The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-12-23
WIRES IN sALEA DEnoEALIzED.

Dispatches from all portions OF the
Pacific northwest show that the present
streak of winter is general, 30 far as
snow is concerned. :.
In Portland the fall was over fourteen
inches. Traffic was stopped on car
lines, and walking bad. The snow be-
came very deep and the slush was frozen
solid on the tracks about 10 O'Clock p.
m. Wednesday, and paralyzed the traffic.
The Third, Second, First and Washing
ton street electric lines and several of
their East side branches were blocked,
No cars. could be run, and all that were
out were brought into the power-house.
On the 2lst in Salem the snow played
havoc with electric service of all kinds.
The telegraph loop on the depot lie a
complete wreck. Old poles that carrird
fourteen wires found the weight of wet
snow too much for them, and they fell in
all directions. Electric light. telephone,
fire alarm, the Lockwood messenger
system and all the local wires suffered
seriously, and. becoming crossed with
live electric street railway wires, burned
out many switchboards and RELAYS.
In Olympia the fall commenced on
the evening OF the Goth, and has pre-
vailed with more or less violence since.
1t is the heaviest since the establish
ment of the signal station there in 1877.
According to weather bureau measure
ments, five feet of snow fell during the
twenty-f -four hours ended at 5 O'Clock
Wednesday evening, but it is not that
deep-o on the level. It has become more
solid and has packed down to a thick
ness of thirty inches.
In Seattle the snow was ten inches
deep Wednesday evening. The storm
extended from Skagit valley on the
north throughout southwestern Wash
ington. being most severe In Seattle,
Tacoma and Olympia. The snow1 was
very light on the Skagit, and grew
heavier further south. The tempera-
ture in Seattle was about thirtv-fve at
noon and fell to thirty-two at p. IN.
North of the Skagit high northwest
wind blew and the temperature fell to
twenty above zero.
In Tacoma it commenced Tuesday
afternoon about 5 O'Clock and showed
almost without interruption until noon
Wednesday. The storm lie the heaviest
known since December IA, 1884, when
there was a fall of between two or three
feet. The cable line up hill has been
kept open, but all the electric lines have
been stopped since early Wednesday
evening, though an attempt was made
to clear the tracks during the night.
Sissons, CAL, dispatch, says snow
commenced falling early Wednesday
morning. 1t continued all day, with a
strong south wind. The prospects were
for big storm. All reports agree that
the storm was remarkable for sudden
barometer all over Washington and
Oregon was higher than usual and lower
in California, and "a hours later there
was complete change. and the area of
high barometer moved eastward at an
unusually rapid rate, jumping from the
average of % miles to 100 miles per hour.
The storm was felt more in western
Washington and northwest Oregon than
east of the Cascades.
The only quarter from which anything
like q blizzard is reported was by trains
reaching Spokane from the home of
blixzards easterly. Trainmen report the
weather east of Spokane terrific It is
cold and of blizzard character The
snow is not deep on q level, but wind
has drifted it badly.