Book/Printed Material New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of the circumstances and conditions which surrounded the metropolis in the great storm of March 12, 1888
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Image 1 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... f 118 .47 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DDDEDfll3fios- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 2 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... Conservation Resources Lig-Free® Type I Ph 8.S, Buffered- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 3 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... F 128 .47 J54 Copy 1 flew Yor\[ \t) tt^e Blizzard EING AN AUTHENTIC AND COMPREHENSIVE RECITAL OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND CONDITIONS WHICH SURROUNDED THE METROPOLIS IN THE GREAT STORM OF MARCH...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 4 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... Copyright, 1888, By ROGERS SHERWOOD.- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 5 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... PREFACE The following reports of Life in New York during the great Blizzard have been carefully selected from the columns of the New York Sun, and embody the most faithful and correct...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 6 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... The First Day of the Blizzard. At little after 12 o clock ou Sunday nieht, or Monday morning, the severe rain that had been pelting down since the moment of the opening...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 7 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... the southern end of the Vanderbilt building and the Kelly building opposite had become a funnel, a wind-condensing canon. The gale there swept the flagging clear and took men off their feet...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 8 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... under the close wraps that were necessary to shut the fine snow out from necks and wrists. They were mostly young men and boys, who were continuing the journey interrupted by blocked...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 9 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... breeziest corners down town. Park row and Beekman street was an equally exposed place. Men and women alike were unable to retain their feet there They were blown with wildly fluttering garments...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 10 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... lines In and around New York will be fixed as soon as possible, the vicinity of the damage making the work of repairing easier. Should the storm abate to-night, we will probably...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 11 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... ton, Philadephia, Washington, and other specu- lative centres had been snapped like cotton twin^and while the London cables were work- ing, Wall street and all linancial and commer- cial folks were absolutely...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 12 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... They were all standing witli their backs to the wind. Desortsd wagons stood at the curb all the way from Harlem to the City Hall, and we met any quantity of men...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 13 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... iaokscrews. This caused a delay of consider- ably over half an hour. Meanwhile the Brooli- lyn crowd of passengers waited. The bridge promenade was closed at 6 o clock A. M. by...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 14 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... or any escape however perilous from what tliey believed to be greater danger. Those on the platform were in wild confu- Bion, and lor several minutes little was done toward aiding the...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 15 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... THE EAST SIDE LINES. The condition of things was little, if any, bet- ter on the Second and Third avenue divisions than on the west side. The accident at Sev- enty-sixth street...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 16 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... very businesslilcf air, -went down by the ladder. With what astonishinerly good nature that train load of people waited! There were men aboard who had started before 8 o clock from 125th...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 17 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... y Move up, was the derisive answer, and there was a yell of laughter. Let go ol my loot! screamed a boy in agony. Change for Ninth avenue trains, bawled the conductor...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 18 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... tletn streeT;, and oh Pier 31, North Eiver. Oc- casionally East Twenty-second street and East Thirty-fifth street were able to use the wires. The others employed DOlii36men to carry de- spatches to...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 19 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... the train and around it so that the engineer didn t know which way it was coming. The storm increased in intensity. Snow drifts had -•covered the tracks in all places where...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 20 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... in tlie tunnel. This engine tad fabt this slight^ est effect, and a second was sent out to aid it. This, also, did no good, and a third was de- spatched to...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 21 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... quarter of a mile west of the slation, and tliero she staved all day. Her passengers found it hard work to foot it to the ferry. This train ran into a big...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 22 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... extricated with diffleulty by the united efforts of the passengers and himself. When they reached the Grand Union his horses were trembling in every limb, and the passengers ■\vere hardly able to...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 23 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... The City Snowed Under. No mails yet enter or leave the cities of tliis metropolis except such as they inter- change, and the delayed matter from stalled trains. Except to Newark, Paterson,...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 24 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... that makes no effort to do so. Eggs, meat, milk, bread, vegetables, newspapers, and pie are either hard to find, or held at a high pre- mium. No news in the possession...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 25 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... FIGHTING OUR VAT AROUXO. The aspect of the streets up town, and down town as well, prepared the people lor the repe- tition of their troubles of transportation, and made them broad...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 26 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... atiche of mail mat r would tax tlielr every re- source when the (.lelayed trains should arrive, and no one knew when that would be. in the mean timeithe collectors, without refer-...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 27 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... Notwithstanding their assertions, however, the spectacle of wagons laden with meat strug- gling in vain with the ruts of snow constantly recurred. One novel means of transporation was to hang great haunches...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 28 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... ana c^rts at work on Broadway and side streets; Mayor Hewitt sent a message to Inspector Williams last night requesting him to notify the police throughout the city not to interfere with...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 29 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... «lxtli streef southward. About 250 men were at work with shovels. The company means to start the cars as soon as it can clear the tracks •down to Houston street. Fifteen cars...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 30 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... ence. Clork Haines, at the Cosmopolitan, dis- played eight pages of the big register filled with the names of refugees who stopped atcthe house Monday night. Many of the names were written...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 31 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... inanent. The -wiiid blew him eiear across -without effort on iiis pa»t. He tried first to land at lloberts s Stores, but finding that un- safe climbed up above the ferry house....- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 32 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... and Cooper a few lengths apart iiist soutli of Fish s pier. At noon on Monday, the rescued men said, the situation was awful. The Wil- liams. Cooper, and Story each had...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 33 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... ana have made some progress. There Is no way of telling when trains will begin to move, No attempt was made to send out any trains. No communication could be had by...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 34 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... Well, Olaauncey s boom Is Ousted now. Some sandwiches were brought to the cars by the trainmen, but they merely whetted the appetites of the men, who had nothing to do but...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 35 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... tiy inis notice, whict was piil tat) early Tn IBe day: We do not expect to start any trains from here to-day. J. H. Baerktt, Superintendent. In the afternoon the west-bound track...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 36 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... p. l\r. engines D9, 101, and 102 started witli a snow plough for Jamaica and met a like fate, but late last night, when recalled, was able to come. On Monday four...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 37 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... of the T^orth River Dy a steamer whioh anciior- ed off Cortlandt street on Monday night. The electric ligliting companies say they aro m good shape again. The police wires were working...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 38 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... -was still a matter that could be aecomplishea only under the pressure of stern necessity. The moving of coal and provisions was about the only thing that supplied this pressure. Coal, meat,...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 39 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... Bismarck stands ready to give substantial aid to bliz- zard sufferers of New York. Let us know your needs. M. H. Jewell. Many Citizens sent a despatch from St. Paul, Minn., which...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888
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Image 40 of New York in the blizzard : being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of ... rthe harrow streets were renaerea impassaWe by large snow drifts, and vehicles on wheels fave place to those on runners. Muffled edestrians hurried to and fro, evidently in- tent on reaching shelter...- Contributor: Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus) - Lingan, MCC
- Date: 1888