyCity depot last night determined to remain Intheir special cnr until It Is taken somewhereAnother party phnrtnrnd the sleeper Baritanund was very comfortableIIs expected that trains will bo moving on

Newark branch this morningAUSTIN conniN nniNiis IN A TEAIN

The Long Island Railroad Dopot was the sub-ject

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for an artist Monday night and ynstordnymorning Peoplo who fulled to connect on timbolo stretch sought sweet repose on the

floor of the wnltlmrroom Tim bencheswore liiiotl with the wenryTwo men pulled downa long lauder which hunK on thu walls andulept on tho rungs Many stayed there nil tinyyesterday and slept thorn again last night Tim

Long island City wore filled to over-flowing

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Tho lingering hono that perhaps ntraits would move out kent the crowd in thostation

In hue sheds of thus stationwere drifts sixfeet high nnd not until nlcflt did tho busyworkmen succeed uncovering the platforms

lie wholo system Is demoralized BetweenNnwtown nnd Corona tho G10 train front IoltIsland City to Whltestono Lauding Isfilet nnd has been since Mondny morningOnly ono train left the Long Island City sta-tion

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which succeeded In gutting tolls destina-tion

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It reached Breakneck In four hourregular time forty minutesl AtPort Jefferson mail1 is stalled Between Hockaway Junction nnd Hprlneflold four trainstwo from Babylon and two from Pntehosuotook a rest for thirtysix hours At Mineolathe iNorthport and tbo Locust Ynlovwaytrlnsstill lie WOMthnr was thothe Port Jefferson mall and the Mal Harbormull stopped at South Oyster tiny hon thelast two slrledat 705 nnd 730 Monday morninglt Throe hours later they werostopped by tEa snow The Oreenport ninth stuckat vt avcrlv At 2 P M yesterday aliho trainswero heard from except the nvorly-nod that reported an hour Inter Communicationwas very dlflleult as alt thu wires were downhut otto to Whltestonn and ono to JamaicaLinemen worn at work at thorn nil day butcould do nothing in Ihl wind nnd cold On theIlockaway butch train No2 which leftthe bench at 8 A M Monday was stalled be-tween

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Woodnnvon and Ulondnlo Junction SheIs sll there und has no chance of Immedlato

At 215 yosterdnv engines 55 85 and 07 withn baggage car filled with shovellers startedover tho North Shore division Iwas stalledat Newtown ut 4 oclock In a a mile longin which the snow IIB sixteen fet deep At 12lP M engines 99 101 and started with asnow plough for Jamnicii and mot a like latebut late lust night when recalled was nblo tocomo

On Monday four trains came In on the NorthShore 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 wholesystem but wns rornlfe nt P Mns no head-way

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could ho stuck ul Jamaica at410 with oOlln1 48 nod 53-

Tho the trains stalled betweenHooknwny Junction nnd Uprlngllnldwore takento the nolghboilng farm lioness old cared forMlnooln accommodated the passengerswho wore stranded nato that placo

Jamaica 10J passengers nearly nil busi-ness

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moo started from Putcliogue nailBabylon lor New York on Monday morningworn chnflng at the delay Amoll them wasAustin 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 LongIslnnd City at 750 When tho train drow Intothe station a mighty veil arose from 100throats followed by Three Cheers for Aus-tin

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Corhln which worn heartily given As thocompany trooped to the ferry house singingand yelling hike Indians I central llcuio wasMr Corbln smiting and ecrcno Ho wits en-veloped

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in 0bll coat trimmed with sealskinand his legs wrapped in pieces of ingraincarpet to the knees tils first question was

Are any trains running on the other roadsI tell you sir I tried to pet in the trainfr6tanti have worked like n beaver all I keptaway from the boys until I made it pretty cer-tain

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that 1 could get them through Wo willbe In running order as soon as anybody is

Un seemed to enjoy the experience of beingsnowed uu immensely Tho mon on Mr Corbin train wore very enthusiastic about thoway In which ho lund cured for thorn Thelarders of tbe surrounding country woro at hiscommand opened to the snowbound men Theyworn lavish In praise Conductor Apgar andhis crew Among the business men who sloton the train and accepted Mr Corbins hos-pitality

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were B K True Schuylor ParsonsGil Conklin Charles Koarlos Commodore Liv ¬ingston William Hmlth N S Lawson Drrush Milton Thompson and Barnuel Thomp-son

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nearly all from BabylonA BRIDEGRooM HELD AT rOUQHKEErsi-

EPouaiiEEEraiE March laMore snow Is fall ¬

ing tonight already tIters are heavy driftslining Main street which have been added toby snow shovelled from walks and are fifteenor twenty tnot in height Tho 200 passengersstopped here yesterday 1by their trains belnlhold are scattered among tbe hotels andrate boarding houses of tho city nnd all aredoing voii Among them are AssemblymanHill of Albany and Assemblyman Yates ofHchennctndy Thero is also I younc gentlemnn 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 eighteenof them have been given lodglngsfor the night

I1 our locomotives shoving a huge snow ploughleft hero nt noon going south Tho trainplunged through u drill eighteen feet deep nearNow Hunibiirch another big drift near Break-neck

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nnd landed at Cold Spring tonight Thoyhope to ninoh IVokcklll tonlcht North < iftHnlKing a dri fifteen foot high and Koventy

yards awaits the coming of timbucuer Another enow plough shoved by

two enlnel In charge of General UondmiisterOtis In1 llfty men IIs on Its way south tutu mayreacts ro tonight A snowplough trainbroko the track fiom Iludon to Albany thisafternoon No passenger trains tire movingtier will any ho IIIOVHI tonight ItlHhopiidI

that the blockade will bo partially lifted to ¬

morrowOKTTIKO LY bTALLKD TItAlXS

One Truck Clrnr Through the Fourth Ave-nue

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Tunnel tbe Other HurledFrom tho upper end of the Fourth Avenue

Railroad tunnel up to 150th street where thoNow York Central leaves tho Harlem branchtaking an abrupt turn through andaleeIwlndlol cut tho tnow has lonl 1 sin

duty what Iwilt tulo mal duyc to undoThe further up the rond ono InCH thin deepernro tho drifts arid the fences Ihinlly disappearfrom view altogether Throughout the wholedistance from the Grand Central Dupot up to

not111 Iho up MiKtral on the easternsilo u tunnel nnd sunken had Is compara-tively

