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. ESTABLISHED 11=80. |_
) J. H. EST1LL, Editor and Proprietor, t
march a roaring lion.
THE storm in the north still
FULL OF FURY.
Business Completely Suspended in
New York; and Philadelphia—Several
people Frozen to Death in the Streets
of Gotham—Railroads Completely
Blockaded by the Drifts.
J?ew York, March 13.—At 7 o'clock last
even ng the storm was increasing. It was
absolutely unprecedented. All business
was paralyzed- At the Stock Exchange
less than 15,000 shares were sold, the small
number on record. The produce mar
kets were all nominal. The weather stopped
the courts, and the jurors and witnesses in
a murder case were unable to arrive. Every
street car in New York, Brooklyn. Jersey
City, and the elevated trains were stopped.
The Brooklyn Bridge and ferries were
almost abandoned. The down-town hotels
were crammed with suburbanites. The
elevated roads run 3,000 trains daily
usually. Never before were they
stopped. Westerners declare that Dakota
never furnished an equal to New York’s
blizzard of yesterday. Of forty mails due
between 4 o’clock and noon, only two had
arrived by 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon.
At 9 o’clock last night there was no abate
ment of the storm. The thermometer had
fallen to 4° above zero. Frozen ears and feet
were never so wuneraus. Drug stores were
filled with patients all day and evening.
ONLY A PARTIAL RESUMPTION’.
There has been only a partial resumption
of traffic in the city to-day. Elevated rail
road trains are running at intervals, but
they are wholly inadequate for the require
ments. Most business men who went down
town this morning were forced to w alk.
Sleighs and ca riages were in great demand.
The wind was still blowing furiously this
morning, and the snow was badly drifted,
being piled in many places (i and 8 feet high.
The East river was frozen hard this morn
ing and many Brooklynites walked across
it to the New York side. Few trains, if
any, have reached the different termini in
New York and Jersey U ty. Many trains
are stalltd between stations on the Hudson
river and Harlem roads. The officials said
yesterday that forty trains were snowed in.
Top efforts to break through the snow
drifts had completely failed. Not a train
reached the depot during to-day.
ALL IN THE SAME FIX.
Most of the roads report a similar con
dition of affairs, Passengers suffered great
discomfort.
Ferry boats are only run at Jong intervals.
All the Eastern wires are down.
Communication with Philadelphia last
night by long distance telephones, said tnat
the storm there was the greatest in over
forty years. No trains were running and
many were snow bound near the city. The
east bound Chicago limited express on the
Pennsylvania road was snowed in seventeen
mile- from Philadelphia. Business is sus
pended anti all the telegraph wires are down.
Mos’ peo-pie who got to business in New
York yesterday were unable to get home
last night. Hotel accommodations were
strained to their utmost. Stores and offices
were converted into sleeping apartments for
the benefit of employes. Many girls w ere
compelled to accept such quarters. A ma
jority of the theaters closed last night.
A milk famine is threatened if the block
ade is not soon cleared.
A tenement house in West Forty-third
street was burned early this morning.
Twenty families had to run for their lives.
Most of them were scantily dres ed. They
were given shelter in neighboring saloons.
The building was entirely consumed.
FROZEN IN A SNOW DRIFT.
George Barrymore, a well known im
porter and dealer in hops nt No. 3 Water
street, was found frozen stiff in a snow drift
in Seventh avenue. Mr. Barrymore lived
with his wife and family in the Osborn
flats, at Fifty first street and Broadway.
He started for his office down town yester
day, and it is supposed that he became ex
hausted and dropped by the wav unnoticed.
The body of Annie Halpm Fisher, aged
about 30 years, was found last night frozen
stiff in a hallway in West Thirty-ninth
street, where she lived. She was once well
know-n in the social worid, but had fallen
into bad habits.
The Produce, Coffee and Cotton Ex
changes ml adjourned for the day. Last
night was the worst experienced along the
banks of the Hudson and along the West
chester shore of the sound. The mercury
a’ 2 o’clock this morning, at Dobbs’ Ferry,
on the Hudson, and at Port Chester, on the
sound, marked zero. The gales swept with
fearful velocity.
Railroad traffic on Long Island is entirely
blocked. Thousand of men are at work
digging out the tracks. Snow plows cannot
he used. President Austin Corbin is snow
bound at Jamaica. Ho left on a train for
Brooklyn yesterday morning.
SEVERE on STATEN ISLAND.
The storm on Staten Islund is very severe,
and connection with New York has been
cut since ye-terday morning.
The pilot boat Hope dragged her anchors
last night and went ashore on the rocks of
Port Wadswortn. The crew is standing by
her. Vessels in the bay had a hard time,
hut no other accident is reported.
The United States Court Judge did not
put in an appearance to-day, owing to the
Worm. Not a single one out of the twenty
mails to and from points outside of this
citv has been r ceived or dispatched during
the 24 hours ending at 1 o’clock this after
noon. The I cal mails are being delivered
and collected on time.
A number of ocean steamers have been
lying at quarantine two days unable to
come up the bay to their piers. They ro
port rough weather.
A PARTIAL RESUMPTION.
New York, March 13, 11 l>. M.—There
has been only a partial re umptionof traffic
>n this city. Elevated railroad trains are
fumiing at intervals, but are wholly in
•dei|uate for the requirements. Most if the
business men, who came down town this
W'-rning, w ere forced to walk. Sleighs and
carriages weie In great demand. The wind
still blowing furiously, and the snow is
aadly drifted, being piled iu many places
;** °v eight feet high. When the gavel
mil fo r the opening of business at
JP® Stock Exchange this morning,
iP® brokers who were on the
"b rgavea derisive shout, and made no
ttenipt to transact business In the first
Tetter of an hour only 300 shares were
There are no wires working from the
zc.iange to any domestic markets. Lon
'u ' able* bring many buying orders, but
®re are no stocks offering. It was re
iVf-d by the members present that all
rding so far as possible should be sus-
P’t'ind, and all deliveries should go over
“"hi to-morrow.
deserted streets.
