San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-19
THE BLIZZARD.
SNOW OR sLEEr IN THE ALAMO
CITY.
Sleigh Riding in the Tropics-Snow
Balling INDUCED In and Lots
OF Fun for the Boys.

The cold wave which has been jog
ging along in Southwest Texas very
steadily for the past few days, has
eliminated in q regular blizzard,
which began yesterday afternoon
about A o'clock. At that hour rain
began falling and the Thermometer
began to register quickly falling tenn
perature, and when 80 degrees was
reached the rain changed to o heavy
sleet, which fell nearly all night and
covered everything to depth of from
| two to three inches, with a white icy
mantle, which drifted from q high
wind, very heavily in some places
The sleet was covered with heavy
crust and would bear up q moderately
weighty man, without breaking.
| AT midnight the mercury registered
Is degrees above zero, or IL degrees
below freezing point, and the wind
was almost gale.
| Shortly after the sleet began falling
the electric street cars on all lines
stopped running, as the wires were
coated with ice and the tracks were
| covered with the sleet. No connec-
ton could thus be had between the
metal wheels and trolleys and their
agents OF the power houses, and traf-
| fic was at q standstill. The mule car
line on Flores street ran until nearly
the regular stopping time, but this
morning they, too, were frozen up.
The Alamo Electric railway and the
West End cars ran irregulsrly last
night, and part of today, but the San
| Antonio lines could not be operated
up to noon today.
Hackmen had it all their own way
last night and did thriving busi-
ness, at many times charging what
prices they pleased for their fares.
Theatre goers suffered greatly by
these demands. The hackmen had
lots of fun "hurrahing" the street Car
men and the public who usually look
with disdain at hack as public
carrier.
This morning the city was in bridal
white and covered with Its innocent
shroud the good and the bad alike
The mercury showed q higher re-
gister early and at about was up to
86 degrees, and the thsw began. Icicles
were plentiful and so was the ice. In
cutters anu small pools it was thick
enough to bear good
weight and the Lakeview
and West End lakes were frozen over
with q thin scum. The San Pedro
ditch, half empty and not running,
was frozen. Early this morning
many people began sleighing, with
improvised, hurriedIy arranged, awk
ward looking sleighs, and kept 1t up
until MONDAY. Among tn 30 were
the following: Messrs. Albg. Hutzler.
Otto Ziegler and l.. Heder were out
enjoying the novelty of q sleigh
ride at six o'clock this morning.
Mr.. Burnett and wife and Mrs
Clifford were enjoying q sleigh ride
this morning with large sleigh and
two fine horses.
One of the most amusing Incidents
in sleigh riding seen this morning
was one rugged out by Messrs Baker,
Winstead and Adams. 1t consisted
of an old gun box about five feet long
and one and o half wide on which
they had nailed runners. On one
side was printed the words "HOt
Stuff" on the other "POor but in it.n
Misses Florea and Epson and Mr..
| FITZGERALD were their guests. They
mad q lively time of it and received
the compliments of many snow balls.
| Mr.. Sim Hart and q friend used q
stout scraper to glide over the beauti-
| full snow this morning.
The West End residents enjoyed q
| delightful walk into town this MORN
| lug. The cars couldn't run.
Mr.. and Mrs Tom Mullaly were out
enjoying the novelty of q sleigh ride
| this morning.
These sleig hing parties nearly all
| were pelted with Ice and snow balls
| by crowds of men and boys on the
streets, who were merciless and
pitched into all who passed, in .ex-
press wagons, drays, baggage wa
CONS, buggies, carriages or sIeighs.
Many of the drivers refined
their mettlesome horses and
drove like Jehu. thus escaping much
of the storm, but woe bstided the
short horse and slow mule. Police
men were powerless to prevent any
thing but b breach of the peace, and
were as hardly pelted as any one
else. They took it more good ma
turedly than others, and almost
fight occurred at the corner of Alamo
and Commerce streets, when q young
fellow in q buggy got it rather too
hard and objected to having his
clothing ruined with the dirty
mud and ice balls, and stopped
and was about to attack one
of. his assailsnts. The offender
apoIogized and the ruffied individual
drove off unmolested.
The sleet makes San Antonio have
a very wintry appearance and will
cause great deal of slush and mud