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Fret from embankments so that coupleof heavy locomotives hud little tioublo Inclearing tho way yesterday But thn loWItrack Is onn lone drift The driftiielulit In bite chunnolof tho tunnel biteIpenlngB of ull to have acted an siteAIlion lubes Millions tons of BIIOW have honIHI1UI thorn ui solidly nsiio in rn len hinitse

it hnd 19UI slnreellWl1 lor hummer useXuett r t ito mluliolrltl are Itel to-

fetiVi o deiP iilmobt louchlu i

uV1 linilubH bits I > to thovobL ole shUe uy to run loomotlvps through Itsyas 610WI by th effortH iimdi on Monday

pang of 200 Italians were taken UPto the zutouttu 01 the funnel at Klchtyfourfhstreet Before they bait gone very fur It waseidont they couldl l accomplish nothing havingno place-enow

near at bund In whlcl to dump theand nothing wbeh cart Itawuy

The only feasible way is to carry Ioff In trainsas so much freight-

A reporter ofI TUB RUN took 1stroll up thetracks starting at 110th street where lay therltamfnrd special which the stalled trainWInearest to tho city been there since10X A M Monday 1It seemed to bo morefirmly riveted tho trucks titan over althoughtho drift about it hnd boon clouted away Thoengine which wits detached from tile trainwan covered with a snowy mantle nnd thedriving wheels anti machinery wore welded tocnthor with n continuous nuutu of ice The on-

ulnfor Muck to hlllflt and kept up the stoRmTho conchos deported by nil the pussoiiKcrs nxcnpt unit dozen younc nina whoseemed to look upon tlulroxporlenco ns uhucojokeWPIO

As Innrus tho company fed thom they

At this point tho first train inn that hlock-nllo pntwcil downward about t oclock P M onthn up truck Two engines with n ear betweenluau come up earlier In tho nlternoon on thistruck with Illtloi t t difficulty iiudSupnrlntendout-Toucoy imulii u tour with two Imlne8lslur us-

llfitli street nnd finding 1Ilndtrack wits open to tho junction he gavefor tho stalled trnlnn to come doWI to thoyards as fast ns they could bo Iwas aNow Haven train

A Now York iVntrnl train stood on the downtruck nt the Illcin street station waiting to bo I

puttied out Inllnt 125th street wbor the trucksbend station wits 11 Ilnrlem ulcertraits In n touch worn plight than either of theother two for thin thrifts urn deeper this point1111hcrl Is creator dancer of overturning

Ilnrlem lilvor the road bed belncon a level with the turroundltic country bothtrucks worn butt thinly covered with snow andtla fore of lOOItnllaiiB that wasjiut to workcleared Iho trucks before night The Harlemhirer train that was snowed under near thinstation nf Mott Haven was returned on thedown truck to the junction above nnd switched-to the upbound track ready to go down to theyards

The junction nt 150th street wns a sight worthrlnl Three of the snowclad trains were

hunt a few hundred yards from one anoihcir two on the Hiirlem trncku and ono on aBwltih truck connecting with tim New YorkCentral ut bite point whor It enters tho cut or

The entrance gorge IIs Il0ppelllorI ton lOot deep In thegorge hidden 1 snow banks are threeNow hnlCenlllrlnB whoso passengers suf-leiodI I mtlh Irhuton unt the Inst ono wnlcarted IIIY A yesterday nt tao

cnsn of company Near MHcombs Dam aonrtIt Conlrllrulllnotlnd Hnuyton Duyvllis liftn Upwardof n score nro scattered along tho line to thenorlhwnnl

Thn second train that left tho junction forthn depot was a double header and a third en

Wits nt thus rear end It was a Whllflnn the Harlem lllvorgot BJclnlol P M arriving nt tho GrandContra Depot nt 535 oclock making 23 min-utes

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The reporter was otis of 1 score whocame down but tim regular passengers had allbeen taken oil earls in that lay The hugedrifts in the main tunnel loomed up againstthe openings of tho walls and were plnlnlyvisible as tho trnln swept through the dark In-

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Tbo passoncorx had to wade throughheaps ot snow two feet deep in the depot itselfUthey alighted

NEWARK STILT FKOZKN VI

The Speirowi and GnmQlilrdBorXetrtJerieyHate Frrlihcil or Will strrr

None of tim street cnr lines in Newark vrasoperated yesterday nnd no teams succeeded inbreaking through the Immense drifts on thoturnpike and plank road between Newark andtItle city Dozens of business men rosldKic InNewark and suburban towns were anxious toget to this city yesterday morning and findingthnt no trains wero running on any of the lIveroads they hired sleighs nod endeavored todrive In In all cases they were stalled beforereaching the Bergen ll A dozen brewerywagons urtllockd In snow between JerseyCity and Newark

The Newark are all overcrowdedbut little is lacking for the comfort of theguests except milk There Is a real milkfamine In NOllrk Dozens of milk wagonscontaining ful cans of tho precious fluid aresnow bound on tho roads between Irvlncton-BloomQeld Orange Lyons farms and NewarkTho drivers have deserted the wagons al-

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they could get Idollar 1quart for themilk In soma places In the city The condensedarticle is all sold out and the grocers are be ¬

wnlnl tho fact that they cannot buy moreare short of coal also and people who de-

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upon buying fuelly tho pall hle had to-go to tho coal

There wero no theatrical entertainments InNewark on Monday nlpht anti none last nightTho Harbor Lights Company did not arriveJoe Dowlluc and Sadie Husson with their nowpiny Never Say Dlo hnd tim big tunk conhtructed nt Jacobs Theatre but in splto oftheir motto tithe they failed to get to NewarkThe London Speclilty Company billed at Vu aidmaus Tlipatre was divided and half of theperformers are snow bound homowhore

Not a live sparrow was to be soon in thestreets of NowaiI ynstordaybut the snow driftswere littered with tho frozen bodies of thou-sands

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otf them A boy picked up 13U dead birdsunder the ivy ut Grace Church yesterday morn-ing

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nnd then did not disturb tho snow to seekthose buried beneath It It Is doomed highlyprobablo that almost nveryRiimo bird In theBtatn ol New Jersey either his perished In thestorm or will starve to d The ruin of Sun-day

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soakod them through nod bite sudden fiI01 tomporattiro deprived thom of thefly Tim death of the hardy sparrows in thesheltered places in the city makes it almostcertain that not mans quail and trouso IItheopen country survived tlio storm

The New fork pnperl reached Newark onMonday morn In none got through rosterduy big prices were offered for copies ofTrtK 1tnnlTim local papers appeared on tlmoon days but they hud no despatches fromanywhere Thin only telegraph wire in workingorder yotordlywnA between Nowark anti Mor