I ho down-town business streets showed
smaller population last night than in
Jrars before.
.“*• ou the Jersey City side of
.‘ North river ferries hud goue out of
duns** aiu * thousands of suburban resi
ts were refused aumittance at the over-
Cr 2.;<led hotels.
i, A.® Woehawken terries ceased to run at
b uuaru!° tk * U *‘ * wv * ral with the
H-he iu o f nxn tj
The Erie ferries ran on one hour time
until 4 o’clock, when notice was posted that
the road had abandoned its trains ou
account of the terrible storm.
The Lackawanna road notified the ferry
men at noon to stop and inform the patrons
of the road that it was closed until the storm
ceased. At the Cortlandt street ferry the
same story was told.
No trains are running over the Pennsyl
vania road.
At noon the Chicago limited and Florida
special trains were stopped by 5 feet of snow
in the meadows and cannot be released until
the storm abates.
ALL TRAINS ABANDONED.
“All trains are abandoned until further
notice” was the sign on the walls of the
ferry house of the Jersey Central road at
the foot of Liberty street. Boats were run
as nearly as possible every three-quarters
of an hour. The : erry house was thronged
with passengers. Travel across the White
hall, Wall street and Fulton street ferries
was the lightest known in years, Brooklyn
ites preferring to stay in New York.
Several persons perished in the snow last
night.
Communications with Washington and
all points south of New York is still en
tirely cut off.
No surface cars are running, and the
snow is frozen so hard that plows cannot be
used. Gangs of men with shovels and picks
are endeavoring to clear tho roads.
It is reported to-day that the Western
Union Telegraph Company has only four
wires available. These are between this
city and Buffalo and Chicago. The city
business is being disposed of by tube.
There is no information whatever to be
had at the weather office, the clerk in
charge being, as he expressed it, entirely
cut off from the outer world. Telegraphic
communication with Boston has been lost
since an early hour yesterday morning.
The last news from that city was to the
effect that business was at a standstill, and
that the streets were filled with telegraph
poles and wires.
BUSINESS SUSPENDED.
This afternoon things assumed a slightly
better aspect, but a majority of the busi
ness houses were either closed or practically
so. No surface railroad company made
any attempt to run cars. The elevated
railroad trains ran with irregularity during
the afternoon, and a few sleighs that
were out were the only means of
conveyance. Broadway and the other great
north and south thoroughfares are well
nigh impassable with the mountains of
snow shoveled from the sidewalks. A ma
jority of the cross streets are quagmires of
soft suow one to three feet deep. At 8
o’clock this evening a fine, penetrating
snow was falling. No milk has been re
ceived in this or the neighboring cities of
Brook yn and Jersey City for thirty-six
hours, or if received it cannot be distribu
ted on account of the impassable condition
of the streets.
NO CARTS MOVING.
No butcher, milkmen, grocer or other
carts are visible. AU provisions are de
livered by hand, the men floundering pain
fully through the drifts Coal even is being
carried in thousands of places by the bag.
basket and bucketful, and in the poor quar
ters on the east side the price is nearly
doubled. A number of restaurants were
compelled to close t< eir doors, being unable
to get either fuel or provisions. The hotels
are compelled to get most of their fresh
meats and vegetables carried by hand, and
some are arranging for relays of men to
bring coal from the docks in bags. It is a
laborious process for horses to pull a cart
with half a ton of coal.
Haokmen ask $3O to $5O for a compara
tively short drive, and gangs of boys and
men have been making their own teams for
relieving householders imprisoned behind
snow di ifts.
It was impossible to get a New York
paper to-day throughout a large portion of
Brooklyn and Jersey City.
The public schools are practically closed.
The.flre department warns people to be
careful as it is almost impossible to get the
engines out. Preparations are being made
to mount them on bob sleds.
MIDNIGHT GLOOM.
New York, March 14,13:10 a. m. —The sit
uation at this hour is less promising. To
ward evening the clouds thickened, and now
the snow is failing heavy again. Tlie rail
roads centering in this city from every di
rection made no perceptible progre-s
toward a resumption of travel,
though the managers of some lines
expressed a hope of being able to get some
trains through to-morrow. If the snowfall
continues, however, as seems probable, the
situation will lie worse than it was yester
day, and a prolongation of tho blockade for
twenty-four or forty-eight hours will bring
untold privation and suffering and financial
loss. Telegrapiiic communication with
Philadelphia, Baltimore. Washington and
other points south continues totally
cut off, except over precarious lines by
way of Pittsburg. The lines t > New Eng
land points are utterly prostrated, and no
intelligence is obtainable from that quarter
beyond, the fact that the storm which raged
here j esterday has broken over that section
with great violence. Many ferry boats on
the Hudson and East rivers have ceased
running, being unable to get coal for the
furnaces.
Reports are received of five pilot boats
ashore and full of water at Sandy H ok
and three at Bay Ridge, together with a
tiumoer of schooners and fishing smacks in
the Horseshoe. All were driven ashore in
la-t night’s gale. Fifteen pilot boats are
now at sea, and the pilots ashore fear for
their safety.
AN IMPROVEMENT AT WASHINGTON.
