m played havoc with the railroads, delaying |
|trains and adding to the difficulty of moving |
|freight. It made so much trouble for the New Haven |
|that the company last night issued a notice saying |
|that "on account of storms and accumulation of |
|loaded cars" only live stock, perishable freight, |
|food products, and coal would be carried over |
|portions of the line. |
| |
|Adrift in the gale, fifteen canal barges and cargo |
|scows from South Amboy, N. J., went ashore at Sandy |
|Hook after those on board, including twenty women |
|and children, had suffered from exposure and one man|
|washed overboard from the barge Henrietta had been |
|drowned. The California and the Stockholm, with |
|passengers on board and inbound, were delayed by the|
|storm and will reach port to-day. |
| |
|The wind in Newark unroofed the almshouse, injuring |
|two aged women, blew down buildings, smashed |
|windows, and crippled the entire wire service of the|
|city....[22] |
| |
|(Then follows a detailed account of the dead, the |
|injured, and the delay of traffic.) |

[22] _New York Herald_, December 27, 1915.

| =COLD WAVE ON WAY HERE= |
| |
|Indianapolis to-day stands on the brink between rain|
|and snow. Before to-morrow dawns it may bend |
|slightly one way or the other, meteorologically |
|speaking, and the result will be little flakes of |
|snow or little drops of water. It is forecast that |
|to-morrow its feet will slip entirely and it will be|
|plunged into the abyss of cold weather. The forecast|
|is the work of the weather man, who has some |
|reputation locally and elsewhere as a forecaster of |
|questionable accuracy. |
| |
|Cold weather is drifting this way on northwest |
|winds, says the weather man, and soon will be hard |
|by in the offing, ready to pounce on Indianapolis.