Is not In communica-tion

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with any othor place Tim Western Unionrepairers worn struccllnc through snow drifts

day yocterdny but could make no headwayagainst tho tuuglo of broken wires and up to alute hour lust night the wires wero all downbetween Nowirk mutt this city

No casualties were reported in Newark yes ¬

tlrdnllhoulh many persons were saved Inon Monday night by being

drnzgei exhnuhlrd from banks of snowAmateur photographers wore out in force

yesterday morning Immortalizing bite beauti-ful

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scene and taking pictures which will boheld up to grandchildren In > ears to comoto quell nny disposition to magnify the punysnow btorms of thin future The oldest Inhab-itant

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caved in yesterday nnd had nothing topay about the good old Imf when he used toHlnchrlile over the tops fences

Prophet Million the Inconsistent Frenchweather progiuouutlcator who bus lost n smallfortune tills winter by backing his predictionswith good money raked in nearly t200 yester-day

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becaiisa ho hnd that much out in wngnn tlmtIt would rain on Sunday und snow on MondayHo is happy because for once he had no betsthe other way

Two employees of the Singer Sewing MachineWorks nt Ulrabotbport reached tholr hOlesin Nowark at noon Theythat several of the employees of bite factorywere badly frozen In walking from bite worksto the railroad station u quarter of n mlloaway at noon on Monday und that one manwho died on tho way was Iylnl nt the fiutoryThey saul that the man name they didnot know foil within 100 yards of the gatesnnd wee cnrrled back dead Others were res ¬

cued with the greatest diniciilty unit wprl taken-to Hhlbuls lIntel with thwlr eyes clos up withlee and tholr hands and toot and carat frozenrite Singer works me on the shore of thebuy nnil the wind bus full siveop mIcroBesix miles of unit meadows on the

lice or which HIP Ctsni rid ilullroudMillion stands P Kemioy billie and FrankForce bite Nownrkers who told bite story saidthud six mon wore badly frozen und that onemnn mimed Situ rvvond hud both liundH frozento bite wrlIs They said that 1800 out of thin3010 nmployees went to tho factory on Mondaymornlnc nnd that twenty or thirty ol themsinned out In tho teeth of Hie blizzard to go totlm Million At tluau station between 200 andSun men vvnro IltlIlnd many of Iholconlrl torOluIIllhlro ni nllII

I stove DillsI said thewind blow so hnrd that mon could not face Innd those who uticeeuded In gutllnc to thulion from tint factory ull biUnvo that some oftholr comrades are iurlel In tho drifts

rilllAl >Kllllll jiiz IIMt SllAltlTruffle ut a SliiniltlllVnln Elton to Open

tue KiillrtmtllIt Long Dlittlltcf Ttltphon-

fFuiLATiEMiUA Murih laEcrthln Inand around this city Is lit it Irhhtullolullo-nntlit Is not ns lull ns It WIB rdl

have ln cleaned fsO that street curtliivel IIIIH been rcauined butt ttarillronils nro

Illrlull blocked Tho trnlns to nnd frommid thrt W It < t art enlIst bound ionio-

vvlmrn nn oliu luow wlioie All IhoI itt on vvlr uro down IIn OUT di C111Occasionally 11 locnl or eomejiInto t his city user thu PhlludeliihlunudllundillK IlOIld

ltTonu hnvo been mudo lo open HP trafficbutt for mllBH und mil the rlroldK urn C-OIfll with lmmoiu0 it u ieiiilnrbllzxiui1 now Ilolfnl nnd fiB Out us u unit Iiscut lii roit cit t Ils filli iiiruln Nothing like1 dub er klowlllr before I

The sv I i liluh Ilhiti IIto water In IthnDelaware Itlver huts l111 Iuwl Hourly out undjnftoa pivoplonrP I iaiurs antI hurry

but cannot gut iicrobs tha vliiinno-

lKurtrle Llirtlt Shine AgainTho United States nnd Itrusli electric com-

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hail all their hiuipa In service lust nightanti New York was rescued from the cloora oithe 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 ellliirnlmr Tcncmrnti on the Vet tildePitnle Aiunnr Dweller on the En >t Side

Shortly after 2 oclock yesterday morningthroo alarms of fro woro Bnt out calllnc fortwelve engines four trucks The fire TMln-Wost Fortysecond Breotlblock from the WestShore Ferry and 1 few rods of tho Con-

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Companys gas works Tho blizzardwas pranclnu viciously nt tbe time and not atnil tired It had In Inct got Its second wind

Chief Shay with his ayes wldo open was athis hendaunrtar In Mercer street and ChiefMcCabe was at hulk headquarters at Twentyninth street and Bovonth avenue Shay jumpedinto his wagon McCabe mounted 1 broadbucked horse and started for the scene Shayswagon tumbled over bIte drifts and MoCitboahorse ploughed through tho mounds until horeached Fortysecond street and Eleventh ave-

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No 3 engine with six horses and Iscoreof men to help was being backed to the hy¬

drant in front of Bernard Dnlys saloon on thecorner while fifty feot away the double tene-ment

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at 6JD West Fortysocond street wasroaring and crackling with great flames thatyore licking up thus five stories and root as Ithey were shavings

Engine house No 2 1Is but three mocks awaybut Foreman Brown and his men and the sixhorses had umighty tough utruegl to get totho tire5 Xhelvo chiefs Immediately gave uphonl of other engines under the

and directed that No 2s one line of hosefthould bo used so as to protect tour largetenements adjoining 059 on the cast Fore-man

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Colby of Truck 4 and Foieinnn Nugent ofTruck 7 lund their men responded without Ihltrucks They carried their IlldllndSixty families with lots rerbustled out of the four tenements Fortylies and a corresponding number of little oneshad trot out of fijJ and wore distributed inDuly H saloon the barroom and restaurant ofthe West Shore Hotel Fitzgeralds feed storeand the tenements on the opposite side of thestreet

Tho fiery cinders from C59 set fire to the roofs-of tho four tenements and only after an hoursbattle had No 2s single hose and the axes ofthe truckmen put out the llames Patsy Laganowned CSV

The women and children who wer turnedinto the street were ciently Assomhlyman Dalton lr MoManus lair Daly MrFitzgerald und Mr Ultim of the hotel gavethem mod and tOieltur Mrs Mary Tlmmons n widow was taken from her bed inthe tenement at G55 apparently dying fromconsumption and lay on ono of tile long tablesin tho VUat Hhore Hotel The tim started Intho cellar of JrGormans little grocery shopat 559

Fire broko out yesterday afternoon at 340oclock in 11l1nullophlelK smoke house in thecellar on livestory doubletenement house nt 35 Allen street and the firelighters lund to return to the primitive and up-roarious