Washington, March 13. —The tele
graphic situation to-night has vastly im
proved over that of last night. The
weather was bitterly and continuously cold
until late this afternoon, when the wind
abated some, making tho cold appear less
intense. No trains have arrived to-day
from any point north of Baltimore, but the
clearing of the Baltimore and Potomac road
gave the Pennsylvania rood a clear outlet to
the West and North over its Northern Cen
tral road, via Harrisburg. The Pennsyl
vania road was, however, blocked on its
main line between Harrisburg and Phila
delphia. Up to 8 o’clock to-night no per
son has reached Washington from New
York, who started after midnight Sunday.
The last to come through leit New York at
midnight Sunday, and they reached here at
11 o’clock Monday night along with the
Philadelphia palters of Monday morning.
The latest Northern newspapers to roach
Washington are the New York papers of
Sunday morning, and the Philadelphia
papers of Monday morning.
BALTIMORE ACCESSIBLE.
Communication by rail with Baltimore is
prompt, notwithstanding that the railroad
company has no telegraph wires with which
to direct trains. The railroad company is
selling no tickets over its New York and
Philadelphia line, except at tho passenger’s
risk us to detention I*youd Baltimore
The railroads and telegraph lines around
Philadelphia are still in u chaotic state.
Railroad men who have attempt' and to o|>en
communication between Baltimore and
Philadelphia report that the railroad cute
are drifted twenty feet deep or more and
the snow frozen solid in the broken country
north of the Susouehana river.
The Western Union wires l*tween Wash
ington and Alexandria were all broken
yesterday excepting one, and that one gave
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1888.
out last night To day, however, a few of
them have been restored.
AFRAID OF BEING BLOWN AWAY.
The worst trouble was at the long bridge
, over the Potomac, where the men could not
! work on account of the high wind. From
Alexandria south the wire; are intact and
by to-morrow enough will lie working
| between here and Alexandria to afford
I prompt tel- graphic communication south
waid. Washington is noted for its cliauge
j able climate, but there is nothing upon
i record or within memory more remarkable
than the change from the spring-tnne luild-
I ness of Saturday to the furious snow and
j rain of Sunday, followed by the freezing
| gales of Monday and Tuesday.
WORK UNDONE BY THE WIND.
The work done yesterday in the way of
I repairing the telegraph wires leading to the
city and clearing obstructions from railroad
; tracks was to a large extent undone by the
! wind of last night and to-day. The velocity
of the gale at 9 o'clock this morning was
forty-eight miles an hour. The force of
linemen that started out from Philadelphia
arrived in this city early this morning.
Between Philadelphia and Washington
they removed from the railroad track over
700 telegraph poles. The cut-off between
this city and New’ York seems to be hope-*
less, for the present at least, and there
seems to be no chance of re-establishing
communication ns long as the weat her con
tinues to lie so severe. Last night the wind
blew down all the poles along the Metropol
itan branch of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road. It is difficult to get men to work, and
it is more difficult for them to accomplish
anything when they attempt to work. Tel
egraph men state that the wreck of the
lines is the worst they have ever known.
WESTERN UNION'S ENTERPRISE.
The Western Union company has sent a
force of operators to Alexandria and has
established a messenger service between
Alexandria and Washington. By this me ins
the}’ have cleared up belaied business. Com
munication with New York is only had by
way of Cincinnati and Chicago. Philadel
phia is still isolated.
dlie mail service is demoralized. The
only mail closed and sent North to day was
sent at 11:30 o’clock this morning. Trains
loft the city on schedule time, but the
trouble was that there were no postal cars
or postal clerks to send with them. The
cars and clerks that should have been here
are delayed at points en route to this city.
That which left at 11:30 o’clock was mailed
for Baltimore, Philadelphia, Now York ami
Iho New England States. Trains from the
West by the Baltimore and Ohio and North
e n Central road of the Pennsylvania sys
tem are arriving on time.
At the signal office yesterday it was
learned that the storm was the result of the
splitting of a storm, ten ling south from
Michigan. Saturday night it divided, form
ing two storm centers, one over Lake Erie
and one in Georgia. The southern center
then began climbing up the coast, striking
Wasnington Sunday morning. The central
piece did not reach nere until about 3 o’clock
Sunday afternoon, when the storm changed
to snow. This took until nearly midnight
to pass away, the total rainfall amounting
to inches. The wind reached a velocity
of twenty-four miles per hour at midnight
Sunday and subsided to nine miles an hour
Monday morning.
FIRST TRAINS INTO WASHINGTON.
Washington, March 13, 11:15 p. M. —
Three trains arrived here to-night from
Philadelphia after a long and hard trip.
The trainmen report that the storm is still
raging furiously between Philadelphia
and Baltimore, and that the
track is badly obstructed by snow
drifts and telegraph poles. The
wind blows the snow on the track as fast as
it is removed, and the road is likely to be
in almost as bad condition by to-morrow
morning as it was to day. No trains have
arrived from New Yorksince the one which
came in yesterday and which left New
York at midnight Sunday.
At the Signal Office it is said that the
present storm is the worst since the organi
zation of the service The temperature to
day was lower iban wa ever before known
at this season of the year.
PENNSYLVANIA TRAINS PARALYZED.
Pittsburg, Pa., March 13.—Business on
the Pennsylvania railroad, between this
city and Philadelphia, is completely par
alyzed. No trains have arrived from the
East since last night. Everything is block
aded with snow. All freignt trains are
snow-bound, and there is little or no pros
pects of their getting out for at least twen
t y-four hours. At some places the snow has
drifted as high as 5 feet, and there are miles
and miles of freight trains watching to get
through. Never before in the history of
the railroad has there been such a blockade.
