Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1888 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERS STATES. For the combined fury of the hurricane, the duration and depth of the snowfall, and the lowness of the temperature, the storm which raged on the Atlantic coast on Monday and Tuesday has no parallel in the history of that section of the country. A New York special of Wednesday says: The story from daylight Monday to noon Tuesday is simply the history of the paralysis of a great capital and contiguous territory, and even now there is barely evident a feeble return of circulation. Travel was delayed and obstructed, and finally absolutely blocked; streets were made impassable; the malls closed np; telegraph and telephone service was destroyed, and the metroDolis was absolutely at tne mercy of the elements. If people who read of the terrible blizzard in the Northwest this winter will picture the same conditions on this densely populated slip of an island they can form some idea of the extent of the knock-down blow New York has received. Fancy a man being dug oat of a tenfoot snow-drift in Broadway near New York’s postoffice, or a woman dropping dead from cold and exhaustion at the corner of Fulton street and Broadway, the greatest thoroughfare in New York City. It is now twelve hours since the storm subsided, and New York is still snow-bound. Not a train of any kind has entered or left the city. The only means of travel in the city itself is by the elevated railroads, which have at last got into some kind of running order. On tne surface roads not a wheel moved. The snow and ice is frozen solid over the tracks to a depth of several feet, and snow-plows are useless. Even the great Brooklyn bridge failed for a time, and thousands of people walked from Brooklyn to New York over tffe East River on a solid ice-bridge which had formed between the two cities. New York Is dependent on neighboring territory for food and fuel from da. 7 to day, and the scarcity of the necessaries of life looks ominous. No milk reached New York yesterday. No coal came in, and if it bad arrived there was no way of delivering it. No meat came in from the West. Up town people were using condensed milk, and bakers gave notice in many cases that the supply of bread had run out, as no flour could be delivered. The blockade in the streets was so bad that when a fire alarm sounded 'it took fifty men with shovels and four horses to pull one of the engines out of a snowbank. Dozens of railroad trains are snow-bound in huge drifts on all sides of the city, and no idea can as yet be formed of the loss of life. About half a dozen deaths are reported in this city, among them Mr. George D. Baremore, a wellknown down town merchant, who was found dead with his legs sticking out of a huge drift in Fifty-fourth street, within three blocks of his home. Hundreds of people had portions of their bodies frozen, And a number are reporetd missing, but until the snow-bofcnd trains are heard from no accurate estimate can be given of the loss of life. The actual snowfall was over three feet, and the main avenues of traffic are full of abandoned wagons, street cars, omnibuses and other vehicles. Hundreds of people are sleeping in cots in down-town hotels, and cabs are charging as high as 850 for carrying citizens a couple of miles. It is believed that twenty persons perished in Essex County, New Jersey, during the storm. At New Haven, Conn., seven persons perished, and there were over twenty deaths in towns adjacent to New Haven, while hundreds of people suffered from frost-bites. John Henrinan, of Milltown, ,N. J., perished in the blizzard. His children were found starving, while his wife lay dead in bed.

A murder and suicide under remarkable circumstances occurred at Benton, Maine. Darius M. Warren had been arrested for causing the death of his wife, and upon asking to see his two daughters, aged eight and three years respectively, he was led into their chamber by the officer having him in charge. Before the officer could interfere Warren drew a revolver and shot the elder girl through the forehead, the younger through the back, and himself through the heart. All are dead except the youngest child, and she will die. A Boston dispatch of Saturday says: “Communication with the outside world has just been re-established after a total suspension for five days. While the storm has not been as severe in New England as in New York and New Jersey, it has nevertheless been the worst visitation of the present century. Boston for two days was dependent on the Atlantic cable for news from New York, and then only got a half-dozen stock quotations, which had been sent to London. For five days evory railway in New England was completely blockaded, and no attempt was made to run trains.”