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methods of half a century ago to roachit Tho snow drifts made an almost insur-mountable

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blockade In the East side streetsand hundreds of excited citizens seeing theplight of tho llremon lent willing hands to thetolling lire horses by hitching hawsers to thotongues of the engine cnrriuges and haulingtheta along just as the old volunUer firemendid In tho old days before steam lire enginewan over hoard of

Tho lire itsultwaaarathorsmnll affair causedby the careless handling of some sausage meatnear Ifurnace but so Ireltwere the obstacles-that us soon as the ot anywherenear the tenement 1second cal lor reOnforceinent of engines was sent guard againstpossible spread of the flames Engine 25whose headquarters are In Marion street nearIrlnco street sllredout with elghthorses butthe snow was for them A hawser-was hitched to the tongue and 100 citizensseized hold of It und began to tug for all theywore worth Hundreds men nod childrenattracted by the strange spectacle folowotshouting encouragement to thehose cart dashed along the sidewalk scatter ¬

log frightened pedestrians right and leftThe tenement that was auto is opposite

Grammar School No 2 and there are severalfire hydrants In tho block but they wereburled under snow drifts and the firemen hadto use the hydrant at Canal and Grand streetsHundreds of citizens rushed to the aid of thefiremen and helped thorwith the hose

Twentytwo families numberingnearly 10nil told lived in the double tens ¬

mont they were all In the street screamterror The llreinnn tound that Raphael

the butcher had dashed out leaving hisdaughter in the smokefilled sitting room inthe basement oer the smoke house and oneof the firemen rushed In and carried her out

Only two engines were able to get to thescene on the first olnrmlud only three en-gines

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of tho seven on alarm wereable to light their way through the drifts ritelire extended to tho bakery store of Louis Men ¬

delsohn on the other Bldool thejdoublo build-ing

¬before the how lines got Into worklniorder About JSOO damage was

butcher shop and bakery and 800 damage tothe building which is owned by a Mrs Crookwho lives In Kovetitysixtu street NeitherBaker Mendelsohn nor Butcher Itaphael wasinsured and they stood out in tho snowdriftsof Allen street nnd tore their hair In grief

The panting double lenl of Truck 9 gave outin Prince street near flowery while return-ing

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from tho fire and a hundred citizens nndboys volunteered to drag the cumbrous appa-ratus

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tolls bouse In Elizabeth street I blockand a luaU away Tho horses refused to budgennd were unhitched and led around to theirstable Scores of willing hands helped the lIremen to tafco th ladders oil the truck and rushthem to the ijuarters and after the ladderswero taken away tim enthusiastic crowddragged bite truck to the house In a few minutes

The spilling out upon tim floor of some coalsfrom a grate In tho brokerage shop of F PFreeman sot fire to that ground flooring of 43Exchange place nnd brought several enginestolling through the snow drifts of Wall streetnt Rli P M A single fireman put out the lirewith an extinguisher-

A frightened tennnt of a house in Mott streetran to 1ollot Headquarters late in the alternoon and reported that the housl was on fireanal Sergeant KelUher sent an alarm Thelire fortunately wax in a chimney Enilne20 33 and13 worn all temporarilylire burned out the chimney before the enginesgot Into Mott street

jIznw UP ytiK Film SIOXALS

The City bni Dee Uncommonly Lucky SoFar In Etcnpln Fire

So far there has been but little trouble ntFire Headquarters in receiving alarms andreports of fires though good fortune has hadmuch to do with this favorable condition ofthings Of the 175 disabled boxes below Sixtyseventh street seventyfho hind boon put inorder up to 4 P M yesterday Many boxesabove Sixtyseventh street were still out oforder About 430 P M ono of the most Im-

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circuits which connected with twentyboxes gave way Nevertheless alarms haveboon received in the regular way fromall tho very few Ores that havebroken out since the blizzard beganand It has not been necessary to communicate-by circuitous routes Four operators wore atwork in hits telegraph department all lastnight and the night oofore Two are sufficientordinary tlmen On Monday night tho In-

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lund to be covered up to protectthem from this snow which leaked in from theskylight blunt crowns the telegraph room andthose not In immediate uso were so coveredlast night Assistant Superintendent Inrrelbnysthat moro snow Is not to be so

I much MI a continuance of tho wind or Iu changeto nun whIch woutid greatly Increase the dieability of crossed wires tb o far us tho boleI Kraphlu deportment 1itt concerned them have

been storms before this which costImodecmunlcatlon to a much greater Aboutfifty men were at work repairing wires yestiirday and more would have beon employed Ifthey could have hen obtained

Hporclnry Jiisseii siild in reforonco to theoft fuel to supply thus enginesutthe Lulght

street fire on Monday night that thus coal defuels front which extra fuel in always furnishedtiati a fithi supply on hand and Ihlt the onlydllllculty In 10lnrl to conl was transporting II which worn calledImcr8to Unit fire cnrrled order toI lnl Il0unllnIllulitnn their woieht us I oRlb11 ThenIis not l ely to bo Htiy trouble thl hyInintR ho thinks 1 m Rnmv will proui Hut

i Ililint protiitlon nrifiist ficozlnglll Ito Hemlock Iut e veti tog lucia had been

nine alnrmi reported tat Fr DoadniinrlnrH bo-cldes M> vf rnltliiiI nliirms since tthi Ibllgranl be-gin i hi only tires of IImportnucn wore tthogo-nt Lulght street und Wpslliirtvfecniid MrcotJlii wiltlunt renorls ot battitl louis ln humdipuuon I tutu at It huita been thonrht best to ullow tint llrunien to dovotu their entire iitloutlonto their active duties