The coid weather will be very severe on the
freight brakeinen, as mostof them are snow
bound several miles from any station or
habitation. The passengers on the trains
will also have to suffer as the thermometer
at most places is below zero.
60,000 LETTERS STOPPED.
No mills have arrived from the East
since 6 o’clock last evening, and it is esti
mated that 6),000 letters alone are snow-
Ikhiikl between Pittsburg nd Philadelphia.
Telegraphic communication is still almost
entirely cut off, and all messages are taken
subject to great delay. There is no trouble
West, and trains are arriving and depart
ing on time.
For several years there has not been such
an aljsolute dearth of telegraphic com
munication with the East as there was yes
terday and last night. Though intense y
cold, Pittsburg suffered but little from the
storm of Sunday night. Eastward the
blizzard rolled down the mountain side
and through the Juniata valley, scat
tering fences, breaking telegraph wires,
upsetting small frame buildings, and caus
ing great loss in many ways. It was a bad
night for the Pennsylvania trainmen. Many
freight trains were compeilei to take to
sidings and wait until this morning. A
short distance east of here last night a
brakoman was blown from the top oi a car
but was not dangerously injured. Train
men pronounce this tho worst storm ever
known ill this region.
BALTIMORE’S BLIZZARD.
Baltimore. March 13.—For the first
time In the existence of the telegraph Balti
more was cut off from commu lcation with
New York and Washington for over tweu
ty-four hours from Sundav night. Not
only were the wires down, but hundreds of
telegraph poles along both tile West rn
Union und the i ailro.nl lines were broken.
A w ild wind set in Sunday morning from
the east, but soon the wind vecrod to the
northeast, blowing a gale, and by
nightfall tho worst blizzard that
has swept this section in twenty years was
blowing. -The temperature fell 20* iu ten
hours By 9 o’clock Sunday night the snow
was 6 inches deep and all communication
was cut off. The wind was blowing about
fifty miles an hour. Travel through the
streets of the city was dangerous, as roofs
and chimneys went flying along tho streets.
Telegraph pole* holding twenty and twenty
fi vo wires each were blown down in different
parts of the city.
A VERY LOW TIDE.
The tide yesterday was lower thnn was
ever known iu the memory of old wharf
men, being at least 12 foot below the level
of ordinary low water, and as a consequence
many deep draught vessel* lying in the dif
ferent flocks were grounded. At the dock
at the foot of Broadway, the water was so
low that the bottom was bare, and persona
could walk dry-shod on the soil thus ex
posed. After 9 o'clock the fire telegraph
system was useless. An alarm could not
have been sent in from over a dozen boxes,
and the city would have been
practically at tho mercy of the
tl ones, had fire broken out. The
old watch tower system was put into
use. At each engine house a sentinel was
stationed in tho belfry and relieved at inter
vals. It is the opinion of old bay captains
that Sunday nigDt was one of the worst
ever experienced ou the Chesapeake bay,
and as the notice of the storm was so short
there have doubtless been many disasters
which will be reported as soon as vessels
begin to arrive. No vessel could live in
the bay Sunday night.
BUT LITTLE IMPROVEMENT.
Philadelphia, March 18,11 p. m.— There
is but little improvement to-day. The stag l
nation of business caused by the storm con
tinues. The street car companies have
generally resumed business, and with four
horse teams, succeed iu moving over their
routes with slight detention. The
steam railroad system, however, is still
in a paralized condition but every
effort is being made to run trains
over the roads centering here. Trains
arrived from Baltimore and Washington
during tho day on the Pennsylvania road,
and tr ins left here for those cities at 4:30
o’clock this afternoon. On tho bulletin
board at the Broad street station the follow
ing announcemeut is made: No trains on
the New York and Central division and no
trains for Pittsburg and the West today.”
TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE.
Reports by special messenger from Wil
mington, Del., say that word has been re
ceived from Isiwas by the railroad wire
that a number of vessels and tugs have
been sunk at Delaware Breakwater and
twenty-five lives lost. Two bodies have
already lieon recovered, and it is beli ved
that the loss of life along the coast will be
terrible. Telegraphic communication by
the Western Union wires is not yet estab
lished.
A WAGON FACTORY BURNED.
Columbus, 0., March 13. —Tho main
building and works of the Buckeye Buggy
Company, located in the northern part of
the city, were burned to-night. The build
ing was <12x175 feet anil seven stories high.
The flames wore discovered in the top floor,
and are thought to have originated in the
varnis i room. The wind was high and
the flames spread rapidly, and soon had the
wr.ole struc: ure enveloped. It was a total
loss. Tho company is composed of John R.
Hughes, Frink Hughes, O. F. and A. Wil
son. The building was worth about $30,-
000, and the machinery $20,000, and there
was about SIOO,OOO wor’h of stock on hand,
a portion of wuich was finished work. The
total loss is about $150,000. The insurance
is SIOO,OOO. The tire sp ead and burned a
few other small buildings. The India a,
Bloomington and Western railroad freight
house was damaged, and the Exchange
Hotel was badly scorched.
A MILLIONAIRE AS A COOK.
Schenectady, N. Y., March 13.—-A train
which left R >cuestor yesterday morning is
stalled about five miles east of here, About
fifty members and Senators were ■ board.
No provisions 'could be obtained for the
snow-bound party until this morning, when
they feasted on ham and potatoes. A
Rochester millionaire and a Buffalo states
man cooked for the hungry passengers until
all were provided for. This morning a re
lief train brought the passengers to Schenec
tady, whore five trains are stalled, with no
prospects of getting out to-day. A stock
train is snowed iu near Rochester. The
stock all froze to death last night.
A GALE AT NORFOLK.
