The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-30
A SALOON ON A SLEIGH.
How . Hilarious Tacoman Shocked Good
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How Hilarious Tacoman Shocked Good
Citizens by Sunday Dissertation.
TACOMA, Jan. 29.-(Special. big flakes
OF snow falling fast and thick, and blown
almost on a horizontal line by a stiff
breeze, turned the snowstorm today into
a blizzard. 1t was blizzard. however.
minus the intense cold usually associated
with it. The air was warm enough to
make the snow pack well, and hundreds
turned out to enjoy the storm. Coasting
became general on some streets, with
sleighing parties everywhere.
There was some wanton hilarity, and
one at least of the sleighing ''outfits" was
offensive to the advocates of quiet,
Christian Sunday. For instance an ex-
saloonkeeper rigged out pair of bob
sleds with card table and q beer kcg on
top. He and three of his friends played
seven-up and "guzzled" beer, while the
driver bept the team jogging about town.
The funniest and most novel rig was
five jolly men astride a common carpen-
ter's sawhOrse, fastened on runners made
of boards. rounded at the forward end.
One OF the fleetest teams in the city was
attached to the sawhorse, and the jolly
riders were whisked through the streets at
very rapid pace. AS two of them wore
high silk hats, the small boy portion of
the public considered their headgear an
invitation to pelt the wearers with snow
balls.
A small army of men and hundreds of
pounds of salt sprinkled on the rails failed
to keep the electric street car lines open this
afternoon. Cars were run at short intervals,
although but few passengers turned out to
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in operation, but during the afternoon,
when the snow fell thick and fast in large
fakes and was blown about in drifts, it
was impossible to keep the tracks open. A
minute after the car passed the rails would
be hidden by falling and drifting snow.
At times the cable cars were stopped for
a few minutes by the snow. which packed
and stacked up in front of the cars.
About foot of snow has fallen since the
storm began.
From seven to eleven inches of snow fell
at the rate Of nearly an inch an hour. At
midnight it was nearly fifteen inches deep.
The first fatality resulting from coasting
occurred this afternoon, when Celia Sor-
rensen, beautiful Swedish girl aged Is
years, died of peritonitis. On Friday even
ing she was coasting on Twenty-fifth
street with her sister, when the sled upset,
injuring her internally. Being strong and
healthy she experienced little difficulty in
walking home, and went to bed, where
she remained until she died.
During the heavy fall of snow this even
ing couple of electric cars got stalled on
the track and had to be shoveied out.
Cable cars frequently jumped the track
owing to the snow packing under the
wheels.
The Northern Pacific train was on time,
except the overland from the East, which
was seven hours late, being delayed On
the Idaho division.
Gen. Kautz, U. 8. A.. retired, and Rep
resentative Stephen Judson, who have
been in the Puget Sound country for forty
years, say the present storm is the most
severe ever experienced here. Judson also
says it appears as if the winters are grow
ing more severe with the springs later.