Vi Water Left Ia Camdenlij Long litnanre Klntione t-

rniLAnciaiiu March 13 Caimton Is Jn abad predicament Tho wind line blown almostnil thus seater out nf hue Delaware River antithu clty6 wiiler supply Is oxiiauRled If a fireInyiks out It may sweep away the wholo cityIubile omens aro closed private luiblnoss Isalmost subpeuded no malls have been receivedanti titers la no telling when they will arriveNot a train IIUH arrived during twentyfourhours People are melting snow for drinkingwater cud all the factories have been shutdown

iiorr jinooKLTtt is DOIXU

X flarfoc Cam Running Xfare Thee IfilFuneral Po tpnrrt

In Brooklyn yesterday no attempt wasmade to resume trnfTlo on any of thus street cerlinos but the elevated railroad managed to resumo operations Superintendent Martin hada couple of hundred men at work on Mondaynight clearing the snow from the tracks antiyenterdayhe suceceiluict with but slight Interttiptlonsin keeping fifteen train In operationThey wore not run on schedule time but tingeneral rule was from eight minutes lo ton mln-utps headway Each train was packed butgreater care wax exorcised bycnclnoers ruraltrain mon and not an accident occurred Themanagers of the surface roads directed all theIrefforts to the removal ot the snow from UKtracks In this work the big snow ploughwere not used but 4000 or 5001laborers wero pressed into service arid on allthe lines this work wan continued nil ilay IIIs expected that travel on almost all tho main-lines will bo resumed In part today rite CityRailroad Company alone has eighty mullen oltracks to clean off and as several of its kuughswere broken In the vain effort to light tho thrust

attack of the blizzard on Monday morning thework ot removing the snow will bo attendedwith so much bite greater difficulty ProsKlcntLewis says that J50000 wilt not cover the IOFS

to the company by the storm If other roaashave been similarly damaged and even shouldthero bo no return of the storm several dayswill be required to put matters In their accus-tomed

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shapeSleighs wore almost the only conveyances

seen in the streets yesterday and for their usea big pries was demanded Very few of bitehnckmeti ventured out yesterday apparentlysatisflod with the handsome profits they lundmade on Monday The lack of hotel accom-modation

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In Brooklyn was painfully Illustratedon Monday night The few hotels around theCity Hall could not shelter half the number otpersons who wore cut off from their homesand many persons after making vain effortsto obtain a covering for their heads for thenight were glad to seek retime at the policestations Anxious Inquiries were made at Po-lice

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Headquarters for more than one hundredmlsslne persons but it is presumed that all ofthem or nearly all havo turned tip as inqui-ries

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were not resumed yesterday Manypersons have suffered severely from ex ¬

posure during the storm and there arefrom 20 to SO In the various hospitals whowore picked up unconscious in the snow butall will recover and so far no loss of life hasbeen reported It Is feared however that sucha blizzard could not keep a city of nearly amillion people in its cold grip for a couple otdays without some fatal consoquoncos andthat It will be found that some persons havobeen burled in the snow Titers has been in-

tense¬

suffering among poor people in the tene-ment

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districts It hits been almost Impossibleto obtain fuel and yesterday coal was not dolivered for loss than 15 a ton All funeralshave been postponed

Brooklyn has fared well In the mattorof Oresas none of any serious consequence has oc ¬

curred since the storm set in Fire Commis-sioner

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Ennls has kept all the men on duty atthe stations and by permission of Mayor Chapin bo has hired a couple of hundred extrahorses for temporary use as the regular sup ¬

ply would bo of no service in dragging the en ¬

gines through the blockaded streets Thesnow has been cleared away from the fire hy-drants

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The only fire yesterday was at 27 Clormoot avenue but it was Quickly extinguishedwith slight loss

The policemen were cautioned by Superin-tendent

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Campbell to bo especially alert Forthe purpose of making their duties less ardu ¬

ous the usual night patrols wore split up intotwo sections each remainIng out for throehours Instead of six That the police did theirhard work la a satisfactory manner is evidentfrom tim fat that only a few robberies andthese of a trivial character were reported

Business in the Court House was almost ata standstill All the Judges worn in theirplaces but only n few of thu lawyers and liti-gants

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appealed und at noon the courts withono exception wore all adjourned In the po ¬

lice courts the disposal of cases of drunkennesswits the only business transacted The BlackMaria which Is used In convoying prisonersfrom the jail to the courts broke down andJustice Walsh was obliged to hold court in thejail All the magistrates were mild in metingout punishment to offenders

The only serious panic during the storm inBrooklyn was caused by tho partial destruc-tion

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of the big steeple of the Clusson AvenuePresbyterian church of which blue Rev DrChamberlain is pastor in Clnsson avenue andMonroe street Persons living In the adjoininghouses were startled about 9 oclock on Alanday night by a series of loud crashes resem-bling

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thunder They rushed to their doorsand windows in alarm and soon to their ter-ror

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discovered that blue timber supports of thesteeple wero being blown of piece by piece nndflue pieces lulling on thn roofs had caused thestartling crashes In the morning It u as foundthat all the fifteen feet of woodwork at thelower part of the steeple had been tornaway and that the steeple Itself badcareened and was loaning toward Mon-roe

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street at an angle ot fifteen degreesEach heavy gust of wind caused the steepleto sway from side to side and Its destructionwas momentarily expected A panic seizedmany of thus occupants In the adjoining build ¬

lags some deserting their houses and othersgoing to the collars and basements for safetyA squad of men hurried to the church nt 8oclock in the morning and ropes werestretched around the exposed district and nootto allowed to pass City Works Commis-sioner

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Adams anti Building CommissionerPlatt made an inspection of the place and de-cided

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that when thus steeple gave way It wouldfall across Monroe street In a directionsouth by east and all the occupants inthe houses in Monroe street opposite thuschurch were notlnVd of the Impendingdanger Tho exposed houses are Nos 2 4 d810 and 12 and nil day the occupants of thesehouses wore careful to remain on the lowerfloors It was thought that title would bu am-ple

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precaution as the weight of the spire atthat distance would not do moro titan crush Inthe roofs of any of the houses The churchwile built eighteen years ago and thus steeplewas slightly slanted during a severe stormabout a year ago If the steeple does not fallit 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 tostop all business in the Coroners ofllce Yes-terday

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afternoon titers worn moro than twentycases awaiting the action of the Coroners butIt Was found impossible to hold any inquestsIt is believed that there must bo more titan 120

suspended funerals In the cityAll this schools remained closed yesterdayPostmaster Hondrix ao the people ot

Brooklyn as excellent n mall service ns timsituation could admit and thn letter carriersdischarged their severe duties in n heroic man-ner

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struggling through the snow plies hikeArctic travellers Many of them returned tothe Post Ofllce exhausted antI the main ofllce-nt one titus resembled n hospital ward OnMonday tight out of the eleven mall deliverieswere mndo Yesterday none but local mallsfront Now York arrived anal nl noon till themull was cleared front the oflUo Vt h theritwould nil roach its destination was anotherttiiash ion

Tho liorco gusts ot wind on Monday nightcaiibodmuch damage all over this city Treesforces chimneys and awnings wore Ilowndown anti windows biuunbed A memorabliielm In Bergen street near Novlns tsvo feet Indiameter with two Immense brunches whichwait tim pride of thu neighborhood succumbedto the storm early yesterday morning It broketilT tliruo foot Irons tho ground 1 ito liiibrunches fell on nn unoccupied house 211Bergen Street doing conbldernblo damage