Norfolk, Va., March 12.—Early Sun
day morning ttie wind commenced to blow
half a gale fro ii the northeast which con
tinu and throughout the day, accompanied
by a heavy rain. At nghtefall the wind
shifted to the northwest and blew a heavy
gale, the velocity of the wind reaching
fifty-five miles an hour. Considerable
damage was done in the harbor. As the
gale was off shore little apprehension is felt
concerning serious marine disasters. All
outgoing shipping was detained.
ENGINES AS BATTERING RAMS.
Jersey City, N. J., March 13.—Six
heavy engines wore sent from the Pennsyl
vania railroad station this morning to clear
tho snow drifts from the tracks. They
managed to get half a mile fro n the depot,
when the front engine encountered a heavy
bank, and was thrown from the track into
the street. Thomas Whelan, an extra fire
man, and John Mullins, a yard m ister,
were seriously injured. It is believed that
Whelan will die. The engine is badly
wrecked.
OUT OF THE DRIFTS.
Long Island City, N. Y. March 13.
A train with 300 pass ngors from Jamaica,
L. 1., after being in the snow drifts thirty
six hours, a rived this afternoon, and 600
persons walked into Jamaica this morning
after passing the night in stalled trail s.
The drifts in the streets of Jumaica are
thirty feet high. Four passenger trains on
the Flushing Division of the Long Island
road have not been hoard from. They are
supposed to be near Garden City.
CAMDEN CUT OFF.
Canden, N. J., Mach 13.—This city is cut
off from railroad, telegraph or telephone
communication with all points by the bliz
zard, and but for the ferry boats, which
still make irregular trips, it would be com
pletely isolated. Its water supply* is prac
tically exhausted, and there is great danger
of a conflagration sweeping through the
oily. No mails arrived to-day, and there is
hut little likelihood that they will arrive.
Railroad traffic is paralyzed
40 INCHES OF SNOW.
Baratoga, N. Y., March 13.—Forty
inches of snow have fallen here. Tho wind
is blowing from all points of the compass.
Tho suow is b ully drifted.
Railroad travel in this section is entirely
suspended. Not, a wheel has moved on any
of the n ads for twenty-four hours. Four
feet four inchei of snow has fallen. '1 he
storm is st.l! raging. For sixty hours snow
has been falling, and there are no indica
tions of its stopping.
STUCK AT SYRACUSE.
Syracuse, N. Y., March 13.—N0 trains
are moving m any direction. All trains
from tho West are held here with no pros
pect of moving before to-morrow (Wednes
day). The hotels are crowded with belated
travelers. Stock trains on the Central and
West Snore roads are being cared for at
stations each side of the city. The officials
of those mads say that nothing can bo done
toward opening the roads till the storm
ceases.
NO TRAINS AT HARRISBURG.
Harrisburg, Pa., March 13.—N0 train
has arrived from Philadelphia over the
Pennsylvania since 6 o’clock Monday morn
ing. Little progress is made in removing
the snow drifts. Several thousand men
are shoveling snow east of Lancaster.
Between and here miles of cars
are strung along the tracks. In addition t >
tho snow the tracks are obstructed by hun
dreds of telegraph poles lyi g across them.
ELIZABETH ISOLATED.
Elizabeth, N. J., March 18.—This city
has been isolated for two days w ithout tele
graphic communication to any points.
Trains on oil the railroad* are snow-bound.
Churches and halls were opened last night,
to give lodgiugfor travelers crowded out of
the hotels. Business is paralysed. The
schools are dosed. A young actor named
Ellis has boon found in a snow drift frozen
to death. Several persons are missing.
WESTERN UNION WORSTED.
Chicago, March IS.—The wires of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, which
were completely demolished between Chi
cago mid Eastern points by yesterday’s
storm, are still in very bid shape. The
local offices have, as yet, no means of know
ing the extent of the trouble. There is but
oue duplex wire to New York that can be
used.
BLOCKADED AT POBT JERVIS.
Port Jervis, March 13.—Railroad travel
is entirely suspended on the Erioioilroad
The St. Louis limited express, which
reached here yesterday, is still hero. ()ther
trains from the West are held at Susque
hanna and Lackawaxen. About 100 passen
gers, some bound for European steamers of
to-day, are detained here.
STILL RAGING AT ALBANY.
Albany, N. Y., March 13. — Tho storm
is still raging. Its equal has never been
seen in this vicinity. The streets are com
pletely blocked. Only 23 of the liiO mem
bers of the Legislature were present, and it
will probably be Thursday before a se.-siou
is called. No trains are running.
. Dakota’s ghoulish glee.
Huron, I)ak , March 18. —The severe
weather in New York and the East, now
complained of is in marked contrast to that
here. In this region it, is as calm and clear
as iu May. The stiu is starting buds on the
maples and tints of green can be seen in the
fields.
COUNTRY ROADS IMPASSABLE.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., March 13.—Re
ports from the interior of the Hudson river
counties show that the country roads are
terribly blockaded. In some instances the
drifts are 25 feet deep. Stock of every de
scription is suffering.
DRIFTS FIFTEEN FEET HIGH.
Amsterdam, N. Y., March 13.—1n this
city the snow is nearlv four feet deep. In
some places tho drifts are twelve to fifteen
feet nigh. Snow is still falling and tho
wind is blowing hard.
FLAKES FOR FORTY HOURS.
Troy, N. Y., March 13. —It has been
snowing here forty li urs, and the ground
is covered to a depth of 4 feet.
It is snowing harder than ever this
evening.
STILL I- NOWING AT MONTREAL.
Montreal. March 13. —The snowstorm
here shows no signs of abatement.
