The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-01-08
THE SNOW STORM.

i
1t is safe to say that snow never b.
fore fell On Puget SQUAD as it fell o,
! Tuesday night. aud as j, has fallel
siace Ic"dsy afternoon Eur forty
eight hours there was no cessstio,
whatever 0! the fall, and for thrice,
or fourteen hours On Tuesday night ant
wednesday morning It came down .
the rate Of two inches al hour. tn,
| writer has spent twenty two wisters il
I'VE different towns on Puget Sound
and until the present one never saw il
any one OF them . depth of snow OF
4 the level Of two feet Nov, however
we have, averaging il through Seattle
q depth of four feet; down near th,
water It being little less and bach
more. Every body has been surprised
aud startled; the few conner. who came
here with visions Of Italian skies being
rather Disguised, and the old settles
being completely dumbfoun ded.
Early IN the morning reports oi
fsllen Buildings and injured anina.,
aud persons were In circulation; the
latter, We sre pleased to state being
entirely without foundation. The re-.
ports were exciting, however. and for
several hours the feeling was much like
that engendered by grand conflaera.
ton. Men were in demand for the
purpose OF shoveliDg snow from heav.
lily burdeued roofs, and o dollar an
hour was the price commonly paid
them. Yesler's Hail, aud tho Seattle
Market building, early in tho day were
found TO be in dasger Of wrccking;
the walls cracking and opening from
the enormous weight upon their roofs.
They were relieved speedily as posi-
bic and the danger avertcd, to the
satisfaction OF thei. owners and be.
holders geaefally. "a
The Opera House. Sullivans Block,
the brick buildings, -hotels, stores,
awnings. residences and sheds also re- :
ceiyed attention; business being almost
entirely suspended for the purpose.
and several hundred men being thus
employed. In thi. way. as fac Ms we
have learned. all damage was prevent
ed to such buildings. A few others met
disaster during the earlier hours Of the
morniag-before the danger in which
they stood was known.
TIE blacksmith shops 81 Me,srs.
Chss. Mcdonald aid J W. Hunt both
came down. involving these worthy
men IN losses they were lily prepared
TO encounter. Mr.. Hunt met witn con.
siderabl- loss year ago in consequence
Of fire. and Mr.. Mcdonald the saine SIX
tt,y all
Der.
Tue White & rsnny pattern shop.
on Front street, opposite the foundry.
was completely demolished. to tho in
jary Or obstruction. 1t is suppnsed, of
several hundred dollars wo III II "a.
terra. within. X
TIE stable o II .r,,.ai!'- wharf broke
4 ,oh AID the Esarf b,ncsth It. both
tu'ntf,ng INTO b" wut.r AMI upoa tn,
ballast heue,si tbs delivery wagon
Of grocer Rove WAS wrecked in conse-
Guence aud his Horse killed.
The Mill street awning of Colmans
brick building fell 70 the sidewal as
also the Hsll & PaulsoDs awning, and
that of CROSS restaurant.
f is reported and the rep ,rt is
doubtless true, that every barn in Du.
watnish. Wb.tc. Green. Black ard Co
dar river valleys has been crushed to the
earth, and 1t is believed that many ca
tie have been crush, d beneath them.
In consequence oi the snow the Mes.
senger remained y. Olympis yesterday.
and toe Zephyr here. but both will re- =
sumo their route tomorrow. 49,
As far ~ heard fscm the snow fall
was general VIVA. the d-ptb is south
of us we have not heard. but doubt not
1t has been sufficient, AZ here, to block
up trade aud travel. From the upper
Skagit we have reports of Eve feet of
snow. and from the lower Skssit Il enc
half that depth. At Port Gamble the
depth is said to have been four and
half feet; ut Port TOWNSEND three feet,
and at Dungeness six fert.
) As we write, q. II o'clock Wednesday
night, the snowfall hos ceased, the tenn
perature has gone below freezing. and
the prospects is that we will Lot see the
end of our win.ry visitant for many
days. if not weeks, to come.