THE SUN yesterday morning found greedybuyers ut 10 cents nab IB cents a copy in ll-

llamsburgh anti ireonpolntI wouldnt have lelt my houpp said onn

buyer for a good deal of money except to gotTHE HUN Now 1vo gut It Ill tro homo and en ¬

joy myself All thus people In my noubo areawaiting my coming nnd well muko a partyrustling and listening

Otto mean the purtlwsor of tw nty copies doml ici b huit Ito mado th Pbt rtha taut for spofiilaunit Nosaid he I havo got the pnp rs lorpeople nn lit V labs k heu i its y heardi 1 stigoing nflor THE KUN they agreed if I wouldbring Itack n copy to Ithem to vloiin infMooiit

anti sliltiwilk ion bliuulu IWB seen thoiI bthey contracted for

Lvi ryntr eliiiidnMiimu In Oreenuolut antWllllimiRhur IN blmikwl with miovv fallentrees and ileserlnd truekK und wiirnn < f-

trrduyI ttho tpjiipiltflors ot ton yards In Ithetttenement districtst culled upon Ihut police forprotection to theirpropeity Crowds huron sabout their yards bluet stud demanding cotta

To those who could buy It toad was Ituilt tautIn small tituintllies Mnoral factories whichrely on ii dally supply of coat score forced toshut uiosruu ysuettartitty

Aetutant Chief lnglneor John Hmlth of blueFire Department libel evening lied sleds sentlo nil the endue houses to carry that luebe Inciiwi of nil re

The 1nrk Theatre thus Grand Opoin Housemud hyde Boitmnails lhaautre score alien lustnight hut bite audleiieo In uarli wait ery pninllArrangements had Ilorn inado for owning biteBrooklyn Theatre but a portion of Mr Mayoscompany which Is booked for thin week failedto arm In time and the opening was post ¬

poned until tonightAt 110 oclock this morning nil traffic In

Brooklyn wits suspended the last train fur the

night on the olovntM road having left thebridge nt that hour Trains wilt run on ITRUInr schedule time it is expected on this roadItoday

XHAHKr A017JIM2 OV T1IK JUttnUK-

An the DIIT AdTuxcrtl hut Channel tie Brooklyn Oprntrt XVIdrr

Trains on the Brooklyn Ilildgo ran allMonday night and until 7 A M ycrterdny tray ¬

chars found no difficulty lID crossing the riverThen the usual rush of Brooklyultes to got tothe metropolis began and although no surfacecars were running yet the Brooklyn elovntoi-tlallroad supplied enough passengers withthose who made their way to the bridge onfoot tcj causa a jam at the bridge entranceSands street before 8 A II wits filled from curbto curb with n pushing and struggling butgoodnatured mass of human beings mostlymen but a good many women

The cable wns not used partly because thebearing wheels on the bridge wore frozen stiffand partly because Superintendent Martindeemed it unwise to use tho grip on account oltim accumulation of snow and ice The sameprudence also governed hue counsels of themanagers In regard to the number of trainspermitted cm the bridge Only outs train at atints waaailowed to burden the structure Ansoon mitt one train arrived on one track anatlicrwits started from the other track In this wayIt was possible to divide the crowds sendingthe passengers for ten minutes up the northstairway nail in the next ton minutes up thesouth stairway Trains of three cars and twoengines were run

This arrangement however while the neces-sity

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existed of sending passengers up first oneand then tbe other stairway was not sufficientto relieve blue pressure at the one ticket ofllcu

An arrangement adopted to send passengersthrough the ticket office to the south platformcaused a rush In that direction The rush upthe stnlrwny wns prevented by a rope stretchedacross the promenade trom the Houth aide tothe ticket olllco on the north side and fourpolicemen stood on guard to prevent the crowdfrom breaking through Then bIte crowd turnedto thu ticket office anti performed a letter B Inwinding through the ticket ofllco across thepromenade to the south platform

Htill the crowd in Bands street grew and In ¬

creased and finally to relieve the pressure thesouth roadway was thrown open to pedestriansThousands walked to New York in the road ¬

way Grown men Irollcked like kittens andrun races Eight young mon procured a ropefront somewhere and tied themselves to It atintervals and trotted across bite bridge pre-tending

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that they were enduring the perils oftill ascent of the Alps There was no need fortheir precaution

Shortly alter 11 oclock a force of Foventyflvenun was put to work cleaning the promenadeof Ice and snow and It was thrown open topedestrians This with the throwing open ofthe roadway relieved the pressure at Handsstreet and at noon bridge travel resumed Itsusual aspectFourcartrnlns two locomotives ono to

push anti thus other to pull kept the public un ¬

der way across the bridge all daY after 12oclock-

Of thirty bridge policemen who should havereported for duty early yesterday morningonly eighteen appeared at the Sands stroetbridge police station and at fl A M twenty oftheentire platoon reported for duty Thiscompelled policemen who Imd been on dutyduring tIm first of the storm to remain at theirpost Several pedestrians who stole their wayon the bridge unobserved worn found duringblue night on Monday in n halfdozed conditionand were taken to the tower stations rubbedand escorted to land

In the afternoon the last car of a throocnrtrain arriving in Now York fiber unloadingpassengers jumped the track at a switch andtravel was delayed for halt an hour

LINEMEN GET AT THEIR BIO JOB

One r Tbeae Ity We Skull lie Able toTelegraph und Phone

The Western Union Telegraph Companyhad forco of moro than 300 men out yesterdaybolstering UD poles and untangling wires inthe city No pretence ot sending messages bymoans of city wires was made All businessthat came however was received subject todelay and then transmitted through the pneu-matic

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tubes of the company and forwarded toits destination by messenger

The Western Union Company was Indeedvery btimblo in regard to the condition of thecity wires and fell back as it were without re-

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upon compressed air The United Lineshad one wire open to the Hoffman House

The scone in the main operating rooms wassimilar to that to be witnessed in a school ¬

room when the masters back Is turned Mostot the operators hued literally nothing to dobut telegraph with their eyes to their charm ¬

ing colleagues of the opposite sex WesternUnion was able to talk to Chicago PittsburghCincinnati and Buffalo in the u est but in theLiihtaml South nil wires were reported downIn the North connection was good with AlbanySyracuse Newburch Hondout Hudson UticaFeelcskill Tarntown and stations on theWest Shore itnllroad