BILLS FROM COMMITTEES.
Several Reported to the Houas and
Reterrecl.
Washington, March 13.— 1n the House
to-day Mr. Oates, of Alabama, from the
Committee on tho Judiciary, reported ad
versely the bill providing that tho first
session of the Fifty-first Congress snail be
gin March 4, 1889. It, was put on tho House
calendar.
Mr. Cutcbeon, of Michigan, from the
Committee on Military Affaire, reported tho
bdi for tho erection of an army gun factory
and to provide for a public edifice. It was
referred to committee of the whole.
Mr. Blani, of Missouri, from the Com
mittee on Mines and Mining, reported the
bill limiting the coinage of the double eagle
to 20 per cent, of the gold deposited in the
mints and discontinuing the coinage of $3
and $1 gold pieces. It was put on the House
calendar.
Mr. Wise, of Virginia, from the Commit
tee on Naval Affairs, reported the bill to
regulate the pay of ensigns in the navy.
It was referred to committee of the whole.
Mr. Springer, of Illinois, from the Com
mittee on Territories, reported the omnibus
bill for the admission into the Union of
Dakota, Montana. Washington and New
Mexico. It was referred to committee of
the whole.
RUINED BY BPECULATIONi
An Express Company Employe Sent
to the Penitentiary.
Washington, March 13.—Thegrand jury
to-day returned an indictment against Cyril
P. Benedict for tho embezzlement of $7,460
from the Adams Express Company. He
was immediately brought Into court,
pleaded guilty to the indictment and
was sentenced to three and a half
years imprisonment in the Albany
county penitentiary. Benedict lias been a
trusted employe of the company for more
than twenty years, and for a long time has
been in charge of the company’s branch
office at, the United States Treasury. Ho is
almut 50 years of ag> , and heretofore has
been regarded as a strictly moral, upright
man. It. is believed that he lost the money
dealing in stocks.
FELL UNDER A TRAIN.
Distressing Death of One of Richmond’s
Leading Citizens.
Richmond, Va., March 13. Muj. Robert
E. Blankenship, Preside t of tho Old Do
mion Iron and Nail Works (on Belle Islet,
was run over and instantly killed this morn
ing by a freight car of the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company, at, its depot in
this city. In crossing the tracks he stum
bled and fell forward under the rear car of
a moving train. The dead man was one of
Richmond’s most public-spirited citizens.
He was a number of years rresieent of i lie
Richmond Chamber of Commerce, and also
a mem or of the Eastern Nil Makers’ As
sociation. He leaves a wife and several
children.
BULLIVAN’S EXCUSE.
He Claims to Have Injured the Muscles
of His A.m.
Liverpool, March 13.—John L. Sulli
van, who is staying at tho home of his
friend, Magnus, in this city, was too unwell
to lie interviewed to-day. Magnus suid:
"In the fifth round Sullivan made
a tremendous lunge at Mitchell’s
face with his right. Mitchell
threw up his arm, and Sullivan’s muscle
came in contact with Mitchell’s ellsiw.
Sullivan’s arm begau to swell, and it was
useless from that time out. Hnliivan would
doubtless have won in a canter but for the
accident."
A Railroad Suit.
New York, March 13.—1n tho United
Stab's Circuit Court to-day, Judge Ship
man rendered a decision in the suit of the
Roger Locomotive and Machine Work*
against the Southern Railroad Association
iu favor of tho plaintiff. The suit was to
recover $220,000 in bonds of the Mississippi
Railroad Comp my, guaranteed by the de
fendant, on which the Interest was not paid.
Lands for Indians.
Washington, March 13.—1n the House
to-day tne last part of the session was do
voted to consideration of tho bill granting
lauds iu severally t > the united Peoria and
Miami Indians, whi"h was finally passed,
and the House at 5:30 adjourned.
Danville to Have an Exposition.
Danville, Va., March 13.—A mass
meeting of citizens to-day resolved to hold a
Southern Tobacco Exposition and trades
display hero next fall. There will lie added
exhibits of agricultural products, stock and
machinery of all kinds.
RED INSTEAD OF BLACK.
A Strange Omission at the German
Embassy at Washington.
Washington, March 18.—Tim German
Legation hero has not displayed a single
scrap of mourning for the dead Emperor.
To-day the effects of Baron von Alvruslebeu,
the retiring German Minister, were sold at
auctiou, and to-morrow liis 1,500 bottles of
wine, imported duty free, will be sold in tho
same way. So tho red flag waved where
the mourning should have been.
MOURNING IN THE COMMONS.
London, March 18. —In the Housed Com
mons last night the Speaker, Hergeaiit-at-
Anns and several of the Cabinet Ministers
and many members of the House appeared
lu mourning attire as a mark of respect to
the memory of the late Emperor \V illi&m.
emperor Frederick's activity.
Berlin, March 18. —Emperor Frederick,
on arriving at the Charlottenburg palace,
refused to be carried to his apartment in a
sedan chair. He mounted the stairs two
steps at a time After a short rest he wrote
until 1 o’clock in the morning, rose at 8
o’clock, received Prince William and break
fasted with the Empress and his children,
and then transacted business. Prince Bis
marck’s royal reports occupied several
hours.
In the afternoon the Emperor dined en
fainillc, and continued working until even
ing, occasionally addressing his attendants.
His voice is audible but very hoarse. His
physicians are satisfied with his condition.
The Emperor will take the oath according
to the Prussian constitution in the presence
of the Oberhaus and Unterhaui at
Charlottenburg Saturday. Tho President
and Vice Presidents of the two chambers to
day received an oral report from Gen.
Wintertb ld, and afterwards were received
in audience by Prince Bismarck and Count
Von Moitke.
