The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-04-07
THEA TIKI oosRs ouTIN THE STORM.
4 Hca,y Pail Of snow In the Mountains
Accompanied with Thunder aud iight-
ning-The Telegraph Lines Down
IN Every Direction.

The weather i'm this city yesterday wa.
about as disarrccable as weather in tn
+ latitude is generally known % be. /
uiucl 10 showed, tine wind blew, um
f hrcllAs became useless. the snow molie'
and made slush, and no on
went ON The street who ha'
+ amy reason for staying 40 home
The United States signal service sen
/ The following telegram Friday night, a'
/ the prophecy of that bureau regarding
/ the weather of Saturday
WAsuINorON, ID c., April . For
/ Virginia, fair, slightly WARMER, westerly
winds"
Tho wind did come and it came from
the west hui the remainder of the pro
phccv was dismal failure
YESTERDAY ALA. VI. 10 began 10 rain
and. with ono slight iniermission il
never stopped Instead ol 10 getting
warmer 30 got colder Tho wind alonC
saved fhe weather people Before day
hfcal, heavy thunder storm passed over
/ the rifs. which lasted som" time About
o'clock ihc wind blew the clouds little
sufficient to break where the sun hap
raned fo be-. and for few moments
.ts rays fell on the city, but the
king of day was soon banIshei from
SIGHT and paid the city no other vista
ti0n All day it rained, with a slight
wind until about the middle of the after
noon. when the wind set in with rapid
force. and about 3 O'clock large flakes OF
snow began falling
When lhe large audience, which la
been Witnessing the performance OF
"Adouis' at the Theatre, came out, a
large number Of persons raised their
umbrellas, and. leaving re door, stepped
on The pavement I'm the twinkling of
an eve about two dozen umbrellas were
seen Giving through the sir down Broad
street towards the City Hall, and the
owners could be seen standing in silent
wonder as TO how the umbrella
got away from their hands so
quick A large portion Of the audience
waited sometime for the wind, rain and
snow 10 lull little, but finally had
to brave the weather as best they knew
how
Predesiians Earned the trick, that
when the wind blew am umbrella wrong
side ont. TO turn round and let the wind
blow it back again. The wisest, though,
I'D not attempt the use of an umbrella
40 an
The force of the wind was such that
parties who had their awnings thrown
out 20 protect goods on the sidewalk lost
them. The wind got beneath them, and
awning and pole went into the street a
fruitorer seeing his going caught on 10
the end of il. and was carried several
feet into the air lie remarked that he
thought surely now he was going TO
heaven
The force of the wind caused both
telegraph and telephone wires to become
crossed thus seriously interfering with
the service of the companies, and particu-
mrlv of the telephone line. which was
more needed than usual
A number Of signs were blown down
and branches of trees were broken OF.
The public school teachers of Brook
land township, Honrlco county, brayed
the weather and reached the courthouse,
where they received their months pay
The fall of water was such as to cause
the culycrts 10 become chOked with sand
and other matter causing the water to
hll the streets and make pedestrians
wade through a river
The New York star OF yesterday had
this i'm its local columns
4 storm is bearing This way from the
Northwest accompanied by high winds,
and is expected here either early this
morning on during the day, the signal
service officer of this city said last night.
Heavy ovcrcoats Will bc a burden, as the
temperature will be about the same as II
was Yesterday. Last night clear weather
prevailed i'm the South and high tenn
lcfatures Along the lakes light rain
was falling. and in Detroit it was snow
ing. At Helena. Mont, there was a
storm. with the wind whistling along al
the rate of thiriy-siX miles an hour
T..e storm reached New York yester-
dav and during the afternoon reached
Washington. private telegram saying
that 10 that CITY the snow was falling So
fast as 90 be binding
Intelligence received last night from
the western section OF the State re-
ports heavy fall OF snow in the noun
At Charlottesville the snow had been
falling ali day and bid fair to be the
largest fall OF the winter.
From other points along the line OF
the railroads it was learned last night
that there had been heavy storm
accompanied with thunder and light.
ming. followed by heavy winds and
snow. The telegraph lines were down
i'm nearly every direction, and the telc-
graph Office during the night declined
to guarantee the transmission oil tele-
grams north and west.
WASHINGTON, d. G., April 6-Tele
rraph wires in every direction were
nrOstrated bv the snow storm which SET
I'm early this morning and continued till
afternoon Adyices from the South t.
port q heavy fall of snow. In Western
yirginis twelve inches Of snow fell.