The telephone wires were all demoralizedyesterday The Long Distance TelephoneCompany has been 11 happy exception nilthrough Local telephone plants wore in abad plight yesterday Thirty mon were put atwork to restore to the perpendicular eeventeenholes in West Eleventh street which lund beentilted against the house fronts breaking win ¬

dow glass anti smashing shutters and also defacing brick walls Nine poles were down atTenth avenue and 140th street and the wimotale was oft repented In Harlem anal MottHaven A cable belonging to thus MetropolitanTelephone Company wits jerked out of tho bedof the North River by a steamer which anchor-ed

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olTCortlandt street on Monday nightThe electric lighting companies say they are

in good shape againThe police wires wore working better yester ¬

day Linemen repaired damage till PoliceHeadquarters was in communication with thetwentyone stations below Fortysecond streetTitle was n gain ot fourteen stations over Mon ¬

day butt perfect communication was estab-lished

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only with the stations comprising thewestern division Tho entanglement of thewires mode it difficult to roceho long dospntehett The telephone wires connectingtho Central Office with bite rharles Mercer anilWest Thirtieth street stations wore In ordernnd that mode of communication wale mostused

The police wires above Fortysecond streetate still In had shnim mind the fourteen sta-tions

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beginning at West Fortyseventh streetand ending at Klngsbrldce are obliged to dotheir business with thus Central Ofllce by roessengnrs Not n few policemen came to PoliceHeadquarters with despatches yesterday

SIR BAJiavKT AND tEL snAP NW

llount Vcrnani end Iurctim nt Ii laterettlnff un4 ho Is Our

Iho snowbound citizens of Larchmontand Mount Vernon havent seen a newspaperpinco the blizzard started in on Sunday nightnnd Newsdealer P T Barguet started out fromhis store at First street Mount Vernon yester-day

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morning to got a supply of SUNS for his im-

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townsmen Ho started at 84 oclockand got to THE SUN office at IK oclock P M

Allot tho distance to ICGth street whore hocaught on to ubiiburban rapid transit train wasmails afoot in company with J B Clarke ofLnrclunont who was in 1880 a professionalwaller

They came up into THE SUN office and re-

ported tlmt the wholo Wostchester region theyiissod through was hopelessly snow boundBetween Woodlawn Junction and Pelhntnvlliethey saw nine trains snow hound In a rowNewsman Bnrsuot reported that tha passon-KorH of titus blockaded trains passed Mondaynight playing curds und singing to whllo awaythe dragging hours Tha blockade of thetrains was BO eflpetual that the townspeoplemound hue station estimated that it wouldtale between two and three days to untangleIt A business man on a Boston train blockednt Mount Vernon offered tiOO on Monday nightin any one who mild drise him nt once toIllumsbrldgp to catch or communlcnto withtitle city but nobody accepted thus otter Thotownspeople saw that nobody could undertakethojourniiy without a cortalutvuf belri burledIn the snow drlftn-

Townsman Mnstorspn who uses at Bronxylll illiid Huddnnlvof apoplexy at 9 oclockMonday morning whllo nt Mount Verron nndlilh friends offered to pay 123 to the one whowould carry inos iige to jlrnnxtllle In Mas-tcrsonB familyI I AllI tolugrapli ami Ilelephiui-ouoimiunlcitlonwaicuti off until thnI onlyI wayword could bi got lo thn family wan by mnsum-c r Nobody in ttho Itown hud the Iiiinllhioil tolateR the bllznid and entry tho inoFRiig-Athroueh nnd It was not until last nlyht tlmt-JliisteitoiiB family know of hK deuth Hiebrty was tkn to it lintel

J ho Larchmount nnd Mount Vernon llimordealers deejared yesterday afternoon that their2ipplf hard liquor had been enllrelv rontuilmoti by bite belMr passengers ttiutll chilledtownspeople who wero out doors In bite Mori-

ufVmnn HfC nt Fiild blunt Its was going towalk back toi Mount Vernon this morningnwalkingI with an occasions IliftI from a pausingsleIght was tho only way tmit any one couldhiopt ho bring Into Mount Voriion that imilcrostIng news of hunts all blue roil of tlm nutbldoworld wns overwhelmed by tile bllzjanl-

UUere inmutleslaaer Fish VasAqueduct Commissioner Hamilton Fish

Jr telegraphed yesterday to the office that hehad been snowed In at Bpuyten Duyvll Creekfor twentyfour hours

EAST RIVER ICEBRIGED-

CKOSS CKOSS ov FOOl vnux VIPcnr in flflhUML1

A Score ol Foolhardy lien CniiTht nhm tknlee went Out three Rrictied with Hiteiiltr All Travel by Cleat ItnpprU-

Tho rislnjr tide bore tip from the bay yo-

tordny morning a hugo field ot Ice It wafted Itpast the Battery before ito sun was duo andshot It up tho Hast lllvor The lower ferriessaw It coming and did not attempt to putt outnor boats It was wider titan this river andlonger titan It was wide When It got up no faras hurling tulip on this side it stuck The cdgascraped the Military sUumnhlp dock antitwisted several piles out of position At Fultonferry just above It caught lash shutting In thusslips and jamming hard against the next pierabove whore the Black Ball clippers dock A-

long extension of ice shut out trnlllo almostup to blue Brooklyn Bridge At the same mo-ment

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the pastern edge which jutted far abendof tim Now York side ot the floe caught oppo-site

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Fulton Ferry It jammed Into the docksfor nearly a mile south shutting In the storesfrom Martins to Hobortss A point ran north ¬

ward from the centre just under the shadowot the big bridge Southward another pointrouohod nearly to Governors Island It wasan enormous Ice field of many hundred acresand old salts had to go back a dozen years torecall Its equal

All this was before 8 oclock Tho bridge wasnot running cars then and even refused footpassengers nn entrance Fulton Ferry wasblocked The hundreds of people who hadgathered attho two gateways to the city woreimpatient A daring spirit lenpod from thebridge dock to tho Ice antI started afoot acrossthe floe His progress wits anxiously noted forawhile and then another man tried It Morefollowed and In n quiirtar of an hour a straffcling line of pedestrlnns stretched across theriver from Brooklyn to New York At this endthey found three plors on which a landingcould be made Ono was blue upper Mallorydock another the Harlem dock of FultonFerry anti the third tlio Black halt dock justabove The last was the favorite especiallyafter half a dozen fishmongers from FultonMarket whoso occupation the blizzard hinddestroyed lot down ladders and accommo-dated

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climbers at 5 cents n houd Tim examplo inspired people at the New York end totravel eastward and by 0 oclock hundredswere availing themselves of the unusual passago The Brooklyn Bridge was opened totraffic soon afterward hot this did not doterthe natural bridge passengers many of whommade the trip simply to say they did It On thebridge Immense crowds btood and garcd onthe singular sight below A largo number ofthese persons hurried to the nearest end of thebridge and muffle for bite Ice passage in searchof adventure and glory