Owing to the immense crowds wishing to
view tho remains of Emperor William the
tune for the admission of the public has
been extended.
Prices on the Bourse to-day were very
strong and there was a general rise. Rus
sian securities advanced ? a per cent.
Most of the older Generals and field offi
cers of the German army, and many friends
and comrades in arms of the late Em
peror, who refund sanction to their retire
ment, will soon he put on half pay and re
tired from active service.
The officers of tho Hussais, headed by
Crown Prince William, visited the cathe
dral at noon and filed before tho body of
the dead Emperor.
Tho i ill ix of strangers into tho city is
very great.
FREDERICK’S POLICY.
When Emperor William was ill at the
end of 18S(J, Prince Bismarck and the
present Emperor agreed that the extreme
element should leave the ministry on tho
accession of Frederick William to tho
throne. In accordance with this
decision Herr von Puttkamer, Minister
of the Interior, and probably Herr von
(iosßler, Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs,
will soon resign. There is no question of
Prince Bismarck’s resigning. Tue Emperor
takes an es|>ecially strong position with the
war party and the ultra orthodox Conserv
atives. His attitude is approved by the
Chancellor. In view of this fart Gen. von
Albedyll, the head of the military cabinet,
and Count von Wulderze, Quartermaster
General, are also expected to resign.
The Emperor works daily until midnight.
He walks briskly and seldom uses the eleva
tor. His sleeping room is on the first floor,
connected with Dr. Mackenzie’s room by a
spiral stairway.
FRANCE LIKES THE PROCLAMATION.
Paris, March 13.—A1l ot tho evening pa
pers agree in expressing the opinion that
Emperor Frederick’s proclamat ion is pacific
in tone and merits the approval of France.
The government sends Gen. B.llot, and Cols.
Sesmaisons and Kunprobst to Berlin to
represent France at tho funeral of the Em
peror.
Asa mark of respect for the late Emperor
William no re eption will be held Thursday
by President Carnot.
EMINENTLY CONSOLING.
Vienna March 13.—The Wiener ZeOung
says that in a letter to Count Kalnoky
Prince Bismarck wrote: “It is eminently
consoling to see the deep root which t o
friendship between the two monarchies h is
taken in the sympathies of the peoples,
closely allied.”
WALES OFF FOR BERLIN.
London, March 13. —Tho Prince of Wales
this evening received from Queen Victoria
a message of condolence for the Empress
Augusta. Tho Prince alter ward started for
Berlin.
The Czarvitch, accompanied hy the
Grand Dukes Nicholas and Micba 1 and
their suites, left Bt. Petersburg this evening
for Berlin.
The King and Queen of Koumania also
are on he way to Berlin.
King Milan will send the Servian Premier
to represent him at the funeral.
LYNCHED AFTER EIGHT YEARS
Masked North Carolinians Hang a Man
on a Bridge.
Raleiqh, N. C., March 13. —A special to
the Sews and Observer fro n Washington
says: At 3 o’clock yesterday morning the
steamer Beta on her way to this place blew
the signal to open the draw to the bridg".
The bridge keeper responded, but found a i
obstruction in the way. T m draw could
not be opened sufficiently for the steamer
to pass. On investigation it was found that
theie was a ropo hanging fromacr ssbeam
on the draw with a heavy weight attacheii.
A LIFEL.KHH BOP V.
When pulled up a lifeless body was found
at the end of the rope, to w jeh win at
tached the inscription, ‘‘Justice at lnsl.”
The proper authorities were promptly noti
fied, a >1 the I) dy was left to dangle till
daylight and until a Oorom'r’s jury cou and
lie empaneled. The Issl? proved to he t at.
of William A Parker, wh > was tried for
the assassination of Gen. Bryan Grimes,
some seven or eight years ago. He hash en
heard to boast of the deod on several occa
sions when in liquor.
SEIZED BY I-YNCIJERB.
Bundav, for drunkenness and disorderly
conduct, be was consigned to the lock up, a
place portioned oIT in the tear of the engine
house with three cells for s mil cases. An
old colored man at night lo >ka after and at
tends to the wants of the prisoners. lie
was sleoping in an adjoining cell. He
deposed at the inquest that about 2 o'clock
in the morning he was awakened by a slight
noise and noticed that the light left burning
was out.
A CRY OK MURDER.
Before he could roaliz ■ what was the
matter, bo was confronted by at least half
a dozen masked men, who told him to keo
quiet, ou puiu of death. They approached
the cell in which Parker was confined,
wrenching off the lock, and carried him
outside. Ho was heard to cry out “murder”
once or twice. There is no evidence as to
who the participants in this transaction
arc.
Money for the Indians.
W Asru.YGTON, March 13.—The House
Committee ou Indian Affairs lias completed
the annual Indian appropriation bill. It
appropriates (5,122.253, being $203,444 less
than the estimates.
j PRICE 810 A TEAR 1
1 5 CENTS A COPY, f
BECK’S DARTS OF SILVER
SHERMAN FORCED iO DEFEND HI3
RECORD ON THE QUESTION.
The Senator from the Blue Grass R*
fifion Thinks that the Ohio Man’s At
titude in 1873 Would Weaken Him
aa a Presidential Candidate—Sher
man Failed to Foresee Depreciation.
Washinotnn, March I.l.—The Senate to
day proceeded to consideration of Mr.
Bock’s bill to provide for tho retirement of
Unit'd States legal tender and national
bank notes of small denominations and the
issue of coin certificates in lieu of gold cer
tificates. Mr. Bock addressed the Senate in
advocacy of it.
