FULLER DETAILS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 100, 28 April 1888, Page 3

FULLER DETAILS.

The snow-storm set steadily in at New York on March the 12th. In the morning the snow was a foot deep or over on the ground. High wind caused drifts, which in the upper part of the city were three and four feet high. Traffic was suspended, and thousands of Dassengers were blocked on the elevated road. Horse cars were entirely unable to move. People who left up town by the elevated roads were unable to get farther than Eighth-street Many of the more venturesome descended to the street by ladders and walked the rest of the way down town. People in the suburban towns found it almost impossible to reach town, so severe were the drifts. • The wind had been blowing a _ gale for hours. Pedestrians were prohibited from crossing the East river bridge on account of the haSard attending each an at tempt. Only a few persons tried to make the hazard°SinlfPell heavily until after midnight and heavy enow suddenly followed. At daybreak over eighteen inches of snow had fallen on a level. Such a storm has not occurred in New York in the recollection of the oldest inhabitant of this section. The wires were down in all directions and news had not been received since morning from even Philadelphia. An embargo was on Washington. No wires were up between New York and Boston, and only two between that city and Chicago. Long Island sound was filed with shipping, which commenced to dnfft with the storm and the air was so thick that it was Stately impossible to detecfc danger near at hand without the most ineeasant use of bells and whistles. Business was.at, a standstill. Down-town houses were almost deserted. FROZEN TO DEATH IN THE STREETS. The following despatches record the progress of the storm : New York, March 12. 7 D .m —The storm is increasing. It is the courteandeverystreet-carm*ew York residents. The elevated roads run 3.W0

trains daily usually, and were never before stopped. Westerners declare that Dakota never furnished New York a blizzard until to-day. 9 p.m.—There is no abatement in the storm. Frozen ears and feet were never co numerous. The drug stores have been filled with patients all day. A woman was absolutely frozen to death to-night at the corner of Broadway and Fulton-streets, popularly supposed to bo tho busiest corner on earth. In hundreds of streets loaded, waggons have beon abandoned and the horses taken to the nearest stables. The wind has blown the snow into immense drifts. Countless accidents have occurred from slipping. The Aster House alone turned away 300 would-be guests, and the other hotels have had a similar experience. Midnight.—Owing to the tremendous gale nnd terrible snowstorm there have been uo arrivals nor departures from this port. Navigation has been also wholly abandoned in the rivers and harbours, and the snowdrifts in the business streets are as deep as in the country districts. There are only meagre reports from up-town districts, bub in the lower precincts, where the reporters managed to struggle through the snow and against the wind, more than one hundred fractures of limbs and contusions of skulls were reported. The ambulance horses at the different hospitals -were completely fagged out early in the night and calls in many cases could not be attended to. March 13, 1 a.m.—Tho storm has now slightly moderated. Every commercial and public electric light in the city was ordered tobeshutoifearlyinthenightforfear the wires would break and injure the people. Traffic on the elevated roads was not resumed until late at night, and then trains were only run at irregular intervals. Several fires occurred yesterday. In somo cases the coal supply waggons ot the Fire Department failed to reach the fire, and the firemen had to chop down yigns, shutters and all available wood-work for fuel. One engine was stalled on Broadway, and three horses and fifty men worked three hours in getting it to the enginehouse. BODIF.S FOUND IN THE SNOWKoox. — Although tho storm has abated there has only been a partial resumption of traffic in this city. Tho elevated railroad 1 rains are running at intervals, but they are wholly inadequate for requirements. The wind is still blowing furiously and the snow badly drifting, being piled in many places six to nine feet high. There are snowdrifts from three to live feet deep on the eide-walka in the down-town business section of Broadway. Tho remarkable spectacle was presented to-day of banks unablo to transact business because the clerks could not reach them. Between midnight and noon three feet of snow fell in this city. No surface cars are running. The snow is frozen so hard that ploughs cannot bo used, and gangs of men with shovels and picks are endeavouring to clear the roads. The East river is frozen hard this morning and many Brooklynites walked across to New York. Few trains, if any, have reached the different termini in Now York and Jersey Gity. Many trains are stalled between stations on the New York Central. Officials said yesterday that forty trains were snowbound. Most of the people who got to business yesterday were unable to get home last night. The hotels were strained to their utmost and the stores and offices were converted into sleeping apartments for the benefit of employees. Many girls were compelled to accept such quarters. The majority of the theatres were closed last night, A milk famine.is threatened if the blockade is not cleared soon. The New York Produce, Coffee and Cotton exchanges have all adjourned for the day. Last night t»s the won?fc ever experienced along the banks of the Hudson and along the Westchester shore of the sound. The mercury at 2 o'clock this morning at Dobbs's Ferry on- the Hudson, and Port Chester on the shore, marked zero. The gale swept with fearful velocity. George D. Barry more, the well-known importer and dealer in hops at 3 Wateretreet, was found frozen stiff in a snowbank on Seventh Avenue. Barrymore lived with his wife and family in the Osborn flats, Fifby-first-strect and Broadway. He started for his office down town yesterday. It is supposed he became exhausted and dropped by the way unnoticed. The body of Annie Halpin Fisher, aged about 30, was found last night frozen stiff in the hallway. THE STORM AT PHILADELPHIA. A communication from Philadelphia last night said the storm there was the worst in over thirty years. No trains were running, and many were snowbound near the city. The East-bound Chicago, limited, on the Pennsylvania, was snowed-in seventeen miles from the city. Business was suspended, and all the telegraph wires were down. WRECKS IN THE HARBOUR. The storm on Sbatein Island is very severe and connection with New York has been cut off since yesterday morning. The pilotboat Hope dragged her anchors last night, and went ashore on the rocks oft' Fort Wadsworth, the crew standing by her. Vessels in the bay had a hard time, but no other accidents are reported. Of twenty-eight pilot-boats in New York 1 harbour, nine were wrecked in the storm. Five sought shelter on Sunday in the horseshoo at Sandy Hook from the easterly wind. The gale shifted and drove them ashore. After terrible sufferings, the crews reached habitations. Two men were severely frost-bitten. Two fishing smacks and schooners are also ashore at the Hook. Tho captain's wife on one smack is unconscious. Other pilot-boats dragged their anchors and went ashore at Bay Ridge. The loss is $100,000; insured.