About 0 oclock some tugs made strenuousefforts to break the blockade Ono tried It onthe west sldo without success The powerfultug Transfer No 1 of blue Now haven line wentthrough the sixInch ice like choeso us for asthe second Fulton Ferry slip This opened theroad for the ferryboat Fulton which began plytag between the slip and Catharine Ferry onthis side It destroyed the entrance to the Icebridge too and drove the peoplo down toMartins stores whore some longshoremenerected ladders They exacted one cent tollbut worn willing to take a quarter nnd got ugood many of them with several coins ot largersize One man gave n dollar and said it wasworth it to walk across the Last Illver

Several women made the trip Home woreunattended

lllcbard liaising a ferryman nt Fulton Ferryestimates blue number of persons who crossedat 10000 Mr Howell of Martins Stores saysthere were only 1000 Tlm majority of esti ¬

mates range between those figuresAB soon ns Mr Martin discovered the ice

bridge he declared hun passage foolhardy nataldecreed that no others should make the tripsfrom his two piers rite enterprising laddermon thereupon transferred themsulves antitheir ladders to Watsons pier just below undbusiness was continued A good many startedfront Itobortss piers but titus let there was notsafe anal people were warned off

The dogs who crossed the natural bridgewere legion They seemed to appreciate therarity of the situation Tommy hum aBrooklyn junk dealer has a dog with a recordHe made tho trip four times all on his ownaccount

Charles Peek of Brooklyn whose wife was tbo-llrtt woman to cross the Brooklyn Bridge afterit wits built travelled yesterdays ice bridgetwice He bad business In Now York and astile ferries did not run came over and buck nnblue ice Ho said it was solid as a pavementC II Cone went to business In Brooklyn onthat passage und said ho wished It were per-manent

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Also wind blew him clear acrosswithout effort on his part He tried first tohind at Hobortss H tores but finding that un ¬

safe climbed up above the ferry houseMeantime the tugs were very hard at work

trying to force a passage One hugged theNew iork shore another the Brooklyn shoreOthers attacked the floe from the south Theydid little good for awhile A large tug belong¬

lag to the Old Dominion line did the biggestslice of work in the beginning

The pedestrians scorned the invasion of thetugboats and increased in numbers everyminute Several newsboys stood In the mid-dle

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of th river and sold THE SUN Icebrldgaedition for ten cents each

High tide was due at U46 oclock Its effectwas felt about 10 oclock The average pedes-trian

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did not know this and did not care Butthe seamen longshoremen know the factand realized the danger when ebb tide wouldloosen the Ice raft from its moorings Theknowing ones therefore placed themselves atthe several entrances to the floe and warnedpeople hack Very many refused to obey antithis ladders having been banished let themselves down from thus piers The Ice lookedstrong mind they thirsted for glory Many wereseized by the longshoremen and kept off brmain force

At the turn of the tide the great icefieldmoved Not a crack on lib surface showed thechange butt n gratIng upon the ends of thepiers against which It was pinned told the storyto the selfappointed watchers along the shoreand loud were the cries to get to the shoreThere wore over a hundred persons on the icat this moment Most of them broke into arun Some of the cranks who felt safe fromlaving ft firm surface beneath their feet per ¬

sisted in plodding on at their own time Hevoral minutes elapsed after the first warningThen with some uulck croaking and crackingfrom end to end the floe began to shift sea-ward

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The most Imperturbable then tookfright and on both sides of the river thrillingscenes wore OBUCtad

About forty persons crowded to the edge ofthe ice at the main entrance to the Black Balldock But the dock wns passed The Ice witsRhlftlnc seaward A grab was made then attbe end of the Fulton Ferry pier but thus pileswere slippery and the edges of the ice showedsigns of crumbling The most Intense excite-ment

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docks as wellNew arrivals from across thus ice Increased

the crowd nt the edge o very moment Somelaughed in this excitement Homo exchangedcool jokoH with those on the docks One quietl-y

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asked to hnvn u tug sent down for him an-other

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requested nstoie fftlll another shoutedthat hed cable when huronuhod the other sideTho majority though were greatly excltodMost of them shouted aimlessly one man sankon his knees and prayed

Slowly the floe drifted down There was nuta rowboat accessible Koernl tugs began t9get taut sttsiuu for tutu rosette but the toe cratedagainst thus northerly Mnllory piers the nextbulow the hurry crumbled nnd shivered againsttim talons and almost stopped Thus pause witsonly for flvo minutes but in that time a scoreof dock tmploeeu lowered ladders antI helpedvery one ashore One man In his ncrvoua-nees reeled to one side anti slid oil into the Icywater Tho longshoremen were by and quickby seized him and pulled him out

Another mull was loiind covered with icefrom head to foot Ills teeth chattered hlsayuHwere dull lilt see wait while He still hedbroken through atoms lotion lee on the Brooklyn edge of Ihn line anti been hauled up on mitelinn ice They tried to make him gut Puck onliorr hut he stud hed cross that river if he

thai for ItMoon niter lie last titan was landed the field

5leUUI to the tide undmouMl rapidlv down thusbtriim

On ibis Brooklyn side morn exciting Ind-dnntfi were inkingI phico Tliein was no crowdfor IIheie WPIQ finreoiiii caMuaidI j hroo menwho lund just Milltod when the tug lloo Italicon the Iturn of ttho I Idu cwmed uncertainwhich nay to go The Iniu Mnicnal WIIH tothe houthwanl IutllnuI ii rin Hho lund hattielittle piourenB but uhru tlio title turned sitemauls tine long Irs bnek and In the plunge for-ward

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cut blue Ito like tie crust Site wentfaster titan wn expected and approachmlchose tn where the ihreu young men hued juststarted on thelijieiilous trip

Tho men stopped in terror The Ice biilgndunderneath Ithem ivlth the pressnieanil huewaves haul Illhe V rushed on they would atleast hne Moodt I U I n IIhn nut I n Mieet As ItWHS they hihitnled inmed backward forwardImelt ngnlnt mid stood still 1Fits Ice emachu catmerrily Then It huUod up separated anti caehof Ithn thrff young uin scare iiiunrliril upon u-

fopitrutocako of ten Tin lug hud grant throughllkenn arrow and was fur up tho stream Theyshouted frantically and waved their armsThose In the crowd on the wharves shoutedand waved their arms too Several tugs sawthu predicament and started to the rescue but