Mr. Beck delivered at great length a
carefully prepared speech, devoting his at
tention principally to Mr. Sherman. After
criticising several of Mr. Sherman’s reports
and suggestions while Secretary of the
Treasury, Mr. Beck said: "That is one of
the reasons why I said that while the
Senator from Ohio might bo President of
the United States, his conduct in relation to
tho act of 1873, and his great financial
abilities (exercised a.s they have always
lie nin the into rest of the money power)
will not boa record of which he will bo
proud when he comes before the people
notwithstanding all pretences.”
SILVER IN EUROPE.
About silver he asserted that in the hanks
of England, France, Germany and Austria-
Hungary silver was not in oxo ss of gold,
that silver was there at par with gold, and
that it was maintained at par without auy
trouble whatever. The bill which he hail
introduced had been voted for by five of the
eleven members of the Finance Committee.
It proposed to issue coin certificates instead
of gold certificates. This was the first great
step for the country totake. Silver bod its
I riends among the people at large, but it
had never had an enemy who had done it
so much harm as the Senator from Ohio.
That. Senator was one of the vt ry ablest
men in public life, and it was because of his
gre it ability that he (Mr. Brack) regarded
his policy a dangerous to the groat m isses
of the people. He made no charges against
the Senator, as to repudiation or anything
wrong, but he thought that his policy was
deato to the licst interests of the masses of
the people.
national banks berater.
Referring to tho efforts of national banks
to prevent idle coinage of silver, he spoke of
those hanks as a failure, as no long r of any
account, as going down every day. As to
Mr. At kinson’s re|iort on the silver question,
he said that that gentleman had not even
pretended to notice tho fact that a great
Parliamentary Commission, under Lod
Iddelesleigh, had investigated the sub
joct and had reported to the Queen
that tho business depression every
where prevailing had g own out of
the great conspiracy of 1878 against silver
between England, Germany and the United
-State-, and that the restoration of silver to
Its legal tender quality was nil that was
wanted, hen ad a let ter to himself from
Edwards Pierrepont, calling his attention
to the efforts of the national tsinks in their
convention in Pittsburg last November, to
suspend indefinitely the coinage of silver,
anti sta’ing that such indefinite suspension
was ju-it What the English wanted.
DOUBTFUL PRAISE.
Coming back to the report of Edward
Atkinson, he spoke of him as doubtless an
able anti respectable man, but adoctr.naire,
as that kind of a man whom he (Mr. Beck)
would not s nJ to take care of silver auy
more than he would send him out to taka
care of lambs i a ti e blue region of Ken
tucky.
Mr, Hoar ram it dod 'J Beck that the
pro out administration hat. sent Mr. Atkin
son to Europe.
Mr. Beck—l know it, and that is what I
complain of. There are good men in the
Democratic party as well as in the Republi
can party. We are not divided exactly oa
that line, and there are some men on the
other side of the chamber who stand by in
sustaining silver.
In c nclusiou he said that he would call
up his bid for action at an early day, when
he would see whether tho Beuate agreed
with him in thinking bis bill a step in the
right direction. He was not sure that silver
s .ould not be coined up to the maximum of
tho limit instead of the minimum.
SHERMAN’S REPLY.
Mr. Sherman said that us a matter of
course he would not undertake to reply to
the argument of the Senator from Ken
tucky out e silver question, but he would
leply briefly to ono or two matters of a per
sonal chara ter which the Senator from
Kentucky felt ju tilled in lugging into thy
omtrove sy. He (Mr. Sherman) was now
able, from the original Senate records, to
show that tho bill in question had I teen
openly discussed, fully considered and sub
mitted to public opinion in every
form, inside of Congress and out
side. It was net a bill of hi*
designing. He had never seen it until it
was sent to him as chairman of the Finance
Committee by the Secretary of tho Treasu
ry. It did not become a law for three years
afterward, and in the meantime it had been
printed thirteen times ami had been debated
over aid over again. He knew that the
original proposition of the House was to
convert silver dollars into minor coin, and
lie did not believe in that. He believed it
better to have a coin according to the do
-ires of tho California people, that would
become the coin of the country.
DID NOT PORSKE DEPRECIATION.
But there was one thing which he did not
see. He lid not see into the future. He
did no foresee that the silver dollar which
wa then at a premium of 3 p r cent, over
the gold dollar would, within fifteen years,
be worth only 7Uc. If anybody had told
ii in so he would have thought him crazy.
So that all that there w is aieiut it was that
Congress Imd not foreseen the change in tb
value of the silver dollar. When any one,
in the light of those fio.ssaid that anything
was sought to be done by indirection
and secrecy, he did injustice to himself
anil the re orris. As to the payment of in
terest on the United States bonds in coins
(which Mr. Beck had found so much fault
w.th) he thanked God that that had been
legislated for. If it, had not been, what, ha
asked would have become of the national
credit) Without that strong anchor- of
coin interest. United States bonds would
havo disappeared like Confederate bonda
into thm air, unhonored and unsung,
NOT OPPOSED TO SILVER.
As to the s Iver quostion, he was not op
po-ed to silver. He wished that he could
add 30 P"| oent. to the value of ail t e silver
in the world and in tue mines. But silver
dollars would cave to be muint lined at
gold stan-la il either hy receiving them and
hoarding them or by .ncreamng the weight
of the silver dollar. After all what had nia
sliver fi i nds mailo hy their forced ittempta
tJget diver into circulation? Silver had
gone down steadily. He would like to see
it advance m vain-. Congress and the
nation were powerful in many things, but
they were not poweriul eu- uph to create
values. Them hail to be fixed by value not
the making of mercantile nalioua The
Senate then adjourned.